Daycare

Normally I don't have a hard time dropping the girls off at daycare but today was so hard. Colette spit up right when I got there and she has a stuffy nose so she is having a hard time breathing. Then Abby wouldn't let go of my leg when I took her to her room. I don't think any other day has ever been so hard. It made my day start of pretty bad and I am not sure if it will go up from here. I wish I didn't have to leave them. One day I know I won't have to. Just wanted to write my feelings down.

Pregancy Update

I haven't been writing anything down so I am taking a minute to do that. I will be posting Abby's birthday party pictures soon. I was telling my mom the other day how different these two pregnancies have been. I remember Abby getting the hiccups all the time. But Colette never gets them. Well I spoke too soon because now she does. Still not as much as Abby did though. I also remember Abby kicking me a lot especially in the same place on the right side. Colette likes to somersault and roll around all the time. I am lookg forward to the time when she is too big to do that!

I dropped with Abby around my baby shower right before she was born. Colette dropped probably on Friday and I have a month left. I am hoping that means that I go a lot earlier. It has also alleviated a lot of the pain in my ribs that I had been feeling for months now. Not all of it but it is definitely better. It also helped lessen my heartburn and nausea that I had been feeling the week leading up to her dropping.
It has been so much hotter this summer than with Abby. I remember being uncomfortable with Abby but never sick because it has been so hot. My favorite time of day is when I am in my car with the AC going because my office doesn't have a vent and neither does my house. So it is the only cool time of the day.

So with all the festivities going on the last few days (late nights, Alaina's wedding stuff, Abby's birthday party, etc.) I have been very stressed. So I guess that has made my heart race a little bit. So my heart rate was up for the second appointment in a row and I mentioned that I could feel my heart racing a few times over the weekend, so here I am at work with a 24 hour heart monitor. It is just precautionary but it stresses me just to have it on. I can't wait for tomorrow to take it off. It makes me more paranoid about every little thing with it on because I have to track when I feel it racing and what I am doing and push a little button. I hate to even tell my mom about it because it will make her worry and I hate when she worries about me. Luckily I know she always puts my name in the temple and I have felt it calming me today when my anxiety rises.

Wish me luck in getting through the next month. I am going to need it. I just want this baby here (and healthy!) so that we can start having more fun. 

Football 2012

Football has again started for our family. Grant leaves the house at 5:45 a.m. and gets home between 9 and 10 p.m. to kiss Abby good night and then heads back to do bed checks at the dorms. I thought I was even prepared this year for Fall Camp, two-a-days, but I just don't think it becomes something that you get used to. I am especially stressed about the next few weeks since I am hosting the Duffs and planning a birthday party. Did I also mention that I am 32 weeks along now? I just have to keep remembering that this time helps to get me to my goal which is to stay home with my girls. I just hope it gets there sooner rather than later.
There are still some fun things that come with sporting events. I will just look forward to watching football games and finally getting this baby to the world. It is about time that she get here!
Sorry for the small venting, Grant isn't around to hear it...

A Screw

Wow. It has been a crazy night. We had gone to bed about 10:30 and around 11 Abby comes out of her room and says "I swallowed it like I swallowed my vitamin." We didn't understand her at first but figured out that she swallowed something. So she went in to find the other piece to her window that keeps the window from opening too wide. We searched for the screw hoping she hadn't really swallowed it but with no luck. She pointed to the back of her throat and said it hurt but now it felt all better. We wanted to make sure she actually swallowed it so we got an identical screw out of the other room to ask her and she said "oh good you found a new one." So off to the UofU E.R.

Once we got there we wait for a forever and went back and the nurse tried taking Abby's vitals and she wasn't having it (Since she already knows and hates those tests from her ears). They put her name tag on her foot. She proceed to walk like her foot was broken all night. Limping and not bending it. It was a pretty funny sight. The the doctor came in and we asked her questions on how she was ok and breathing fine.

We sat around for an hour waiting for the X-rays. We playing a pony game, colored on doodle buddy, and watched Monster's Inc. I am so glad I had left my Ipad in my purse because there was nothing good on t.v. We went back for X-rays and Abby was crying and screaming. Grant had to hold her down. I was glad that I couldn't be in the room since I am pregnant because it was really sad. Once they were done they pulled me in the back way to look at the pictures. I really didn't think that she swallowed a screw so I was amazed to see that big old thing in her stomache.

We waited around for the doctor and since it was already pasted her esophagus and it didn't have a pointed bottom that they would wait to see if it would pass through. The doctor almost seemed impressed. He said she had to work really hard to swallow that big of a screw. I think maybe it will be more funny once I have had more sleep.

We were finally discharged and got home and in bed by 2 a.m. I am just glad that she is ok because that big of a screw head could've chocked her pretty easily. I am already thinking of scenarios that I will use this screw over my daughter when she gets older. If it didn't have to go through her poop I might have framed it as the doctor seemed like swallowing it was such an accomplishment. Luckily we weren't the parents in there last week who had the barbie shoe stuck in her ear but I won't speak too soon since she is only two. I am also glad she had the good sense to come and tell us what she had done. What a stinker! I am going to be a zombie at work today. 

Holidays

This is a crazy time of year for us (not as bad as the football season) but within 5 weeks we have Mother's Day, Grant's birthday, Our Anniversary, My birthday, and Father's Day. This busy time has included a trip to Yellowstone with my parents, Mike coming over, food poisoning, celebrations and buying a new car. Man it is so crazy busy.

Yellowstone and the weekend with my family was really nice. We drove up Friday and drove home Sunday night. (Pictures to come, I have them at home) Abby loved the buffalo! She still tells me that she saw the buffalo yesterday (though it's been three weeks now). We saw Old Faithful and went through some of the new buildings that have gone up there. We spent time shopping and ate at the Three Bears Lodge. I was kind of the downer of the ride since I couldn't do as many things since being pregnant. I was just so sore and tired from all the driving but it was still fun.

The rest of the weekend was spent hanging out with family. It was really nice to see everyone (except the Brady bunch and Clynt). I have missed everyone very much.

We stopped by Grant's parent's house on the way home and gave Kandi her mother's day present. Abby had a lot of fun seeing her grandparents, Susie, and the animals.

On the way home Abby threw up maybe three times. It was very traumatic for her and her parents. She was mostly upset that she threw up on the new dress she got from Kim. Every time she saw it for a couple weeks she asked if it had puck on it.

Grant's birthday party was fun. We went out with friends to Five Guys and then back to our house for Grant's favorite cheesecake. Then on his birthday we had a football bbq and afterwards both of us got food poisoning and were sick all night and all day the next day. Luckily Abby didn't eat whatever it was that made us sick because it was awful and there wasn't enough space in one bathroom fro three sick people. There was barely enough for two. Not exactly his favorite birthday.

Grant and I have now been married for 5 years. I can't believe how quickly time goes by. We celebrated at a night out. We tried the Red Iguana for dinner, which a pretty popular place to eat in SLC. It was good but I think I missed out by not trying their signature stuff. The salsa was good though. I'm so grateful to have Grant as my husband and am glad we have forever because that barely seems long enough (most days).

Baby Names/Painting

Baby #2 - Colette Patricia Duff

We actually decided pretty quickly. Grant found the name asked me if I like it and I loved it. It instantly felt like her name. Then he picked 1 of 4 of the middle names that I liked that were family names. However, Grant gets to claim that he picked it all by himself since I picked Abby's name all by myself, which will mean baby number three will have to be a combined effort.

I had a lot of fun helping Abby make Mother's Day cards for the special grandmothers and grandmother figures in her life.  Then she painted some more and had so much fun. I will have to make a note to paint more often. Also, doesn't she look so much like her dad! I love those two.

What an Awesome Day!

 

Today has been so awesome. I found out that Grant and I are having a healthy baby girl. I swore up and down to Grant that I knew it was a boy. haha. But we are very happy! When asked if Abby wanted a little sister or a little brother, she answered little sister every time. So it seems that she knew better than all of us. I'm pretending Grant agreed with me, which isn't completely true =). Now we just have to pick a name and Grant automatically hates the names I choose just because I got to pick Abby's name with really no input from him because I had it chosen since high school. So I will have to learn how to speak to his subconscious mind when he sleeps so he will like a name that I like to.

Another super awesome event in my day is that I graduated from USU with a BS in Family Life Studies. I took my last final and it feels awesome. I love saying that I am now an Aggie Alumni! I am looking forward to having time to clean my house and pick up some neglected hobbies like playing my piano and maybe some scrapbooking. 

I am so grateful for my little family, Grant, Abby, and "Abby's little sister" and my family and extended family. A special thanks to my friends and neighbors who would watch Abby while Grant was working and I needed to study! I have been given so many blessings throughout these experiences and I would be ungrateful if I didn't thank my Heavenly Father for helping to guide me and comfort me through the hard times.