The Whopper & Dillon's Field Trip

Today Danni is 29 Weeks, 2 Days. 

Last week I had my regular OB check.  Her heart rate was 156 which is great.  The doc was examining/palpating/ pressing around my belly and he states "Oh my we have a whopper in there."  While I am excited she's "healthy" I'm a little afraid about what that means in terms of the watermelon through a lemon hole analogy.  You get my drift.

I also went for my Gestational Diabetes test.  This is where you go to one of those Lab Corp/Quest Diagnostic type places and drink this sugary concoction that reminded me of a flat Orange Crush with way more sugar.  Then you wait exactly one hour and they draw your blood.  This tells the doc if your body is processing sugar normally.  I am happy to announce I passed.  They consider anything under 130 to be normal and I was 84.  This tells me my body loves sugar and that I should celebrate with a bowl of ice cream.

Yesterday I "chaperoned" Dillon's class field trip to Luizzo Produce Farms in Amite.  It was pretty cool.  They had pumpkin decorating, a corn maze, a tour of the farm, etc.  We got to pet the animals and feed the baby cow.  They even have a 5 month old zebra!  I also learned the best time to buy strawberries is in the winter.  By end of spring/summer, the plants are exhausted.  Good to know!

This was their Pumpkin Patch.  They have a real patch behind it but it had already been harvested and this was what was left.

Mrs. Brown's Class

Please note Dillon picks the table where the ladies are.  Loves them girls!

Dillon painted a Patriotic Pumpkin

Holding a teenage duck.

Very pretty Zebra!

Until next time...

Katie

Noteworthy Toilet Tips

If you are pregnant, or plan to become pregnant, I suggest you invest in some heavy duty toilet handles.  I have managed to break the handles off both toilets in my 28 weeks of Danni gestation due to the outrageous frequency for which I have to urinate.  So here are some more toilet saver options...

1. Heavy Duty Handles
2. Commercial grade toilets
3. Outhouse (free fertilizer for my gardener friends!!)
4. Adopt the ole "If it's yellow, it's mellow, if it's brown flush it down" rule
5. Start making use of those Depends!  This is great b/c you never really have to get up!

If you think of anything creative you want to add, please feel free to leave your ideas in the comment section :-)

TTFN -

Katie

Happy 3rd Trimester to Us!!!

PHEW it's been about 3 weeks since my last post and my sincerest apologies to all that find my blog exhilarating and have missed it.  You two know who you are!!!

We finished the house remodel on my birthday...yea!!  So I made a little 5 min video of the "after" if you would like to see it.  The Henderson Home Remodel Project

Yesterday I think I officially entered my third trimester at 27 weeks.  YEA!  I'm not totally sure on this since there are several different opinions on when the third tri starts.  But all my other pregnant friends on the pregger boards are celebrating, so what the heck!! 

Everything seems to be going fine.  Last week I had to cancel a work trip b/c I was having some pains but I think they were completely normal.  Dr. T was probably just being way too overly cautious when he asked me not to fly.  Kind of a bummer as I was looking forward to seeing some of my work friends.  Instead, Tom drove me to Birmingham to visit the fam while he "golfed his brains out".  I bought him a session with the Taylor Made Golf Lab for his birthday so he was in heaven.  While he was practicing for the Pro Tour (yeah right we wish) I went out and registered for all the crap my sister and I think I need to bring this sweet little girl into the world (yeah yeah vomit).  If you are interested in purchasing any of said crap, we are registered at Target, Babies R Us and Amazon.com.  I am especially mesmerized by the snot sucker.  Can't wait to use it.  May have Tom give it a whirl on me during my next cold.  OK GROSS!

The weight gain is OOC (out of control).  It's really the only thing that's making me uncomfortable.  I was already 25lbs over my normal weight when I found out I was preggers.  So any weight I put on is something I measure against my norm, not what I started pregnancy at.  It's making me nuts (and fat!).  I could totally control this rapid increase in weight, but I just simply choose not to I guess.  I'm tired and lazy, what can I say?

So...for your viewing pleasure - here is the latest belly pics.  OMG!

This week it finally looks like a basketball instead of just flab!

This week I honored the 3rd tri by taking my pic in THE RED PANTS!!

OK my new goal is to get back to my weekly Danni updates...  maybe some really sweet people will start buying us some stuff off the registry so I can blog about all the great stuff we are getting..  HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT