So just wanted to post all the info to our baby registry. That way family knew where to look if they want to send anything for little Aiden. I already see some things are coming in. :o) Thanks to anyone who sends anything for baby. Its really appreciated.
To get to our registry just go to Walmart. com to the baby registry part. Its under Cassandra and Vance Braziel, colorado springs, co. I'm not trying to make anyone feel like they need to send anything, just putting it out there for anyone who wants to send anything.
If you have anymore questions just give us a call. :o)
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Baby checkup
Went to my baby check up this morning. Everything is on track. Aiden's heartbeat is still around 150, been that way the whole pregnancy. I did feel him flip last night, except he flipped back into breech position. He's stubborn already. First I was told they estimate him to be 7lbs now I'm being told he could be bigger then both his brothers. Maybe he wants to show them who the boss is? She gave me a pregnancy support belt, hopfeully that will help with the back pain. I also went down to labs and did my glucose test. If everything is good I won't hear from her, if I have to do the 3 hr one she'll call me in the next 2 days. Other then that everything is fine and dandy. She told me she won't induce me in less of a medical issue or I hit 41weeks. So I HOPE he will come on his own. That the stripping of my membranes helps get him out or else we might not see him til March. She also told me how they rarely have to do c-sections, that the rate is 10%. Which is awesome, I do NOT want to be cut open. Have a fear of it, and would like to avoid it if I can. Other then all that I see dr again on Jan 20 at 10am. I also start breastfeeding classes on Jan 8 and 6pm. Well going to keep this entry short, have some folding to do. Take care everyone! :o)
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Pictures of prego belly!
Just wanted to post pics I took today of my growing belly. Yes, I feel huge. Plus my back hurts all the time now, and my hips. This baby loves playing kick mommy's hips. Think it wants me to suffer til he gets here. Evil baby, lol. Oh don't mind my mommy marks, couldn't get them blurred out..grr. Only 10 more weeks til his eviction date, lol.
Christmas, kids, dr apts, etc.
Think we're finally ready for Christmas to be here. The gifts are all wrapped and put away so the boys can't find them. Well we still get gifts from grandparents in the mail, so wrapping those as they come in. We have everything ready for Christmas dinner, the tree has been up for 2wks now. Plus it will be our first white Christmas if it keeps snowing like it has been.
I have dr apt and labs tomorrow morning from 9:30 - noon. What fun, huh? I'm not looking forward to having the glucose test done. Hopefully I don't get called in for the 3hr test. This will be the second time I have done the 1hr test for it. Hoping labs aren't to bust tomorrow and that I can be in and out of there in no time.
Need to make Caleb an apt for sometime coming up. So he can get his check up and shots. Not looking forward to the shot part, or the check up. He hates when they get him naked, and will shots make all kids grouchy. Hopefully we'll have a easy time til we get to the shots, I don't expect him not to cry for those. Just want to get pass the actual check up before he has his meltdown.
At the moment looks like I'll have my mom and Vance in the delivery room. Use to just having Vance these the last two times, and my mom on the phone. Vance is looking forward to it since he thinks, he'll get to sleep the whole time. Haha, he wishes. Make his butt stay up with me the whole time, he can play cards with my mom or something. Getting anxious about Aiden's arrival. Be 30wks this saturday, not to much longer. I wonder who he will look like. Well he have curly hair like Vance and Caleb or straight hair like me and Bryce. Or will he be a bald baby. Will he be super hairy all over like Caleb was. Caleb seems to have Vance's gorilla genes. Was born with black hair all over from head to toe. Still has black butt hair, lol. Oh and I found little black hairs popping up on his head. I guess his blonde curls will be black curls eventually. He takes after Vance alot more then Bryce. Actually they both have more Vance then me in them, if I had not given birth to them I would think they were someone else's lol.
Someone please tell me that Bryce will grow out of this attitude phase soon? He thinks he's the boss of everyone and thing. He always gets attitude about cleaning up his messes, or thinks its funny to be mean to Caleb. He's driving me up the wall at times. Nothing seems to work on him. I'm starting to think he's going to be a pain in the butt forever.
Caleb is starting to get more of his own personality. He likes things, that Bryce doesn't and hates things that Bryce does. He lets his voice be heard when he's mad or thinks we're not listening. Always learning new words and trying to make 2 words senteces. He learned how to say the word please, so working on him using more when he wants more juice or anything. We're still going thru the seperation anxiety phase still. He has to be up me or Vance's butt at all times it seems. If he can't find us he'll start crying.
Not sure what else to write at the moment. I'm baking a yummy cake, want some? hehe. I'm craving cake so decided to make one since I'm bored. Vance is at work, he'll be home around 11 tonight. So just me, and the boys tonight. Hoping time well pass by fast so I can get to bed early, feel so tired. I stay tired it seems, I know I'm in the last trimester or as my dr calls it the "sleepy trimester". All I do is sleep when I can get the time. I'm starting to think I'm a hibernating like a bear, lol. I only get up when I'm hungry and then pass back out if Vance is home. Yes I know how lazy of me. Well I'm getting off here, need to go frost my cake. :o)
I have dr apt and labs tomorrow morning from 9:30 - noon. What fun, huh? I'm not looking forward to having the glucose test done. Hopefully I don't get called in for the 3hr test. This will be the second time I have done the 1hr test for it. Hoping labs aren't to bust tomorrow and that I can be in and out of there in no time.
Need to make Caleb an apt for sometime coming up. So he can get his check up and shots. Not looking forward to the shot part, or the check up. He hates when they get him naked, and will shots make all kids grouchy. Hopefully we'll have a easy time til we get to the shots, I don't expect him not to cry for those. Just want to get pass the actual check up before he has his meltdown.
At the moment looks like I'll have my mom and Vance in the delivery room. Use to just having Vance these the last two times, and my mom on the phone. Vance is looking forward to it since he thinks, he'll get to sleep the whole time. Haha, he wishes. Make his butt stay up with me the whole time, he can play cards with my mom or something. Getting anxious about Aiden's arrival. Be 30wks this saturday, not to much longer. I wonder who he will look like. Well he have curly hair like Vance and Caleb or straight hair like me and Bryce. Or will he be a bald baby. Will he be super hairy all over like Caleb was. Caleb seems to have Vance's gorilla genes. Was born with black hair all over from head to toe. Still has black butt hair, lol. Oh and I found little black hairs popping up on his head. I guess his blonde curls will be black curls eventually. He takes after Vance alot more then Bryce. Actually they both have more Vance then me in them, if I had not given birth to them I would think they were someone else's lol.
Someone please tell me that Bryce will grow out of this attitude phase soon? He thinks he's the boss of everyone and thing. He always gets attitude about cleaning up his messes, or thinks its funny to be mean to Caleb. He's driving me up the wall at times. Nothing seems to work on him. I'm starting to think he's going to be a pain in the butt forever.
Caleb is starting to get more of his own personality. He likes things, that Bryce doesn't and hates things that Bryce does. He lets his voice be heard when he's mad or thinks we're not listening. Always learning new words and trying to make 2 words senteces. He learned how to say the word please, so working on him using more when he wants more juice or anything. We're still going thru the seperation anxiety phase still. He has to be up me or Vance's butt at all times it seems. If he can't find us he'll start crying.
Not sure what else to write at the moment. I'm baking a yummy cake, want some? hehe. I'm craving cake so decided to make one since I'm bored. Vance is at work, he'll be home around 11 tonight. So just me, and the boys tonight. Hoping time well pass by fast so I can get to bed early, feel so tired. I stay tired it seems, I know I'm in the last trimester or as my dr calls it the "sleepy trimester". All I do is sleep when I can get the time. I'm starting to think I'm a hibernating like a bear, lol. I only get up when I'm hungry and then pass back out if Vance is home. Yes I know how lazy of me. Well I'm getting off here, need to go frost my cake. :o)
Monday, December 15, 2008
29 weeks and other stuff.
^^ thats the theme we're going with for Aiden's room.
So I'm 29wks and 3 days today!
Yes I'm very pumped to be almost done with this pregnancy. Ready to meet little Aiden and bring him home. We're slowly working on his baby stuff. Granted we barely have anything, Vance says we will have it all next month when he gets back pay. Hopefully that will hurry up. Since we're hurting on bills and everything. My mom is getting us the crib for little Aiden. Which helps out alot. We have some stuff from the boys left over, like walker, bouncer, diaper genie, clothes, stroller, bumbo chair, boppy pillow, and some other stuff I can not think of at the moment. I went ahead and order Aiden crib set and the stuff that comes with it. 13 piece set for awesome price on ebay it should be here sometime next week at the latest. Bryce and Vance picked it out. They wanted to pick this baby room theme out. I can't believe I'm getting close to the end. I hit 36 wks at the end of January. From there my midwives will decided when to strip my membranes and try to get little Aiden out. I want to go into labor on my own for once, always been induced. Would be nice to go on my own one time. But I want him to be safe so if they need to induce me for him to be safe then I'm all for it. He'll probably be here be Valentine's day! So we'll have 3 little boys in no time. Vance is getting fixed after I have Aiden. No more babies for us.
I bought the boys Christmas gifts, all wrapped away in the closet. Can't wait to see their faces when they open the gifts we got them. Money might be tight but we're managing to have a nice little Christmas here. Plus the boys will be getting gifts from grandparents as well. So they will have plenty to open Christmas morning.
We took the boys to see Santa at the mall, yesterday. Bryce was all pumped up til it was his turn. Then he got scared and was wanting to hurry up and take the pic. He kept wanting to leave, and was not liking that santa was not in his red outfit he wears in all the movies. He was in pj's it looked like. So Bryce was not impressed and kept asking why he wasn't dressed right. Caleb looked like a deer in the headlights on santa's lap. When I get the pic on the computer I'll post it. My kids looks like they were in shock and scared. Maybe next year will be better?
Hmmm..what else is there to talk about on here. Vance has 5 more days of work then he is off til January! So it will be nice to have him home for almost 2wks straight. Plus he loves all the he gets with this command then when he was on a boat. He does not miss the boat at all . I miss ga weather but not he boat. I like having him home. He never realized how much energy the boys had or how much it takes to watch them til now. He so use to leaving ever 3 months, that he never was around to see what all I go thru with the boys. He's really nervous to see what life with a newborn is like. With Bryce and Caleb he was deployed soon after their birth. Bryce was 3wks when he left and Caleb was only 4 days old when Vance left then. So this time he will be here the whole time, for all the night feedings, or sleep deprived nights. He's nervous and yet ready for it at the same time. He's alot more understanding and is realizing what I all I go thru while he was gone.
Bryce and Caleb are doing good. Getting big and causing trouble whenever they can. Always taking turns driving me crazy. Bryce is ready for another brother some what. Which Caleb still doesn't get whats going on. He's only 18 months so he still in his own little world it seems. He's learning new words and able to tell us what he wants more. But still has his meltdowns we can't understand what he wants or needs. Plus he never seems to sleep well at night, always getting up crying through out the night. Never can go a whole night asleep. He usually is up every hr crying. He doesn't have an ear infection or anything. Not sure why he gets up crying. I wish I knew.
Bryce is wanting to go to school next year and always want more alone time. He wants us to let him have his own room and move Caleb and Aiden together. He calls his room Bryce room and not Bryce and Caleb's room. Or trys to kick Caleb out of it when he's had enough of his little brother. So its been a pain trying to talk to him abut it. Plus lately he seems to think its ok to spit or hit Caleb when he's in a bad mood. *sighs* I was hoping this wouldn't happen for another year at least. Sometimes Bryce can be a pain in the butt. Then others he's a sweetheart.
Well I need to get off here, need to do some laundry and change out the puppys bedding.
Yes I'm very pumped to be almost done with this pregnancy. Ready to meet little Aiden and bring him home. We're slowly working on his baby stuff. Granted we barely have anything, Vance says we will have it all next month when he gets back pay. Hopefully that will hurry up. Since we're hurting on bills and everything. My mom is getting us the crib for little Aiden. Which helps out alot. We have some stuff from the boys left over, like walker, bouncer, diaper genie, clothes, stroller, bumbo chair, boppy pillow, and some other stuff I can not think of at the moment. I went ahead and order Aiden crib set and the stuff that comes with it. 13 piece set for awesome price on ebay it should be here sometime next week at the latest. Bryce and Vance picked it out. They wanted to pick this baby room theme out. I can't believe I'm getting close to the end. I hit 36 wks at the end of January. From there my midwives will decided when to strip my membranes and try to get little Aiden out. I want to go into labor on my own for once, always been induced. Would be nice to go on my own one time. But I want him to be safe so if they need to induce me for him to be safe then I'm all for it. He'll probably be here be Valentine's day! So we'll have 3 little boys in no time. Vance is getting fixed after I have Aiden. No more babies for us.
I bought the boys Christmas gifts, all wrapped away in the closet. Can't wait to see their faces when they open the gifts we got them. Money might be tight but we're managing to have a nice little Christmas here. Plus the boys will be getting gifts from grandparents as well. So they will have plenty to open Christmas morning.
We took the boys to see Santa at the mall, yesterday. Bryce was all pumped up til it was his turn. Then he got scared and was wanting to hurry up and take the pic. He kept wanting to leave, and was not liking that santa was not in his red outfit he wears in all the movies. He was in pj's it looked like. So Bryce was not impressed and kept asking why he wasn't dressed right. Caleb looked like a deer in the headlights on santa's lap. When I get the pic on the computer I'll post it. My kids looks like they were in shock and scared. Maybe next year will be better?
Hmmm..what else is there to talk about on here. Vance has 5 more days of work then he is off til January! So it will be nice to have him home for almost 2wks straight. Plus he loves all the he gets with this command then when he was on a boat. He does not miss the boat at all . I miss ga weather but not he boat. I like having him home. He never realized how much energy the boys had or how much it takes to watch them til now. He so use to leaving ever 3 months, that he never was around to see what all I go thru with the boys. He's really nervous to see what life with a newborn is like. With Bryce and Caleb he was deployed soon after their birth. Bryce was 3wks when he left and Caleb was only 4 days old when Vance left then. So this time he will be here the whole time, for all the night feedings, or sleep deprived nights. He's nervous and yet ready for it at the same time. He's alot more understanding and is realizing what I all I go thru while he was gone.
Bryce and Caleb are doing good. Getting big and causing trouble whenever they can. Always taking turns driving me crazy. Bryce is ready for another brother some what. Which Caleb still doesn't get whats going on. He's only 18 months so he still in his own little world it seems. He's learning new words and able to tell us what he wants more. But still has his meltdowns we can't understand what he wants or needs. Plus he never seems to sleep well at night, always getting up crying through out the night. Never can go a whole night asleep. He usually is up every hr crying. He doesn't have an ear infection or anything. Not sure why he gets up crying. I wish I knew.
Bryce is wanting to go to school next year and always want more alone time. He wants us to let him have his own room and move Caleb and Aiden together. He calls his room Bryce room and not Bryce and Caleb's room. Or trys to kick Caleb out of it when he's had enough of his little brother. So its been a pain trying to talk to him abut it. Plus lately he seems to think its ok to spit or hit Caleb when he's in a bad mood. *sighs* I was hoping this wouldn't happen for another year at least. Sometimes Bryce can be a pain in the butt. Then others he's a sweetheart.
Well I need to get off here, need to do some laundry and change out the puppys bedding.
What to do?
Have a lot on my mind with what to do for Lucy. I want her to have the best life possible, and give her everything. Thats why we took her in. Then we found out she had heartworms. Which the first vet put her on meds said that would take care of it. Then she saw another vet who was pissed at the first vet. Because he should have never given her the pills in til her heat cycle was over and confirm she wasn't prego. She turned up prego, so off those meds she went. Everything is good with the pups she has 8 pups, none have heartworms. They can't get them from her in less a mosquito bites her then them. Its to cold for mosquitos right now, plus they all stay nice and warm in the office all day. Now my concerns, after she is done nursing her pups, she will need to get treatment. Since she is getting really bad, and heartworms can cause major damage to her real quick. Well the treatment is around 1,200. Which at the moment is impossible for us to afford, or I would be happy to pay for all of it. I'm going to get the xray done to make sure its not to late for her. They need to do an xray/sonogram to see how bad her case is. From there they can tell me if she'll make it thru the treatment or is it better to put her down. :o( Which I would hate to see. If it is safe for her to do treatment, I might need to find her someone who is able to give her what she needs to survive this. I would hate to say goodbye, but I want her to have a long healthy life. At the moment I wish I could pay for the treatment on my own and keep her. She's the most lovable dog. Very quiet and gentle, house broken, well behaved, loves my kids, etc. Just want to get her healthy and with money being super tight its hard for me to do that at the moment. I'm not looking forward to the shit I'll get from people who can't see that I really am trying to help her, if that means giving her to someone who can afford to do this treatment for her. What does everyone else think? I've been debating this in my mind for a few days now. I would feel alot better knowing she has someone who can get her the medical help she needs, instead of watching her slowly pass away. Someone please let me know what they would do. I'm really torn here, and want the best for Lucy.
Her puppies are doing good, they all open their eyes. Some are walking around, some still crawling. Oreo seems to be leading her brother and sisters. She's the first to do everything, open her eyes, walk, bark, etc. She's already has a forever home waiting for her. So I'm happy to know she'll be tooken care of. She's going to my moms. So I'll see her when I'm in Texas.
Vance and I are thinking about keeping Panda, she reminds us so much of her mommy. Especially if we have to say goodbye to Lucy we would like to keep one of her babies.
I have 6 more beautiful little pups to find homes for. They are very lovable I lay in the office playing with all of them, everyday. They love to cuddle and be loved on. Their starting to realize they have voices and are letting their voice be heard. We get little barks here and there, when they want attention. Or when they need Lucy to come to them. I really want to make sure they go to good homes, and not dog fighters or anyone like that. So I'm being super picky on who will get one of these adorable pups. Prefer them to go to people we know, so we can see them from time to time. Yes I'm attached to all of them.
Ok this must seem like a long post to write about Lucy and her pups. But I need some advice on what to do. I'm really torn at the moment.
Her puppies are doing good, they all open their eyes. Some are walking around, some still crawling. Oreo seems to be leading her brother and sisters. She's the first to do everything, open her eyes, walk, bark, etc. She's already has a forever home waiting for her. So I'm happy to know she'll be tooken care of. She's going to my moms. So I'll see her when I'm in Texas.
Vance and I are thinking about keeping Panda, she reminds us so much of her mommy. Especially if we have to say goodbye to Lucy we would like to keep one of her babies.
I have 6 more beautiful little pups to find homes for. They are very lovable I lay in the office playing with all of them, everyday. They love to cuddle and be loved on. Their starting to realize they have voices and are letting their voice be heard. We get little barks here and there, when they want attention. Or when they need Lucy to come to them. I really want to make sure they go to good homes, and not dog fighters or anyone like that. So I'm being super picky on who will get one of these adorable pups. Prefer them to go to people we know, so we can see them from time to time. Yes I'm attached to all of them.
Ok this must seem like a long post to write about Lucy and her pups. But I need some advice on what to do. I'm really torn at the moment.
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