Baby Update

So I still don't have my camera nearby to post pictures from Christmas, but we did have a wonderful Christmas day and day after with my family.  We got so many great gifts and really appreciate everything from our families.  I promise I will post them!

I had my 34 week checkup today and an ultrasound.  The doc said everything is going great and that the baby seems to be healthy.  According to the ultrasound, the baby is 5 lbs 11 oz, but I don't really believe all that haha.  Looks like Baby Girl Haynes will be here around Feb 4 - (my actual due date is Feb 9th though, but doc said he would take her early!).  We are ready and looking forward to meeting our little girl!

Christmas Day

I don't have the camera by me to upload pictures, but we had a fabulous day with my family visiting and eating.  I really love the holidays and especially love that the month of December has flown by...not really ready for our baby girl, but we are ready!!

The Children Were Nestled...

...All snug in their bed...

As I was writing the last post, Parker fell asleep on the couch!  He is totally worn out from all the fun tonight and the lack of a nap today!

Christmas Eve...

Adam's family came over tonight for us to do Christmas with them.  I didn't take many pictures tonight of Parker opening gifts because he was sitting in my lap opening them!  Here are a few....

Parker got two shirts from Grandma Soirez, Cars and a Ball from Jennifer, stuffed mickey and a shirt and cars and a Race thing from Aunt Mandy and Uncle Jeremy,  and a shirt from Aunt Andrea.  He also got  books, santa playing cards, a suit, three movies and a bike from Grandma and Grandpa!  The kid racked up again this year.  It took a long time to get the bike together and then some of the pieces were missing...Not fun!  But have no fear, Grandma and Grandpa are taking care of that for us!

Adam got socks, a flashlight, hot choc set, a wii game, gift card, and cash tonight from his side of the family and I got a candle, coasters, a keepsake box, and my Ralph Lauren perfume!!  We are truly grateful for Adam's family and for the great gifts they got all of us (even though we told them not to get us anything!!)


The pajama tradition still goes on at the Haynes house!  My mom picked out the pajamas for Parker this year and they are so freaking cute.  He matches his other boy cousins!  He insisted on popcorn tonight after his bath!

Caryn found this shirt for me for Adam.  Yes those are Christmas Tree Guitars - It's totally Adam, don't you think??

I love my pjs!  Although I'm too pregnant for the pants Adam picked out for me (he couldn't find any maternity ones that he liked haha) so I had him take them back! 

We hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!  I'll post more tomorrow!!

Christmas Tree

We have a huge tree in our yard that started shedding its leaves and our yard was covered!  I went out and raked one evening and when Adam got home from work, he picked them all up for me!

We filled up about 6 or 8 trash bags this size of leaves!

We went and got a Christmas tree the first weekend in December (I think...??) and it went from this...

To this beauty!  Hard to believe it's the same tree eh?

I had sugar cookie dough in the freezer that needed to be used so I decided to make it into Christmas cookies for Adam to take to work....Here are my hideous snowmen - It looks like they have fangs...I was going for a scarf! haha

My ugly gingerbread men...

and my fantastic Stockings and trees!  I think these turned out great! haha

All Parker wants for Christmas...

Parker was being silly the other day and told us that he wanted a puppy.

Adam responded by saying, "you are getting a sister soon and that's like a puppy." 

What have I gotten myself into with these two boys???

A Day in the Life of Me....

I know there are several people out there that are dying to be pregnant and have children of their own....I feel so bad for them.  Come February, we will be blessed to have Baby #2 enter our lives and we can't be happier.  It makes me sad to think that I have friends and family members that may never experience the joys and pains of pregnancy and having a baby of their very own.

I'm not writing tonight to depress people (someone told me the other day they hate reading my blog because it's depressing...maybe it is...but it's life and how I feel...), I am writing all this down so a few years down the road I remember everything I had to go through....

Every morning before I do anything, I have to take a Ketone Test to see if fats have been passing to the baby.  Then I have to check my blood glucose to see what it is.  They want it between 60 and 80 and I'm usually in the 80s...which is not bad at all, but since I'm pregnant it's considered "high". 

Then I have to eat a breakfast with 2 carbs and a protein and take an insulin shot.

2 hours later I check my sugar again.  They want it under 120, but if it's in the 110's it's considered too high.  I am also supposed to eat a snack consisting of 1 carb and 1 protein.  Did I mention 1 carb is really 15 grams.  So like 50 goldfish, or 13 cheetos, or 3 graham cracker squares (not even 2 whole graham crackers), or 15 animal crackers.  I have to count everything now and measure and weigh my food.  Kind of a pain in the butt!

Then at lunch I get 3 carbs and a protein and have to take another insulin shot.

2 hours later, I check my sugar again and eat another snack.

Then at dinner time, I get 3 carbs and a protein and take another shot.

2 hours later, I check my sugar again and eat another snack consisting of 2 carbs and a protein. (today they told me to eat something like peanut butter crackers - kinda hard when I am only allotted 1 tbsp of peanut butter a day right??, or a turkey sandwich, or an egg salad sandwich, or a grilled cheese sandwich... For reals?  Who wants to eat that much at night right before bed?

With that snack I have to take another insulin shot.

Taking shots 4 times a day isn't as much a pain in the butt as watching the clock for the two hour mark to check my sugar after all three meals.

It's also a pain to email my numbers and everything I eat in to the Nurse every 4 days and to go every week.  I drive 30-45 minutes for a 5 minute visit with a nutritionist...that all I do is reshow them my numbers and what I ate.  Oh and they want to see my meter so they can check my numbers because I could be lying on the chart and they want to make sure I'm not...Why would I do that?  I'm honest and tell them when it's over what it should be...then I also tell them why...I ate 4 carbs that night instead of 3... etc.

It has made life difficult to measure out food, only eat a certain amount at a certain time, and check my sugar at very inconvenient times. 

I am enjoying being pregnant and feeling our baby girl kick and beat the heck out of me.  But I am tired of all of this crap that I am having to do.  I realize it's for the baby to be healthy, but this is something that I do not wish on anyone....

I went to a different diabetes doctor with Parker and now that I've done both roads, I feel if I get pregnant a third time, I shouldn't have to go to one of them.  My OB/GYN should just write me a prescription for the insulin and I can decide for myself how much to give me.


Oh yeah on a side note - this week they upped all of my units of insulin by 2 units.  It's not because my numbers are high, it's because they want the numbers to stay the way they are.  For reals?  I don't think that's good to just give someone insulin because you feel like it!  Give me more if my numbers show I need it...

Geezer's Bed

We went to my parent's house last night to hang out and help mom get a few things done and right before we left, we had gone into their room to get something and Parker climbed up on their bed, laid down on Geezer's pillow and got under the covers.  It was so funny and too cute!

Gingerbread House 2010

We decorated a gingerbread house last week when we were with Caryn and her kids...
When I say we, I really mean me...
Watch Parker in the pictures....

So tired...

Going...

Going....

Going....

Almost....

Gone...

He was so tired that he grabbed Hunter's arm and used it for a pillow and fell asleep.  It was so funny!  Poor kid!

So Tired!

I was in Lufkin a few days last week visiting with my sister.  Parker always talks about Tay-Tay, Tucker and Tucker (haha - for some reason he can't say Hunter and calls them both Tucker!) and so it was time for a visit!  We headed to Hobby Lobby to get some fleece for my mom and Parker had fallen asleep in the car on the way.  I carried him into the store and as we were walking around, he started getting heavier and heavier.  I tried to put him down to walk and he almost collapsed to the floor because he was so asleep and wouldn't wake up.  I picked him up and put him in an empty basket I found close to us and he couldn't get comfy so he cried.  I picked him back up and told Caryn she was going to have to take her turn because he was just too heavy.  After we got all the fleece cut, we put some in the bottom of the basket and then used another piece for his pillow.  When we went to check out, I just handed the cashier the piece of paper telling her what to charge us for the fleece, because I wasn't picking him back up! haha

And so it begins...

I went to my gestational diabetes appointment yesterday.  Let me just tell you - after having gone through it all with Parker, I felt like it was a total waste of my time.  I didn't learn anything new except I check my sugar at different times than I did with Parker, I take different insulin, and I have to eat 3 meals and 3 snacks.  Last time it was 3 meals and 1 snack. 

At each meal I have to eat so many carbs, meats and fats.  Breakfast is 2 carbs (15 g is 1 carb) snack is 1 carb, lunch is 3 carbs, snack 1 carb, dinner 3 carbs, snack 2 carbs.  That's not counting all the meats, fats, and veggies I have to add to it.  That is a lot more food than I've been eating. 

I'm not looking forward to being on a set schedule either.  I have to check my sugar at certain times and take my shots at certain times and eat at certain times....I have been waking up about 9, eating about 10 or 11 and then a small snack or small lunch around 2 or so and then I'll eat dinner when Adam gets home...

No more sweets or anything like that - which kind of bites because I've been craving Twizzlers pull n peel this pregnancy.  I did it before I suppose I can do it again.  Luckily, I only have 9 weeks until the baby comes because of my scheduled c-sec!