Sneak -a - Peek

Here's a peak of nursery & crib (lots more photos to come!!!)

Here is a sample of our v-day card... seriously, self portaits of belly buttons are not super easy!

Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting!

So Miss Isabelle passed her first nonstress test with flying colors! Nurse confirmed that she indeed is one active baby. And even with all the movement I feel, that I probably only feel half of what she is doing! I swear this girl is WonderWoman!!

And of course near the end of test she started the hiccups. This has been her thing lately. We had 2 bouts 2 days ago, another set yesterday, and these today. They crack me up - because her head is so low, it makes my bum vibrate.. a very odd sensation to say the least. Aparently when a baby has hiccups, they can't stop the test until she finishes.. It was a long late morning :-) And lucky for us hiccups are a VERY good sign of baby well being.

We'll be back next week for another look.. we'll see what tricks she comes up with then..

Ramblings

So much little things going on here and there.. couldn't think of a title or way to connect everything in a linear formation..

*very bummed about Heath. i have some friends that grew up with him down under. no i never met him or anything, but i always like him and thought he was just coming into his own. can't grasp that is was suicide.. who books a massage when they off themselves? just plain tragic..

*can not believe the Mormons are gunnin' for "alco-pops". ugh. our grocery stores are allowed to sell watered down beer and "alco-pops" (aka. Mike's Wicked Lemonade, etc.) well someone in the LDS community is positive it is encouraging underage drinking. really.. cause i thought it was fake id's.. and if it's not fake id's & someone is buying it for them, i don't think they'll stop because now they have to go to the state liquor store as opposed to our local Smith's grocery store. PURELY ABSURD! let's all get on our knees and pray Mitt does NOT end up in the oval office.. somethings I truly love about this state and some make me bang my head against a frying pan

*had an electrical shock last night while unplugging my laptop. apparently shocks are bad, bad, bad for pregnancy.. however Isabelle is doing awesome. she's been rockin' and rollin' almost nonstop since 8pm last night and has had 2 bouts of hiccups.

*we are planning on having Miss Isabelle's baptism in May. if you are interested in coming, let us know. at this time we are planning on inviting immediate family and the godparents of course!! the more the merrier, so just speak up if you want to attend!

i think that's all..

WTF?

Okay so I'm a tad blog happy today..

Catching up on the Rep. and Dem. polls.. and there is an article on why Chuck Norris doesn't think McCain is up to snuff.

Um, since when do must people care what the infomercial exercise equipment salesman thinks anyway?? Seriously! Do you? Does anyone??

Next week are we going to be covering why the Olsen twins think Clinton is just totally super??

Ugh... this country's media outlets are so sad sometimes..

P.S. And no I'm not voting for McCain.. there are things I do like about him, but he sold out a few months ago. Most likely going Dem this year, but who???? AND this is actually there first year I will have voted. The vomit in my mouth that W can take credit for has pushed me to get involved!

Snow Angel

We got pounded this morning in Utah. I think we ended up with like 6-7 inches of fresh snow here in the valley in a matter of hours. And sadly my hubby, my reliable snow plower is getting some zzz's (on night shift again).. so Izzy and I had to shovel snow! Shoveling 6-7 inches off our 3 car RV driveway sucks butt in general, and when you're weeks away from the epidural.. it gives new meaning to SUCKS!

Oh well, Isabelle and I had a doc apt this afternoon that could not be rescheduled..so I forsee a long hot shower to heal the inevitable back ache that will occur tonight.

On happier news we found a Catholic church we both like. It is very family and community oriented. We attended their Italian dinner feast this past Saturday - yummo! And Isabelle LOVES church! She totally rocks out to the music and has a grand ol' time in my belly!!

**UPDATE**
Our friendly polygy neighbors (what?? they totally are.. not that I care, at least they like us!) finished shoveling for me!!! I just did my part of the driveway and walkway before Isabelle starting hitting the sciatica nerve too hard.. Oh, I'm so happy!!

And yes Julie it IS totally time to get a snow blower!! We were fooled by last year's winter, I think we have a better understanding of Utah snow now :-)

Wohoo! DVT's Get Some Attention

Since my personal email accounts are through Hotmail, I usually get my "news" from MSN. It is typically blurbs on where Ms. Spears has shown her wooha, but today I was SO happy to see some news on the danger of hormones - specifically birth control.

Don't get me wrong, I want everyone to have access to methods that prevent unwanted pregnancies (we certainly don't need more Jamie-Lynne Spears shopping at Babies R' Us), but it SO frustrating to me that Ob/Gyn's do not educate women on the very real danger of blood clots and test their blood for any increased genetic risk.

Here is the article

((Stepping down from soapbox))

She Get It From Her Mama

When we visited the high risk doc, we received such a treat!! We had our third u/s! We didn't expect to have anymore after the 20th week. Can I tell you my girl has HUGE FEET! Oh my goodness!! I guess since I'm 5'5" and wear a 9.5 shoe it's no wonder that our Isabelle will have large feet too. And that girl has found new ways to kick inside my rib cage and squish around.. Oh my crazy girl!

So for right now we are planning an induced vaginal birth in my 38th week. People that is 5 weeks away (our cute baby counter had been wrong)! And I will now be going in for weekly nonstress tests to make sure our Superhero daughter is continuing to thrive. Her kick counts are insanely high, so I am optimistic that they can wait till the 38th week. But yes, if the results start to go down they will induce me.

People keep those cell phones on and close by!

I can not wait to meet this angel, but I'm loving every day I have left with her inside me. What a special time this is! To feel her kick and respond to my touch.. and the books say she'll know my voice instantly when she is born (and she responds to Thomas as well, so I'm sure she'll know her daddy by that unmistakable, adorable laugh of his!)

Keep up the prayers and good thoughts!!