Friday, October 26, 2012

1st "normal" week

Liam and I have adjusted into a pretty good routine. We have stayed pretty busy this week, it amazes me how little time is in the day when you have to work around potty breaks, lunch, nap time, dinner time, bath time, and bed time. I used to worry that we would not have anything to do during the day but now I wonder where all the time goes. We have so much fun! Liam is such a blast he has the best personality, he is always making me laugh. He is super cute and he knows it.
We heard back from the health department about his shots and because they don't match up just right we are going to have to start all over to make sure he gets what he needs. Poor baby, we are going to go Wednesday to start them...poor mommy :(
We went to the park on Tuesday, he loved it! I don't think he has ever been to a park other than the slide that we went down while we were in Ethiopia. He had such a good time going down the slides and watching the other kids play, he wasn't ready to play with the other kids yet but I think he liked being around them. He always has a good time at church where he gets to play with the other kids, he is so social, I guess that comes from being around so many little kids his whole life. Today we went to music makers with some friends from church and he really loved that! They had music, marched with tambourines  played with a parachute, had story time, and got to play with puppets he was so happy. I am so glad that we have an opportunity to be around others so much, I think it is really good for him. I was afraid he might get lonely after always have 10 or more kids to play with, I think he really enjoys being the only child, the center of attention...but he is always happy to be around others his age. We are very lucky that he has adjusted so well.
Bedtime and nap time are getting easier, we have found it works better if we just lay him down and walk out of the room. When he is completely asleep and you lay him down he cries and cries but when he is sleepy he just lays there. At nap time he usually cries for about 10 minutes before he is out which is actually a lot faster than when we try to rock him to sleep or keep going back in and picking him up. Bedtime we lay him down and then just sit in there for a few minutes and he goes right to sleep normally with no tears. It is a lot less stressful now that we kind of have a plan and a routine, I think we are all handling it better.

I had my 1 hour glucose test on Wednesday, which I failed boo! I had to drink the super sweet drink tasted like a flat extra sweet orange soda yuck! But this time I did not even feel sick so that's good I was really dreading having to drink it. I needed a blood sugar of 140 or lower and I think mine was 171....so on Wednesday I am going back for the long test, I think it is 3 hours. I cant eat after 8 pm and have to be there at 8:30am to do a fasting blood sugar, then I get to drink another awesome orange drink (yay) and then have my blood sugar checked every hour for 3 hours. We are just going to take Liam to get his shots after my fasting blood sugar since I will have an hour to kill and we go to the same doctor. Then Josh is going to take him back home while I hang out at the doctors office for a few hours what an exciting day....Josh is going to take a half day so he can watch Liam because no way I can keep him entertained for 3 hours in a doctors office and he is just not ready to stay with anyone else just yet. I really hope that I will do okay drinking the drink this time since it will be on an empty stomach, I really hope I wont get sick again.
Raegan is doing great, she is moving like crazy now! My belly is moving with her it is such an amazing sight. I think its funny when Liam is laying his head on my belly and she is kicking him in the head, I wonder what he thinks is going on. I don't think we have actually gotten him to understand that there is a baby in there but he can look at a picture of a baby and say baby then rub my belly and say baby, not sure if he is putting 2 and 2 together though.

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