Baby Update

I had my 4 week check up today for the baby and everything seems to be right on track. Heartbeat was 148 so that has stayed pretty consistant the whole time, even tho I know the heartbeat thing is a myth as far as telling gender. My weight gain he said is right on track as well so I am happy about that! We did get the results back fromt he ultrasound and are so happy that this little peanut is healthy! As far as the kidney dialation that they saw with Evan at 20 weeks, this baby does not have any of it! Praise God! We are so excited about that. The problem is more comman in boys so who knows, maybe we have a girl on our hands. We will see! The baby is kicking all the time now. Mostly at night is when it is the most active. Things are starting to feel a lot more real! I cant believe I am half done being pregnant already. Today they even gave me my orange drink for my sugar test at my next appointment. I cant believe I am that far already!! Names are finally decided, and yup, I won on the girls name. Finally I get to claim something! Anyways--that is about it! Looks like we have a healthy little peanut.

Best Friends

We had a few of our friends over friday night for burgers and to enjoy the beautiful weather. We were outside most of the night. Here is a picture of evan and his girlfriends Abby and Jordyn. Abby who is right next to Evan is 1 1/2 months older than Evan and Jordyn is 2 weeks to the day older. He likes his older ladies!

Half Way!!! --I think...

Well if I am as far along as I am "supposed" to be according to a due date of September 11, today means I am 20 weeks! Half way there!

Ohh what a week

This week has been one of the most crazy stressful weeks in a while. You know when you just have a "day" where things just dont go right? I think I had a whole week of that. I wont bore you with all the details, day by day of what has happened...because really it is a bunch of little things. I guess you could say it was just a bad week in general.

One thing that has been on my mind a lot lately, I got asked this week to take a full time position here at the dealership. A girl I work with is going on maternity leave for 12 weeks at the end of May, and unfortunatly the other full time girl I work with decided to take a leave for 12 weeks. That just leaves me left in our office for the whole summer, when I only work 20 hours a week. My boss needed someone to work at least until my friend gets back from maternity leave. This is very stressful for me, and it going to be very hard I think. For one, I only have 3 weeks to learn EVERYTHING there is to learn...and when you are talking car deals, there is SO MUCH paperwork on everything. Two, I hate leaving Evan that much. I miss him so much on my long days on Thursdays, I cant imagine leaving him every day. I know right now, with Ryan not working, I have to take this position. It is going to be hard, but I know that it is temporary. I wont be working forever, and once Ryan is done with school and has a job, things will be so much better, it is just getting there! So for now, at least until my coworker gets back end of August I will be working full time...(until the baby comes really) It shows the faithfulness of God too, just when Ryan's insurance is running out at the end of this month, I am getting full time, so that is taken care of. Sometimes I have to remind myself that when we pray and ask God to help us, God's plan isnt always the easiest, but always in the long run, the best. I start on Monday. I know I may be sounding like a baby, because I know some mothers have to work full time and have no other choice, but this was never in my agenda, nor did I ever think for a second I would have to do this, but I do covet prayers. It is going to be hard being away from Evan so much and I know probably hard on him to. We are looking for a part time temporary position for until end of august and it most likely will be about 20 hours a week, working two nights and saturdays. If anyone knows ANYONE...a college student, anyone, looking for a position like that, PLEASE let me know. We are hoping to hire asap. LIke I said, it would be temporary for the summer.

I am very much looking forward to this weekend! Tomorrow is my last day off and then Monday I start my 40 hrs a week. Tomorrow we are having a bunch of friends over for burgers so it will be nice to just hang out and enjoy my weekend. Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

We had a great weekend. As always, I think the best weekends are when you arent super busy and just get to chill out. Friday night was awesome because we sat home all night. We picked up a few movies...one was Yes Man with Jim Carrey. It was differnt but still funny I guess. I cant remember the other ones name, probably because I didnt watch it. It was one of those guy movies I make Ryan watch by himself.

Saturday like always I had to work from 9-3. That was a bummer considering how BEAUTIFUL it was outside. It looked awesome from the window inside my office at least. At night we celebrated my grandpa and grandma kapenga's 60th wedding anniversary at Beechwood Inn. 60 years in such a long time! It is crazy to think of everything and everyone that has come from just two people. I guess they counted, and with all my aunts, uncles, cousins and their kids...(including the new coming babies) there would be 70 of us at a gathering! All from 2 amazing people. Crazy! I gotta give them props for 60 years!

Sunday we went to church...Evan tried nursery and decided he didnt like it, so unfortunatly I hung out with him in the parent room...again. I know people are thinking, let him cry it out...he will get over it, but trust me, he wouldnt get over it. He has attatchment issues and I know he would cry the whole time. So Ryan was able to enjoy the service, while I chased Evan around. We went home for dinner and had yummy stomboli. Get this, apparently I was making it wrong all these years. Apparently you arent supposed to put the sauce in the stromboli, you are supposed to dip it in the sauce after it is done cooking...hmm, never knew that until I made it for some friends one night and was informed that I make it wrong. So Sunday I made it right, and I gotta be honest..it was much better. So enough about the stromboli, (I can be long winded sometimes.)Sunday night we had small group so we shipped our little man off to Grandma and Grandpa DeVries's house for the night, (over night, yay!) so we could meet with our small group. Once again, another fun night with them, and actually productive for once!! Looking forward to the next meeting.

So there you have it, not too exciting, and not that intresting, but it was a goodweekend nontheless. Have a great week and sorry for boring you with my blabbing!

15 Months

Already? I cant believe my little munchin is growing up so fast. He is such a little man now. Here are his 15 month photos.

I forgot to mention, he has a big shinner on the side of his face. I feel like such a bad parent, but he fell on the cement at the park and scrapped the side of his face. Poor kiddo.

Ultrasound

Did we or didnt we find out? Nope we didnt! And the baby reaffirmed our discision not to find out by not letting us anyway! Even if we wanted to know, we couldnt. The baby was in a position where the ultrasound tec couldnt even look. I guess we werent supposed to know anyway. The suprise in the end will be worth it and I cant wait. Today just made me more excited.

I am a little bummed tho. We will wait until Dr. Gerard confirms it, but the ultrasound tec said I was messuring close to 17 1/2 to 18 weeks, when really I should be almost 19. If that were the case my due date would be closer to September 18, than 11. Oh well, we will have to see. Here are some pics of Baby D #2!

Monkey Man

So it was about 8:15 last night and all was quiet. Ryan and I were watching Extreme Makeover and thought our little man was fast asleep. All of a sudden we heard a loud "thud" and then a cry. Ryan went running in Evan's room and saw our little acrobat about 4 feet from his bed on the ground. Somehow, and we didnt know how, he had managed to climb out of his crib. Thank God he wasnt hurt, I dont think he even knew what happened. He has been climbing on EVERYTHING lately, ontop of the footstools, the couch, the side tables...anything he can climb up he will. But we never thought for a second he would be able to manage climbing over his crib. It was on the lowest setting! Ryan wanted to figure out how he did it so he put him back in, shut the door to a crack and watched. Not even a second after he closed the door, there Evan's little leg went, up and over. I guess he is just that flexible! Ryan had to take the bar across the bottom out completly and threw his mattress on the floor in order for it to be low enough for him not to escape. After knowing he wasnt hurt we had to laugh about it. Who would have thought our 15 month old would be able to climb that?? Only our little Evan.

18 Week photo

Here is my ever growing belly. I have definatly noticed becoming more round every day. It is pretty sad now when I walk into a book store and two people look first at me and then directly to my belly. Makes me wonder if they are wondering if I am just a little soft in the middle or if I am pregnant. Pregnant people! Here it is, thought I would share.

Pictures

I havent posted any recent pictures of Evan lately so here he is. I didnt have my flash on in the one on the vaccum. His favorite "toy." It is funny. He knows exactly where I keep it and will walk by the closet door and let everyone know what is in there. Silly kiddo. I also have his dutch costume ready, just have to possibly let the length out on the pants and sew a few buttons on his jacket. You can tell he is thrilled to be trying it on. I got him some wooden shoes from Velheers too the other day. What a handsome little dutch boy.

Finally my little boy is starting to perk up! I was praying all weekend for him to feel better, and not just that but actually be able to keep food down. I have never been puked on so many times in my life, given so many baths in a day and done this all happily as long as he was comfortable. He has been on his antibiotics since Thursday and today was the first day since Tuesday that he has eaten something and kept it down all day. I never knew pneumonia would make such an upset stomach, but thankfully today he is doing so much better and his coughing isnt as much.

I think Ryan and I are getting closer to figuring out our names for the baby. We have always been set on our boy name, but the girls are always so hard. They were hard for us when I was pregnant with Evan too. Why is it that I love a name and he hates it, or he likes a name and I hate it? It is so hard finding a name we BOTH like. And that is just it, I dont think we will find a girls name we both are in love with. Dont you think after carrying this baby for 9 months, going through all the hard labor and delivery, and then getting up with it in the middle of the night should qualify me to override his choices? I know he is the father and all...but doesnt my hard work and 9 months of carrying this child count for anything?? :) Yes, I am being dramatic. This has just been a huge issue today and we cant seem to agree. Although...I finally came up with a name he is SOMEWHAT ok with. And when I say somewhat...very very little okayness. Anyways...if anyone has any suggestions...I am all ears. (Or any suggestions on how to convice your hubby you are right...that helps too. :)


PS-I love my hubby and I am kidding for the most part on this post. :-)

It looks like we can never win with our little Evan. I feel like he just starts getting healthy and another cold gets him. The last couple days he has been getting worse and worse with his coughing, and throwing up, he hasnt been eating hardly anything at all, so Ryan took him to his doctor last night while I worked. They werent sure really what was going on with him and thought maybe he had a case of pneumonia. Ryan took him to get chest x rays last night at the hospital and the results came back that it looked suspicious on the right side of his lung that it might be starting. I tell ya, one thing after another. He is on amoxicilin so hopefully it will clear up in a few days. It is so hard as a parent watching your kids so helpless and hurting, and knowing there is nothing you can do to make it go away for them. My poor man. He breaks my heart. Hopefully after another day or two he will be perking up a bit.

Quick Update

Just thought I would quick post an update on Baby DeVries. We had our monthly appointment today and everything still looks and sounds great. The baby's heartbeat was 155, so pretty high. I remember with Evan is consistanly dropping every appointment and so far this little bugger has stayed high, so does that mean girl?? I dont know, we will see in September! I did have a dream last night we had a little boy so you never know. My doctor wanted to schedule our ultrasound for 2 weeks from today, April 15 so we are excited for that. I keep bugging Ryan to let us find out but he is so set in his ways. Some days I want to know and some days I dont. I know in the end I will be happy to be suprised, but it is just hard for me not to know!!
Oh, and I was expecting my due date to be pushed back a day or two, seeing how September 9 was the original date the nurses gave me when I called, and yup, my doctor said he had September 11 for my date. Maybe we will get lucky and it will be born on uncle Corey's birthday. So..two more days until the wonderful 17 week mark, instead of today. Oh well.