31 week update

I had an appointment this morning with a midwife (appointments are every two weeks now) and all seems well with Ella. Of course I meant to confirm the gestational diabetes test results came back negative but forgot to ask. Oops. I am assuming that since I didn't get a call about it within a day or two after testing, and since the midwife didn't mention anything about it at my appointment, that I'm in the clear on that.

The midwife told me that Ella's head is down and her body curves around my right side, so her rear end is up and arms and legs punch and kick on my left side. She said she initially thought her body was on my left side, but I told her that while I feel movement all over, I feel stronger punching/kicking on my left. When she used the doppler to get the heart rate, that confirmed that Ella was, indeed, opposite of what she'd expected. (Because she found the heart rate on my right side, so that's where Ella's body is.) In talking about how she was positioned in there, I also forgot to ask about the heart rate. It's been in the 130's-140 range lately. I could break out the doppler I have here at home if I really want to know, I suppose!

I've definitely been having a lot more Braxton Hicks contractions this time than before. I don't think I had any at all with Kaylee, and with Andy they didn't start until about the last month or so. Now I've already been getting them for a month and I have two more to go! Luckily they aren't really painful, just an annoying tight feeling...so far. I think my second trimester "energy burst" (what little burst I got!) is completely gone now; I am feeling tired more often than not and have gone back to trying to get a little nap in when Andy naps when I can. I'm hoping that with all we have going on in November and December holiday-wise, it'll make the time pass more quickly and the next 2 months won't seem to take forever!

30 weeks!

 Me and Ella at 30 weeks!

Yikes!

Well, we have a surgery time set for Ella's c-section - 6:45am!  Which means we have to be at the hospital at 4:45am.  Can anyone say zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz?  I guess on the upside, no matter what time they tell you to come in, you're not supposed to eat anything after midnight, so there's less chance I'll be super hungry with a 6:45 time slot than noon!

Someone pointed out that Kaylee and Andy, who usually wake up between 7-7:30, will likely have a new baby sister about the time they're waking up that morning!

Ella update

I had another appointment this morning to check on Ella.  Things seem to be going well.  She's been very active, that's for sure!  Her heart rate was 134 bpm.  I did the glucose tolerance test where I got to drink a super sweet drink an hour before having my blood drawn to see if I have gestational diabetes.  I thought I remembered having gotten results at my appointments in the past, but this time I was out pretty soon after the blood draw, so maybe it just hadn't gone through before I left.  I didn't have GD with either Kaylee or Andy's pregnancies and don't feel much different than either of those times, so I'm not worried about the results, just don't have them yet.

Also, we scheduled the c-section date for Fri, 12/28!  (Time TBD)  My OB's husband's work schedule, and thus their holiday travel schedule, is a bit up in the air, though.  There's a slim chance it might change so that they'd leave town on the 27th instead of 29th.  She said if that happened, she'd reschedule the c-section to first thing on the 27th, then she'd leave town that afternoon (she's otherwise off that day).  But she said most likely things will stay as-is.  Either way, Ella's arrival will be in just over 10 weeks!

More Andy funnies

More funny Andy sayings, ones I forgot or that are new since the last post...

*bottle = bobble - as in, "DeeDee aah-doo bobble!" = Kaylee's water bottle
*up bed = up bay - when he wants to get up on the bed, or when referring to someone who's on the bed, as in "DeeDee up bay!"
*hop up - what he says when he wants to get up on the couch (I ask him if he wants to hop up, so now he says it)
*(TV) show = whoa
*oatmeal = meat-moe
*Minnie (Mouse) = Mimi
*Nemo (from the movie, or any clownfish) = Memo - we saw a tank of tiny clownfish at the Nemo ride/aquarium in Epcot and Andy just kept saying, "Memo! Memo! Memo! Memo! Memo!" while pointing at the little fish tank
*Cinderella's castle = Lella dah-doh - we heard that and "Beeee Lella dah-doh!" (Big Cinderella's castle) a lot at Disney

Andy with all the tiny Memos:


Also, it appears Andy will need a little while to grow into his bathrobe.

19 months & lots of talking!

Andy's vocabulary has expanded over the past month.  I haven't been writing it down along the way, but for at least the past 2-4 weeks, he's been saying lots of new things.  He's also stringing together 3-4 words sometimes.  For the most part he has a language only I can understand (not even Jamie half the time), but it's improving.  :)

These are a few of the more recent and cuter things he says:

banana = nanaba
apple = app-oh
apple juice = used to be app-bee, now he usually just says app-oh and points high in the fridge
milk = hepsch (he's actually been saying this one for a few months. Not sure how milk=hepsch???)
bite or sip = hahtch - used when he wants a bite of your food or sip of your drink
water = aah-doo
please = peas
no - a new favorite over the past couple weeks
mine - also becoming a favorite
big = beeee and is accompanied by arms-open-wide gesture
small - I don't even know how to type what he says, maybe just "maaaaaa", but it's accompanied by thumb and fingers a short space apart held by his nose and his eyes scrunched up
bottle = bobble
flip-flops = be-bop
Kaylee = deedee (this is also what Kaylee called herself for a while)
train = choo-choo
snack = nack (his favorite thing to eat...a nack, nack, nack!)

Baby girl has a name!

So baby-to-be has a name now. Kaylee's suggestion (as I may have mentioned here previously) was Annabelle - surprisingly, a normal suggestion. Her boy suggestion was Zhu Zhu... Andy's suggestion was Bobby, though I doubt he had any idea what any of us were talking about, but after he said it the first time and it was met with thunderous laughter, that was his pick. However, after Jamie and I narrowed down our choices, we let Kaylee weigh in and we ended up with Ella Nicole Caesar.

I was sorting through Kaylee's old clothes this weekend and Andy kept running over and falling onto the piles and/or trying to run off with some. I told him they were Ella's clothes and he would then jump onto a pile while shouting "Lella dohs! Lella dohs!" And if you ask him, "who's in Mommy's tummy?" he replies either "bebe!" or "bebe lella!" (Or sometimes "bebe lella bebe lella bebe lella!")

Poor kid has no idea what's coming. :)