Yet another ear infection

Yesterday, on a whim, I decided to call my doctor about Hulk's coughing/cold. I was thinking that I would talk to the nurse to see if there was anything else I could do about making him more comfortable, so he could sleep better. When I got on the phone with her, and explained he had this awful cold/cough for 3 weeks, and maybe I was being an over-anxious first time mom - she said 'He's been coughing for 3 weeks and this is the first you've called? You aren't over-anxious'. Lol.

She said I should bring him in so they could have a listen to his lungs. I'm glad I did (even after waiting over an hour to be seen - there is definitely a reason I always try to get early morning appointments with doctors). Hulk has another ear infection. The cold is just a cold - and she says we are doing everything right with managing that, I am happy about it. I would be happier if he was better, but hey, you take what you can get! I feel like we caught this ear infection nice and early - he hadn't started refusing bottles or anything yet - so at least there is that.

In crafty news, Hulk has this taggie blanket that he sleeps with. Every once in a while it will get nasty, and I'm pressed to try and get it washed and dried by bed time. I figured I should buy a new one as a back up. I was SO surprised to find they cost $20! Give me a break. I could make one of these in 30 minutes. So I went to the store, spent about $60 on supplies, and I have enough fleece and ribbon to make at least 30 of the damn things. I made 4 last night, 1 for Hulk at daycare, one for a friend's baby, and 2 extras for Hulk at home. When I have time, I'll just sit down and make a pile so I have some for the twins and as presents for baby showers. When I first saw these things, I didn't see the draw. But Hulk loves rubbing the fleece up on his face, and grabbing at the different textured tabs. And, it's small enough (12 inches square) that it's not a huge thing to be lugging around.

16 weeks, still raining, still sick, and a bit of CIO

Well. This mornings 16 week checkup wasn't very eventful - I'm down 2 pounds, blood pressure is fine, and he found the babies heartbeats with no issue. He agreed that the Nantucket trip at 29 weeks probably wasn't the best idea, and explained a little bit more about my 19 week ultrasound (July 20th!). I asked about it because it includes an appointment with a perinotoligist - and I wasn't sure what that entailed. He explained that they feel that a 32 year old that is pregnant with twins should be treated the same way as a 35 year old with a singleton (I'll be 34 at time of delivery with our twins). They have all twin mama's at least met with her for the first ultrasound, and then they go from there. Seems like all my ultrasounds will be a lot longer than those I had with Hulk! I must admit to getting VERY excited to find out what genders I have living in there.

We really haven't had a lot of sunshine here in the past month. Usually I like rain - but it's starting to grate on me. Sunday, Aaron met his Dad at his house (the center that he is staying at got him there - it was a nice treat for him to get to see his house. He hasn't been there since the stroke). But that had me on my own with Hulk in the morning, it was cloudy - but thankfully no rain. I tried to sleep in with him (HAHA) but gave up on that pretty quickly. I had a few errands to run, so I decided to go to the park and let him swing (Hulk LOVES the swing) and then do my errands. We got home, and took a nap after that.

I was pretty wiped out - Saturday I spent a chunk of time in my yarn room. I got my books and fabric moved... and made the sad realization that this reorganization is going to be a hell of a lot of work. I'm also going to need to cull the stash a bit - there are many things in there that I know I still love, but I need to get realistic about my time on this earth in relation to actual knitting time. I think I may be at what knitters call SABLE (stash acquisition beyond life expectancy). I still really want to get things well sorted out within the next week, so I'm going try and spend an hour or two sorting each night so I'm ready to go when Suzanne visits this weekend. It just seems overwhelming to me now.

I'm also still battling this cold - and Hulk is still coughing at night. I decided to toughen up last night and not pop out of bed each time he cries. I would hear him cough, and then start to cry, and when I would get into his room, his eyes are closed, but he is crying. I finally turned off the monitor and just slept. My theory before was if he was crying, he needed something because he was such a good sleeper. But that hasn't been the case for the last month - so a change is in the works. Unless he is FRANTIC (or I'm up going to the bathroom one of my 3 times in the night), I'm just going to let him be. I usually get him to stop crying by giving him back the binkie - maybe it's time he learned to use his thumb or blankie? We'll see how long the toughness lasts.

Nursery Progress

This weekend, I have big plans to make some major progress on the nursery for the twins. Such a difference from my pregnancy with Hulk! Didn't want to even start doing anything until I had the Level 2 ultrasound (just to be 'safe'). That thinking kind of backfired on me - with the whole crib delivery crisis. Also - Hulk's room was 'ready to go'. When we bought this house, it had nasty wall to wall carpeting everywhere and each room had it's own version of 70's wallpaper (the living room had 'tree bark', Hulk's room had sailboats, the dining room had apple blossoms, our bathroom had metallic paper!). We had redone Hulk's room 2 years before I even got pregnant - it already had hardwoods floors and was painted.

The twins room? Not so much. I'll take pictures to show you all, but it's the only room in the house that still has wallpaper. It has a NASTY blue carpet (with no pad underneath, nice touch) and this random track lighting on the ceiling. So, there is a lot of work to do. First step is getting MY junk out of the room. I'm hoping to accomplish that over the next two weekends. We shall see.

But! I called back one of the woman from the mother of twins group - she is looking to get rid of a whole nursery set (2 cribs, a changing table and dresser!) for a steal. This is the crib:

And this is one of the dressers:

I'm pretty excited about this - I was resigning myself to either having to pay big bucks for a decent setup for the twins, or cobbling something together that kind of matched.

She still doesn't have the 'big boy/girl' beds to switch her twins into - so we aren't picking them up right away. But that is fine with me, because we don't have the room anywhere near ready either. That is one thing off my mind!

I have my 16 week checkup on Monday... I'll report back how everything is looking.

Can't find internal hard drive

That is the message I got this morning when I booted my work computer. I'm working from home today, and that would usually piss me off - because I would need to drive into the office to get my computer fixed. I've decided this is a sign from the computer gods to just take a sick day and relax. Hulk has shared this new cold with both Aaron and I, and it's a super fun one - nasty cough and now I'm losing my voice.

I hate using sick days for a cold, but maybe it's for the best anyway.

Aaron did something REALLY awesome this weekend. When my FIL (remember he had a stroke?) found out that we had a boy - he took about 30 minutes to relay to us that he wants Aaron to take the train he had in his house, and set it up in Hulk's room. After a bit of prodding by me (because it was a lot of work!) Aaron put it up. It is the coolest thing ever!

Besides being sick, and waking up coughing several times at night...Hulk is learning some exciting stuff. He no longer likes to sit happily playing. He tips himself over, rolls onto his belly, and pushes himself around on his belly. Mostly backwards. If he wants to get to something in FRONT of him, he goes around in a circle and somehow manages to make froward movement that way. It's fun to watch!

Anyway, I started this post at 8 AM and feel asleep until 3:30 - so I better just hit post.

Little bit whiny.

So, Hulk still is stuffy. Poor guy! Will it ever end? I think (fingers crossed) that we are at the tail end, because he's been coughing a lot. Last night he woke himself up coughing, and it took some drugs and some soothing to get him to sleep again.

I was wondering when I was going to start feeling round ligament pain in this pregnancy - I don't remember when it started with Hulk, but I know it was pretty early. Well, last couple of days it's been bad! Mostly I get it at night when I roll over or sit up to get out of bed. A few times I've just had to lay there and rub my side/belly and wait for it to go away. I'm getting a little nervous - as you can see in the belly picture from yesterday - I feel like I'm going to be HUGE. And there is a lot of stretching going on... I may end up being housebound by my 6th month because no clothes fit me!

I end up in these really awkward position at night in bed, trying anything to feel comfortable... so I have scheduled a massage for tonight. Hope it helps.

And finally, a WWID (what would the Internets do) question:

My MIL, who is somewhat evil, runs a craft 'center' where she lines up people to teach classes. I've taught there several times in the past, and she signed me up to teach on Sept 17 (the day before my birthday). It's a Thursday. So we'd probably end up staying for the weekend. I do get paid like $100 and I get a free ferry ticket. BUT. Aaron pointed out that I'll be 29 weeks pregnant at that point, and the doc said I couldn't travel after 24 weeks. But - going to my MIL's - is it technically travel? It's 2 hours in the car, and then a 45 minute ferry ride. I'm not super excited to teach the class, but by going there we get credit for a visit.... and I'm assuming a chance at a nice birthday dinner, since she will totally watch Hulk while we go out. I will ask my doc what he means by 'no travel', but I know I could lie and make it up too if I really didn't want to go.

What would you do?

Wordless Wednesday - Somewhat (belly picture)

This is what your belly looks like at 14w1d when you get pregnant with twins 3 months after giving birth:

Good and Bad

The good is that Hulk seems totally better. I think the teeth are through enough that they aren't bothering him as much anymore. Another good? I'm working from home and I have banana bread baking in the oven. The final good thing is that Aaron and I spent a large amount of time this weekend organizing baby stuff in an attempt to begin gutting the twin's room (well, the gutting is a ways away still - they will be in my yarn room, so I have about 15 years worth of yarn, books and fabric to move into the guest room in a more condensed fashion than it it in currently). We also had a good time hanging out with friends and family all weekend during which Hulk was super happy and cute and his normal wonderful self.

The bad? Hulk has started rolling over at night. Onto his belly. And then forgetting that he totally knows how to roll over all by himself. So he cries and cries until one of us comes to rescue him. And when Aaron went in this morning, for what I thought would be a simple 'roll me onto my back NOW, Dad' - it turns out that he has a stuffy nose AGAIN. Damn it. I need a full night of sleep. I kind of feel like some sort of crap all the time. If I'm not tired, I'm nauseous or have a massive headache. I can't really complain, because I know my body does pregnancy a hell of a lot better then most, but on Sunday I has a horrid headache all day, and I went to the grocery store and starting sweating and feeling faint. It was awful. Although I did rally enough to pick up Chinese food - which helped. And it's raining. AGAIN.

I think warm banana bread will fix all.