"You're right Mom, I'll like a sister better" Bayvin said. Bayvin played with a 2 year old girl at Burger King and helped her up the platforms and then held her as they went down the slide and she had SO much fun. So she decided that a baby sister is better than a baby brother.
We had the ultrasound last week. (my computer is still down, so we don't have the images scanned yet) Its very definitely a girl. I was surprised, I was so sure that it was gonna be a boy. Bayvin is extremely disappointed. She wanted a brother. I'm sure she'll get over it when she's born. Since Grif was so sure it was a boy, we had NO girl names ready, but finally on Saturday we decided on "Rowynn". We're still thinking on the middle name, but I don't feel as much of a need to rush that.
As soon as we found out, Grandma, Bayvin and I went to Babies R Us and got a lot of clothes. Rowynn is about set for the first 3 months, clotheswise. Though they do go through 2-3 outfits a day... so we might need more hehe.
On Sunday Bayvin was eating a bagel and said it hurt her tooth. I asked her if she could move her tooth and she said no. I asked to have a look and boy did it ever move! Should be falling out any day now. She says when she pushes it with her tongue she can feel the bottom of her tooth but she's too scared to keep trying to pull it out. Mostly she just doesn't want to lose the tooth! I think she's secretly excited about it.
She was teased for the first time on the playground by other boys today, well at least she knew it was teasing this time. She was playing with her friend Eddie and there were some boys saying that she was in love with Eddie and they were going to get married. She kept telling them, no they weren't. I told her that was called teasing, she said it wasn't very nice.
We get to find out what gender the baby is on October 4th. We've been trying to figure out when to have a baby shower, but no date is seeming good. If we do it in November, its too close to Bayvin's birthday, then its too close to christmas, so I figured the best thing to do is, get us baby gifts for christmas. We don't really need anything except baby stuff anyway. We're going to be registering at Target and Babies R Us once we find out what sex the baby is.
So bout the rats. Our garage and laundry room stinks to high heaven. They came out wednesday to check traps and set more. At which point our tally was up to 12... I was thinking that was about it. Well they said they'd be out Monday (yesterday) to check them again. We hadn't heard anything, I hadn't seen anything in the garage, but the smell was getting bad. Well there were 2 dead ones underneath the house in snap traps and then there was one just caught still alive and struggling in the garage on the glue trap. I was bummed. Our tally is now 15. That's a lot, but I was hoping we were done! So that sucks, especially since we all got sick and weren't able to clean out the garage over the weekend. When I called Uhaul they said their trucks can't go to the dump, and we were hoping because of the lift on it, because there's a lot of heavy stuff and I can't do diddley, especially around all the rodent feces. AND everything in the garage needs to be moved OUT of the garage so we can hose the whole place down and get that smell out! So much work.
*Don't read further if you have a problem with cruelty toward mice or rats*
So we have a rat problem in the garage. Been that way for bout a couple months now. We've had them before and gotten rid of them for awhile. Last summer while my dad was here fixing up the house, we had 3 mice. A year or so before that, maybe more, we had a rat family and ended up catching all the babies. It sucks to have rats, the poop and pee all over everything! Its gross. I only feel slightly guilty after watching Flushed Away and Ratatouille. I have warned them, I yell in the garage "leave now or you're all dead!" I think we're bout 9 up on them in the last month. I can't imagine how many more there are. We had the Clark Pest guys out here yesterday putting more traps out and we're finally having them come to give an estimate on rodent proofing so hopefully this will never happen again. We had also put bait underneath the house and I'm happy to know that it worked on at least 2 of them. Normally we've been using mostly glue traps, but when the Clark guys were here there were 2 dead that weren't on traps. Yay bait!
Though this whole thing isn't why I'm telling you all my rat problem.
I haven't minded them that much in the garage, so far I don't know that they've chewed up anything important. So they're in the garage and underneath the house. We'll eventually get rid of them.
So last night I was playing World of Warcraft with Grif and the in laws. We were about to take on a boss, so I took that opportunity to go get something to drink and go to the bathroom. Now I'm not sure if I actually went to the bathroom first, I probably didn't. Our bathroom has 2 rooms, toilet/shower room and sink room separated by a pocket door. Our bathroom has one of those shelf thingies behind the toilet, its bout 6ft tall or so. So I'm about to sit down and I spy movement. Up on TOP of the shelf behind the soaps and basket I got up there is a god damn RAT! My first thought: what do I have in here that I can kill it with. I got scissors, but its reflexes are much better than mine, and can I really poke it and hurt it? Probably not. So I think 'Basket'. I'll try to catch it so I can throw it in the garage can so it'll heat and suffocate to death. But before I do that, I run quickly to the living room where I got Grif and the in laws on Ventrillo and I tell them there's a freaking rat in the bathroom. I run back hoping it hasn't gotten away. Nope, still on top of the shelf. Our bathroom door has a huge gap underneath, so I close the door and put some towels underneath so it can't run out. I dump out a basket, and starting using the basket to push the soap stuff and other basket to get the rat out from behind them, it jumps down and runs into the sink room. Girly scream #1. It run behind a tower that's in that room, which I procede to move, and I hear it squeal so I musta got its paw or tail or something, serves it right. By that time Grif is downstairs and I tell him to go get a glue trap from the garage. Well I move the tower enough for it to want to run out, which it does, right passed me to underneath the hamper. Girly scream #2, and I jump on top of the stool we have in there for Bayvin to reach the sink. Grif is back with glue trap, I put it under the hamper and still standing on the stool start to take clothes out of it and put them onto the floor so that I can try to move the hamper. I got enough out and I had to stand back on the floor to try to move it, at which point the rat runs passed me and I sort of stepped on it, not enough to make IT squeal but enough to make me: Girly scream #3. Grif hands me a swiffer mop thing under the door and I put the towels back. I start poking the clothes, but its not coming out. I look in the toilet room again and its behind the toilet. So I grab the glue trap put it back there, and its trying to climb the shelf thing and I start poking it with the swiffer, and eventually get it on the glue trap. Victory!!! I pick up the glue trap with the stick end of the swiffer on part of the glue and hand it to Grif and it takes it out to the trap for it to suffer all night and died. *I did warn them*
I can tolerate them in the garage, but in my house! I think NOT! And of course guess who had rat/mice dreams last night. Little bastards! AND now I can't go in the bathroom without checking it. Though there probably won't be anymore in the house (laundry room doesn't count cause its right by the garage), because it probably came in yesterday when the Clark guys were here. The dogs were locked out, and we were putting traps and stuff and the garage door to the laundry room was open, so it probably snuck out and into the house. But I definitely had the willies all night long.
Do some people just not know what a migraine is? Despite working at a doctor's office?
Called up the OB (because they told me to anytime I have an issue and not to go to reg doc) because I had a migraine and tylenol was just not doing it, I needed something stronger. So I had to leave a message. Around 4:45 they get back to me and say "well can you wait til your next appointment?" Hm... well I was just seen yesterday and my next appointment is in 4 weeks, and I have a migraine today... do you think that works? "well they can't prescribe anything without seeing you, they could see you tomorrow" Well my migraine could be gone tomorrow and I'm in excuriating pain right now... and they told me since my first OB visit that if I had migraines (since i can't take my migraine meds) that they could give me vicodin or tylenol 3. "yeah but not without seeing you since we've haven't seen you for this problem" (well DUH, you're my OB, wouldn't go to you for migraines). Well great, thanks for nothing I guess I have to call my regular doc. At 5 o'clock... at least someone is there and I was able to leave a msg for the oncall doc. Course the receptionist said, well you'll probably have to be seen and i said, well i've already been seen for migraines, my problem is that I'm pregnant and can't take the regular meds. What are they gonna do, not like they can diagnose a migraine, just wastes my time and money and the doc's time.
Finally I was given tylenol3 and feel better. Some people are just so retarded.
"Oh you have a migraine and are in a great amount of pain? Can you wait til tomorrow?"
"What the fuck do you think?!!!"
and I've been feeling like crap for the past few weeks. Constantly nauseous, but I don't throw up, extremely nauseous, even on Zofran and its not helping, which is odd, cause its the best stuff. It really really sucks, so I'm hoping the 2nd trimester will bring good feelings.
So sunday morning I woke up and I was cramping bad in a place you shouldn't cramp bad when you're pregnant, mostly on the right side of the pelvis and some upper gastric pain. So we went to the ER, which was a total waste and gave me more pain. Went in bout 8am. after blood work and and doc coming in and using the speculum in painful ways and then poking and prodding where I was cramping, they told me of course i'd have to get a sonogram. Which I begged to get a vaginal one, but they couldn't, I KNEW the catheter would hurt and all that. But they waited, cause the tech said it would be like 45 minutes. So bout 5 minutes before they put it in, which was bout 10:10am, so I thought ok, this hurts but I can bear it for 5 minutes. 30 minutes later I was crying histerically and begging them to pull it out, it was extremely excursiating. They told me they couldn't cause what if it was my appendix, they need to have the bladder blown up. I said I didn't care, they gave me morphine, which didn't help just made it feel like my chest was caving in (how do people get addicted to that?). She tried to move it a little so wouldn't hurt as much which made it hurt more. Finally she said, if the guy didn't come in 10 minutes she would take it out, well 10 minutes later they came to get me.
Baby is fine, everything is fine (got to hear the heartbeat and see the baby), I was apparently cramping for no reason, which got labeled as one of those "pregnancy things".
White blood cell count was high (which when I told the OB today she said was actually normal for pregnancy) they either said appendicitis (which wasn't appendix was fine) or pelvic inflammatory disease (which only gets through sexually transmitted diseases, so not that) or stress. So basically they didn't know what the hell, just one of those things, plus my pulse was high and of course my blood pressure was high (hm, extreme pain... could be the reason!)
Today went to have the physical and u/s at the OB and all my blood work is normal, Brenda and Scotty and Bob and Bayvin were all there and got to see the baby and everything. Due date is February 18th now :)
Here's the first picture
As you can see, that cool new little widget thing :)
So is Shannon, which is cool, we're due bout the same time.
Since normally I have 30-35 days between periods I decided to average out to 33 and I'm due February 20th. But I'm totally ok with being earlier, I'd rather have an Aquarius than a Pisces :D
My first OB appointment is this friday and then July 17th I have a vaginal u/s (or at least that's what they say, I really hope so)
Grif and I have been married 6 years today!
Bayvin's last day of Kindergarten was the 7th. She's now a first grader!
I haven't been posting much, I've been busy beading and getting my jewelry website up (http://jewelry.erinpriest.com) and making more jewelry, and I'm even making a macrame purse... its taking forEVER. I'm thinking crocheting would be quicker, but I have to learn that. Knotting is easy. But I think it'll look REALLY cool when its done.
We're all heading to Wisconsin on Monday. Can't wait, course I had a bad dream of not getting anything packed on time, running around with my head cut off trying to get everything ready, dreading that I'm forgetting something.
Grif and I are going to visit Shon and Shannon today and finally see their new house (3000sq ft 5 bedroom house... sheesh) and Shannon and I are gonna get our nails done. Then we're going to PF Changs for dinner! It'll be a good day! :D
And I can't believe I said happy birthday to Martha but not Mom
Happy Birthday Mom!!! (really late)
Apparently the school does spring pictures too. I totally forgot the day, so I was surprised that it actually looked ok. Weird thing is that her eyes are totally dark gray. They're starting to look greenish bluish gray lately. So not sure what color she'll have when she gets her drivers license :)
Today Bayvin was writing in her journal.
She wrote: "I love my brother"
Mrs. Wach: "Do you have a brother?"
Bayvin: "Not yet, but my mom is working on it and it takes a really long time."
Its Tuesday, no visit from Aunt Flo, and I'm just going more nuts. Because the longer it takes for me to get my period the longer it is for me to try again when I think i'm ovulating and longer for me to find out if i'm once again pregnant or not. And well, I really hate waiting.
Yes I took another test (Dad told me I should just wait, guess he forgot who I was for a second) I got the cheapy Target old school non digital ones, it was so very very negative.
Ok, had Christmas...
I got a cappuccino machine. Mmmm cappuccino and a really really nice coat that I wanted. Bayvin got an easy bake oven and the little mermaid doll that moves her fin like she wanted. Grif still hasn't gotten his present from me, because well, we didn't have the money and he wanted a rain check instead of getting something else. He wants a audio card for his studio. The one he really wants is $350 new, but he was willing to settle for the one that is $150 new. We've been looking on ebay to get it cheaper. Obviously we got a lot more presents, but too many to post about hehe.
New Years... the party was AWESOME. I made daiquiris with 150wooo!!! which is what we were calling Bacardi 151 after we had one... they were so good. My friend Jade came out from DC and I got her too drunk. She missed new years, threw up and went home around 10pm. But she didn't have a hang over the day after!
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