Coopers vs Baby #2

Since I have reached the halfway point of this pregnancy I thought I would take a moment to blog about the differences & similarities between the two.

Sickness- Luckily I never got sick in either, I just felt bad. With Cooper it was immediate, within a week or two of finding out I was pregnant. I blame it on the prenatal vitamins, I actually switched Flintstones Complete and felt better within a day. This time around it took a little longer to hit me, it lasted longer and I felt worse.

Heartburn and reflux- I had it terrible with Cooper. Every night I would lay down and my throat would be on fire. I can also remember going to Puerto Vallarta with the Reid's and eating Tums like candy throughout dinner. This time no heartburn and only minor reflux. I can pretty much eat all the Mexican I want. The only thing that gives me reflux are things with lots of sugar.

Cravings- With Cooper I always craved starchy foods like mashed potatoes and biscuits. I also craved sweet tea. I still love sweet tea but I have to be careful now or I will get reflux and if I drink too much caffeine I can't sleep. Now my cravings come and go. Usually something sounds good but I end up being disappointed or nothing sounds good at all. One day I planned on making tacos for dinner and was also craving guacamole. Well I tried to make homemade guacamole but the avocados were rotten, I wasn't about to eat tacos without guacamole so I made something else. Steve has gotten used to me telling him we were going to have one thing for dinner but making something else.

Weight Gain- I was doing better this time around but I think I've caught up. After only gaining 1 lb between the last two of my check-ups, I gained quite a bit this time. I'm not going to say how much because it is quite embarrassing. But I am still on track to being in the normal range so I'm trying to not stress out about it too much.

That's about all I can think of right now. Overall, I feel pretty good and haven't felt too run down yet. I'm just waiting for the 90 degree weather to hit.

Daddy's Boy

Cooper is becoming a daddy's boy more and more each day.

It's Still A Boy!

HA! As if I really had any doubt. We had our 20 week ultrasound this morning. It takes some of the anticipation out of it, already knowing the gender, I think I was just nervous about all the measurements this time around. No need to worry, everything looked perfect. She had a hard time getting a good look at his face because his hands were covering it, which is exactly how Cooper slept as a baby. For Cooper's ultrasound I drank some sweet tea about an hour before, this time I didn't think about it so there wasn't as much movement. He weighs approximately 12 oz which my doctor said was right in the 50th percentile for this stage of pregnancy. Cooper was 7 lbs 8 oz at birth which is right at average too but that quickly dropped to the 10th & 15th percentile at each visit, so I'm not crossing my fingers for any football players this time around. I also had my regular check-up. I think I have one more visit then it's glucose testing time. I had just got done telling Steve that all the fun stuff is over, I now get to look forward to glucose, beta strep testing, 2 weeks visits and just plain getting big.

I know I made a post about having a name but that no longer holds true. We thought we did but I can't get Steve to 100% agree which is causing me doubts although it is still my favorite. We had another couple of possibilities but we just can't agree. This afternoon I took a much needed nap (I had Cooper at Steve's parents house by 8:30 followed by a picnic at Perrin Park with our church after my appointment) and I had a dream that we had just come home from the hospital and did not his name and I never got any of Cooper's old clothes washed up. That is so unlike me, I will have that nursery ready in a matter of a month :)

My doctor's office also now does 3D and 4D ultrasounds, I think we may look into the cost of those, they would need to be paid out of pocket, but not sure yet. It would neat, but I also like the surprise of not knowing any features of our baby. I never had one with Cooper, so we will see.

We finally made it....

It's been a year but Karen & I finally made it for our Mexican lunch. If you don't remember the catastrophe you can read up on it here and here.

Karen and I met up for lunch on Saturday and little did I know she was treating me for a birthday lunch. She made me pick and of course I chose Mexican, Puerto Vallarta. It was so good. This time there were no left hand turns, no rear ends and plenty of white queso.

Thanks for lunch and for the cards :)

Awesome!

When we walked into church today we had an awesome surprise.... the tarp that was separating our current building from the new addition had been removed and for the first time we got a glimpse at our new building. Granted it was only the lobby, but it was soooo nice! It's amazing to think that less than 14 months ago it was an empty field, now in 5 weeks we will be having our first service. Our minister made the comment that he liked looking at the faces of people walking in and their amazement, he was thinking to himself, they haven't seen anything yet.

So, our first service is on June 6th at 9:30 and 11:00. I know many of my readers have their own home church, but if you would like to join us we will be there for the 9:30 service.

Happy Birthday Levi!

Levi had his birthday party this weekend at SIGS and we all had a great time, Steve maybe the best. It started off great, Cooper was having a great time, even more so than the first time we went last summer. If you read Tracey's blog then you heard about Steve & Paul having a race in one of the bouncers. I thought I would take Cooper over to watch them race. After this I have no idea what happened. Somehow he got so scared he literally had a complete meltdown. I had to take him outside of the bounce room, he would not go back, he kept shaking as he was trying to eat his raisins and even when it was time for cake and presents, he wouldn't eat his cupcake and kept asking to go home. I haven't seen that type of meltdown in a long time. I can't figure out if he thought Steve was hurt or Paul, he was staring at Paul when it happened. He kept screaming, "Ride Daddy's Car", he wanted to leave so badly. Luckily there was only about 15 minutes of bounce time left, but we did miss the group picture. He would not go back in. Anyway, here are a few pictures of him having fun before tragedy struck.
So, Happy Birthday to Levi, thanks for inviting us. We really did have a good time!

Here we go again

I feel like I just threw away some of Cooper's medicine, now I have to throw away more.

Here is some info on recalled infants/children's Tylenol and Motrin and long with some allergy products.

http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/new_recall.inc