A happy Jayden in his crib. I walked in to get him in the morning and this is how he greeted me!
We had our first prenatal visit today. I got to hear my baby's heartbeat for the first time. It was a wonderful experience. It never ceases to amaze me that I am growing a little person inside of me. My official due date is February 24, 2010. Although, the doctor was kind enough to remind me that I had Jayden at 37-weeks, so I was likely to have this one early too LOL. If I have this baby at 37-weeks also, that puts me at the beginning of February. I suppose 14-months apart for the little ones isn't too bad. I go in for the integrated screening on the 17th, and it will be the end of September before we officially learn the sex. However, the pool for "girl" is growing by the minute. Even my doctor and her nurse are guessing "girl" because I am so much more sick this time around than I was last time. I have just had a feeling all along that I was having a girl, just like I had a feeling all along that Jayden would be a boy. In fact, I've bought a couple of little girl items and have been calling the baby Aubrey when I talk to my tummy. If it is a girl, her name will be Aubrey McKenna Hahn. If it is a boy, we're still arguing over names! I like Mason, he says no. All the other names I like have been taken! So, fingers crossed for a girl! Makes the naming process easier... bedroom situation a little more difficult eventually, but naming process easier!
Uncle Val got out of the hospital today and looked like he was doing pretty darn good considering he wasn't on any pain meds and he had chest tubes taken out earlier today. His siblings came together and bought him an iPod Classic. I loaded it with music and books and took it to him in the hospital last week. I really wanted to get him a useful recovery gift and wasn't in a position financially to purchase it myself, so I emailed my aunts and uncles and they all liked the idea :) So they put up the cost, I just got to do the work behind it. I had tried for weeks to make the audiobooks I have work on his cell phone with micro sd cards and it just wasn't working... Verizon has a stupid method for adding files and sorting them. You can't just put in a folder and have the device sort the files that way... you have to add each file to the phone and it is a pain in the butt to say the least.... I finally just gave up! Besides an iPod is a much more wonderful way to listen to things.
BJ has a job interview tomorrow, I know that whatever is meant to happen will. I just hope that if this job isn't meant to be, something else will come up soon. I want to see him happy again and loving his job. He loves the work he does, but with so much that has gone on at his company over the past year, it is just hard to stay there... In fact, he has lasted longer than I thought. But, that network is his baby. He created it, molded it, put so much time and effort into it, that he was hanging on. When people don't understand what he does and ignorantly believe that technology is just magic, it makes things difficult. That is the life of an IT guy. People just think that their computers, the internet, all of it is just magic and simple. Of course, we are just grateful that he still has a job. So many others have been unfortunate enough to lose theirs and that makes life so difficult. He is this family's sole provider. I am blessed to be able to stay at home, but with that comes certain other realities, such as what would happen if he were to lose his job. We just hope that is something we never have to deal with.
We are going on a vacation with my mom and brothers to California on Saturday the 8th through the 16th. It will be the last family vacation for at least 2 years, as Brandon will be going on his mission in a month. So hard for me to think that I will be without my baby brother for two whole years. He will miss the birth of his newest niece/nephew. Luckily we can send pics and email. If I wasn't able to have any communication with him for that long I would go crazy! I might kidnap him and force him to stay home! I'm selfish, I know. He is really excited about it though and that is what matters. I haven't had to deal with my other siblings going on missions, as they chose to stay home. California will be a lot of fun for us though. We got tickets to Six Flags, as well as Sea World. I'm so excited to see how Jayden reacts to all the fish. I am a little apprehensive as to how he will do for the most of the trip, we have such a schedule when he is home and to deviate from that could mean a grumpy boy... We shall see!
We are hoping that when we get home from this trip life will calm down a little for us. We still need to get the house in order, get some things organized and de-clutter. It is amazing how much crap single people can accumulate! My wardrobe alone is massive and I don't wear 90% of the stuff I have. When you are DINKS without a washer and dryer, it is sometimes more efficient to buy new clothes rather than do laundry... This adds up quickly and then you just have boxes and boxes of clothing and more socks and underwear than will fit in 3 dresser drawers! Now that I have the anti-emetics to help with my morning sickness, as well as the CPAP I will hopefully be getting soon, I am hoping to be able to be more productive. Being exhausted and nauseated all the time makes productivity limited. Some days it takes all I have in me to be mom... adding housekeeper to that just isn't going to happen. For those women out there who can do it all, hats off to you because I don't know how you do it. One doesn't have a choice when it comes to taking care of the little one(s), we have to do it whether we feel like crap or not. However, dishes, vacuuming, dusting, laundry, etc., can all wait - up to a point... I have reached that point! haha. Anyway, that is enough ranting for now. I will write again soon.
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