Saturday, January 28, 2012
Random day
So far I have updated this whole thing. Go me! New layout, new description and new tunes. I am on a roll ;] And this isn't the only roll I am on. Since about a few weeks before I had Rowan, I have been slowly cleaning and organizing our house. Obviously it has been a lot slower then I would want now that he is out, but it is still getting done. I would post before pictures but I didn't take them. Waaaaay too messy too that I would rather not share lol. But I probably should start taking before and after pictures just so I can see the difference I am making since it doesn't seem like I am doing a really good dent. My latest projects have been the closets. There are four in our house and I have touched three of them. And I haven't finished a single one yet. Just a lot of throwing away, cleaning up, and moving around. My dream is to have the kids room closet be an actual kid friendly closet. I don't think my random clothes, or hubbys sharp toys should be in there personally. I want our hallway closet to be full of the random tools that I will need and be a basic storage/utility closet. So far so good! Hopefully soon I am posting really clean closet pictures :D
Friday, January 27, 2012
Blog Catch-Up
So, a few things have happened since May. Just a few haha. We found out we were having
a baby boy, totally by accident. He was supposed to be a surprise, but oh well. Decided that Rowan Oniel would be the perfect name for him :] Rose turned one, grew teeth, learned how to walk, talk and demand attention. Holidays flew by and we were fortunate enough to spend most of them with Vance this year! All of us were mostly healthy all year. We had a few set backs like hurricanes, masting, and going into labor early. But they all were meant to be and turned out for the best.
Rowan made his appearance at 36 weeks and 5 days gestation (total surprise to us all. I was in denial until I pushed him out). Thankfully this time around I was able to give birth at Bon Secours Depaul Center and it was a fabulous birth experience. I had my Doula and my hubby in attendance and they made it so much better and supported me through an unmedicated labor, while Rose was with a friend having fun (Angie shout out :D). I still can't believe I was able to do that! Very proud of myself :] He had a 2 week stay in the NICU while I was able to go home that very night. (I had a baby, what?!?!). It seemed very surreal when I came home. Arriving at the house with an empty stomach and empty arms, made it feel like the whole pregnancy was a dream. That wasn't the case of course! Rowan had some breathing difficulties, jaundiced, and couldn't regulate his temperature or sugar levels very well. He had a rough start but looking at him now you wouldn't see it :] Little guy is a happy, healthy, and now loud, baby and such a delightful addition to our growing family.
Rose is rambunctious almost 20 month old now. Wow time has flown! I still remember holding her in my arms for the first time and now she is trying to hold Rowan in hers lol. She is a fabulous big sister and she loves Rowan so much and it shows. Rosie is a little mama to him! But sometimes she can be a little too helpful and too 'in the way'. She doesn't know the difference in feeding rowan and throwing the bottle at his face yet haha. They both keep me on my toes and out of bed but I wouldn't have it any other way. They are my life now and I can't imagine my days without them in it.
And as for Vance and I, we are doing better then ever, even with the added stress of being parents to two kids 17 months apart. He is seriously the best husband and best daddy around and he spoils us all. His world revolves around the times he is able to spend with us. That ship of his commands most of his hours but we are used to that and look forward to when he can be home. What we aren't looking forward to is the underways to start up again in preparation for the deployment this year. Yes....that dreaded "D" word again. I know we are strong enough to go through this but it will be a new experience even though its the third one in his Navy career. This time he will be leaving behind not just his wife, but his two kids, and I know its going to be extremely difficult for him to do that. And even though I am used to him not being here, I will have to find some inner store of strength and patience to be a single mama to our kids. All I have to do is find things for us all to do, put faith in God that we can do this, and include Vance in as much as we can while he is away. I already know Rose is going to have so much fun helping me put care packages together for him!
Well here is to another year to come in the Castle family! Now I hope the next post isn't a year from now. MUST FIND TIME DURING NAP TIME TO POST!! I am holding myself accountable for this :D
a baby boy, totally by accident. He was supposed to be a surprise, but oh well. Decided that Rowan Oniel would be the perfect name for him :] Rose turned one, grew teeth, learned how to walk, talk and demand attention. Holidays flew by and we were fortunate enough to spend most of them with Vance this year! All of us were mostly healthy all year. We had a few set backs like hurricanes, masting, and going into labor early. But they all were meant to be and turned out for the best.
Rowan made his appearance at 36 weeks and 5 days gestation (total surprise to us all. I was in denial until I pushed him out). Thankfully this time around I was able to give birth at Bon Secours Depaul Center and it was a fabulous birth experience. I had my Doula and my hubby in attendance and they made it so much better and supported me through an unmedicated labor, while Rose was with a friend having fun (Angie shout out :D). I still can't believe I was able to do that! Very proud of myself :] He had a 2 week stay in the NICU while I was able to go home that very night. (I had a baby, what?!?!). It seemed very surreal when I came home. Arriving at the house with an empty stomach and empty arms, made it feel like the whole pregnancy was a dream. That wasn't the case of course! Rowan had some breathing difficulties, jaundiced, and couldn't regulate his temperature or sugar levels very well. He had a rough start but looking at him now you wouldn't see it :] Little guy is a happy, healthy, and now loud, baby and such a delightful addition to our growing family.
Rose is rambunctious almost 20 month old now. Wow time has flown! I still remember holding her in my arms for the first time and now she is trying to hold Rowan in hers lol. She is a fabulous big sister and she loves Rowan so much and it shows. Rosie is a little mama to him! But sometimes she can be a little too helpful and too 'in the way'. She doesn't know the difference in feeding rowan and throwing the bottle at his face yet haha. They both keep me on my toes and out of bed but I wouldn't have it any other way. They are my life now and I can't imagine my days without them in it.
And as for Vance and I, we are doing better then ever, even with the added stress of being parents to two kids 17 months apart. He is seriously the best husband and best daddy around and he spoils us all. His world revolves around the times he is able to spend with us. That ship of his commands most of his hours but we are used to that and look forward to when he can be home. What we aren't looking forward to is the underways to start up again in preparation for the deployment this year. Yes....that dreaded "D" word again. I know we are strong enough to go through this but it will be a new experience even though its the third one in his Navy career. This time he will be leaving behind not just his wife, but his two kids, and I know its going to be extremely difficult for him to do that. And even though I am used to him not being here, I will have to find some inner store of strength and patience to be a single mama to our kids. All I have to do is find things for us all to do, put faith in God that we can do this, and include Vance in as much as we can while he is away. I already know Rose is going to have so much fun helping me put care packages together for him!
Well here is to another year to come in the Castle family! Now I hope the next post isn't a year from now. MUST FIND TIME DURING NAP TIME TO POST!! I am holding myself accountable for this :D
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Baby update!
-totally posted this in may but playing with the app now (in January 2012) messed it up.
So far we have had two pretty good OB appointments! One with the regular Ob at Portsmouth and the second one I just had on the 5th with maternal fetal medicine at Portsmouth. Both time we have been able to see the little bugger in there but I only have one picture to share :[ I didn't get any the second time since they just wanted to check to see if everything was ok because of all the cramping I was having due to my sickness.
Well here is the break down of each if I remember them correctly.
The first appointment they did a pelvic exam and ultrasound. At the ultrasound the baby was measuring about 4 days behind but had a heart beat! It looked like a little peanut. She didn't measure the heart rate but I did get two pictures. I found out I had another asymptomatic uti and was stuck on macrobid for that for 10 days. My blood pressure actually came down at this appointment! It was actually pretty dang normal! Well she sent me to maternal fetal medicine for an evaluation so I made my appointment with them on the 5th. They also want me to go see a nutritionist since I am underweight. That is going to be loads of fun....not.
Now onto the second appointment. I just was in the ER for a good 7 hours two days prior because I couldn't breath very well and I had a fever. I felt like total crap! They did an ultrasound, didn't measure the baby, but pointed out the heartbeat and said it was in the 170s. I am not very reassured by this doctor. He didn't seem to know very much about things he should. He actually asked me what a missed miscarriage was! I was like wow.....so I am going to see him on June 7th and then go to standard and go where I want because that just made me feel extremely uncomfortable. My dream is to give birth in the midwife center at Bon Secours Depaul Hospital. An un-medicated birth! He is sticking me on baby aspirin but I feel very nervous to actually start taking it. He also checked my thyroid and then he went and had me do a 24 protein test which hasn't been fun so far obviously. Ok well that is my update! I hope soon I will be able to post the baby's heartbeat if I ever find it on the home doppler I have :D
So far we have had two pretty good OB appointments! One with the regular Ob at Portsmouth and the second one I just had on the 5th with maternal fetal medicine at Portsmouth. Both time we have been able to see the little bugger in there but I only have one picture to share :[ I didn't get any the second time since they just wanted to check to see if everything was ok because of all the cramping I was having due to my sickness.
Well here is the break down of each if I remember them correctly.
The first appointment they did a pelvic exam and ultrasound. At the ultrasound the baby was measuring about 4 days behind but had a heart beat! It looked like a little peanut. She didn't measure the heart rate but I did get two pictures. I found out I had another asymptomatic uti and was stuck on macrobid for that for 10 days. My blood pressure actually came down at this appointment! It was actually pretty dang normal! Well she sent me to maternal fetal medicine for an evaluation so I made my appointment with them on the 5th. They also want me to go see a nutritionist since I am underweight. That is going to be loads of fun....not.
Now onto the second appointment. I just was in the ER for a good 7 hours two days prior because I couldn't breath very well and I had a fever. I felt like total crap! They did an ultrasound, didn't measure the baby, but pointed out the heartbeat and said it was in the 170s. I am not very reassured by this doctor. He didn't seem to know very much about things he should. He actually asked me what a missed miscarriage was! I was like wow.....so I am going to see him on June 7th and then go to standard and go where I want because that just made me feel extremely uncomfortable. My dream is to give birth in the midwife center at Bon Secours Depaul Hospital. An un-medicated birth! He is sticking me on baby aspirin but I feel very nervous to actually start taking it. He also checked my thyroid and then he went and had me do a 24 protein test which hasn't been fun so far obviously. Ok well that is my update! I hope soon I will be able to post the baby's heartbeat if I ever find it on the home doppler I have :D
Friday, April 15, 2011
Guess what people?!
I AM PREGNANT!
*happy dance time* lol
I am ecstatic and surprisingly I think my husband is even happier then me if that is at all possible! He is seriously the best man and father alive, I swear. I love him to death and I can't wait to have him here to be able to experience this with me for once. He most likely will be there for the birth too! Which is new to us, since he didn't come home from deployment last time until our darling daughter was close to 2 months old. So I am not complaining at all!
Well here is some back story. We have been talking and we decided to try again and try to plan for a baby to be born before he left on his third deployment. So we had an end date to stop trying. To get the ball rolling I made an appointment with my PCM and told him my past and how I was able to carry Rose to full term. So instead of sending me off to the RE and the OB like I thought and me have to wait as patiently as possible, he decided to give me the prescription to metformin himself! I am so lucky! So I started to take the met at the end of January and just prayed that it will make me ovulate. And wam bam March 6-7 came along and I got my first PP cycle!!! *cue another happy dance* So with that I started peeing my happy go lucky self on some ovulation tests and come to find out I ovulated, but late too! So according to my LMP my due date is December 10, 2011. But according to the day I know I ovulated, my due date should be December 12th or 13th. I believe I will have him or her either late November or early December :D
I am freaking nervous and scared to death! I don't want to go through another miscarriage at all. I don't think I will be able to handle another one personally. But anywho, I am high risk from the start. My M/C past and my past pregnancy complications has put me on that lovely list again. I am actually really angry at Tricare for what they did but I am over it now. My PCM put in that he wanted me to go to EVMS to the Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic they have there so they could monitor me and baby properly. Tricare took it into their own hands, and send me to the REGULAR OB at Portsmouth.....oh yea and of course that hospital wanted me to take that stupid class (the one I have taken 4 times already) before I could even make my nurse, and then doctors appointment. I said hell no and had my doctor and his helper call them. They finally understood the rush to get me in so guess who has her first prenatal appointment on the 19th? This girl! I am excited and nervous. I don't want to get bad news but I already have a feeling I will. I have hope, I do, but I can not for the life of me, shake this bad feeling that I have had on my shoulders since I popped the positives on the pregnancy tests. I really hope I can come on this coming Tuesday with wonderful news, like "my baby has a heart beat!" "looking healthy already!" and hopefully even this "my bp is down and I'm not pre-hypertensive anymore!" but we shall see. Wish me luck!
*happy dance time* lol
I am ecstatic and surprisingly I think my husband is even happier then me if that is at all possible! He is seriously the best man and father alive, I swear. I love him to death and I can't wait to have him here to be able to experience this with me for once. He most likely will be there for the birth too! Which is new to us, since he didn't come home from deployment last time until our darling daughter was close to 2 months old. So I am not complaining at all!
Well here is some back story. We have been talking and we decided to try again and try to plan for a baby to be born before he left on his third deployment. So we had an end date to stop trying. To get the ball rolling I made an appointment with my PCM and told him my past and how I was able to carry Rose to full term. So instead of sending me off to the RE and the OB like I thought and me have to wait as patiently as possible, he decided to give me the prescription to metformin himself! I am so lucky! So I started to take the met at the end of January and just prayed that it will make me ovulate. And wam bam March 6-7 came along and I got my first PP cycle!!! *cue another happy dance* So with that I started peeing my happy go lucky self on some ovulation tests and come to find out I ovulated, but late too! So according to my LMP my due date is December 10, 2011. But according to the day I know I ovulated, my due date should be December 12th or 13th. I believe I will have him or her either late November or early December :D
I am freaking nervous and scared to death! I don't want to go through another miscarriage at all. I don't think I will be able to handle another one personally. But anywho, I am high risk from the start. My M/C past and my past pregnancy complications has put me on that lovely list again. I am actually really angry at Tricare for what they did but I am over it now. My PCM put in that he wanted me to go to EVMS to the Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic they have there so they could monitor me and baby properly. Tricare took it into their own hands, and send me to the REGULAR OB at Portsmouth.....oh yea and of course that hospital wanted me to take that stupid class (the one I have taken 4 times already) before I could even make my nurse, and then doctors appointment. I said hell no and had my doctor and his helper call them. They finally understood the rush to get me in so guess who has her first prenatal appointment on the 19th? This girl! I am excited and nervous. I don't want to get bad news but I already have a feeling I will. I have hope, I do, but I can not for the life of me, shake this bad feeling that I have had on my shoulders since I popped the positives on the pregnancy tests. I really hope I can come on this coming Tuesday with wonderful news, like "my baby has a heart beat!" "looking healthy already!" and hopefully even this "my bp is down and I'm not pre-hypertensive anymore!" but we shall see. Wish me luck!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Day 23 Something you wish you had done in your life.
Again, live with no regrets! How many of these "truths" are similar like this? If I absolutely have to name one it would be to travel. And since that couldn't happen when I was younger (little, in school, still with family etc.) then it's really not realistic to say I wish to have done that in my life. But I know I will do it in the future :D
Day 22 Something you wish you hadn’t done in your life.
I try to live with no regrets but I guess this post ties into day number 3's. And with that post I already am in the process of forgiving myself for. So there is nothing in my life that I wish I never done.
Day 21 (scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do?
No questions asked, go to her and pray that she is ok. That does not even warrant a response. I would be supremely petty and immature if I let a simple fight dictate how I treat others, especially a best friend.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)
