You're on my mind...

Carl has been on my mind a lot this week, and I realized I only have 8 weeks left. Chase, Savvy and I have started looking for baby stuff. Savvy has been worried about what stroller were getting for Carl. Oh, and she tells me, "Mom, we need to get diapers for the baby!" Chase is concerned about getting him a swing and a bassinet to sleep in.

Yesterday, at the NEX (Navy mall), Chase picked out his baby brother's first outfit. I am super happy the kids are all excited for Carl's arrival. I can't wait to meet this baby and carry him in my arms, but I am worried about labor. I remember labor real well so I get scared. This time around, I am going to get a epidural. I've experienced natural birth twice and it hurts a lot.

I also had a doctor appointment yesterday. While we were waiting to see my midwife, Chase asked me, "Mom how do they get the baby out." I smiled and said, "The doctor gets the baby out with their hands." Chase laughed then I said, "That's kind of funny huh..." Chase looked a little confused:)

He also asked if he could see the baby at the hospital after I have him. So I asked the doctor and she told me that the kids could even be present during labor. I was thinking in my mind, "Oh no I wouldn't have Chase with me at labor! That would traumatize the poor kid!" Well I'm excited to know the kids will get to see us after labor.

I talked with my midwife about all the back pain I've been having. She was so awesome and said to me, "Well we are going to have to go look for a pregnancy belt." I have heard of it before but never tried one. The nurse put it on me and I was sent off. I wore it until night and Oh man I just loved it. It does help so much. It feels like all my baby weight is being supported. So when I bend down my whole weight doesn't put pressure on my back or lower belly.

With my OB doctor when I was pregnant with Chase, I talked about back pain. He just told me to suck it up. He was a horrible doctor. I don't know why I continued to see him. Maybe I was young and I didn't know better. I thought all OB doctors were jerks like him. But my new doctor proved me wrong.

Crazy hair day....

Savvy's hair is getting really, really long. I need to learn how to french braid. On Saturday, while she was watching TV, she let me braid her hair. It turned out funny looking so I took a picture of her and thought, "Wow, she just sat down patiently for a long time and let me do her hair for the first time ever." After sitting still for a long time she was rewarded with candy that we still have left over from Easter. The next day it looked frizzy and curly.I just wanted to add how much we miss our freinds and family.

30 weeks...

I am in my 30th week now and I'm starting to feel like it's time to have this baby already. I am starting to feel lots of back pain, lower abdominal pain, leg pain, and I am constantly drinking water. I don't remember drinking so much water with my other 2 pregnancies. June is getting closer but I wish June were May:) I really want to enjoy the kids before Carl arrives.

This past week was fun. One morning, I took Chase and Savvy to the Secret Beach to find some sea turtles!! We did see some. They loved it. It was exciting we finally saw some. We were driving up to North shore and never found any. Now I know we can drive down to Ko olina in 15 min instead of an hour drive to North shore. At one time 3 turtles were swimming around us. They get really close in hope you would feed them seaweed. At one point, the kids and I got some off the rocks and Chase gave them some seaweed. It was a really enjoying day at the beach. I wished Greg was there with us!

Happy Birthday GREG!!!!

Happy Birthday Daddy!! Saturday was a great day for Greg's birthday because he didn't have to work and we got to celebrate all day. His morning started off with surfing. While he was surfing I was baking a birthday cake and getting breakfast ready. I made him waffles.

After breakfast, we went out for some sun. Greg and Chase did snorkeling at Tracks beach. Chase saw his first sea turtle. That was pretty cool:) Greg said that Chase saw it first and Greg thought Chase yelled "Shark" instead of "Turtle." Greg said it was kind of scary until he saw the turtle floating right in front of them just looking at them. It was funny hearing Chase talk about it when they came back in.

After the beach, we went to go watch How to train a dragon. It is really cool and a must see. It was cute!!! We went out to dinner at Chile's, and then ended the night with birthday cake!!! Chase wanted to have camoflauge b-day plates and blow horns.The kids and I blew up 29 ballons and wrote down reasons why we love daddy on each balloon! The kids were really excited to surprise Greg with them right when he woke up in the morning.

Easter 2010!!!!

Greg had 3 days off for Easter this year. It's awesome when that happens. We had a fun Easter weekend!!

Our highlights of our weekend:

Greg and I had a really fun date night. We went out to Pearl Harbor and ate in an open air restaurant right along the water. We got there just in time for sunset. It was soooo beautiful. I was craving seafood but I couldn't decide what to get, so I ordered this Pasta dish, that had every type of seafood that I like. I was so excited when they brought it out to me that I had to take a picture:)Here is a picture of the kids with their Easter outfits and baskets. These pictures were taken before we left to a Easter dinner with some friends. We had a great dinner with them. They are VERY nice. Here we go coloring Easter eggs.And egg decorating:On Saturday, the kids went on a pony ride. They both loved it. Savvy had a smile on her face the whole ride. She really wanted to do it. I was surprise with how brave she was.Chase had a serous face the whole ride:) But he was very brave too.Savvy smiling for the picture.
Happy Easter everyone!!!