OB Check Up

Everything checked out good today.

There is still a little concern for pre-term labor, but I've been doing a better job at not "over doing it" so I've had less time-able contractions and that's a good thing... for now! :)

Peyton did a flip and is now head down! She said at this point his head is the heaviest part of his body, so the chances of him staying head down until birth are pretty good! (I hadn't heard this before... but it's kind of cool how God made things work that like!)

I didn't gain any more weight in the past two weeks, but I haven't lost any either, so not a big deal.

I go back in two weeks again, and then after that it's once a week until the little guy is born!

22 Months Old

I'm only one day late this month!!

I'm not sure a whole lot has changed since last month's update... other than this kiddo will be TWO in two short months!

Colby talks non-stop...if there aren't a lot of people around. His favorite words are "No," "Me", and "I do!" He's talks mostly in short phrases now and is very good about making sure we all know what he wants.. or doesn't want.

Colby loves to lick people... and loves to stick his tongue out...I blame his daddy and big brother!

Colby still thinks he's three.. and wants to do everything Emily and Kyle do. This includes sitting on the potty. He sits on the potty (and goes) every night before bath time. He will often ask to sit on the potty during the day as well. We've had a few days were he's only used two diapers all day long... he always wakes up in the morning and after nap time wet. I think he may be easy to really potty train once I decide I'm ready for that!

Colby has turned into a hitter and a bitter. We have lots of talks and time outs for hitting and biting Kyle and Emily. Half the time he bites though, its their own fault for sitting their fingers (or nose) in his mouth!

We think Colby had another ear infection this month. He was miserable for a few days and kept saying his ears hurt, so we took him to the walk-in clinic in Ionia. He finished his antibiotics a few days ago and started complaining again about his ears.. and not sleeping, so we went to a pediatric redi-care yesterday (our peds office wasn't open) and she had to clean out lots of hard wax to even see his ear drums. She's not sure the doctor would have been able to see his ear drums two weeks prior with the amount of wax, so we aren't really sure if he had an actual ear infection or not. She cleaned out some of the wax, told us to use some drops to soften the rest, and still follow up with the ENT (who we are waiting for an appointment with).

Colby is still nursing... but is down to only a few minutes each night. I'm still just letting him do his own thing with weaning and not pushing him to be done. I have very mixed emotions about him weaning... so we are just letting him decide when to be done.. for now.. :)

Emily has been teaching Colby to "ink"... (wink)

Colby loves to cuddle with Peyton... and push on him! He gets very excited when Peyton pushes back through my belly. He loves to give him hugs and kisses!

Colby is still a little stinker.... I'm pretty sure his "terrible two" phase has started. He's much more strong willed than Kyle and Emily ever were!

And he's cute.. and he knows it!

Thank You Tree

We did a Thankful tree again this year... the kids call it our "Thank You Tree!"

Every night after dinner (or the next morning if we forgot...), we all wrote or drew something on a leaf that we are thankful for and stuck it on the tree.

I didn't keep a list this year of everything we wrote down... or take picture of our tree throughout... you can call me lazy... or pregnant and exhausted... or both!:)

Kyle was often thankful for things like cars and lions, but did occasionally say he was thankful for God, Emily, Colby, Peyton, Mommy, and Daddy... and a few other things. Kyle's leaves are the blue ones.

Emily's pink leaves have more of a variety of things on them than Kyle's... she was thankful for Emily, Mommy, Daddy, Kyle, Colby, Peyton, a few friends from church, her toys, God...the letter T...

Colby's yellow leaves are filled with scribbles. Sometimes we knew what he was thankful for and other times it was just a random guess. He was thankful for the color yellow and circles a lot...along with God, Kyle, Emily, Mommy, Daddy, and boobs! :)

Mommy (purple leaves) and Daddy (orange leaves) were thankful for all sorts of things... Jesus, our children, our parents, our church family, our teenagers, Mondays, food, a house... and other such things!

Now it's on to our Christmas Adventure calendar... it's up and waiting for December first. I am going to try to be better about taking pictures and posting throughout the month... but once again, I'm lazy, and pregnant, and exhausted! :)

OB Check Up and Ultrasound

I had a check up this morning with my OB. For the most part, all checked out good. Peyton's heart sounded good and my belly is measuring "perfectly!"

I have been having lots of regular contractions the past couple weeks. They aren't really painful, just uncomfortable, but concerned because they come at regular intervals for long periods of time. After some monitoring, the doctor thought an ultrasound was a good idea to check out my cervix and fluids and such. 

They couldn't do the ultrasound while I was at the office this morning, so I drove home for a few hours... and then drove back for my ultrasound...

Everything looked good for the ultrasound. The tech confirmed that Peyton is most definitely a little boy! It was the first thing that he showed us when he popped up on the screen! My cervix was on the short side, but still within "normal" and fluids looked good. I got to watch Peyton move and squirm around for a bit. It was kind of fun. She showed me a few different angles and I think he's going to look a lot of Colby... but we'll see when he comes out!

The only "concern" with the ultrasound is that Peyton was butt down. But the kid does so many flips daily, it's not a big deal yet. Hopefully in the next few weeks, he'll settle in to a head down position! 

So for now... we are good! I'm supposed to "take it easy"... no lifting heavy stuff, no exercise... that and sort of stuff. If I start to get contractions, I'm supposed to lay down right away and call if they don't go away.