I'm Pregnant!

Well, I still can't believe it- as soon as we started trying for another baby, we got it! Holy cow! We thought it would take a while, so we figured we'd start trying, and the day after we settled on our house, on Friday, June 13th, I took a test b/c I had been feeling a little off. That was two days before Father's Day, so Dan got his present early. I had Nate give him a little box with the preggo test inside. I didn't have any cash to get him anything else, and that gift was way better, anyway! The timing was kind of crazy, though, since we had all this work to do on both houses, and I was so tired, and Dan doesn't let me do a lot to help when I'm preggers. Plus, the following week, we had our vacation, and I was actually looking forward to going out to dinner and having a nice cocktail or two. Instead, I felt so tired, and bloated and yucky for most of the trip. All for a good cause, but jeez!


It's very cool, too, b/c two of my friends are also pregnant with their second, and we are all due within a month and a half of each other. February 17th is my date. On the 29th, we go in for our last ultrasound, and we have decided we're going to find out the gender this time, we're just not going to tell anyone. I hope I don't slip up!

So, just like last time, my body hurts a lot, especially my back. Other than that, I feel pretty good, though. A bit of acid reflux, but I had that before. This past weekend, though, I woke up with some sort of bug, and became pretty dehydrated, so I had to go to the hospital to get and IV to replenish my fluids. It took over four hours! Yuck! My mother had come up to take care of Nate that morning, and didn't leave until about 8pm, after Dan had seen me get set up with the IV. He had to come back and get me at 11:30 that night, with a sleepy boy in the car. My mother said she could stay longer so Dan could stay with me in the hospital, but we thought that was silly. I was just watching that drip going, and wishing it would go faster- those beds are not so comfy after the first two minutes! It took them three tries to get my IV in, too, since my veins kept collapsing. That crap hurts! I just feel bad for the women who have to go through that on a regular basis b/c they have morning sickness so bad. I've been very lucky in that area. Now, I just can't wait until next Monday!

Nathan's Birthday

So, working backwards, that's the next thing that's happened that I have yet to write about. I was so stressed out the whole week, and so was Dan. But, it turned out pretty well. A few people couldn't make it, but we still had a nice amount of people. Lots of food and beer left over, though! It was strange, though- Dan's family all kept to themselves, except for a couple of his cousins who are a bit more friendly. My family seemed to be having a good time, and so were the kids. Our little cousins were all running around and using the playground that's right accross from our house, and they were all getting along, eventhough my cousins had never met Dan's cousins. Pretty cool.



Dan's brother, who we are not really on the best of terms with, didn't even say hello to either of us, nor did he even step foot into our house. When Dan finally asked him about it last week, his excuse was that he wasn't invited! How about that?! First, they got a written invitation in the mail, then, I went outside and announced to all that it was time for dinner, which was located inside, THEN, I said to EVERYONE that it was time for cake- also inside. He is obviously so disgusted by me that he didn't want to eat my food, or watch my son have his first birthday cake (he's spoken to Nate maybe one time, and that was b/c he crawled over to him once and touched his shoes.) F him, I say! I don't think he even wanted to seem interested in seeing the house, or getting a tour from Dan, and he just stood on the side of the house with his other brother and family. Pathetic. And when his family left, NOBODY said goodbye. They don't even teach their 3 1/2 year old to say hello, goodbye, thank you! I would get why he wouldn't say hi to me, but not even to Dan? They had supposedly been speaking a little bit, and the week before, we went to his daughter's first birthday party, and participated like everyone else. I'm telling you this right now, since this behavior is accepted in that family, the next time the "super Couple" has a birthday in their family, I will be in the other room while the birthday song is being sung, and if anyone gives me attitude, I will not hold back in telling them just what I think about the "Super Couple." If something is not about them, it doesn't matter in their eyes.



Anyway, my Dad was able to make the long drive down, and we had some other family that traveled a great distance, so that was nice. Nate seemed to have a good time, even with the cast. He received lots of nice gifts, and I still have to get those thank you notes out! I haven't been able to get back to the party store to get them- maybe today, since Dan is off work early. It's getting more and more tough to take Nate anywhere since I have a lot of back pain- more on that later.



It was hard being the hostess, I'll tell you that much! My Mom helped me out in the kitchen a lot, but it was frustrating not being able to relax more and talk to more people. When I was finally done with everything I had to do, I went outside to chill, and everyone started leaving! I guess that's how it usually is, but I don't like it! I don't think we will be doing a big party every year, but really, if it's just my parents and brother and Dan's parents and brothers, I don't think I'd want to go to that! We'll have to see.