How Could I Forget??

Well, I meant to do this when I finally blogged again, but I forgot, somehow! I had said on the 16th that I was going to be an aunt again very soon but I got caught up and forgot to update about that again!

Madelyn Rose Tyler was born on September 16th at 11:19 pm, weighing in at 6 lbs. 15 1/2 oz. Her mommy had said I could share pictures with everyone, but I just didn't get around to it till now, so here they are!





































We haven't gotten to see her yet since Anthony is so busy with school and everything, but I hear they are doing very well and enjoying life as a family of 3 now. Congratulations again, Jeremy and Brynn, and good job on making a cute baby! :)

Crib

And finally, here are the pictures of the crib. I think I really like it and it goes well with the style of the room, I think. So now I need to get rid of all the packaging from the crib so I can actually figure out how I want the room situated. I think I will leave it pretty much like it is now but I just need the trash out of there to visualize. :)

Now I can't wait to get a mattress (someone buy me one, haha) so I can actually get the crib baby-ready!

28 Weeks Prego Pic

And since I knew I was blogging tonight, I went ahead and had Anthony take this one, so this is 28 weeks, from today! I keep wishing my belly could be translucent for just a minute so I could just see how big she is and how she is situated in there! And if I look a little irritated, the neighbors had their music up way loud so I could hear the bass ever since I got home.... grrr.

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. They'll be doing the glucose screening test, so hopefully that comes back fine and I don't have gestational diabetes. I think I would come close to dying if I had to try to control that with my diet. But hopefully we have nothing to worry about! And for the record, I still love being pregnant. :)

27 Weeks Prego Pic

Okay... here we go.... 27 weeks, this was last Monday maybe, September 22. I still get shocked when I look at these pictures! And yes, Amanda, I am wearing lounge pants, but this was right before I was going outside to pull weeds out of the flower bed, so I think lounge pants are acceptable in this case. :) You'll have to pardon the mess on the floor. That's how it looks these days with Anthony "storing" his grad school stuff out there!

New Computer & Crib

Okay! We did it. We bought a new Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. After much debate in the store, I decided to go with the laptop. I just don't like the bulkiness that desktop brings. I don't think Anthony agress with my decision, but he is a nice husband and let me make the choice since he mostly uses his school laptop. He even got it all setup for me while I was taking a nap.

And then, this evening I ran to Walmart to get groceries, and when I got back, he had taken down my old bed which was in the baby's room, so we could get the crib set up. So we also got that done tonight! I will take pictures once I am motivated. It looks really cute and goes well with the room, so I'm happy with our crib choice. And even happier with the wonderful husband I have and how helpful he is and how he puts up with me!

Now, I'm off to watch the premiere of The Office which we did not watch last night due to the presidential debate, and my falling asleep during it, haha.

Computer

Well, I've gotten behind again.... but I do have a decent excuse. I'm not sure if it would have made a difference on whether I blooged or not, but my computer died. :( I believe it was Monday evening. I was on facebook and the computer started making a funny clicking noise so I called Anthony over, and just about the time he looked over my shoulder.... blue screen of death! Anthony is super good with computers so usually if anything can be done to "save" a computer, he can do it, but he says it's a goner. So that stinks, especially since I lost everything I had on there. Tip for the day, backup your files! I had actually been thinking about needing to do that recently but it looks like I waited too long. I suppose we could spend money to try to get those files retrieved somehow, but I'm not sure I want to do that. I'll just deal with it.

So with that in mind, we are headed to Best Buy in Charlottesville tomorrow to see if we can't find a new computer. I *think* we are going to go with a desktop since it should be a little cheaper and generally they last longer and have fewer problems. I kind of would like to keep it in the office because I feel like we pay less attention to each other with the computer in the living room (which we'll still have because of Anthony's school laptop, but better just one laptop instead of two laptops). But I've been back and forth since Monday so I could change my mind again. I'll let ya know!

We may try to work on setting up the crib tomorrow as well. And of course there's the typical Saturday cleaning and grocery shopping to be done. So it should be a busy day.

Another thing I wanted to comment on.... my ticker at the top which tells me that there are only 86 days to go until Bailey comes. Starting to get freaked out a little. That's coming soon. And just about every morning this week, I have woken up feeling like I have gotten bigger overnight. So I think I'm starting to feel a little bit of the discomfort of being largely pregnant. But I am still utterly enjoying pregnancy at this point. I feel like it is such a wonderful thing that God would allow me to carry another human life inside my body. It just never gets old to me. We took some prego pics this week so I will put those up probably once we get a new computer set up.

Well, we are watching an episode of House right now, and I'm hoping to find they have posted the premiere of The Office online so we can watch that after House. We watched the Survivor premiere last night so I wasn't able to watch The Office or Grey's Anatomy. I love fall for the tv shows! Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Auntness Increase!

I meant to mention in my post last night that we had a girls' night out on Thursday. We went to McAllister's and it was a lot of fun! We got to hear a lot of the details about Tyson from Summer so it was nice to get a big update and all the details like that. I don't know how they do it!

And I wanted to say that I am going to be an aunt again either tonight or tomorrow! Brynn (my BIL Jeremy's wife) had a doctor's appointment today and she was 4 cm dilated and 60% effaced and her blood pressure was high enough that they wanted to go ahead and admit her and induce her. Not sure whether the inducing will take place tonight or if they will wait until morning though. This will put me at 2 nephews and 3 nieces! I believe they are going to name her Madelyn (sp?) Rose but I'm not 100% positive of that. I'll let you know the news when she is born!

Better go get my dinner out of the oven before it burns!

Week Recap and Crib Drama

Well, I am locked in the office right now (don't worry, not literally) while my husband makes a presentation for one of his classes, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to blog.

Recap of the past week:

Wednesday - Dad was released from the hospital. Staying with Mom and Ashley now. He is doing okay. He can get around by himself, slowly, with the walker, but he gets worn out quickly. He goes back to the doctor on Friday so hopefully there will be some progress there.

Saturday - We went to Charlottesville and ate lunch at the Wood Grill. Yummy. I love buffets because unlike most restaurants, you can have lots of different options. You don't have to have a lot of one thing, you can get a little bit of a lots of things! I was stuffed and the food was excellent.

Then we went to Babies R Us to look for a crib. We were there for a long time and I was really discouraged actually, at the selection they had. They had one lower end white Jenny Lind crib that I considered, but it just looked cheap and didn't feel very sturdy. Anthony wanted a wood color crib and I wanted a white so we went back and forth over that for a while but he got so tired of being there, he didn't care anymore. :) That Jenny Lind crib was the only one in the $100 - $200 price range and everything else was above, and far above that. I had no intentions of spending that much on a crib! So anyways, I finally decided on this really nice white colored Jardine crib that was $220. It was more than I wanted to spend, but it was really beautiful and sturdy, so we were going to get it.

So I asked the girl did they have any of them in stock. She looks it up on her computer.... nope, none in stock, but they can order it for me and have it in 7-10 days.... okay!..... come sit down while we place the order..... oh wait...... there are none in the warehouse.... and we can't get one on order. Oh. So basically they had a crib on display that you CANNOT buy. Probably not for months. They don't even have it on their website. If I was thinking straight, and not on the verge of tears, and I did cry mind you (they shouldn't tease pregnant women like this!) then I would have asked if they would sell the floor model. But the only thing with that was, something was not put together correctly on it because the side would not go down. I thought about calling them back and asking if they would sell the floor model for a nice discount, and I still haven't totally dismissed the thought, but I may just stick with what we ended up getting. Any thoughts? I wish I had a picture of it to show.

So what we did end up doing, after my tears were dried, was going to Target and looking there, again. And we bought a crib. I don't like it as much as I did the cursed crib at Babies R Us, but I do like it, and I think it fits in with the other furniture we have. Really, having the perfect, ideal "nusery" is not very important to me. The baby won't care what the room looks like anyways, so as long as it is functional and at least a little cute, I'm happy. :)

I also put together our stroller/travel system on Saturday so that was fun.

That's about all the excitement in our lives in the past week. I know there have been other things I wanted to blog about, but I store them in my brain and then they get lost somewhere.

Tyson is set to have surgery on Thursday to remove the remaining tumor from his brain. They are expecting it to be a pretty easy surgery compared to last time. And hopefully after this, he will be tumor free and they will finish the 3 remaining chemos just to make sure there are not leftover cancer cells or anything. God has definitely been providing and doing miracles for this family, but please remember to pray for them on Thursday. I think the surgery is supposed to be around noon or 1pm.

Now I think I will go eat some cookies with my hubby. :) Life is good.

3 Pounds!

This morning before my doctor's appointment, I stopped by the hospital to see my dad and bring him some McDonald's tea. :) He was doing okay, but pretty uncomfortable from having to stay in one position pretty much all the time. He told me this afternoon it looks like he will get out of the hospital on Wednesday. I'm not sure where he will go after that however. Hopefully to the Inpatient Rehabilitation Center at AMC so he can really get the help he needs and have attention 24 hours a day since everyone in our family has a job during the day.

After the visit, I headed to the Women's Center for my checkup. It did turn out to be just a checkup - weight, urine sample, blood pressure, heartbeat, etc. My blood pressure was good and it's amazing to hear the heartbeat, as always. I was also measured for the first time and he said that looked right on.

Then I asked Dr. Brooks how much I had gained since the beginning because our scale is semi-broken and I haven't really been keeping track, and I have only gained 3 pounds! I could hardly believe it. I asked him if that was okay, and he said that it was, as long as I was eating healthy and not trying to lose weight, which of course I am not. I just really am not sure how I've pulled that off, since I feel like I've been eating more, if anything, certainly not less. It is normal for overweight women not to gain as much, but I was just shocked. I hope I can keep this up, so I don't have much to lose after Bailey is born!

I will have the glucose screening on September 30th, so they gave me the little orange bottle to drink before I come to that appointment. Everything was great, so I'm happy and thankful for a good appointment and a healthy baby so far.

Well, I am trying a new recipe tonight, Tater-Topped Casserole, and my timer just rang, so hopefully it will turn out yummy!

New Curtains

I have been wanting to find some new curtains for our living room for a while, since the ones I had in there were the same ones I used in college, but I feel like I'm not good at decorating and hadn't found anything that really caught my eye. Well yesterday during my lunch break, I ran over to Big Lots to see if they had any cribs. I didn't find any cribs, but I did find some curtains I liked!
















Sorry my picture taking skills are not too good! I also got a little lamp to put in the corner on top of the bookshelf that matches the color of the curtains perfectly! Now I just need to find some new pillows for our couches...

Ladder Lesson

A lot of you who read this already know about this, so I'll try to keep this short. Yesterday (Friday) my dad was going to check the gutters at Mom's house to clean them out and he was on the ladder and it started to slip, so as it was slipping he jumped back off the ladder, landed on his feet, then fell down and ended up badly fracturing his hip. He was by himself (let this be a lesson to you!) but luckily had his cell phone and was able to call 911 and my mom. So they took him to the ER and at about 10:30 last night they did surgery to repair the hip. They put two rods in his left leg to repair the damage.

He was in a lot of pain yesterday leading up to the surgery, but it has been some better today since he is way doped up with medicine. He was out of the bed, sitting/laying in a sleeping chair while we were there today, and he's been eating but dealing with some nausea, but he is doing fairly well. He'll probably be in the hospital until Monday and will be out of work for 3 to 4 months. The doctor says he should make pretty much a full recovery and be able to do all the normal things he is used to doing, but it will probably be a difficult few months for him in getting there. So please pray for him, for a quick recovery and the entire family as we learn to deal with this new situation.

23 Weeks Pregnancy Pic

Here is me at 23 weeks. I'll be 25 weeks tomorrow, so I'm a little behind, but better late than never right? I just adore being pregnant and I know I am going to miss it once she is born. Obviously we'll love having her "outside" with us, but I just really enjoy feeling her move and kick inside of me and having her so close to me all the time! I have my next appointment on Monday but I'm not exactly sure what they will do at that, so I'll let you know once it's over! I still get asked a lot how I am feeling, which is fine, great, I have felt nothing different pretty much the whole time. I've also been told I'm "glowing" or I have that "pregnancy glow" and that I look like I feel good, so those have been nice things to hear. Also pregnancy related, my friend Megan from church just found out she is having a boy again (she has an almost 10 month old boy), so we decided that our babies will have an arranged marriage when the grow up! :)

Belly Jiggle

Anthony has now felt Bailey kick and seen her move from the outside! I love feeling her kick and just sitting and seeing the "belly jiggle" as Anthony calls it when she moves. I am definitely one of those women who loves being pregnant.