Shopping and gazing up at the castle is a great way to start my Saturday morning!!!
I agree about all the testing -- it is ridiculous!
I'm glad you had a good start to your day. It rained, rained, rained here all day.
Looks like Brooklynn was picking out a few things that she likes!
She has good taste!
She is already quite the little shopper!
I love those pictures of the castle detail, its amazing and beautiful. Brooklynn is a good little shopper too, picking out exactly what she wants. And she loves her some fountain pics, I'm surprised she didnt want to play in the water
There is so much detail at every turn in Disney World. I could take thousands of pictures and not scratch the surface.
She's good about touching the water one time and then moving on.
Good morning all! I talked to the doctor yesterday and she said all my results looked good except one. She said it was reading kind of high and she just wants me to watch my carb intake. I informed her carbs are my life I love bread, pasta, potatoes, etc. She said it wasn't high enough to be super worried her concern is just that Isabella will be too big. She is already guessing that Isabella will probably weigh in at 9 lbs or so since Brooklynn was 8 lbs 5 oz. and second babies are generally bigger. So add the fact that if the insulin isn't doing what it is supposed to can make your baby bigger she is trying to avoid me delivering a baby any bigger than 9 lbs. So for the sake of trying not to have this baby early and trying to avoid a C section I will strictly limit my carbs for the next 13 weeks, but take note that someone will need to have Cracker Barrel dumplins, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese and fried apples waiting for me after I deliver. (Got that order MeMom?!)
From Cracker Barrel, I see. Not your mommy's homemade food.
Fine, then!
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love the pics, memom! especially the stained-glass ones! so pretty.
jill - good to hear that you're doing well. i love carbs too! good thing cutting back on them is only for a few more months!
He said he could 'put me under', if I thought I needed it, but then someone would have had to go with me, and I didn't want to have to do that. I toughed it out.
I couldn't get the light reflections out of the pictures, unfortunately.
Jill has always been a mashed potatoes, macaroni, and corn girl.
Always!
I SOO did not know that 2nd babies are bigger than the 1st. Caleb was 9lbs 0.3 oz so this makes me worried about a 2nd. maybe he will be an only child
don't know if mama can do a even bigger baby. Maybe with an even stronger epidural. I had a hard time pushing his big head out and I definitely do not want a c-section if I can avoid it. Not wanting a c-section is one of the main reasons I switched to the midwife after she delivered Caleb since she was already at the hospital and my doctor wasn;t. It turned out to be the best thing because I like her soo much more than my OB.
I hope Jill can keep this little girl way under the nine pound mark! I had seven pound babies, so that sounds really big to me! She went to the library and did some research on gestational diabetes and what you should and shouldn't eat to avoid it, so hopefully her change in eating habits will keep Isabella small and easy to deliver, and keep Jill healthy!
Hi Jill, glad to hear that your tests came out well. Cutting carbs is definitely going to be hard! But only for 13 weeks, you can do it
I hope your baby girl isn't more than 9 lbs! I was the first baby and I was 8 lb 2 oz and my brother is 2 yrs younger and he was 9 lb 2 oz but we were both c sections...so more power to you girl!
MeMom, hope you're feeling better today!
As big as I am, Jill and Trent were not easy deliveries, and they were just normal sizes. They had to have quite a bit of help, especially Trent. They had to work on him so hard that he looked liked he'd been in a boxing match! She's going to try to replace a few carbs a day with some extra protein and maybe some salad.
I am able to eat somewhat, but it takes a little longer than usual. I have had ice cream, eggs, mashed potatoes, chicken noodle soup, and oatmeal. Tomorrow or the next day, I'm going for something a little more dangerous.
Fabulous pics as always MeMom! A beautiful castle and cutie Brooklyn! What more can we ask for?!
Jill - I hear ya! I am a total carbaholic! I suppose I'm in for a cutback too if I ever have a baby! I'm glad everything else checked out okay though! Keep smiling, you're almost there!
She's doing well right now, and getting bigger and bigger in the tum-tum!
I can't believe how long her hair's getting!
And she's doing good...looks like a great shopper in training haha
She's always had such a time getting Brooklynn to cooperate with the hair fixing in the mornings until she started asking her which princess she wanted to look like each day. Brooklynn will name a princess, and Jill will fix her hair whatever way she was going to fix it to start with, and then convince Brooklynn that she absolutely looks just liked the named princess of the day!
I'm glad to hear you are feeling better MeMom!
I near spit out my water at this comment. You crack me up!! I understand not wanting to waste food though, I'm the same way - though, not quite to the extent of carrying fish around in a plastic bag.
He realizes it will just get worse as Brooklyn and Isabella grow older too, right?
Windy day, eh? I love Brooklyn's hair.
BEAUTIFUL pictures! Wow! I need to take your idea here and get some detail ones of the Castle sometime. So, so pretty!
Jill, glad to hear everything is going well. Your order from Cracker Barrel sounds DELISH. Yummmmmmy!
My DS was 10 pounds 3 ounces. I labored (ALL back labor too! Ugh!) for 32 hours before we finally went the C-Section route and we realized he had a HUGE head (15" at birth). There was no way that kiddo was coming out on his own! I'm very thankful for medical science and C-Sections! I'm wondering if we have a second child how big it will be though!
Shortly after I had him I heard about a woman overseas that gave birth to a 17 pound baby. SEVENTEEN POUNDS!
I wish you only the best for your last 13 weeks - and just keep focusing on that post-delivery meal every time you crave carbs!
You have to understand how very 'poor' we have been at times, so that's where my saving things mentality comes from. If there was a scrap of anything left, I'd save it and put it with something else later to make a whole new meal.
You know how they say the Native Americans used every inch of the buffalo for eating or tools or whatever, and never wasted anything? Well, I'd have fit right in!
I'm getting better, though. If we don't eat it and it's not in a wrapping already, then I usually throw it away. I still hate it, though, and we try to share and not order more than we can all eat between us. That's a lot easier to do when we have the guys with us!
That fountain picture was the better of two that I took, as far as Brooklynn's hair. The other one looked like she was sky diving - it was so all over the place!
We'll make a deal on the meal. If the baby is less than nine pounds, she gets the full thing, but for every ounce over, she loses one item!
for all the dental-phobics in the group. 
You can do it.
Yes, I had a c-section after 21 hours labor with DS and I had a scheduled one for DD. There was no way I was going to go threw that awful labour again to have the same outcome. 
