Well, I had yet another kidney stone on Monday. With pain and nausea meds I was able to pass it late that afternoon. Fingers crossed that is the last one!!

The girls at my work gave me a baby shower on last
Tuesday....again soooo many gifts! We are truely blessed! Mom surprised me by coming to that shower. And come to find out...Dad also came and he was busy putting the crib together that we are borrowing from Amy. So, I can now say the room is ready for Charlee (pics to come soon).

Mom and Dad stayed until Friday morning just spoiling me and Kevin! Could not have asked for more loving and caring parents!!! Thank You!!!

My 2 furry babies resting on baby Charlee

On the first weekend in February, we went to Lake Park for 2 baby showers. On Saturday, my Aunts and cousin gave me a great shower at Mom's house with tons and tons of goodies. I am truely blessed to have such wonderful family and friends. Thank you all!!!
Kevin and Aunt Mary Clark with the great diaper cake

Peyton (babysiter in training) and Avie

Peyton, Amelia and Autumn

What a spread!

Jennifer, Aunt Cathy, Aunt Mary Clark and Marie

The fabulous hostesses!! Thank You!!!

Yummy

Relaxing with Audrey and Avie before the fun begins

Mrs Sandra and Doris

The rowdy pillow fighting, jumping on the bed room

Mom, Audrey, Cynthia, Abby and Anna

Thank you Abby

Aunt Cathy and Peyton

Mom.

Thanks Aunt Cathy for the great fishy wall art....its perfect!

My little present opening helpers

Pop with his 2 girls...Amelia and Avie. Charlee can't wait to join in on the fun with Pop!
















On Sunday, I was given another great shower by my best friend from high school and my second Mom....Gina and Mrs Marlene

Bev and Mrs Mary Jean lent a hand to them

and everything turned out just beautiful!!! Again, I am blessed to be apart of great friends who no matter the miles between you always love and care for each other.

Thanks for everything!!

You really did a wonderful job....just beautiful!

Another wonderful diaper cake

Just showing off the watermelon belly!

Mom and me

My fabulous hostesses. Thanks a million!

Amelia...such a cutie!

Audrey and Cleta

More baby updates

Just wanted to update everyone on the latest.....I have a couple more bumps with this pregnancy. But I am finally over the month long cold I had, after a couple rounds of antibiotics. Also, found out I am tettering with gestational diabetes. I just had a 3 hour glucose tolerance test and the #'s started out great this morning but as the hours went by, my blood sugar kept getting higher. After 3 hours it was 183. My doc said they dont want to treat it right now, but I have got to change my diet. Stay away from the carbs and sugar! I start going to the docs here every 2 weeks now and in 2 weeks I start weekly nonstress testing in the labor and delivery dept. I go to the high risk docs in Jax next Friday and I wont know till then just how often they will want to see me. So for the last 10 weeks I will be very busy, at least closely monitored. Not to leave Kevin out...he is doing well. Just very busy with this new home care job he took. We are getting excited about finally having Charlee here!!

Baby update and trip details

I went to the OB doc on Monday the 22nd and they did another ultrasound. The baby is growing...she weighs 1.8 lbs now and everything is looking ok according to the doc. The amount of fluid on the left kidney is now 9.6 to 10.7 depending on how she measured it. So that # is up just a little from the previous 8 level seen 3 weeks ago. I go for another ultrasound in 5 weeks. Also, just let me say that traveling while preggo isn't all that fun. First of all, the baby does not like the pressure changes that take place during take of and landing during the flights....and we had 4 of them!! She kicked severly during each one. Second, I got a cold on the first flight and fought that the whole week and I got food poisoning the second night in which I upchucked every hour on the hour from 10pm to 4 am and then again at 8 am......just for the fun of it!!! We had to call the little (young) Mexican doc to come see me at the resort and thank goodness Kevin speaks Spanish. Kevin got a horrible cold on the return flight home and proceeded to give that to me also!! We had to stay in Orlando for 2 nights after we returned to the states for my work Christmas party. Fun, if you can say that since we were both feeling crappy.......hence no pictures from that stay. Anyway, it was wonderful seeing all of Kevin's family that made the trip also....despite being sick. They all live in Arizona and we truely miss seeing them more often!!

Trip to Acapulco

Just wanted to share some pics from our trip to Acapulco last week with Kevin's family. We had a good time seeing everyone!!


Iguana cruising around our resort!
Lobby of our resort.

View from the mountains in town.

Beach in old town, where we took our snorkeling trip from.

Baby octopus we found while snorkeling....yes it is alive and we released it back to the sea!

Beach and cabanas at the resort.

The whole crazy group!!

Sunset view from our room at the resort.

This was the view from our room the first night in Acapulco. We stayed in the busy hotel district for 1 night before the rest of the family got in the next day.

View from our room the first night.

Baby Update

Baby foot

Profile

Profile

Kicking my belly with her leg

Well, we had our ultrasound with our regular doctor on Nov. 21st. They saw a baby girl!! Everything looked good except she has fluid on her left kidney. They say this is a common thing to see wrong. And with my history of bilateral kidney reflux as a baby that required surgery when I was 2 yrs old, they wanted to send me to a high risk group in Jax. I went to see the high risk docs today and they again saw the fluid on the left kidney only (the right one is normal). The normal amount of fluid should be 5cm, but the baby's is at a level 8 now. They want to keep seeing me but not for 8 weeks, so that is somewhat encouraging. So I guess I will be seeing 2 Obgyn groups. Jennifer, my cousin, went to the appoinment with me today and got to see just how active the baby is. She kicked so much that the ultrsound girl had a time seeing what she needed to see. The pics I am showing are of her foot, profiles and her sticking her leg straight up and kicking my belly. On the profile pics you see a black oval area...this is the fluid on the kidney.

Follow up to great weekend!!

Just wanted to thank everyone for the great weekend I had in Lake Park last weekend. Spent a wonderful 2 days relaxing with the family. Got some preggo clothes from Audrey....a life-saver since I was down to only 3 pairs of pants that fit. Got some great lovin from Avie and Mimae. Got some excellent cooking as usual at Mom's. Got some baby stuff from mom's friend Cynthia. And got some TLC from mom and dad both! Just what I needed. Enjoyed seeing everyone at church. Just wish the baby daddy could have come also. Baby daddy is what we affectionately call Kevin. And I am know as Kevin's 'baby carrier'. Next doctor appt is in a few weeks. Nothing exciting to come at that appt. For those of you who don't already know, I passed a very large kidney stone the weekend before last. So I spent my two days off work in the hospital. No too much fun!! Just hoping there aren't anymore stones lurky around in there.

Another doctors appt

Went today for another doctors appt. They assure me that the sickness will go away....magically!! We are keeping our fingers crossed! We also scheduled the date for our anatomy ultrasound......Nov. 18th. Maybe I will just wait until Thanksgiving to let everyone know what we hear!!!!

New due date

According to the doctor, my official due date is April 5th.

Doctors visits

Well, I have been to the doctor twice now. 1st appointment was to take care of my non-stop sickness. They put me on some medication so I could keep something down! I just went for the 2nd time on August 20th. They did an ultrasound and when Audrey, Queen of the bloggers, comes here next weekend, I will get her to show me how to post pictures....like the ultrasound.
We survived tropical storm Fay. Just lots and lots of tree limbs and debris down in the yard. Some plants were destroyed, but lucky for Kevin....no palm trees were harmed!!

New beginnings

HELLO FRIENDS

We are new to this blogspot thing, but if Mimae can have a page.......I guess we should too!!!