Bed Rest It is..............

So by the time noon rolled around on Wednesday, it was the longest I have ever been pregnant. I'm really starting to get nervous as is Kevin b/c from now on it's new territory. None of us know what to really expect from here on out. We went to the doctor yesterday and I was 37 weeks and 2 days. I didn't feel real well so I knew something was probably going to happen. Well of course when we get to the doctor's office, my doctor is running behind which rarely ever happens. I go back get weighed, and actually lost 3 lbs from the week before which is probably even more unlikely and then they take the infamous blood pressure. My blood pressure has always been an issue. It's what caused me to be induced at 37 weeks with Mason and it has been an issue this time around as well but early on rather than later. Well yesterday it was 172/88. Which is not good. But the good news was that I didn't have any protein in my urine and I had lost weight. So Dr. Gates was kind of baffled why my bp was high. So he immediately said, "Bed Rest". He said I probably wasn't pre-eclamptic, but he was sending me to the hospital lab to have blood work done and if anything came back abnormal I was to be admitted. He thinks that my bp was automatically shooting up whenever I got up and moved around, so bed rest it is. Thank god, my blood work came back normal and everything is ok. I was only dialated 1 cm so from now on I'm only supposed to get up to go to the bathroom, get something to eat or take a shower.

Let me just to tell you that it SUCKS! I hate just sitting around especially when I don't FEEL that bad and I think I should be doing something. So now instead of going to the doctor once a week, I now have to go twice a week. So my next appointment is Tuesday. Hopefully we can keep Molly happy a little while longer! I've been saying for a week or two now that I'm just ready to be done. But after yesterday and knowing it could really be anytime, I'm NOT ready. LOL. I guess it's really out of my hands at this point.

I'll keep everyone posted as things progress. It's crazy to think we are finally getting to the end!

Molly's Room

Molly's room is finally complete! It took a lot of work, but we are now officially ready for her arrival! Her closet is even complete with all the millions of clothes!

Mason's New Chairs

Mason got some new chairs for his birthday that he loves. He has one more that I didn't get a picture of but is a grasshopper lawn chair. They are all really cute!!

Happy Birthday Mason!!

Mason's 2nd birthday was Saturday. We had a big party with all our family and friends. Mason got a lot of great stuff and we think he had a great time.

Cuteness

Molly's Room

Well let's hope poor little Molly doesn't decide to make an appearance anytime soon b/c as you can see, her room is not even close to being finished. I haven't washed any clothes or bedding and crap is just thrown all over the place. It's the only room in the house that isn't finished, but we will get there. I just now got through going through some of Mason's baby clothes and my cousin's little girl's baby clothes and now they need to be washed. Let's just say that this little girl will ALWAYS have something to wear. I thought Mason had a lot of clothes as a baby but I think Molly has already put him to shame! But, what do you expect? She is a girl!!!

Finally!!

Well it's Mother's Day and we have officially been in our new house for 8 days. We are finally getting settled and it's starting to look like a home. We really love it here. Mason is finally starting to sleep most of the night. We had issues the last few weeks at the apartment. He decided he was going to start crawling out of his crib so we bought him a toddler bed. Well he didn't want to sleep it in and when he did, it was never for more than 2 hours at a time. He spent a lot of time in our bed which I never wanted to do, but when you need sleep you will do anything. Well needless to say we are selling the toddler bed b/c he still refused to sleep in it in the new house and he started sleeping in the spare bed. So now the spare bed is his new bed and we have to get a new bed for the spare. Whatever works!!! I didn't think it would be this hard transitioning and of course everytime I ask people if they had trouble, they were always like, oh no it was an easy move. Of course it was!!! Anyways, we are getting there and right now Mason only wakes up usually once a night sometimes twice. But the new issue that is occurring is now that he's in his own bed, once it's daylight, he's awake. Which lately is 645 am! How fun for us! Oh well.

We are also getting ready for Mason's 2nd birthday which is Saturday, May 16th. It is crazy how fast another year has went.

The post below was from packing at the apartment. Mason thought it would be easier if we just put him in the box. He is quite the funny man!!

Well I hope all mothers have a great Mother's Day!

Pack Him Up and Ship Him Out

Molly - 32 weeks and 2 days

If you look closely, the arrow is pointing at Molly's double chin! She has a pretty fat face!

Here is a great picture of her ear which is all she showed for most of our session, but you can also see her hair around her ear.q

Apparently the technician said she had her eye open and that is what the arrow is pointing at. Of course you couldn't really tell b/c as usual she was snuggled in the placenta.

She definitely has some chubby cheeks. They are more chubby now than 3 weeks ago. She is head down at this point but she was in no mood to cooperate and give us really good shots. We are all just ready to meet her!!

The Boone Family

The Boone Family on Easter Sunday. The kids were not interested in having their picture taken, especially Mason!

Easter

The only thing Mason cared about that was in his Easter basket was the two movies. He threw everything else to the side.

Mason loved hunting eggs! He did pretty good too for it being his first hunt. He ended up collecting $6.50 and tons of candy!!

Eating a Banana

Coloring Easter Eggs

29 Weeks 3 Days

I am 29 Weeks and 3 Days today and it is unbelievable how fast time is going. I finally got Molly's bedding ordered this weekend and I'm looking forward to being able to decorate a nursery now that we will have a house and she will have her own room. Things are going pretty good....my feet has started swelling already and I think everyday I wake up bigger, but I guess that just means she is growing!

Mason and Daddy

Daddy gave himself and Mason a haircut tonight. They both look so much better and Mason is definitely more of a little man!!

New House

FINALLY!!! Something has worked in our favor. This is our new house. It is in Michigantown which is a few minutes north of Kirklin right across the street from Kevin's high school. It is the house we originally put ours on the market for and it was still for sale, so we decided it was meant to be. It's a great house and I think we will be very happy there. The inspection went really well so everything is a go. We will probably be moving at the end of April. So thank God we will be settled before little Miss Molly decides to make an appearance!

Mason and Pepper

This is Mammaw and Pappaw Engleman's dog, Pepper. Mason and Pepper get along really well and it's so fun to watch them play together. Pepper thinks he is some big bad dog and the reality is...he is only 6 lbs!

Not So Little Anymore

Just eating some lunch!

Being silly!

Mason loves his Ming-Ming!

Mason is not so little anymore. It's crazy to think he will be 2 in May. We finally got him a big boy bed and got it put together this weekend. Of course it is Spongebob, but we haven't had him sleep in it yet. I don't think it will be a problem....I just can't seem to let him sleep in it yet. He's growing up too fast!

Little Molly Mae

We had a 3D/4D Ultrasound done on Friday to meet little Molly. It is so amazing what you can see. She was breach at this point so the technician had a little trouble getting good face pictures but as you can see she has got some really chubby cheeks! We did the same thing when Mason was 34 weeks and we can already tell that they do not look that similar. The technician also couldn't get the DVD to record so we get to go back for a free session when I am 31 weeks. We are very excited and cannot wait until she is really here!

Too Good to Be True

Well I know it's been awhile since I've posted anything...so I thought I'd better get caught up. A lot has been going on in our family and not all of it good. Some things are just too good to be true here lately. We sold our house and THOUGHT we had found the perfect house. Everything was falling into place. Well...let's just start with the fact that we are NOT buying the house that is posted below. We had the inspection and found so many high dollar items needed fixing and for the price we were paying...we couldn't afford to fix it and didn't really want to either...and the seller's didn't want to fix them, so we said thanks...but no thanks. So that left us with no where to go. We are closing on our house in Fishers today and were supposed to be in the new house on the 20th. What were we going to do? We had no where to store our stuff...no where to stay. All of this happened on my birthday no less. Then we had the appraisal on our house. Did you think that could've went our way? NO! Of course not. Why would we have any good luck in all of this process. So we had to lower the price on our house and take more of hit than we did in the beginning. Anyway....our house is sold and we were packing...but still had no where to go.

We finally found an apartment that we could lease short-term and was reasonable. Finally some good news. We moved in over this past weekend. It's a great apartment in a great area in Carmel. Mason has adjusted really well...the only bad thing about the apartment is that it is on the 3rd floor. The bigger I get, the harder it gets going up all those stairs. So now, we are back in the house hunting process. It's just really frustrating b/c little Molly will be here in June and who knows if we will be in a house by then.

At least we are back to having some sort of normalcy. Mason is growing like a weed and the terrible two's are getting closer and closer. He is getting quite good at throwing a tantrum. I'll try to post some pictures of the little guy soon. As for Molly....she is growing too. I think my belly gets bigger every day. We go back to the doctor on the 19th for my blood sugar test and a checkup. I'll be 28 weeks at that point. It's crazy to think how fast this is all going.

Everyone please keep your fingers crossed that we find a house soon and can be prepared for little Molly's arrival! Until next time.....