It's been a while! I miss this place. I've visited a few times but by the time I click "new post" something else seems to come up. We are loving life right now though!
A few weeks ago I got really sick and couldn't eat or drink anything for over 24 hours. I finally went into the Dr and by that point I was so dehydrated that the babies heartbeat was racing and he sent me to the hospital right away. They tested me for influenza and it came out positive. Blech. As soon as they started me on an IV and Tamiflu they hooked me up to baby monitors to make sure the baby was doing ok, I started having contractions. They said it was caused by the dehydration and gave me a few shots of some fun stuff to help stop my contractions. After a few hours and 4 IV bags of fluids and some nausea medicine I was finally feeling a little bit better and I was able to get out after spending most of the day at the hospital. I can honestly say I have never felt that sick in my lifetime. It was the most horrific thing I went through. Holy. Cow. Then when I went in for my follow up last week (to make sure I was over the flu and the baby was still doing good) my Dr informed me this baby is looking like he's going to make his appearance early. He's already dropped and i'm already showing a few more signs that mean labor is coming soon. So now we're trying to get things ready. I still need to sort out and organize the boys clothes and clean out the closet and throw all of our junk away. I'm so tired of junk. Why do we have so much of it?!
We finally got carseats ordered, Maddox's new one came today and hopefully the new baby's will be here this week or at the least next week. We made one real purchase other than a carseat for this baby, and that was a bouncy chair. Surprisingly enough we didn't get a bouncy chair with Maddox. When he was a few months old my sister gave us one that she had in storage and it was a life saver. He LOVED that thing. Unfortunately he still loves it and he's terrorized it and the vibrations, sound, and lights don't work anymore. So we had to invest in a new one. We're keeping this one in the box until the new baby comes, then we will whip it out. I would really like to declutter our whole house before this baby comes, but I just don't know if I have the energy to do it. Honestly the past few days i'm at the point where I look at my house and i'm so overwhelmed by how much stuff we have and I have wanted to just call the dump and have them drop one of those dumpsters off in front of our house and come pick it up at the end of the day. I could throw out a LOT of stuff. Maybe i'll have to do spring cleaning once the baby comes and I can finally move again without falling over.
My little Maddox is growing up so fast! He got his first 2 teeth today, moved into a big boy carseat today, got his 3rd haircut last night, and he's been walking all over our house with his little walker (best investment EVER!) He melts my heart every day and he just seems to be getting cuter and cuter. I worry so much about having another baby because i'm scared that nothing could steal my heart like Maddox has, but I know for a fact that I will love this second baby just as much :) I just hope he survives having a big brother that may accidentally give him a few bonks and bruises. I really am terrified for this little ones survival once he gets here. Josh thinks it will just make him tough :)
As far as school goes...I'm half way through the semester and I have all A's in all 5 classes! Not even any A-'s so i'm feeling pretty good about that so far.
SO there's a recap of our past few weeks. Our lives are crazy right now with both me and Josh working, going to school, loving on our boy, and preparing for our new addition. It keeps us on our toes but we go to bed every night thankful for everything that we have!
