43 Days left....

Until we return to Hawaii. John's return has been moved forward by 20 days, so we have decided that it would be best if Isaac and I return to Hawaii before he returns and we have this baby. So in 43 days we will b back in "paradise", setting up house for John's return about 25 days later. We have to return so early because I can't travel past 36 wks, so I am coming home 35 wks and 6 days...talk about cutting it close. John is scheduled to leave Djibouti no later the August 7th, putting him in Hawaii on around the 9th.....and I am DUE August 10th. Close once again I know, but at least this way John has a chance of being there. The way we were going before, he could have maybe, possibly been there if I paid for a last minute flight, and then the chances were still slim to none.

Well that's a little update...I have lots to do before I leave and not allot of time to do it in. So I will try to keep you updated.

So where have two months gone...

I don't know about you, but the last two months seemed to have just flown by. Everything is going well with our pregnancy. I passed by 1 hr glucose, barely, but I still passed. It had to be under 129 and mine was 127, but that means I am not a diabetic during this pregnancy. YEAH!!! My blood pressure have been low, so that is good. Both problems I had with Isaac, so its great that I have less complications. But I still have one....when I was prego with Isaac some of you may have known that I had some balance problems, falling over and such. And it just got worse after he was born. They ran a TON of test, MRI, cats scans, spun me around, blew in my ear with cold and hot air, but still no answer to the problem. Well about 6 months after I had Isaac, i stop breastfeeding, and so got a period again. Well the problem vanished. I was mystified and so was everyone else, but I was grateful that I could walk around holding Isaac again. Well the problem started again. I talked to my DR told him that it happened with Isaac and how it progressed after he was born. And he took actions into his hand immediately.... he took my blood pressure in various positions and while i stood for awhile, since that is when it all happens. And sure enough my blood pressure dropped at each position change, and after standing for awhile. SO he put me on some medicine, and WOW!! I feel great now, I can walk across my parents home without feeling like passing out. I can go shopping and actually get things done. WOW!!! It has been great.

Well as for John he is doing great. And having a ton of fun, and learning lots. I do hear from him almost daily and that makes the deployment easier. Isaac has been so cute, if HE hasn't seen John in awhile he goes to the computer and points and says dada over and over. So we look at pic of dada. It seems to help. And he has to sleep with a pic of John on his pillow. One night I went in there cause i could hear him whispering, and I peeked in and he was holding the picture of John talking to it, and laughing. It was so so cute, made me cry, but it was cute.

Isaac is doing great, he is in speech therapy, and still has and OT. He is getting so much better with words, he says so much now, John says that every time they talk on the phone. He has preschool every Tuesday and Thursday which has really helped with the separation problems he had before, I can leave him without him screaming for 20 mins. So that is great, and much needed with this baby on its way.

SO it's a ....

BOY!!!

As much as John and I wanted to girl, we are jsut happy to be able to have another baby, and that it is health, so far. He didn't want his picture taken, so I have to go to an ultrasound in 4 wks. But so far the heart and brain look good. So we are blessed to be able to have a healthy boy!

Even though John wanted a girl since before Isaac, he was happy to have another son that he can play with and do boy things with!! I am going to be left out, :( ! But there are plenty of positive things about having a boy!

1. We don't have to buy new clothes and toys!!! Save tons of money

2. Isaac will always have a friend to play with

and

3. They can always share a room.

Just to name a few.

Here are some other pictures for now

What this is a picture of...

well your guess is as good as mine.

Having Emotional Pregnatnt Week

I have been having a hard time these last few weeks. Being prego and alone is hard. I miss John more then I did when he went to Iraq, and I get to talk to him almost every day, sometimes twice a day. Isaac's sadness over his daddy being gone kills me. We have to make sure the carseat is not visible to him, unless we are in the car, cause all he says as he tries to drag it to the door is "Get daddy!" Breaks my heart. But every night he says his prayers, and only a few words are audilbe: Father, daddy, baby, mommy, and amen. Always in that order with other things added in (that kids can pray forever). But daddy always comes first. And i was afraid he would forget him. Every night he kisses every picture in the picture frame I put together for him. Along with hugs it, and tell daddy I love u. It makes me cry to think that he loves his daddy so much, yet he doesn't get to spend his day to day life with him right now.

The next thing that is killing me. As some of you may know John is scheduled to miss the birth of this baby by 2 weeks. And as many of you it is not even likely that I will make it to 40wks let alone keeping this baby in an extra 2 wks. That so much don't kill me, John doesn't like the birth, he thinks men should still be in the waiting room, waiting for it all to be over. And that doesn't bother me at all since what can he do? But what does kill me and make me cry is that his favorite part about the whole birth thing is getting to be the first one to hold the baby. He held Isaac for hours as i slept from being up, and in labor for 21.5 hrs. And that if this baby comes early or he can't come home early, that he will not be the first one to hold our new baby. Not that he still can't hold it for hrs when he returns, but it will not be the same.

The last thing eating me up is that I turn 25 in two days. AAAHHHH!!! Now to some this might not be a big deal. But to me, i am going to be in my MID-TWENTIES!!! I have always had a hard time with birthdays that made me "grow-up". I hated turn 20, because I was no longer a teen-ager. And now, so I will be in my late-TWENTIES!!! Now those of you that are there, I have no problem with that. And honestly I don't think you are old!! But me I am going to be OLD!!!

On the bright side of things. WE get to find out what the sex of this baby is in 7 DAYS!! YEAH!!! on Mar 12. So check for that update.

More Snow...

Just thought I would finally post the pictures of more snow that came last week.

This is from the front window of my parents house. I was trying to be artistic with the icicle.

I braved the wintery outdoors to show you the snow falling.

Other then more snow, not much is happening. Isaac got his first ever ear infection, it was in both ears. Monday night (last week) his temp was 104.7. So we took him to urgent care. He is feeling much better now. And that makes everyone happy. He was waking up every 2 hours.
John is in Djibouti, Africa now, he arrived last week. He will actually be in charge of all of Djibouti's contruction projects, and not Ethopia's. But he is incharge of 150 projects, firing and hiring, and $200 million worth of equipment. All this things have him a little nervous, but he will be fine, will all your prayers and fasting. The baby is still making me sick, in three weeks I have an ultrasound to find out the sex of te baby. YEAH!! I hope it's a girl. I will love it either way, but it would be nice to have a little girl to dress up. If not our son will be kinda confused. LOL

3 feet of SNOW!!! and counting

Ok I HATED snow before we moved back to WA, but now with 3 feet of snow on the ground and still more to come I really HATE it. And part of the problem is that Spokane normally doesn't get this much snow so they are not prepared at all for this much snow. They have no plan to plow and the side streets have 2 feet of compact snow that has ice on it and everything else. Everyone is canceling everything, and no one is working. Turned out that Isaac actually does like the snow as long as he is all bundled up. Scrappy is funny in it, since the snow is so deep it just falls right through it. The bottom 2 feet of snow are frozen and only the top foot is where you could fall through so he gets covered.

This next picture is how thick the ice is on the driveway

This is Isaac at the park

This was before it snowed another foot. But he had a blast at the park

Where Have I been for 2 WHOLE Months...

I am been around, and become rounder and rounder. I have been sick for that long. I had been sick a few times befor thanksgiving. And alot after Thanksgiving. We found out that we were pregnant shortly after thanksgiving which is why I had been feeling so sick. Now I was sick 20+ times a days with Isaac by the time I was 6 weeks pregnant, so since I was feeling so sick by 3.5 weeks, I thought here we go again. We kinda got off to a rocking start though. At first my numbers were not high enough, and were not doubling every 48 hrs like they are suppose to. We were having weekly blood draws, and finally around six weeks they started to double. Yeah!!! I still feeling really sick, not getting sick as much as with Isaac, but I learned a lot of tricks being pregnant with him. So I thought maybe that I had just learned to control it. Plus it helped that John was home for 5 weeks to take complete care of me and Isaac. (Just so you know, I got the best husband in the whole world. If you were waiting for the MR BEST, sorry I took him, and if you THOUGHT you thought that you had him your were WRONG!!) But I learned an interesting thing after John left, it was my house. John left, and I was able to take care of Isaac, and myself no problem, feeling a little sick if I got too hungry. But not getting sick. But both times I went back to my house for cleaning and check out, the VERY first thing I did when I walked through the door was get sick. So with this pregnancy I think it was my house. Because now that I am on the Mainland living with my mom and dad. I am feeling good on most days. To day not such a great day, but first time really since John left for Africa. But I am on strict orders from my DR don't over do it. Try not to pick up Isaac, or anything else that is heavy. So the flight here was a interesting one. I requested a wheelchair transport so that I didn't have to worry about getting through the airport with luggage and a toddler. Well some lady in Honolulu, YELLED at me cause she didn't think I need all the stuff I had. She ended up checking one of my carry-ons, later need that carry-on, but what was I to do. Portland was find. Spokane though, my mom got permission to meet me at the gate with a wheelchair for her own (one from her work), but they would not let her take it out to the plane to meet me so one if their workers took it out there to meet me. I walk off the plane, outside onto the tarmac (just so you know it is like 21* and Isaac and I are both wearing sandals.) And they guy asks me if I got it from here. I have Isaac SCREAMING in one hand, and all my carry-ons in the other. I am thinking your an idiot. He pushes the wheelchair with all my stuff, and I walk with Isaac.

But other than that all is well I am here in Spokane, with LOTS of snow, and cold cold temperatures. Isaac HATES the snow so far. John is currently in SC getting some training. He will leave on FEB 8 for Africa.

Oh one cool thing that we did before we left Hawaii. Is we went swimming with the sharks. John's brother came in from NY and he took us swimming with the Sharks. I will post pics later. It is late here and Isaac has not been sleeping well, so I should get to bed. But I will try really hard to keep this updated. I will get the ultrasound pics up and keep you updated. OH!! I forgot to tell you that I am due Aug 13.

Isaac's IN

So we have had a series of meetings with the Early Intervention Program here in HI about Isaac to get and his Sensory. He is now successfully into the EI Program here in HI. Today was his official assessment. And is is ahead in fine and gross motor skills, which we had already been told by the OT at Tripler. A little below average for speech, not delayed enough for help, but will be monitored to make sure that he progress on time. A little behind in Cognitive, which I actually disagree with, but I am not going to stop him from getting extra help. A normal for self-help skills, and one other that I can't remember.

Now lets be honest Isaac has some behavioral problems, mainly because I never knew what to do when he would throw a fit. So he had learned to throw a fit when he wants to refuse to do stuff. Now if he is a well rested, well feed child, then I do NOT let him get away with it. But if it is 1 hr past nap time, and he has not a had a good lunch, I am NOT going to make him point to my EYE!! You kinda have to pick a choice what is important in life. But the Special Education Teacher SCOLDED me for not "following through" on that. PLEASE lets be realistic. And just cause I don't throw a big party when he does something that he is supposed to do, does not mean I am a bad mom. I think a simple thank you should suffice.

Family Pictures 2007

Meeting with The OT

So Monday we met with the Occupational Therapist. It was a really good appt. She confirmed what I had thought, and our DR had agreed with, the Isaac has Sensory, and a little bit of a speech problem. She explained a lot about why Isaac has such a problem with hot and cold. He feels it 3 times more then we do. She explained a lot of what I thought was just bad behavior, or defience, as a problem with sensory. Not that it excuses him from correction of those problems, but it explains why some days are rougher then others. So he will be evaluated by the early intervention program here in HI. They will tell us how much help he needs, and how often. They will come to my house and help Isaac out. We did found out that he is ahead on some things. Like matching shapes, and putting pegs in a hole. The OT told me that he is doing 2 yr gross, and fine motor skills. She said that we need to buy him more challenging toys. So that is good to know. So thank goodness Christmas is right around the corner.

Occupational Therapist

Okay so the Occupational Therapist call me and FINALLY scheduled an appt. She did inform me that ALL the therapist can not work it out in their schedules to meet with him all at once. So we will have A LOT of appt the next few weeks. But this and the Speech Therapist, in my opinion, are the most important. OT is Monday at 9am. Maybe it is better that they all do it separate, since he doesn't do well with new people. Talking about Isaac... we have had a few rough days. TONS, and TONS of crying. Today he cried for 35 mins two different times. I tried to give him away about 5 times today. Everyone of my friends that call today, were asked if they wanted to adopt him. Both times he cried I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was wrong. So after about 15 mins I went in the bathroom, for alittle while cried myself alittle, calmed down some, and then went and rocked him back and forth, while I sung every church song I could think of. And just kept repeating "It's okay" in between every song. Finally he started to calm down, and then just wanted me to keep rocking him, and singing. Sometime he is so cute. I can tell when he wants to me to rock him, because he just tries to rock himself by pushing on me. And if he wants you to sing he'll try to sing to. He will do this until you start doing whatever he wants you to do. So if you stopped by my house to today (and let me tell you a few people did), and it looked like Huricane Noal came through it, that is why.

On a good note.. We found out the Navy will pack and store our stuff, including our CAR!!! This is great news. I wasn't looking forward to packing this house at all. So YEAH for me!!

Djibouti, Africa

We got John's orders today. And it is official John is going to Djibouti, Africa. He is leaving HI on or before Jan 13 and will be returning end of August, beginning of Sept of 2008. I will be leaving around the same time to go live with my parents, depending on the ending of our lease here, PC shows, and plane ticket costs. This is good news, and we are very happy that Heavenly Father blessed us with this opportunity to become debt free including student loans. It is going to be a real blessing. I will miss him, but we know that this is what is right for us.

As for other things going on. Not much really. The Developmentialist has not scheduled an actual appt yet!! :( I am anxious to figure things out with Isaac, and get things started to make sure we get a head start on the help he needs.

UPDATE

Ok we had our appt with our Dr this last week, and after some simple things he reassured us that Isaac doesn't have autism, and pdd. He does again think he has sensory and maybe speech delay, since he has regressed with his words. So that will be checked out by the developmentialist sometime soon. They are suppose to call me by Tuesday to schedule appt. So when we have the appt. I will let you all know what happens with that.

Not much else is new here. Just busy trying to find FREE boxes, not an easy task here. So if you live here, and know where to get some then fill me in. Oh yeah, I've been painting my "Time Machine". Yes I have one, and I am going to go back in time to see....Just kidding. Not about painting it, but about traveling in it. I am doing it for Primary's Sharing Time. John is going to be Ammon, a great missionary from the Book Of Mormon, and he is going to come and share how sharing his testimony with the King converted lots of Lamenities. So that is going to be fun. Oh ya! I forgot to tell you all that I got called to be the 1st counselor in the Primary Presidency. Just in case you are not LDS have not idea what I am talking about. Primary is for all children 18 months to 12 years old, it is their Sunday school. We teach them principles from the Gospel, and how to gain a testimony of it. So I went from the youth to the children. To tell you the truth I am a lot more nervous about the little kids then I was every about the youth, or even the adults when I taught Relief Society or Sunday School. I am not sure why, just makes me nervous.

To keep everyone posted about moving and orders, and when, and where John is going. Not much has changed in that department. But I am leaving here around the 28/29th of Nov. But hopefully soon we will know more about John's time frame. When I know I will post for all of you to know.

A Busy, Upturned Life

Where to start. So much has happened since I last posted. Well lets start with Isaac... two weeks ago today Isaac fell in the bathtub cutting his lip pretty bad. So John and I decided to take him to Tripler Pediatric Walk-In Clinic. We saw a really nice lady that said she thought that he would be fine, but wanted him to come back on Monday to make sure it was healing right. Being the concerned mother that I am, I had no problem with this request. Now Isaac falls a lot, all the time, but this is the first time he had bled A LOT. Well over the weekend Isaac feel 3 more times and got visible marks from his falling. So we march back into the DR office Monday for our 12:45 appt. With concrete rash, and a huge scratch down the side of his face, I had jokingly told John if you don't hear from me by 1:30 know that they have called CPS. Isaac throws a fit in the Nurses Station because the nurse wants to take his pulse. (Not uncommon, doesn't like people to touch him). Throws another fit because the kids in the play area was playing with his favorite toy in the DR office. Also not uncommon for Isaac. He LOVES balls. Okay called in first thing Dr notices more injuries. (OK here comes CPS right) no just more Dr to see if he has a sight problem. Well he never sees that step off the house. They play with him in various ways to see if something is wrong with his sight. No everything seems to be okay. But in this "playing" they see him throw a few more fits. Now to Isaac's defense he has only had a 20-30 min nap, on the way to the DR since this appt is right in his nap time, but to the Dr's he does throw a lot of fits. Well here come more Dr. This time with a lot of questions for me and with a PEDs psychologist. Does he do this, does he do that. Does he play with others, does he have a problem with textures. Does he sleep well. Is he attached to certain toys or people. How many words, how many this and that. All these questions that I had not prepared myself to answer, many I just thought the best I could and hoped for the best. After a 2 hr Dr appt, the psychologist just said if he doesn't get better in 4-6 weeks call me here's my card, and then she left. Not telling me what she was thinking. Just left. Now I know a little bit about things like this and all I could think of was autism. I was terrified. So I started to do a little research of my own via the Internet and other mommies. And found out that that Dr was dumb. I also talked to our PED Dr, who goes to church with us and is a really good friend of ours, he said that that DR told him that Isaac has autism, pdd, and a laundry list of other things that she thought was wrong with him. Most everything I and our DR disagrees with. We are both thinking that Isaac has some tactile issues. He really doesn't like new textures, and new foods, and sand, grass, and FREAKS out if he if he is dirty. And since he has not learned any new words since he was 10 months old and stop saying some of his 2-3 word phrase since about that same time, some speech problems too. But that was just a theory I had until yesterday when I talked to our Dr again. So next week I have an appt with our DR and a PEDs developmentialist. Which will give our some answers. So look for that next week.

Now if that wasn't enough. The NAVY has changed John's orders, and he is going IA (Individual Augmentee). Basically this is an Individual Assignment that they Navy sends John on and in which in will be attached to another unit. Which means a lot of different things to us right now. But the main thing is that John is leaving for Iraq or Africa in NOV!!! For 8-14 months. Since I am then going to go live in Spokane with my family, I am currently working on packing our house and buying plane tickets, figuring out what I am doing with our car, my PC business, and a bunch of other things. I feel like I am going to go crazy. Plus I have 5 PC shows this month and 6 next month. AAAHHHH!!! I have thought about canceling some of them, or turning them to catalog shows, but the extra month will be useful since the Navy is not moving me. Since technically John's duty station is not changing. I am hoping to leave here by the end of NOV since I have a lot to do still.