It's A Boy!

I can't believe I forgot to update this here lol. We had our ultrasound on January 15th and it's a boy! He was FAR from shy about showing off his parts too lol. Not only did we see Very clearly when she was looking for it, but then later as she was trying to measure his femur's he kept moving and there it was plain as day again lol. We got some great pics and it was so neat to see him opening and closing his mouth over and over through the ultrasound. Caught a couple yawns too, and him holding his hands together, then trying to suck his thumb.

He's an active little guy thats for sure!! There's very little time throughout the day where I don't feel him moving around. So far our name choices are Gavin Richard (middle name after dh) or Gavin Robert (middle name after father in law). I will be 23 weeks tomorrow and can't believe how fast time is flying!! I have NOTHING at all ready for this lil guy yet lol. And I mean NOTHING. I keep thinking........oh i have 17 weeks left.......plenty of time right? ha ha nope, especially considering in reality i'll be lucky to have 12 weeks left if this one plans to follow in his brother and sisters footsteps. Really the main things I HAVE to do is bring in the bassinet from the garage, buy or make some diapers (havent decided which yet), and get him some clothes lol. Oh yeah and make a new sling or 2 since most of the ones I use are pretty girly looking. Ahhhh so much to do so little time.

Feeling ok though. Had a bout with some contractions 2 days ago, pretty bad ones too, but nothing since so that's good. It's starting to get harder to get up from sitting though lol and my belly seems to grow a bit more each day. Oh yeah, I had a midwife appt on the 15th too and finally gained some weight!!! :) 7 lbs in 10 days bringing up to 10 lbs total. I go back on Feb 12th and will have my glucose test, thyroid levels checked, and possibly my Rhogam shot. She may wait on the shot til my following appt though, we'll see. Heartburn has kicked in full force now, doesn't matter what i eat drink or breathe and i get heartburn. Nothing compared to the reflux I had with Ashlyn though so for now I'll be grateful for that and just hope I don't get the reflux again. I think I got that at around 28-30 weeks with her.

I just hope things continue to go smoothly. With Ashlyn I was having NST's twice a week, FFN tests once a week, and lots of contrax from about 28 weeks on. With having 5 kids it makes it REALLY hard to get in for all those appt's so i'm really hoping my body and baby stay calm this time and I can stay pregnant a bit longer than I did with Ashlyn. I really don't see making it to May, but end of April would be ok :) Fingers crossed too that this time when my water breaks labor follows so I can avoid the pitocin. (last 2 kids water broke with no onset of labor). Still planning and looking Very forward to a water birth too :)

Quick update....

I got a call Friday from the ins. adjuster, they totalled the van :( The initial assessment was $7,700. I should get the final total tomorrow as well as what they determined the van to be worth, etc. I know we owe WAY more than it's worth, so I really started to freak out. BUT, after talking with the finance company, I found out we have GAP insurance!!!! What a relief! Me and Rich were Both sure that we Didn't have it, but we do :) So from here we have to fill out all the forms, then I guess wait for our ins. company and the GAP insurance to pay off the van, then we can start looking for a new one. In some ways it's a blessing in disguise. We were paying $500/month on the van due to the truck we traded in having so much owed on it still. So now with nothing to roll into a new loan, we should be able to get a very low payment. (i hope!!).

I went to the midwife the other day just to make sure baby was ok, and s/he is doing great in there :) Only 8 more days til my ultrasound!!! It's gonna be a Long 8 days lol. Kids go back to school tomorrow which I'm very happy about :)

Me and a good friend started our Pre-Grand Opening for our new business just this past Friday and we have already had almost 300 unique visitors to the site and lots of entries into the lotteries!!! What an awesome turn out......here's hoping that many will come back this coming Friday for our actual Grand Opening. (see the banner in the upper left of this page). I love being a work at home mom and being able to go into business with a great friend is so much fun :)

Guess that's about all I have to update for now. I can't believe I'm over halfway done with this pregnancy already! Baby is Very active lately and I love seeing and feeling him/her move around. I'm still absolutely clueless on names, maybe some will come to me after finding out the gender. We'll see.

20 weeks and Happy Freaking New Year!

Ok we'll start with the good stuff :) I am 20 weeks today!!! Wow this is going by fast lol. Only 12 more days until my big ultrasound! :) I'm starting to really feel girl so we'll see. I've been feeling pretty good pregnancy wise. The chiro has really been helping my lower back and I'm so glad I started seeing her. The drive sucks but it's so worth it.

I turned 31 on the 31st and me and Rich got to get out and go to dinner which was nice. I didn't stay awake for the new year lol, I lasted til about 11:15 and headed to bed. I think this is the first year ever that I was in bed for the new year. Oh well, didn't miss much. It was snowing like crazy, not sure how much we ended up with but it snowed all night and into new years day. We got at least 8". So on new years day I decided to make a quick trip to the store and leave all the kids home with Rich. Which is unusual for me, even when Rich is home I Always take Ashlyn with me, but that day I didn't. It was 2:00 when I left, I pulled out of my neighborhood onto the main road and right away I saw a car up the road coming the opposite direction and he was going fast and sliding pretty bad. I thought to myself "omg this jerk is gonna hit someone!" It's a 4 lane road so I got to the far right lane to be as far from him as I could. Then I saw his car start to spin. I tried to veer off the road into someone's front yard, thinking I was missing the collision then BAM.....he smashed in the side of me. I just remember holding onto the steering wheel as tight as I could. When it was over I sat there for a minute taking in what had just happened, and realized I was now In the front yard that I tried to get into and my van had spun and was now facing East (i was driving west). I tried to open my door but it wouldn't open so I jumped out the passenger side and started cussing the guy out telling the guy he was damn lucky I didn't have my kids in the car! lol yeah, this guy was about 4 times my size, like I could have really done anything to him lol. So then I look at my van thinking ok there's gonna be a good dent but it's ok.......haha yeah right, the sliding door on the drivers side, the door Ashlyn would have been sitting at, was smashed in, so was the back panel and the back right corner. The back tire was bent. No way the thing was driveable. My belly started cramping quite a bit, most likely from being so upset, but I wasn't injured. I also later realized the the passenger side of the van came just inches away from a telephone pole.

Any long story short, cops came, the prick had no insurance of course, he got citations, both vehicles were towed, and I went home. The cramping did go away after a couple hours.

We went and cleaned out the van yesterday and took pics, the insurance company is picking it up today and taking it down to Indianapolis where their storage facility is and I'm hoping we'll hear something by Monday. When I talked to the adjuster she said from the sounds of it, it will most likely be totalled. Either way we're screwed, we owe more than what the van is worth. I know that it could have been so much worse, had Rich not been home I would have had all 5 kids with me and I guarantee they would have been hurt, especially Ashlyn. I knew the impact was coming so I braced myself, there's no way the kids could have. I'm still really upset over the whole thing though, this was the First nice vehicle i've ever had and now some jackass that doesn't know how to drive in the snow has taken that away from me and I can't get it back!

Anyway here's pics: http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa283/stillcrazymama/van%20damage/