Oh goodness!

I think Landon REALLY wants to make his debut! I had horrendous back pian, to the point that I called in and took a week off of work. There were some other things going on too, but we don't need to hash those out.

I called my Dr, just because Leena was a similar situation, I had horrible back labor, and she was bon almost a month early, and 7 hours after it started.

Docto told me to go and get checked out to make sure everything is ok. So, I went to silverdale to Harrison Medical Center, come to find out. I've been having some contractions here and there, and I'm dilated just a cm or 2. Needless to say because I didn't feel contractions and was'nt having them withing a couple of minutes

Long story short, still hurting in my back, but meh. It happens. And, I'll be stunned if I have him this early. He needs to wait about a month, then we're good!

Poor Jeff, when I told him about it all, he seemed worried! He's been on the ship for a couple days and will be home tomorrow, but he's been dedicated about checking in on me to make sure I'm ok. We'll see what happens! I think it'll be a while til he's here, I hope!

6 weeks left! Too bad it feels like 6 months!

Jeff and I had 2 ultrasound appointments today. One was the 4D with a referral to check up on Landons kidneys, and the other was with my doctor, to check on development. We made the trek over there this mornign, including getting up on one of our few days off these days.

We go to see Dr. Case, who does the 4D ultrasounds. He was alot better than the last guy we had, very detailed and thorough. He told us about 5 times "He's such a beautiful baby!" Which, I must add, he is REALLY cute just based off of what we saw. He has cute little chubby cheeks and my nose and long fingers. I have a hunch he'll be looking like me. Hopefully Jeff is ok with that!

Overall, Dr. Case said he's normal and his kidneys are fine, and to ignore that the previous doctor had said anything about it. Which, was nice.

His head is in the 83% percentile, oh eesh! Leena was 95% so I think I'm ok with that! They did say his legs, length wise, were small. But given his parents, with a dad who's 5'3 and mom who is 5'2, it was normal. He's healthy and all that, yay!

Our poor car!

We had an ALMOST typical weekend.. I say almost because Jeff and I have a "brand new" 2008 MazdaSpeed3 we bought last Nov. Not even a year old yet. That car is Jeff's baby, until Landon is here.

We decided to stay teh night on sat. at my parents house. Which, is in Redmond, world headquarters of Microsoft for those of you who don't know where that is. Anyway, they live in a really nice neighborhood of overpriced houses and what not. RARELY ever any crimes. I remember over the past 11 years we've been here, the house got egged once (cause a guy I broke up with decided to get revenge in HS), and my brother Cody's window got a rock thrown at full speed into it, which they ended up replacing 2 windows in his car his jr year of HS. Other than that, it's nothing like San Bernardino, where cars were constantly stolen and alot of crime in general. (Our house was robbed by drug dealers when I was 15)

Anyway, so we parked the Mazda out front of my parents house. Hillary had gone to the Evergreen State Fair, and so it was just our silver car outside. It was incredibly hot that day, so my parents had left the bedroom window open that night. Jeff and I go to bed around 10. Wake up at 5, and again at 8am. Jeff goes outside for some reason or another, and notices something...

The front passenger window appeared to him, to have been rolled down. He asked me if I had rolled it down after we got home from a family outing with a friend that was in town fron British Columbia. I said "no...we came in and went to bed, remember?"
he went back out and looked again. This time, just INTO the car.

Someone had smashed out our window!! In probably one of the safest communities in the county! I was so pissed and suprprised! We've had that car all of 9mos. Downfall was, the one night my mom and dad open up their windown, my mom took an Ambien to sleep! So the slight noise she would've spring to her feet and looked out the window, she didn't because she took some sleep aid. And, Hillary was off at the fair, and didn't even know it had happened until we told her.

Here is the shocking and yet "upside" to the story. If I am tired, my purse and everything stays in the car, like it did that night. Whoever broke out the windown, was just doing it to be obnoxious or it was some punk kids who broke into their parents liquor cabinet and were looking for something to do, saw our little car, and bashed it in and called it good. They didn't take my purse, which had the KEYS TO THE CAR in them, my ATM cards, checkbook, you name it. As well as Jeffs big old fancy ipod he had sitting in the center console. We would've been heart sick if it had been stolen. But we were not happy about a window being busted out.

Cleaning it up wasn't as bad as it could've been. We have tinted windows, so when theybusted it, it came off in a piece vs millions of tiny pieces. However, they really did try hard to bust it because the interior of the car has alot of scratches on the inside, and on the paint.

So, Jeff is taking in the poor broken MazdaSpeed3 in tomorrow to get fixed. I'm sure they'll do a good job on all the things that got damaged.

The last part was, we left Redmond around noon on Sunday. The MINUTE we get to downtown Seattle, there is not only a mariners game (which makes for HUGE traffic delays) but I have NO window and it starts to dump rain! So, we took the mystery hoodie that was in the car already, and draped it over the inside of the car so it wouldn't get as soaked.

Only in Seattle!

Round Two

Some have asked me to keep the baby news going...so, here is the latest.

I went in for my glucose testing yesterday, got the results today as expected.

Apparently, I'm "severely" anemic, and I failed my glucose test. Which, in short means not to be surprised if come my next round of tests this weekend, to be diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Which, I didn't have with Leena. Anemia caused massive problems during delivery, needing blood transfusions,toxemia, the works.

I will be honest, both pregnancies have been more rough than people really seem to realize. Early labor, everything that isn't good, has just about happened.

I wish I was one of those people that didn't have the compliations that I have managed to have, both times.

I hear all these women say "Oh, I didn't have morning sickness! Everything is perfect!"

Yeah, bite me! I'll trade ya. My girlfriend and I joke that only real women get morning sickness, because she and I have had the same trials.

I'm just hoping everything goes ok, I'm rather worried to be frank.

Lastly, We finally scheduled the C-section for Oct 22nd, at 5:30pm! Yay!

My sweet little "bunny", Leena!

I finally got to have Leena this weekend! She's usually in between 4+ households. It has been that way since she was 2, and she's so used to it, she actually rather enjoys the variety.

In order to get to the Daniels home, you can either spend the $25 bucks in gas, and drive teh 80 miles "around" the puget sound water, or pay $14.45 a vehicle, and $6.70 a passenger, and take the ferry. Jeff and I invested in a ferry pass some months ago, and when the rates jumped from $11.45 a fare, to $14.45 a fare in the summer, we've ended up saving alot of money! The ferry ride, one way, is about 56-58 minutes, just barely shy of an hour. Leena was looking forward to taking "the boat" to moms house. I guess if you're 6, and such an outdoorsy girl like she is, it's perfect! Jeff and I made the trek over to Redmond somewhat early on saturday morning, being jeff had to work the next day. We went and picked her up, and took her bowling. Leena aboslutely LOVES bowling, and so does Jeff. Heck- he eve has his own ball! With my center of gravity, and lack of any coordination, I took a raincheck and decided not to play this time around. They put the bumpers up for Leena, and obviously none for Jeff. After about 3 games, our fee that we paid had finally ended. Leena was happy that she beat Jeff on alot of frames, despite how exceedingly good he is at bowling in general.

We then all 3 of us, got in the car and raced to the ferry terminal to catch the next ferry out of downtown Seattle. (Luckily no train or Mariners traffic, WOOHOOO for once! Those both will make you miss your ferry and you're stuck waiting for at least an hour, maybe 3! It's so awful!)She wandered around and watch us pass all the islands we go past when going to our destination; Bremerton. She really enjoyed the ride and talked alot during it. We got home and made dinner, watched a movie, and i started to doze off around 9pm. I'm such a wuss! I remember when I used to stay awake til 5am! I guess those are called past times for a reason.

The one downfall was, we are in a 3 bedroom house, the other 2 rooms are occupied, for now. (long story short was, I was living outside of Seattle, and did not get along with a roommate by any means, Jeff and I got engaged and I coverted over to 'this side' of the water in feb. Jeff had a lease with 2 other people, which is up next month, I've put my foot down and said they had to go come Oct...at least 1, because he's refusing to move again, when we have to in Jan. Doesn't add up.)So we blew up the air mattress for Leena, which she was excited about! It felt like camping to her, so we had her just sleep in our room. Poor thing couldn't sleep for a while. So, Jeff broke out the "Lappy" (nickname for laptop) and they played games together on msn. She then started to fall asleep, and Jeff moved her to her own little campground she had, to the right of us.

Jeff woke up at 530 to go to work, I saw him hug her goodbye and he left for a 24 hour shift. Leena and I were due for an appearance at a wedding on Sunday, for one of my close girlfriends. It was fun, and all of "the girls" were there, which is always nice. We've all been friends since 10th grade, some before hand. A friends mom was saying how she admired us for all still staying in close contact, all of them are Leenas unbiological "aunties", they were in the waiting room when she was born. I can't find the pictures, so I'll have to dig some up, but they're too cute of Leena! All in all, she had a good time with mommy.

We got on the ferry back, and Jeff had called my dad to warn them, (we walked on vs driving this time) that we'd be in downtown Seattle at 7:40pm. So, 7:10 rolls around, and I warm my mom that they needed to leave soon to meet me at the ferry terminal so I don't miss my next ride home. I called my dad and talked to him. A half hour rolls by, Leena were eating a snack on the ferry as we were pulling up to the dock in downtown. I call my dad on his cell phone to see where he is.....he says "well, we are JUST leaving home, we'll be there in a while". WHAT!!?? I was so infuriated, they live about 25 minutes from downtown, so it's not far but if they hit traffic, they were out of luck, and I was doomed to miss my ferry and wait 2 hours for the next one, then in fot the hour ride home, and not even get home until 11pm. Well, Leena picked up on how i was upset. She's so sweet she goes "It's ok mommy, if they're late, that just means you get to stay with me more!" Oh, so true, and so sweet. My dad called about 15 minutes later, He'd actually drove over the speed limit and hauled chicken butt to get to the ferry terminal cause he knows how time consuming it is for us to go back and forth across the water. I stood outside of the ferry terminal and directed them on my cell phone as to where I was. My dad was on a weird street, but I could see him. He got lucky, hit a red light for oncoming traffic and made a heck of a U-turn. As Leena was waiting for him, she gave me a hug and patted my pregnant tummy and goes "I love you mommy, and Landon too". that ook away any ounce of anger or fear of missing a boat, that I had in me at that time. I gave her a hug and a kiss, and my mom ran out of the car, hugged me, and I put Leena in her car seat and off they went.

I miss her! We had fun, she helped me pick out my jewelry for the wedding as well as my dress I was going to wear. I love that little girl! I just wish she was here more often.

Which bring me to my last thing, I'm really contimplating going on a long leave of absence for my job. Ever since I've been put into Nextel Worldwide and Corporate Care, it seems more stressful, maybe because I have alot more riding on the line. A friend sent me a message the other day, not realizing that I work full time and was stunned that I wasn't staying home. That was one thing Leena mentioned, she said she wanted to be here with me all the time, but wanted me to be home when she got home from school. I'd be getting off the same time she got out of school. The original plan was to dock my hours to part time, and when Jeff got home from work, I'd go into my job for a little while, when he watched the kids...But, after what Leena said, I don't think it's worth while. I'm so used to having to "report" to a job, and it's always been something in an area tha I excelled at. We'll see. I'm tired of working, tired of dealing with idiots, and tired of missing out on my little girl grow. I've had to work full time now for about..almost 5 years. It's a way of life, thena gain was supposed to be temporary. And with doctors labelling me high risk, I don't know how much my health is going to cost if I over wear myself. And, it's the last thing I want to do to Landon either. Only time will tell.

More pictures

I forgot that I hadn't really uploaded any of my pictures off of my camera. So, while I wait for someone to come by to the house and pick up some stuff, might as well post them! Sorry they are so massively huge, but at this rate, how the site wasn't wanting to upload ANYTHING, I said screw it. Big pictures show more detail!


Leena and "Daddy Jeff" playing, he was so sick, but he still love playing with her. Despite his condition then.



Leena playing "crack the egg" with the neighbor boy, it was like 100 that day.


Yup - she's still my little princess!


That would be my monkey husband Jeff, hacking at teh never ending "shedding" pine tree to teh left part of our driveway. He had TOO much fun up there! Even was cutting things off with a hatchet, left handed, oooooo!


I though that was the most precious thing!! Leena drew a picture for Landons room (we decided instead of buying artwork, we're going to put Leenas art up in it) It's her and her little brother, Landon, when he is a little toddler. It's so sweet!


You wouldn't see this and think - "He's sick!?" He has a good smile :) ANd, I think it's only a matter of time before his lip ring comes out....if I am only so lucky ot have it my way. (bet half of you are just now noticing that huh!?)


Leena. patiently, and contently, waiting her turn for the slip-n-slide. She LOVES that thing!


Jeff thinking about maybe doing the slip-n-slide, he is under the weight requirement...haha.


How killer is that?! Downfall was tis was taken at 4am when I couldn't sleep. Our from window overlooks the ocean...err "Puget Sound" (it's salt water)


House across the way is almost done with construction...you can kinda see it.


Around 4:25am, you can finally see Mt.Baker!

"It's Wayuh!"

My little niece cracks me up!

I am unlike most people I know, I don't have 6 or 7 nieces of nephews, I have 1. (with the exception of the 5 I just inherited from Jeffs family) And, I think she's the cutest little thing there is. She really is a loving kid. She turned 5 this past February. (a day before Seth and Cody's birthday.)

Well, Leena a few months ago, got her own email account. Her Papa Alan (Eli's dad) set it up for her, and next thing I know, I'm emailing my 6 year old....WOW! Anyhow, Leena took the time (and alot of help from me) to email her "Auntie Kelle" in Canada, but she mainly addressed it to her cousin, Maleah. Auntie Kelles little girl.

I guess that started a want for her own email address, in Maleah. So, Mikelle sent out an email that our cute little "Mouse", had followed in Leena's footsteps,and they set up her own email address for her!

So, Leena and I sat down and we both emailed her. Leena was pretty psyched she could email her cousin. I will say this, it's cute to see what a 5 and 6 year old talk about. Leena talks all about her animals, Mouse talks about how she misses Leena, awww.

Anyway, I got a response to my email too. Here is the actual text.

Dear Auntie Heid,

I sure do miss you. I think it's cool you're having a baby. I wish you were having a girl baby, cause you're having a boy. I hope you are having a good summer with Leena.

I love you,

Maleah

I laughed incredibly hard at the having a boy part. Everyone has been thrilled that we're having a boy, but apparently not Maleah! I showed this to Jeff and then went to Mikelles facebook and told her to apologize on my behalf to Maleah that I'm having a boy, haha. It didn't offend me at all, if anything it was a good laugh!

Ahhh, I love my little Wayuh! (Anytime she'd call us when she was about 2 or so, she'd go "hi!! It's wayuh!!" she couldn't fully say her name, it was so cute!)