A lot accomplished!

A lot was accomplished this weekend. It was very fulfilling for me as I love to clean out and re-organize. Wade, well, at least he got a work out in. There is now officially a nursery in the old playroom. Complete with a crib that is actually put together and everything. I went through all the old baby clothes and washed them and determined what if anything we still need. The room still needs some "decoration", but it is currently livable! The new playroom is now set up in the basement bedroom. Keira has already inaugurated it and it's as messy as the old playroom was! We even cleaned out the sub-basement - which before the weekend we could barely walk in. That was fun. Poor trashman, he is likely not going to like us this week.

Keira has become obsessed with everything baby during all this moving of stuff. She has played with ALL the baby toys, put her dolls in the baby swing, and told us that she wants to sleep in the baby's room with the baby - even if that means sleeping on the floor!!

In other good news, we have a name! We won't tell you of course, but we do have a name picked out. Wade and I narrowed it down to two names this weekend and then we asked Keira what she thought and she immediately liked one over the other, so we have a winner. So those of you in the KC area, don't go asking Keira about it -- she is not very good at keeping secrets!!! :)

The project night night drive at church is going extremely well. I think we are going to be able to make about 40 bags!

I have been feeling pretty good. No further rib issues. I am starting to have a bit of swelling, but if that is all I have to complain about, I can deal!

That's all I've got. Cleaning Keira's room (or rather supervising Keira cleaning Keira's room) and making brownies is on the agenda!

2 posts in one day ...

haven't done that in awhile!

I was reading the paper at lunch and there was a story about a 22 year old college student that was killed in a car crash by a driver that was going the wrong way on the highway. This is the second such story I have read in the past two week - both fatalities. As you all know, this is an issue close to us and everytime I read about something like this, I have a small panic attack thinking how close we came to this being Keira and I. (I still have some difficulty with highway driving believe it or not - mostly when it is raining as it was raining that day). If you could just say a little prayer again for that truck driver and his family - for lots of blessing for them, I would really appreciate it. He definitely saved our lives!

The wedding!

Well the wedding went off without a hitch for the bride and groom! Ceremony went smooth, Keira and the other flower girl did very well and walked very sweetly down the aisle hand in hand, everyone said I DO, and I now have a new sister-in-law! Yeah. The reception was great. Everything went well there too. Food was good, the cake was FANTASTIC, just ask Keira who had her cake before her meal (Uncle Ryan specifically requested this for her), and people (note: not us) partied well into the night! I don't have a lot of pics (explanation for that below), but I posted a few.

Unfortunately, Wade and I did not make the ceremony. At about 11:30 AM on Saturday, I got a fairly intense pain in my left side that left me really unable to move/walk/do anything it hurt so bad. Wasn't contractions, just a solid, sharp pain in my side. At first I thought maybe baby was just wedged in there funny, but I tried laying on either side to get her to move and nothing seemed to make this pain go away. Of course, I was by myself with Keira when this happened. Wade had gone to lunch with the other groomsmen and Mom and Mark were out shopping on Michigan Ave. So after a few frantic phone calls, everyone made it back to the hotel and Wade and I headed to the ER, which thankfully was just across the street. I'll spare you all the details, but after being there for 4 or 5 hours, they finally decided that I have either a fractured rib or separated ribs - which when looked at on ultrasound, you could see baby had her foot right in them, which was causing the incredible pain. They gave me some pain meds and we were finally able to get her to move which helped tremendously. So, that was a lot of fun. Thus far, the pain has not returned, I am just sore in that area. Doc said to be prepared as she could stick the feet back there at anytime and it would likely cause the same amount of pain as they don't expect the ribs to heal until after she is born. More fun. We were able to make it to the reception, so that was good. And now, we are just hoping the next 6 weeks pass quickly!!!

This weekend is the big "move" for us. Moving some larger furniture to storage, the playroom to downstairs, and converting the playroom to the nursery so this little one can have her own room! Wish poor Wade luck - on top of all that moving, there is lots of yard work to be done since we were gone last weekend, he'd like to watch a full day of football on sunday since he missed it last sunday (something he may never forgive Suzie for!) and I have curtains for him to hang! Keira and I will be at a birthday party ;)

Guess that is it for today - hope everyone is doing well!

A quick catch up

before we get out of town. Not too much going on really, but lots going on if that makes any sense. Wade finally got the downstairs bedroom painted, so we are finally ready to play musical rooms in the house. So assume we make it back from the wedding alive and well, we'll be moving rooms the following weekend. The downstairs bedroom will convert to the playroom with overflow (and sadly, there will be overflow) into the family room, the playroom then becomes the nursery and all the bedroom furniture was was in the spare bedroom moves into the sub-basement for storage. You got all that, right? We'll likely be enlisting the help of neighbors or something as I am still not allowed to lift anything. I am sure wade will try to do it himself at first - men!

The big wedding is this weekend in chicago. I talked to Ryan earlier today and his suit was still not in! Oh my. It is suppossed to be in tomorrow by 2:00 and it still needs to be altered!!! If it were me, I would be freaking out. Ryan is mostly doing a lot of swearing!

Somehow I forgot to get Keira shoes for her dress for the wedding. The only reason it even occurred to me to buy her shoes was because Ryan called and said hey, the other flower girl's mom wants to know what color shoes Keira is wearing. I said, oh shit, I have no shoes! This was like friday or saturday of last week. Ugh. So I spent about 3 hours looking for shoes for her. I went to kohl's, target, Macy's, Payless, Stride Rite, Off Broadway, JC Penney's, and finally found some at Nordstrom's. They aren't great, but they were literally the ONLY ones I could find. Chalk it up to preggo brain I guess - I've had the dress forever!

I am 7 weeks from having this baby as of today. Crazy! So far, everything is going just fine. All check ups have been A OK!

Wish us luck on the 9+ hour drive tomorrow, bleck!

At least I'll have some pics to post when we get back! It's been too long since pics!