Tomorrow Will Tell All

Here is a picture of me at 11 weeks:

Ok so here it is tomorrow is my ultrasound to see if there are two babies or one baby...so please give me your guess!!! One baby or two?!?!?!?! Also I must add 11 weeks ago my belly was flat!!

Week 10 With Baby Surprise

• So last night,Wednesday, I go to put on a pair of my capris that I know fit me because those are the few pants I can wear now and guess what....THEY ARE TOO SMALL NOW!!! I am a hippo!! Now I must go shopping for more maternity clothes, which I did not want to do till I hit the 12 weeks mark, but I can't very well go around in my underwear!! Especially when we go away on our holidays!! Also the bras I bought at 6 or 7 weeks are not too small too!! See I am a hippo!!



• Hormone city this week!! I have done so very much crying!! I have been oh so very angry!! Than I have been so very confused!! You see I might be losing 2 boys that are supposed to be coming back on Aug.9 2010. I was asked to find someone that can watch the kidlets when I have to go to appointments etc. or my very close friend would have to move her boys. SO I did that and now they still may be moving. :( This has had me in tears over and over again and than at points I am ready to just say screw it and close and watch no more kidlets. Because really who would want to bring their children to my home from Sept. - Jan./Feb.(depending on the baby) at this point. I am lost for words on this issue and very shocked at the circumstances but hey what do you do!! I love those little boys like they are mine and we will still be friends so I will still get to see them but it just breaks my heart to think they will not be here, maybe. Also, this week I had another mom tell me she was thinking about moving her daughter. :( All because I am pregnant!! I just want to go into a room and scream really loud!! Than at times I just want to go into a room and cry my eyes out!! HORMONES I Tell You!!


• Than we go shopping for clothes for our trip...can't find Tornado anything in his size because they are already bringing in the fall clothes AHHH so in the end I bought size 6 and OMG thank goodness I did because they fit him perfect!! I go to try to find maternity summer clothes and every where has already cleared out their summer clothes!! Umm people we are in Calgary summer can hit at any time!! So in the end I still don't have clothes for our trip to B.C. YET!! I still have high hopes that I will be able to find something this weekend. *Fingers crossed*

Is It Supposed To Be So Damn Stressful!!!

Ok so today, Monday July 26 2010, I receive a phone call from the ultrasound place. If you are suspecting twins you need to get a dating ultrasound because we need to know if we should book 30mins or 60mins for the Nuchal Translucency. Get off the phone and phone around to 5 other places to find out what is going on here. 3/5 of the places do the Nuchal Translucency and they all say the same thing. OK no prob I think! LMFAO Think again.

I phone my doctors and tell them what I have been told by the 3 places that actually do that test. She tells me she will call me back after she speaks with the doctor. So I wait and wait and wait...it feels like forever...but really just an hour. So she calls back and tells me the doctor said no. WTF!! I get very upset than very angry than very upset again and than I find myself saying sorry to her on the phone because it is not her fault and I hope she understands and than upset...and it goes on. LOL Damn pregnancy hormones have me all over the place this week!! SO she puts me on hold and than comes back and tells me my doctor will speak to me. SO I speak to my doctor, what an ass!! This is sorta how the conversation went:
Dr.Z "There is no need for you to have this ultrasound"
Me "Well the 3 places I phoned that do it ALL told me I need this done before the other one because we suspect twins"
Dr.Z "Well there is no need"
Me now on the verge of tears "OK so why than did you tell my son he was going to have two babies, thank you very much he told my hubby that and now he is stressed, I am showing already and if I'm not why the hell am I having to wear maternity clothes and why did the lady at Thyme Maternity think I was 4mths along!! And well doing research at home I have 5/8 signs of twins and the others you have to test for."
Dr. Z"You can't believe everything you read"
Me now crying and just in disbelief that this is so damn hard "Why is this so difficult?? OK fine what if I request one!! I mean they all told me I needed one and you are sitting here telling me no."
Dr. Z "Well I don't believe you so I am going to phone the ultrasound place and we will call you back"
Click and we all hang up.
I gather my strength and tell myself to stop crying. I should have the right to an ultrasound if I suspect twins. I have good reason to request one and even the damn doctor said maybe on Friday so WTF!! Now if only he would have listened for the heart beat than maybe he would of heard one or two but NO he wouldn't even do that. I researched many sites on heartbeats and every single one said 8weeks and up!! He called my friends liars he called me a liar but in the end I was right and so were my friends!!
Ok so now they have called me back "It turns out you were right about the ultrasound Pam. So we booked you an appointment for Thursday at 1045am."
Me "Ummm Thursday does not work for me"
Receptionist "Well I am sorry I tried really hard for a Friday but no go."
Me"Ok I guess I will just have to make this work"
So I get off the phone and call one of the moms and talk to her. Brainstorm and than a light bulb goes on in my head...Hey why don't I phone and check for a Friday appointment!!
So I phone the place and sure enough there are Friday appointments open. SHOCKED..nope not really!! And when I tell the lady my doctor said they tried really hard for Friday appointment she just laughed. Thanks for trying so hard for me...NOT!!
So in the end I was correct and all this stress for nothing!!
Now I get stress on finding a new doctor...John doesn't want me going back to Dr.Z and I really can't say I blame him. Anyone out there have any thoughts...good or bad doctor here. OR do you have a really good Doc you see that is accepting new patients?

OH Tornado!!

• He is in his room playing and I call him...I call him again...and once more...he finally answers me "I can't hear you!"
• This child of mine LOVES to learn...BUT the catch is that is has to be something he wants to do/learn. He will sit and do activities with me for hours and hours :) BUT the second it comes to learning the alphabet or numbers he is outta here. :( I am at a lose as to what to do...I have tried many different things but they just don't work :( Any ideas?
• He has decided he is the boss. HAHAHA!!! He thinks he does not have to listen to Mom or Dad anymore. HAHAHA!!! He is a handful at times and John and I just look at each other and say "Where did we go wrong" It is a stage I know and I keep telling myself that but how long can this stage last???

Prenatal Appointment #1

Waste of time again!!

Got the PAP test. It is funny the year I am able to skip the horrible test I go and get pregnant LOL Kinda funny when one thinks about it.
Got weighed 50.3kg or 110lbs. So in the end I have gained 5lbs so far. YIKES
Took blood pressure...it is really good this time :) With Tornado it was extremely low throughout the pregnancy.
Got the form for an ultrasound and the doc said it was all ok for me to get it next week because I suspect twins :)
Went over blood work... vitamin D is way too low and vitamin B12 is too low too :( So more pills for me to pop every day!! LOL



Phone for ultrasound appointment

OMG the lady was *itch!!! I was on the phone for almost an hour with her!! She would not book me for next week...but would for the week I was on holidays. GGRRR Even though the form says right on it from 11wks0days!! I tell her look the week you want to book it I am not even in the province!! My doctor approved for me to have it done the week of July 26-30 2010!! I am sorry we don't do ultrasounds that early here. WTF are you talking about!! The only way you can have it done is if your doctor phones and makes the appointment. Well my doctor does not do that and this is why I am calling you!! He gave me the form to call and make the appointment!! So it was a hugh ass fight with her and it goes on and on...but I think you surely get the picture. In the end I had to book the following week. :( But on the positive side of things we found out with Tornado that he was a boy at 13weeks so maybe this one will be the same way.

Week 9 With Baby Surprise

This week we are going to be talking about how Tornado has been with the baby...

• I am drinking Chocolate milk one day and Tornado comes up to me and this is what he says "Mommy babies can't drink chocolate milk can they?" I reply "No they can not" he than says "Than why are you drinking it...Harold can't drink it!" LOL
• Tornado is always chasing me around the house with a blanket for Harold. He says we have to keep him nice and warm!!
• I tried to explain to him that the babies name is not going to Harold when it is born but that did not go over very well. "Lets just call it Harold in the belly and when it comes out too"
• He is constantly checking my belly and every time says "Yep it is getting bigger!!"

Tornado is being so very cute about the whole thing!! I can't wait for the first time he feels baby move!!

Next update will be when I FINALLY get my first prenatal appointment!! It has been FOREVER, well that is how it feels anyways. lol I will 10.5 weeks when I go and I am hoping to hear the babies heart beat!!

5 Random Things About Me

I don't have much to blog about so I have just decided to do 5 random things about myself!!

1. I have never had a home of my own...to set up the way I want...to just move into a home and start from scratch would be SOO very amazing!! My house right now is mine but it was already set up and furniture in place and well me and John never had a say in the lay out or picking of the house.


2. I would rather have a bag of chips than a bar of chocolate. I am not much of a chocolate fan BUT when it comes to chips YUM YUM!!


3. The furthest John and I have traveled together is Revelstoke BC


4. I will probably never get married but tell everyone we are married. I may even just change my last name but that is a lot of work. LOL


5. I put myself last...everyone else comes first and I live to please others. I don't know why I do this but this is how I like it and this is what makes me happy. If someone I know or love is hurt/angry/upset etc. I feel the need to fix it and to just be there for them at the drop of a dime! You know you are one of my good friends or someone I care about if I am willing to do this for you. :)

How Me and My Hubby Met

On my old blog there were a few of you who were interested in how me and my hubby met...I know it took me ten million years to respond but here it is now:
It all starts way back when I was 12 and got my first job at the Coffee Gardens, now Colors Cafe, at the Sheraton in Calgary. One day I was working and in came this HOT HOT guy!! I swear my mouth dropped the second he came in. LOL I had no idea who he was or why he was in the back of the restaurant so I asked around and it turned out he worked there!! Well I had never seen him before but I knew I wanted to see him LOTS more!! You see he usually worked during the weeknights, which I rarely did because I lived in Airdrie and well I was involved in sooo many school activities I had no time, so we had never met before that night/day. Than we started to get shifts together, now I am unsure if it was coincidence or if he got his mom to do the scheduling that way. LOL His mom was the assistant manager, that I did not know at the time either. Well the flirting began...the one thing he did sticks out the most in my head today and that is when he decided it would be fun to poor a FULL glass of ice water down my apron!!! It was freezing cold but I was ok with it because I liked him. EVERYONE that worked there knew we had the hots for each other but it took some time before we actually hooked up. We would sit and talk after work, funny though we both would talk about our boy/girl friends to each other, knowing full well we both liked each other. LOL We shared funny stories and what went on during the week etc. It was fun times!! I think everyone in the restaurant had bets on when we would actually start dating!! LOL We finally hooked up after some time, sorry can't remember the exact time. All I know is that I was 12 and he was 11!! We dated steady for quite a well, can't remember how long but it was a long time than we broke up and it was on and off since than. It was on and off through out high school but in the end for some odd reason we always found our ways back to each other!! We would go 6mths without talking and than something would just bring us together. At one point he even dated my bestfriend, Trisha. I know you all must think that is weird but I didn't care we had broken up so what the heck EH! But in the end they ended up breaking up and we ended up together again! Trisha understood, I think even she knew we were meant to be. We stayed very good friends in between break ups, we had that friendship that didn't matter the time apart or the time unspoken to each other we were always able to pick up right where we left off. It is now grade 12 and it had been over a year since we had spoken and out of the blue John calls me, funny enough it was almost right after Glen and I broke up. I think we got together for coffee or just talked on the phone about this and that for hours, I can not remember how it all worked out. So in the end John was my grad date! So for some of you who went to the same grad as me you have seen him before. LOL Also for my friend who worked at A&W with me, I am sure you have met him before too!! Ok back to the story...so off to grad we went, it was AMAZING!!! We went to party afterwards and OMG I got completely plastered, it was my first time drinking and OMG!! I wrecked his suit jacket, still feel bad about it but he didn't care. I remember very little from the party...but one most important thing I remember is after he took me home I kissed him and he pushed me away. He did not want me to kiss him like this because he didn't want any regrets in the morning. So we stayed friends and that is all till the end of high school. I than moved to Calgary to live my Dad, I am a daddy's girl. We still stayed friends and in that time I had a few dates here and there and John was a hard core partyer, something I was not into at all!! (grad was enough for me lol) We lost touch for a few months and out of the blue he calls me up, I remember this conversation very well, he has called to tell me something that just broke my heart. It is very personal so I can not say it but it was devastating to me!! Well maybe I can share it...you see I was still not sexually active and neither was he until the night he called me to tell me this. I was speakless on the other line and didn't know what to say or do. That is when I knew it was time to move on. Well you see moving on was not an option for me I compared every guy I was with to him and none of them stood up to his standards. I tried very hard to forget him and move on. It did not last but a few months and we found ourselves back together again. Going on dates and just having a great time!! He was someone I could talk to about EVERYTHING and just felt safe when I was with him...he was my bestfriend!! So after that, sorry can't remember the time again but I do know it was before Christmas and I do know I was still at A&W for sometime after we started dating again. Since than we have been together none stop!! So was it fate that kept us coming back to each other...I say yes it sure was!! We had so many on and offs that I can't even remember the number!! LOL But in the end it all worked out.

This Picture Just Makes Me Giggle Everytime!!

He puts on these glasses and says "Look I'm Harry Potter"

Week 8 with Baby Surprise

Not much has happened this week...except since I wrote that nectarines help out with the morning sickness they started doing the opposite. :(
I just keep telling myself that I only have 3 more weeks now left of the morning sickness!! That is the one thing I could live without. LOL
I just have 3 more weeks to be out of the red. This time around I am very nervous about miscarrying and I am unsure as to why. Maybe because this is a surprise baby and I really wanted another and John did not. I think it is a beautiful gift given to us and I really don't want to lose it. So each week I thank my lucky stars for the life inside me and pray it stays healthy inside me for the full term. I have no idea why I am sharing this because I don't even speak of it with John. I guess I just need some outside advice.

ps I don't see a difference in the pictures but I posted them anyway.

How I love the Phases!!

OMG lately Tornado thinks it is totally unnecessary to listen to me. He yells at the top of his lungs right back at me...he shakes his fist at me...he does everything he knows he is not supposed to do and it is driving me NUTS!!!

I tell him ok lets go brush your teeth. He comes into the washroom no problem but than it begins he tries to hit me, but not in the belly because he doesn't want to hurt the baby, he tries to look away and he refuses to open his mouth!! I tell him if he doesn't want to go for surgery again he NEEDS to let me brush his teeth. GOOD LUCK!! I wish he was a little wimpy kid so I could hold him down and force open his mouth and brush his teeth!! LOL

You tell him to put something down he just looks at you and gives a smirk!! GRRR

You send him to his room for a time out and he comes right up to you face to face and just yells at you!! GRRR

Oh so many more things he does now a days...and I know it is just a phase but OMG!! I tell myself on a regular basis that I love my son and this will soon pass!! LOL

His latest thing is lying!! Oh how I hate it!! Lying has got to be one of the worst things!! He has lost many things because of it but still almost every day he is lying to me :( Here are some of the things he has lied about the past few days:

~he took a cheque off the island and when asked if he took it he said no. Well when we made him come help us look for it I told John to show him what it looked like and well Tornado said I don't need to see it. Than he went and got it right away from him room all crumpled up. GRRRRR

~he is eating breakfast at the table, let me add he picked it so no fight necessary you would think, well I heard a noise that sounded like the garbage bag and he came up to me and said he was all done. I asked him if he ate it or threw it in the garbage...he said I ate it all...I said ok if you are lying you will lose your games for today and that means no playing with Daddy when he gets home like you want too...he said ok go check. Sure enough there was his breakfast in the garbage can. GRRRR

I know this too will soon pass because he does not get away with it but until than OMG I just might lose the little bit of sanity I have left.

I love my son...I love my son...I love my son...I love my son...etc.

3D Movies

Ok so on Canada day we took Tornado to see the new Toy Story in 3D. Well it was a waste of an extra 9 bucks and we had to keep those stupid glasses on the whole movie!! It did not look different and nothing popped out at us at all!!! So my question to all of you is have you gone to a 3D movie and was it worth it? Because it is possible that we may have just picked the wrong one to go to for the first time.

On happy note though we did go to the new theatre in Cross Iron Mills Mall!! The arcade is lots of fun!! We will for sure go back there again!

Swimming Time

Tornado absolutely amazes me when it comes to swimming!! We put him into 1.5 swimming lesson classes last year because last summer at the beach he was kinda scared of the water. He would not go in and when he did he was very worried and unsure what to do. So in the end we decided he needed some lessons. Well now this boy is a true water boy!! He can swim the length of the pool, with life jacket on because mom is not ok without it. LOL He can go down the water slide all by himself!! Most of all he is not scared to just jump into the water when mom and dad are not in the pool, of course he asks before going in without us :)

Checking out the water that comes out of the water slide

SPLASH!!

Going up the stairs all by himself...at first Mom was scared because of the thought of Tornado falling on the slippery stairs but this is me letting go. YIKES

This water was FREEZING and he just jumped right in!!

Practicing his back float :)

Week 7 with Baby Surprise!!

My wonderful son Tornado helped me out with these pictures!! GREAT JOB BUDDY :)

So here are the pictures of me at 7 weeks!!

Week 7:

Basic stuff morning sickness :( BUT I do think I got it figured out...if I feel like crap and I eat a nectarine it seems to take away the yucky feeling!! :) I hope this keeps up!!! Cuz if all I have to do is eat a nectarine HELL YA!!!

Drumheller July 2010

We won a family pass for the Alberta History Pass and it includes many many places if you are looking for something to invest in and like to travel around Alberta you should really check out this pass!! Here is the link if you would like to see what it all includes and the prices: http://culture.alberta.ca/museums/historicsiteslisting/experiencethepast/default.aspx

With that being said we decided it would be fun to go away for a night and use our pass for the first time!! So off to Drumheller we went :)

Tornado is ALMOST 40 pounds now!!! He has only been the same weight for 1.5 yrs now LOL

His FAVORITE Dinosaur!!

Excited to be here!

He didn't care that I couldn't see the Dino's face. LOL

Did not want his picture taken, so I took what I could get.

Such an evil look on his face!! LOL This picture he did want, I am not sure what the face is all about.

Sunday Family Outting!!

Practicing his balancing act!

Zoomed in...

...and this is how far away from me they actually were!!

This weekend we went for a bike ride...and well I don't have a bike so I just walked. It was a really nice day :) When we got home we decided to have a water fight and set up the kiddie pool!! Perfect day :)

Happy Canada Day!!

So what do you or did you have planned for Canada Day?