News on the Baby Front

I was placed on bed rest yesterday during my weekly appointment. My first reaction was that I was just slapped in the face. That I've done something wrong. The more I thought about it, the better I felt about it. My blood pressure is getting too high for me to continue to work and carry Ella safely. So at home I'll stay!

I did ask if this means that we would be pushing up her delivery date, Dr. Vallery said that we were going to try to 38 weeks, but more than likely she would be inducing at 37 weeks! So there is a good chance that she will be born on 11-11-11!!

I'll keep you guys posted!

More pictures of Ella's Room!

 A closet full of clothes. And there are more at Nanny's house!! Dang, this child dresses better than Mommy and Daddy!!

 The cube bins also are stuffed with Onesies and PJ's!! She also already has a good library of books happening!! Daddy said he would hang her curtain rod this week for me!

 I feel like I need to add something under the E. This wall looks a little bare!

 PERFECT!!!

Just a few of her many toys! I need a few over the door hooks to hang her Diaper Bag and Baby Bjorn

I don't know if you noticed or not, but there are three more boxes of diapers in the closet! I also have two more boxes on my desk at work!! The first shelf has a box behind the three bags of diapers. On the second shelf, the bags of diapers are stacked two or three deep and at least two boxes of diapers!! I think we have enough to last us about three weeks?

UMMMMM

So where do I start with this? My biological father and I haven't always been in contact with each other. Actually the last time I saw him, it was Christmas of 1977! Then in the Fall of 2003 I get a call on my answering machine out of the blue from him!! REALLY?!?!? 26 years later I get a phone call from him? But the funny thing was, I wasn't upset. I had been trying to find him for several years.  I had given up all hope on finding him when he called.

But after that it seemed to all go to hell! After all the years of wondering, I was put into a position that I had to be the one that reached out and made contact. I would ask questions. I would give information. Once I was asked to fly to Fiji to visit. Carole and Mark had won a trip to visit. Carole's kids didn't live that far from. I looked up ticket prices and it was going to cost me over $1,000.00 just for the ticket! It was less than $200 for each one of them! They could have offered to help with the cost if it meant that much to them. I asked several time when they were coming to the states to visit. Never got an answer. Did they not understand that driving is a lot cheaper than flying? If they were already planned to visit, then they weren't going out of their way to pay for a cost they were already going to spend.

Well, I could go on, but that isn't what this is about. I decided to clean out an email box that I don't check on all that much. Well, in doing so, I found that I had 4 emails from Carole. The first one had me a bit confused. The second one was written two months later. It was filled with a bit of vinegar and anger. But I figured out what it was about. My biological father had passed away. The third and forth emails were filled with hate and anger. But understandable, she thought I had totally dismissed her emails without a care or concern for her or for my father.

I do care, I was thrown for a loop when I received those emails. The way I see it, Mark told her that he couldn't contact me because it would be interfering with me life. But if I wanted to be a part of theirs then I needed to step it up. I'm sorry; I may be an adult but in this situation I am still the child. He walked out of my life, not the other way around. He did extend a hand to me but again, it wasn't my responsibility to keep feeding information and not get any in return!

So how do I feel about all this? To be honest...I don't know. I'm sad, heart broken, relieved, disgusted, void of feeling, over run with feeling. I feel everything and nothing at the same time!!

I'm sorry that we never had the type of relationship that you wanted us to have. That I wanted us to have.

Whew!!

Ella had her second Baby Shower yesterday! And boy did she clean up!! I took Dan's Suburban to Sherman. And I'm so glad that I did!! My car would have been dragging the ground!! The car was FILLED with new loot for the small child!!

After spending the first part of the day snuggled in bed with Dan (it was cold and rainy this morning!) We got up and went to the grocery store and then we started to unload the car with the groceries and gifts! It took us three trips each and we looked at each other and said we could come back later for the rest!

While Dan put away the groceries and started dinner, I started on putting away gifts. In doing so, I also had an opportunity to straighten Ella's room! Most of her clothes are put away or hung up! I don't have enough bins for her clothes!! And that's not counting the clothes that she got yesterday or the stuff that she will get next week when we go to her last shower at Aunt Leigh's!

After finishing up her room, I had to stop and look around; she has taken over EVERY room in this apartment!! How does something so small and helpless, take up so much space? And how does someone that isn't even here yet, allow you to feel so much love?

Our Fried Adventure!

After discussing it for what seems like forever! Dan agreed to ride the TRE and DART to the State Fair. He's never taken public transportation beside riding the bus in Jr High!! He doesn't like having the rely on a set schedule and it not being a little more flexible!!

We did get off to a bad start on the TRE! There was a family with two small boys (18 m and about 2 yrs). Mom and Dad must have thought it was going to be a good idea to ride the train with them missing their naps! The youngest cried almost the entire time we were on the train!! They even got off and transfer ed to the DART with us!! We waited until the family boarded a car and we got on another!! Hee Hee!!! But once we changed cars at the transfer the ride was perfect!! And the ride home was fun as well! We couldn't have timed it better!!

Thanks, Baby for taking a leap of faith and riding the TRE with me!!

Let our Fried Adventure begin!!


You HAVE to have your Fletcher's CornyDog!!

Then we tried Fried Bubble Gum! Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach!!

Fried Coke!! So good we went back for seconds!!

We also had Fried S'mores!! OMG!! Those were good!! Another favorite was Fried Butter!! If you are going to try the Fried Feast, I would suggest eating the Fried Coke last!! It expands in your belly!!

We had such a great day at the Fair! We rode the TRE and DART - Being GREEN and saving GREEN!! We also rode the Ferris Wheel! All the years I've been going to the State Fair, I have never ridden the Ferris Wheel! I can check that off my bucket list!! I'm glad I got to share that with my Sweet Husband!

Here is to many more years of happiness with my Sweetie and our growing family!! I love you, Dan Guest!!