Four weeks ago my FB status was:
"In the next 6 weeks I have to graduate one from kindergarten, one from grad school, move up the hill and have a baby."
Four week later we've only crossed one of those things off our list!! This week starts a crazy pace of life in our family for a little while. Chad has been done with classes for almost 2 weeks, but finally officially graduates from Columbia tomorrow! He and I will be going down to the city for that tomorrow. He also has a graduation ceremony here at West Point on Thursday. Wednesday I have my last regular OB appointment, and that night we have the Navigators banquet for the graduating Firsties. Friday morning we get the keys to the house and can start moving stuff in! We are still debating how much to paint and whether or not to pay an arm and a leg to just have it painted before we move in. Saturday Chad is working West Point's graduation. Hopefully the girls and I will make it up there for Addison to do the hat toss. The weather looks great, so we should be able to go.
We'll then spend the weekend painting and moving stuff up to the house. On Tuesday we have movers coming to move the big furniture and beds, so that is the day we will officially move ourselves up to the new house. That will give us a few extra days to finish moving stuff and have our cleaning lady come clean the old house before turning in the keys hopefully by Friday.
In the midst of the moving I will have an amnio next Thursday to make sure Lucy is ready to come into the world and will be picking up my parents from the airport. With everything going on, I will be very, very excited to see them! Then the following Monday, Lucy will be here!
Whew. Needless to say, nesting is in overdrive right now. I want everything done and set up before I go into the hospital. Knowing that I'm not just having a baby, but surgery, I want to leave as few loose ends as possible. In the new house we are moving the girls into the same room, which has required a lot of shopping - new bunk beds, bedding, sheets, curtains, dresser, etc... We have yet to get mattresses for the bunk beds or a dresser. I just don't want to go into the hospital without them having somewhere to sleep and put their clothes!
In addition to all of the things going on in our life, the past few weeks have brought on more medical frustrations. My doctor has been monitoring my blood sugar pretty closely during this pregnancy. For a variety of reasons, I didn't take the glucose tolerance test. I have been meeting with a nutritionist to monitor my carb levels (at first I wasn't getting enough) and even went to an endocrinologist, who assured me I was "fine" and there was zero chance I had or would develop gestational diabetes. Well, in the past few weeks my number have gone from being too low to being too high. I still eat very few carbs, but had tried to add more back in at the insistence of my nutritionist and endocrinologist. I after 3 different meals (that wouldn't be considered high carb on anyone's scale), my sugar was significantly higher than the "normal" limits. While I'm not sure if this would officially diagnosis me with gestational diabetes, but I'm pretty sure it would. So, I am back to eating no sugar, virtually no grains and very little higher carb fruit. Not fun, but Lucy's health is more important right now than a piece of toast. Hopefully after delivery, things will get more back to normal. Gestational diabetes is a huge risk factor for diabetes later in life though, so either way, its very discouraging.
If this post sounds scattered, it probably is just a reflection of my brain right now! I am very, very ready to not be pregnant anymore and for us to get settled in the new house.
Today I'll leave you with a 35 week belly picture. I was in the midst of packing and laundry, so please excuse the outfit. I just ALWAYS forget to take pictures and wanted to take one while I was thinking about it! (My eyes look funny b/c my bells palsy is very evident in my eyes when I'm tired!)
Hopefully my next post will be pictures of us settled in the new house BEFORE Lucy comes! :)
"In the next 6 weeks I have to graduate one from kindergarten, one from grad school, move up the hill and have a baby."
Four week later we've only crossed one of those things off our list!! This week starts a crazy pace of life in our family for a little while. Chad has been done with classes for almost 2 weeks, but finally officially graduates from Columbia tomorrow! He and I will be going down to the city for that tomorrow. He also has a graduation ceremony here at West Point on Thursday. Wednesday I have my last regular OB appointment, and that night we have the Navigators banquet for the graduating Firsties. Friday morning we get the keys to the house and can start moving stuff in! We are still debating how much to paint and whether or not to pay an arm and a leg to just have it painted before we move in. Saturday Chad is working West Point's graduation. Hopefully the girls and I will make it up there for Addison to do the hat toss. The weather looks great, so we should be able to go.
We'll then spend the weekend painting and moving stuff up to the house. On Tuesday we have movers coming to move the big furniture and beds, so that is the day we will officially move ourselves up to the new house. That will give us a few extra days to finish moving stuff and have our cleaning lady come clean the old house before turning in the keys hopefully by Friday.
In the midst of the moving I will have an amnio next Thursday to make sure Lucy is ready to come into the world and will be picking up my parents from the airport. With everything going on, I will be very, very excited to see them! Then the following Monday, Lucy will be here!
Whew. Needless to say, nesting is in overdrive right now. I want everything done and set up before I go into the hospital. Knowing that I'm not just having a baby, but surgery, I want to leave as few loose ends as possible. In the new house we are moving the girls into the same room, which has required a lot of shopping - new bunk beds, bedding, sheets, curtains, dresser, etc... We have yet to get mattresses for the bunk beds or a dresser. I just don't want to go into the hospital without them having somewhere to sleep and put their clothes!
In addition to all of the things going on in our life, the past few weeks have brought on more medical frustrations. My doctor has been monitoring my blood sugar pretty closely during this pregnancy. For a variety of reasons, I didn't take the glucose tolerance test. I have been meeting with a nutritionist to monitor my carb levels (at first I wasn't getting enough) and even went to an endocrinologist, who assured me I was "fine" and there was zero chance I had or would develop gestational diabetes. Well, in the past few weeks my number have gone from being too low to being too high. I still eat very few carbs, but had tried to add more back in at the insistence of my nutritionist and endocrinologist. I after 3 different meals (that wouldn't be considered high carb on anyone's scale), my sugar was significantly higher than the "normal" limits. While I'm not sure if this would officially diagnosis me with gestational diabetes, but I'm pretty sure it would. So, I am back to eating no sugar, virtually no grains and very little higher carb fruit. Not fun, but Lucy's health is more important right now than a piece of toast. Hopefully after delivery, things will get more back to normal. Gestational diabetes is a huge risk factor for diabetes later in life though, so either way, its very discouraging.
If this post sounds scattered, it probably is just a reflection of my brain right now! I am very, very ready to not be pregnant anymore and for us to get settled in the new house.
Today I'll leave you with a 35 week belly picture. I was in the midst of packing and laundry, so please excuse the outfit. I just ALWAYS forget to take pictures and wanted to take one while I was thinking about it! (My eyes look funny b/c my bells palsy is very evident in my eyes when I'm tired!)
Hopefully my next post will be pictures of us settled in the new house BEFORE Lucy comes! :)
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