Spring has sprung!

WOW!!! This weather has been spectacular! I have been having some HORRIBLE winter blues. I am not much of one to stay in the house regardless of the weather and since Bella has been here we haven't been getting out much. It was to the point that Adam kept telling me I needed to talk to the dr. about depression, which I knew I wasn't to that point, it is just I am a very outgoing person that likes to be busy. So needless to say with the weather getting nice we have been out and about alot.
We spent all day Friday and Sunday shopping. I have been trying to find those perfect curtains for Bella's room without having to change the entire theme...not alot goes with Pink camo you know. I am to the point of having to make my own. I have been attempting to put her in her bed during the day, since we are about to outgrow the bassinet and she won't hear tell of it. As most of you know, my living room is somewhat of a dark room as is our bedroom..the two places she sleeps. So I don't think she is diggin' the white blinds and valances in her "bright" room during the day.
My brother and his family just moved into their new house so we have been spending alot of time out there helping them get settled. They have a beautiful new home that is just the right size for their family. Bella will have a blast with her cousin's playing in the huge yard.
Bella has been sleeping through the night for about a week now. I say through the nite, from 10:30 to about 5:30am or 6:30am. It has been great! She may wake up fussy in the middle of it, but we change her diaper and she is right back to sleep. And we can just lay her down in her bassinet when we go to bed and she will usually lay there and play herself to sleep, just hope this is a trend that will stick around our house.
We have to make a trip to the dr. tomorrow morning. Let's just say today has been a WONDERFUL day. We have spent the past few days in nothing but crying and screaming fits, to the point of her choking herself from it and lasting about 6-8 hours. She has been asleep today (all day), has only woke up once to eat. She is probably so wore out from the past few days though. Or it could be the fact, Mom finally broke down and called the dr. so she is going to be good as gold now. LOL. The dr. seems to think she may have a bit of reflux going on, so we shall see tomorrow. It has been a very stressful, trying time for mommy and daddy. It is so hard when you can't do anything to comfort them.
With spring approaching we plan to be out and about every chance we get. Bella will be an outdoorsy girl if mommy and daddy have their way ;-).
I was planning to return to work tomorrow morning. Went to the dr. yesterday for my 6 week checkup, to be told I wasn't returning to work tomorrow. The dr. is very strict about her pregnancy/diabetic patients that have a csection taking a full 8 weeks maternity leave. Noone said anything about this the entire time we were even discussing csection. Which I am fine with, I am not sure I will be ready to return come the 22nd either. HEHE! Luckily I am able to work a couple hours a day and those couple of hours are split up. So we will get to play outside and do fun things in the middle of the day. Which I am looking so forward to!
Better get back to getting stuff done around the house while she is sleeping. Hope everyone is well and able to get out and enjoy the weather as much as we are.

Bella has arrived

Annabella Maryana was born on Jan. 25, 2010 at 12:50pm. She weighed 8lbs 2oz and was 19 3/4inches long.

My water broke on its own at 12:05am, that is an experience in itself. lol. We got to the hospital about 1am and was only dialated to 1/2cm. They hooked me up to all the machines and placed cerivdal in my cervix. My blood pressure started going up and I wasn't able to sit up without it going into stroke range. About 9:30am or so my dr. came in and checked and I hadn't dialated AT ALL since I arrived at the hospital. I was suppose to go to her office that morning for a sonogram to determine if we were in for a csection for a big baby or not. Since my water broke, they weren't able to do a csection at the hospital that would determine a good reading so she decided it would be in the best interest of myself and the baby to do a csection anyway. So they scheduled me at noon, there were already 3 scheduled ahead of me. We went in at noon and I was started prep for the epidural. My dr. was running late at the office so she didn't get there until 12:23pm. They brought Adam in after I was all prepped and laying on the O.R. table and started the procedure. She was born within about 30 minutes. The procedure was nothing, seriously. The dr. and nurses were talking about grocery shopping and everyday life while doing it. Adam was laughing and said "it must mean everything is going as planned if they are talking about that." LOL.
We were able to come home on the Thursday following delivery. It was rough coming home. I wasn't able to breastfeed, but it took a good week to figure out she wasn't getting enough. The final straw was on Wed. morning that next week at 3am Bella was crying and screaming and I was crying because she wouldn't eat and Adam didn't know what to do for either of us. Now she is doing as a baby does, eats, sleeps, and poops...lol. We are finally getting on somewhat of a schedule. She is waking herself up every 3 hours or so to eat.
We are so happy to be home and enjoying our baby girl. We did family pics on Sunday and they turned out SUPER CUTE! She did a super job during the photo session. If you are on Facebook, you can see them there.
We can't wait for her to get a little bigger when she starts cooing and laughing, we are only getting the gas smiles now. :-) Believe me, we get them often. HAHA! She has been a super baby now that we have the feedings down pat.
I am hoping to be able to keep posting her milestones and funny stories on here, but getting on the computer has been a hard thing these past couple of weeks, so there may be a space between updates. ;0)

She is almost here

So Miss Bella is getting closer to making her appearance into this world.

We have been making lots of trips to the dr. these past few weeks. I have had to go 2x weekly. They have to hook me up to the NST machine and watch Bella's heart/activity waves. With the gestational diabetes, the dr. said the placenta can stop working faster than it would in a regular pregnancy. So far, Bella has passed everyone of the tests.

We made a trip up on Wed. morning as I was having severe back pains and abdominal cramps. The dr. checked and I wasn't even dialated yet. Bella had just decided to lay directly on my pelvic bone and apply LOTS of pressure. They say it can happen when a person is on bedrest. If it is going to happen, it will happen to me. LOL.

We go back Monday for our last sonogram. This sono will determine exactly how big she is and the plan for delivery. The dr. is already pretty much saying she will be doing a scheduled csection. Again, due to the diabetes, if Bella's chest cavity is much wider than her head I will not be able to do a regular delivery for fear of once her head passes through the birth canal she will get stuck. YEAH, we don't want that. UGH!!! Especially after having the dr. tell us stories yesterday of past patients having it happen. I am all game for a csection to keep that from happening. LOL.

We are both more than ready for Bella to be here. The car is loaded with everything we need for the hospital...thanks to the mad dash we made Wed., we just decided to leave it in there. HEHE!

Being on bedrest sucks! There is only so much a person can do when they can't get up and around. :-( But I have managed I guess!!!

I am hoping to be able to keep the blog more up to date once Bella gets here with pictures and such. We shall see how well it goes.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Can't believe Christmas is only a week and a half away? How did it get here so fast? I hadn't even started my shopping yet. This morning after I ran my morning route I had to run to Wal-Mart to get a few items. I decided it was now or never to get it started. We decided this year that we are only buying for the 2 nieces and 1 nephew. Within 45 minutes I was done with all 3. I love the fact they are old enough now that it was some what easy to find the "right" things for each of them. Wasn't able to find one thing I was looking for, but made up for it with something else so it was all good.

Our last day of school is this Friday until after the new year. I am planning on doing some relaxing with my feet up. Been swelling up a bit! Having some back pains but start seeing my massage therapist (upon the request of my dr. of course, what better way to get that done) on Sat. morning. Maybe I can start sleeping better too.

Back to my Wal-Mart trip this morning!
I did get a good laugh while in Wal-Mart. Don't know if anyone has ever witnessed the "associates meeting" they do on certain days of the week?!? They call all associates to a certain aisle over the loud speaker and they have a quick and brief meeting. WELL, this morning their meeting consisted of a little "cheerleading". ROFL! The guy leading the meeting cheered out and spelled Wal-Mart and they had to repeat each letter...when they were done they yelled Wal-Mart and it was funny because they did this several times only louder each time. If that doesn't make a person laugh, I don't know what does.

Bella is doing great! Went to the dr. yesterday and everything was good. I go back on the 28th for a 2 week visit and then we start the 1 week visits. OK, SO IT IS OFFICIALLY GETTING CLOSE! I just realized this by the way. HAHA! We have the room all ready for her arrival, minus a few items, we could do without in the beginning but will have to purchase at some point. :-) She is already being spoiled rotten by her Aunt Sam & Uncle Luke! They too are expecting in May, so they are excited that our kids will be so close in age. Adam was telling Bella the other night to "kick mom". I laughed and his response was "trying to get her to follow directions early". Yep, he is going to be a great dad! LOL. He is getting excited as well. He went into her room the other day to "straighten a few things up". He doesn't do that anywhere else in the house. HA! It made me laugh under my breath, because we all know if we laugh out loud, they won't do it again.

Adam & I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Our new year will be complete with a new addition to our home and family. We can't wait! She will be spoiled beyond belief of course.

It has been a long time.....

Wow, over a month since I last posted. HMMM..

So, what has happened in the last month you ask? We have been gearing down for baby. I think it finally sunk in after our appointment on Thursday of last week to Adam, that we are having a baby. He has been telling me that we aren't going to mess with the room for a while. On Thursday evening he tells me that I really need to get in there and tackle the closet in the babies room and decide where everything is going to go. We found out at our appointment last week we are having a girl. We hadn't chose any girls names because we were just sure we were having a boy. So after we got the sonogram, we were sittin in the room waiting to see the dr. I told him "you're going to have a daughter, and we need to find a name." He liked Anabelle, and I said "no, that is a cow's name in a christmas song, (lol)how about AnaBella and we call her Bella. We both liked the name and it just stuck. So she will be AnaBella Maryana Black "Bella". We have decided to decorate her room with a khaki colored paint and all the accents will be done in Pink Camoflouge. Those of you that know us, know just how excited we are about that. :O) Adam's parents got a baby bid and changing table for us and we received it Friday afternoon. It is really pretty and we are very thankful for it. We went Sat. night and yesterday and did the baby registery at Target and Babies R Us. I swear, Bella isn't even here yet and her daddy is already spoiling her rotten. I had to keep removing things from the registery that he "thought" we needed, but really don't. He got a little trigger happy with the scanner to say the least. LOL. It was fun and now it has us both even more excited about her getting here. One of the gals I work with has already outfitted her in 3 dresses, which by the way are ADORABLE. Thanks Trish! So as you can tell we will be pretty busy the next 4 months. I will be 20 weeks along as of tomorrow (Tuesday), so we are officially half way there. It has FLOWN by.

Summer is Officially Over!!!

I have been back to work for 2 weeks now. It has been nice getting out of the house, but tiresome at the same time. We have been working 13 hour days this week. We had to get all the students entered in the system since Tuesday's enrollment. We had to get each route set up, mapped out and directions typed up. WOW! We have our big all staff meeting tomorrow, which is the proof that summer is over. I am excited to see the kids on my bus route though, so it has made it more liveable. LOL.

We have been some canning fools the past few weeks too. We have canned green beans, cinnamon pickles, relish, blackberry jam and some chili sauce. After the count today we have 199 jars of goodies sitting on the pantry shelf just from this summers crop. Winter will be wonderful!!!!!!!! That doesn't count the stuff we have already eaten because the jars didn't seal. LOL.

Went to the dr. this week after a scare from waking up spotting. Everything turned out great and we got to see the baby move around. It was AWESOME. Although I can't feel it yet, it was still pretty neat. The baby was VERY active for the sonogram. SUPER excited now that we have seen movement. It was more exciting than hearing the heartbeat for the first time. We go back for a sonogram in Sept. and the dr. said we should be able to see the sex. CAN'T WAIT!!! Although I already (think) know it is a boy. HEHE!!

Hope everyone is feeling better these days and that those returning to school are having as much fun as I am. LOL.

Back to the daily grind.

So summer has flew past us once again. Time to get back in the swing of life. I have really enjoyed this past summer of nothings really.

I have to return to work on Monday. Talk about a rude awaking, they are wanting me to be there at 6:30am...couldn't tell ya the last time I willing got up before that time. Guess those early morning waking restroom breaks have been good for something. HEHE.

Our garage sale went GREAT. We had a yard FULL of goodies and lots of customers. Only had to haul off two truckloads to good will, it was all mostly bigger items. Those items one looks at but has no way to haul them home so they leave them behind. LOL. It did rain on us a couple of times but nothing that put a grinding hault to it all. We sat through it and managed to continue making sales.

I did get to go see Harry Potter with Christy, Jenn and Melissa. It was a great time and enjoyed a yummy breakfast at the theater. Thanks Christy.

Megan and Miss Nora came up this week and we went and walked around the Fair. We were also joined by my sis-in-law, niece and nephew. It was so fun watching the kids react to the animals. They loved it. It was even better getting to see Megan and Nora. I have missed talking them and seeing them. :-)

We had another dr. visit this month. Got to hear the heartbeat on the doppler machine. This is the 2nd time we have got to hear it, the first time we had an awesome sono tech that found it. I am 11 weeks, 3 days. Almost to my 2nd trimester. The dr. says everything is going great and as planned. We will get a sonogram in September and she said we shall be able to "see everything we want to see." Yes, we are going to find out what it is. We want to do the nursery accordingly.

I have for the most part been feeling Great. I was having a bout of stomach cramps and icky feeling days, but I realized it is true...you have to drink lots of water. I don't like water, never have liked water....so I am pushing myself to drink lots of the nasty stuff. HAHA!

I am going with Christy tomorrow to see "The Ugly Truth". Have heard nothing but great reviews about it. It looks funny and will make a great end to my summer vacation.

Hope everyone enjoys what little of summer is left. It has gone by way to fast.