My Baby Can TALK!!!

So little baby Miles who is now a full blown TODDLER can finally speak a handful of words. He is 18 months and his vocabulary now includes in this order: dog, duck, mama, dada, Oscar, apple, bubble, car, socks, shirt, shoes, ball, and cracker. It is very exciting as we were getting just a tad nervous of his lack of recognizable words. He babbles constantly but nothing was making sense to us, until one morning right before his 18 month birthday that he started spitting them out. It is by far the most exciting milestone that he has hit.

onehundredpushups.com

I am on a long journey to be able to crank out more "boy" pushups. Back in my college days when I took yoga 3 times a week and pilates twice a week I could barely do a single pushup. It was a disgrace, something I have never been able to do. In fact I think my Mother once told me that is just must be the way my body is proportioned. Well, as of today I can now officially do 10 "boy" pushups. So I am going to try to increase that by following this program that I saw in one of my fitness magazines. I am currently on week 2 day 3. I am not striving to do the full program, but to see how far I can go. My goal is to be able to do 20 pushups. I will keep you posted.

p90x

So I think I am going to give P90X a try. I want to do it and I really want to follow it through. So starting Monday I am going to start my 90 days of extreme fitness. I have never followed through with something like this and I really want to do it!!!! I want to get ripped! I am going to track my progress on here as a motivational tool.

Flowers Planted Late This Year

So it has been OVER and YEAR since I updated this blog. I think it is safe to say I was just kind of busy. Miles is now 15 months and I have no idea where the past 15 months went. Once you have kids, your life is counted in months and they fly by like pure and total craziness. It is scary to be honest. Before I know it I will be 50 and still thinking I am 22 (that is how old I think I am now anyway).

I finally got around to planting my flowers this year. I know, I know, it is already the end of July, but I figure better late than never right? I loaded Miles up in the car and took off to Wagners which is really just down the road, but the idea of pushing the stroller over there and then being stuck with no way to get my flowers back didn't sound too appealing.

So this year we have just a simple assortment of pots on the deck and then the deck box container full of some sun loving flowers (that part of the house gets sun all day long). I also decided to plant a pot full of herbs that I need but never have on hand. So we have a nice herb garden on the deck when I need fresh cilantro, rosemary, basil and lavender. The lavender is really just for smelling though.

Miles Harold

Baby Miles Harold is finally here. He arrived Tuesday 4/21 at 8:59 in the evening. After 26 hours of labor the little (or should I say big) guy came into this world weighing in at 9lbs 5ozs and 22.5" long. No wonder my belly was so gigantic!

Labor was a little different than I imagined. My due date came and went on Sunday 4/19. I went to work on Monday feeling as if I would be pregnant forever. The day went on and I was feeling a lot of pressure in my belly and a bit nauseous but nothing major. I went to see Brian to get acupuncture after work and then decided to head to the gym to walk the treadmill. While on the treadmill I began to have mild contractions and walked through them. They got a bit stronger after 20 minutes so I decided to head home a little after 7pm. I was having more contractions that night and overall just felt 'yucky'. I talked to my Mom and my friend Cortney on the phone thinking in the back of my mind that I would probably be having a baby very soon. I tried to sleep on and off, and decided to time my contractions. They were randomly spaced about 7 -12 minutes apart. I remember complaining to Tim that I couldn't get comfortable while trying to sleep.

At 3am I woke up for my usual bathroom trip and my water broke, right on the toilet (very convienent). After that labor was pretty intense. Tim began to time my contractions, they were very confusing to us. They were about 2-4 minutes in length and about 5 minutes apart, giving me little time for rest breaks. We called our midwife at 5am and decided to take a shower, it didn't help, but made labor even more intense. I found myself laying on the floor unable to really move they were so strong. Tim got everything ready and we headed to the hospital at 7am. We met Kathrine (our midwife) there and she confirmed my water had indeed broke and I was in labor...we were having a baby! Unfortunately, I was barely dilated, and the reason my contractions were so painfully long was because of the baby's position....he was presenting posterior and nice and crooked. We had learned about this in our childbirth class and I knew we were in for a very long and hard labor. We labored at the hospital all day and I began requesting drugs to take the pain away, but Tim and Kathrine knew my drug free birth plan was important to me so they helped me into the tub and got me plenty of tasty orange sherbert. That helped a lot and before we knew it I was fully dilated and ready to push.

I pushed for a good 2 hours and baby Miles wouldn't budge. My uterus finally decided to quit and contractions stopped. There was no way to push the baby out on my own so I got hooked up to Pitocin which started my contractions back up. After almost another 3 hours of pushing baby Miles was finally born. He was placed on my belly and was so warm and big and was screaming his little head off. Our birth story was a little different than planned, but all went well and we are now home and happy, adjusting to our new life with Miles. It is amazing bringing a baby into this world. Nothing you can really plan for, no matter how many books you read, or classes you take. Tim was Super Coach and we had an amazing birth team. Our midwife and nurses were so great, I couldn't have asked for a better experience.

39 weeks and then some

As the due date approaches, I get more nervous that it will pass and I will still be pregnant. I know that it is very common to go a week or even more past an estimated due date so I am trying to take every day as it comes. Another day of being very large, very excited, and very very uncomfortable. Tim and I are really ready to meet baby Vedder and every day drags on and on. We have been trying to keep busy, Tim has been studying for the CFA level 2 exam and I have been walking (slowly) and keeping things in order around the house. I'm sad I finished all the Twilight books as those would be very handy right now. Just trying to keep myself occupied so I don't go insane.

So I didn't think my belly could get any bigger than last week, but apparently it has. At my appointment on Tuesday I was measuring 40 weeks and that is a 2 week increase since my appointment last week. Both of my midwives actually measured me thinking maybe they were getting it wrong, but no, I grew that much more in just one little week. Baby boy is slowing down in there as I am sure he is just running out of space. He still lets me know he is okay in there though with the occasional nudge. The midwives gave their weight guesses this week. Karen thinks he is 8 pounds while Kathrine thinks he is 7 pounds 10 ounces. We will see who is correct hopefully very soon.

38 weeks

Okay, now seriously, how much bigger can I possibly get? My belly is mammoth and feels like it may just explode at any minute. Had my 38 week appointment today...everything is good. Baby boy seems to be a bit posterior still (sunny side up) so hopefully he turns the right way by the time he makes his entrance. Also my weight has evened out now, haven't gained a pound in 3 weeks which seems very impossible being that my belly gets bigger by the minute. They think the baby is weighing in close to 8 pounds, but again just a total guess. Baby is getting ready, but when will he be ready is the big question? I decided to start walking to see if I can speed things along. I got a lot of looks from people, I guess no one has ever seen a 9 month pregnant lady walking or something. Our friend Brian has been using his acupuncture skills on me so we'll see if that helps. Other than that, now we just wait.