Bring it on! Looking forward to 2011!!

I can't believe it is already 2011! I'm excited for this upcoming year which by the looks of the calendar is already shaping up to be a great year!! Baby G is due in April which then means having the remainder of the school year off to be with my boys! Plus my good friend Tara and I are setting up a Ragnar team!!! (super excited but very nervous) AND we're running a half marathon in October. Tara is a seasoned runner and is my role model! I just hope I can keep up with her!! Stay tuned for more updates on our training!! :) Mine will not officially start until probably June but until then we're steppin it twice a week. SO hopefully that will help me get back into running form!!!

No More Bed Rest!! :)

Well, thankfully Baby G's growth has tapered off a bit so they took me off of bed rest and are allowing me to resume all my normal activities. They do have a recommend a support brace which I have and do wear, at least for a couple hours each day. In addition i've also started a walking routine with my good friend Tara. Which has been wonderful! It's so nice to get out of the house twice a week and have some girl time while getting exercise! I miss running SO much!! On a side note, I'm getting really sick of people commenting on how "huge" I am and saying things like "you haven't had that kid yet" or "you've got to be ready to have that baby any day now, you're SO big!" Gee thanks!! On days like that I really really wish I weren't so short with so little torso so all this baby had more room to spread out instead of going straight out! Blah.

I'm also trying a countdown to our due date.... so hopefully the link will work!!

Happy Birthday! 2 weeks bedrest. Gee thanks Doc. :/

Where to start.... I started the weekend in quite a bit of pain and just thought it was from a fall i'd taken last week and overdoing it during the week. But by Monday I couldn't hardly move so decided to go see my NP. Turns out I pulled all the muscles in my lower abdomen. Partly due to me overdoing it and partly due to Gavin's growth rate. He is growing faster than my little body can adjust for. Two weeks ago I was measuring 2 weeks ahead (which I did the entire time with Lucas) and Monday when I went in I am now measuring 4+ weeks ahead! It's never good when you're laying on the exam table and your Dr. is measuring you and says "oh my".... Yep, I'm a fatty, I get it. SO we go back in on the 6th of January and if i'm still measuring this far ahead they want to do another ultrasound to check things out.
So, back to the bedrest.... it is impossible to follow Dr's orders when you have a very active toddler running around. Especially one who today decided to wipe poop all over himself. UGH. :) Entire pregnancy hormones and it's just all a big mess. Needless to say it's going to be a LONG 2 weeks.

D.O.N.E.

I can't believe it, I've officially finished my masters degree! The past two years have absolutely flown by! I'm slightly irritated though and am going to use this venue as my venting space for now. I've worked really hard to keep a 4.0 GPA throughout my two years of grad school and up until this semester I'd done it....Then, of course, in my last semester I get a professor who is terrible (no, i'm not making this up, she docked me 15 points on a REFLECTION paper because I didn't site the textbook enough!!!! on a reflection paper!!!). Anywho, as it stands I believe I will miss my 4.0 overall GPA by less than five points! I realize I should be ok with this, but I absolutely am NOT ok with it. It's that perfectionist coming out in me. Not to mention I felt I had to prove to myself that even with a mild traumatic brain injury I could still do it and do it well. *sigh* OK, end rant. Now it's on to making the "to do" list of everything I want to do before Gavin makes his arrival in 4 months. I'm thinking of all the books I want to read, movies I want to catch up on and of course all the house projects to be done to prep for another baby! :) I better get started NOW!!

Our new addition has a name!! :)

Baby Boy Stejskal now has a name!! :) This was quite the process. We've had a girl name picked out for years so finding another little boy name was really tough. We started with a list of 30 and narrowed that down to 10. Then we had friends and family vote and from there narrowed it down to 4. FINALLY, tonight we picked THE one! I know I know, there are people who go into labor not knowing what they're going to name their child, that is NOT an option for me! Anyone who knows me KNOWS i'm a mega planner. So not having a name for nearly 19 weeks has been difficult enough! Ok, is the suspense killing you yet..... ;) Baby boy Stejskal's name is....... Gavin! :)Phew, now that we have that straightened out, time to pick out baby gear! ;) My husband loves my neuroticism, I swear. ;)

Baby Stejskal.....4D!

Well, we had our 4D ultrasound on Saturday. All I can say is AMAZING!! :) We plan on going back again in February when i'm about 28 weeks and having another one. We found out the sex of our little one....and I was a little surprised. I had been thinking it was a girl until last week when I had a dream it was a little boy. Literally within 2 seconds of the tech putting the monitor on my belly it was very evident that we're having another little boy! :) Now the name game has begun! Riley and I had a list of about 30 names and narrowed it down to 10. We have a poll going to try and help us decide. Boy names are so difficult! We have several that we really like finally, so hopefully we'll have one picked out before we leave for the hospital! ;)
The little guy is moving more and more everyday and within a couple more weeks i'm sure Riley and Lucas will be able to feel him kicking to. I can't wait to see what Lucas thinks about that! Cash has been sticking to me like glue lately, just like he did when I was pregnant with Lucas. Poor Riley gets kicked out of bed by him atleast a couple of times a week.
We hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving!

House Hunting.....again

Well, with the upcoming expansion of our family we've decided it's time to take up the job of house hunting. We know where we'd like to move and we have an idea of what we want. SO, this morning we looked at three different houses. Two of which we were really excited about and one we thought "what the heck". Well, the two we were excited about ended up being really disappointing. They were both all chopped up and the layouts were really goofy. The third one which we decided to look at just because ended up being fantastic! It has a really nice open floor plan, the kitchen (where I spend a majority of my time) was stunning and the basement is all finished. I don't think we'll be putting in an offer anytime soon, but it was nice to see what's out there and get a better idea of what we will be looking for once our house goes on the market. Exciting!! :)