the final count down

1 more week. 7 more days. I'll be holding a new born at this time next wed! UNBELIEVABLE!!! I had a great day today....wen t for a pedicure with my fabulous cousin Jackie. Yesterday I actually had a appt at the hospital to do some c section paper work and prep and get info....and one of the things they said was that you can't have any nail or toe polish on. WHAT?!?!??! But I had this divine pedi/girl time booked already....so there was no way I was going to give that up! The nurse said that I could get away with just clear polish....so I have "almost" clear french tip toes! The doctors will have to be ok with that, cause my feet look cute and I'm not taking off my polish! I'm also supossed to go in to the hospital that day with no lotions or perfume, or powders, or deodorant, or make up, or hair product....or ANYTHING! Man they really do like to go all out! The going-with-out hair product and makeup thing is totally fine...but no lotion!!!!! me?!?! I'm a lotion Junkie! Especially since kenny treated me to a Bath and Body Works spree last weekend, and I have the yummiest coconut and passion friut products you've ever smellt in your entire life! (not to mention my cinamon bun lotion! HELLLO!!!! CINAMON BUN LOTION!)...oh well...I'll have something to look forward to after my surgury. Yikes. My "surgury." It hit me yesterday after my trip to the hospital that I'll be having major surgury again NEXT WEEK! I guess I haven't really been thinking baout it much...cause I started to get nervous....I had a doctots appt after that, and my doctor put my nerves at ease. It's going to go fine. no, it's going to go great...and in 7 sgort days I'll be holding another little bunddle of pink sweetness! Pray for our Little Ruby...poor thing is teeting...i'm pretty sure it's her eye teeth...and they're causing her alot of grief! i just hope she's feeling better by next week, cause there's gonna be quite the change with another little darling getting mama and daddy's attention! I think she'll do really great though. She's always talking about "Rockys" (her way of saying Roxy!). I know that she's going to be an amazing big sister!
We had some amazing portraits done on the weekend. Our friend Rockie (The Rock photography) had us into the studio where he works for a couple hours.....the pics are going to turn ou INCREDABLE! We didn't get that many with Ruby unfortunatlly, cause well, she didn't want to sit still....and there's not much to say to a 22 month old to get them to smile prett for a family portrit! But I think even with her fussyness, the amazing photographer that Rockie is, he managed to get some really cool shots of the 3 of us. The picture posted is one of the shots that he took....it's the only one we've seen so far....I'll for sure post more down the road, when we get more.
Well....I'm off to try and figure of soemthing for dinner! (ugh! Who wants to cook in this heat!!!! maybe we'll have watermelon for dinner!)
bye!!

girls night out

So today marks the official 2 weeks exactly till my c section is booked!! Crazy to think that in 14 days I'll be holding my little new born!!!! Tonight Rebekka took me out for dinner. It's something that we've done for every one of our kids (her 2 and my 1), that we'll have a night out together just before the baby comes! It was great to get out! here's some pics....I was 37 weeks yesterday....

2 weeks and counting

I CAN NOT believe that in 2 weeks I'll be holding my baby......(hopefully not sooner!)
Here's the scoop. Last wed night I started having contractions at 7:30 in the evening....5 minutes apart....they were'nt really painful...just annoying....that continued on till 11 when I went to bed. I didn't get much sleep for the next few hours cause of just being so uncomfortable with these contractions coming every 5 minutes.....meanwhile Kenny's fast asleep in dreamland beside me ( I want him to experiance pregnancy just for 1 day...or shoudl I say 1 night!!! So he can feel what we go through, not sleeping through the night for months on end!!!!) Anyways...at about 3 am (thurs morning now) The contractions start really hurting....I can still breathe through them, and walk around, but the pain is radiating all over my lower back....so I dodn't know what to think, cause I've been having braxton hicks since like 15 weeks (and alot of them)...but they've never really hurt...and I never went into natural labour with Ruby, so I have no idea what in the world it's supossed to feel like!!! So at 3:30 I toss on a hoddie, tell kenny I'm going to the hospital, and head out they door. I didn't know what else to do! When I got there the nurses felt all bad that I had driven myself...they were really sweet. The maternity ward was hopping...there were NO open beds....they weren't even sure where to put me for observation. one of the mothers did end up moving out of the triage room, so they set me up on the monitors there. Sure enough I was having contractions alright. It was kinda bizarre though....I'd have a braxton hicks one (just a small little blip on the print out), then I'd have a bigger one (looked more like a hill!). So the nurse said to just be sure to go into my doctors office in the morning (which I had a appointment anyway), and get him to assess me. So I get home and it's 5 am....and I've probably only slept a total of 40 min all night....can you say brutal. Needless to say thursday was an aweful day....I couldn't keep my eyes open....and I ended up putting on video's for Ruby most of the day....yuck. So anyways...I go to my doctors in the morning, and he checks me out (gotta love a good 'ol internal exam) and he says that there's nothing going on internally.....*pwewf* (that was supossed to be a sigh or relief:P). My cervix is shut tight.....and nothing happening in that department.....yet. So he says that I very well could go into labour in the next 2 weeks....WHAT?!?!?!?! Or I could just have contractions for the next 2 weeks. I'll take option B please! I have gotten myself so psyched up for a c section, than now trying to wrap my brain arounf the fact that I could have a natural delivery just plain freaks me out!!! I know that sould wierd....rather having a c section...but for months now, that's what I've prepared myself for....and it's the only thing I know! I know what to expect, I know how the recovery is....The actual labour and delivery thing...I DON'T KNOW ANY OF IT!!!!!! So we'll see what ends up happening. I'm still having contractions....they haven't stoped yet....today was by far the lightest day of them though. Yesterday was brutal. I was getting them every 10 minutes.....we went down to the states to get all the last minute baby stuff, and I'm walking throughTarget, and babies R us, when I'd have to just get down on the ground and kneel till the contraction would pass! They were REALLY hurting....So i don't know what that was about....maybe it was just cause I was out and about all day....but today they're been alot less frequent.....I've probably only had about 10-15 all day....which is alot better than the last couple days. My next appointment is thursday morning....so I'll get the doc to check me out again....I want to make sure that there no dialation going on!!!! seriously...I can't believe that our new baby will be here so soon! I think Ruby's anticipatiing it too in her own little way. We've decided to call the baby Roxy (some of you may know that), so Ruby's been going around bringing me toys, or she'll find a pair of shoes that don't fit her anymore, and she'll give it to me and say "Rocky's" (thats how she says Roxy! SO CUTE!). It's hilarious! Or she found a pack of infact soothers, and she holds them up and says "Rocky's!" It's all day long she'll be pointing out things that are "Rocky's"....It's pricless....That reminds me I should get that on video! My pre baby pampering started last week as well....hallelujah! Got my hair done last friday....this friday I'm going in for a facial, and some waxing....then the week after a pedi. I love being able to justify all these treatments in the name of pregnancy! so fun!
Well, thats the latest.....gotta go to bed!

32 days left....whatever that makes me...33 weeks? 34?? I've lost track :P

baby's 'a comin'

so as you can see from the baby counter below, I only have 32 days left till this baby makes her grand entrance to the world! UNBELIEVABLE!!! I had an ultrasound this week to check the location of my placenta, and the size of the baby. Well, the placenta has moved up, so if I do go into labour before the 11th (the day of my c section), and everything is progressing normally, I could try for a natural birth. Also the baby is looking really good. I've been a bit worried, cause I'm measuring really small (my belly), like a few weeks behind where I should be...and whenever my doc has checked the measurments of this babe on his mini ultrasound, her abdoman has been measuring behind too.....now I shouldn't worry, cause both of these situations were exactlly how it was with Ruby...I was small, she was small...and she came out just fine...only 6 pounds 2 ounces full term...but totally healthy. So this baby jsut seems to be tracking along just like her big sis. Well, at the ultra sound the technician said that this baby was aprox 5 pounds 1 ounce at this point!! Wich is waaaaay bigger than ruby was at 34 weeks! We're talking I could have an 8 pound baby on my hands by the time the 11th rolls around!! And here I've been buying preemie clothes for this one, thinking she's be just like Rubes (who only fit preemie stuff for the first month and a bit!). So I guess we'll just wait and see how she comes out! EXCITING! this'll be a fun month.....pedicures, facials, hair done, prego pics...oh yeah baby...it's all about the pampering these next 30 days :) can't wait!
On a different note, Kenny finished his first house this week! YAY! I'm so proud of him! He's started on his 2nd, and has a foundation lined up right after this...then hopefully will be able to take 2 weeks off when the baby gets here. Thats the plan at least! We're praying that the timing of it all with work out.
so here's a pic of the house...built by none other than the fabulous mr. Ken Rahn!

To dye or not to dye.....

So here is a nice superficial blog for all of you....The question at hand is should I become a brunette???? Now, this is a huge decision for me...I've been blond my whole life...yet as the birth of our second child rapidly aproaches, I 've been feeling like I don't want to hear all over again "Thats YOUR baby??? She has such dark hair!! She doesn't look a thing like you."
Yes...that is what I heard over and over when Ruby was born....Her hair is so dark...oh she looks like her dad....and so on and so on. It got to the point where I went out and bought a bottle of that temporary mouse hair colour stuff in the darkest brown shade I could find and dyed my tresses. Now as the box said, it washes out in a week...and it did.....and in reality, it only stayed a really nice brown for like 2 days (then it went all greyish...yuck)...but in those first two days everyone who saw me (or the pics I took) said that I NEED to dye my hair brown, that it looked soooo great. Ahhh, the dilemma....what to do what to do???? Is this next child going to pop out with a thick dark head of hair like Ruby did?
so thats my quandry....do I go brown??? It's quite the serious predicament huh??!!(*Tracy rolls her eyes at herself*)
:)
here's what I'd look like if I did....

large and in charge

wow...I'm exhausted....we did History maker this weekend. Nothing like spending your long weekend with 3000 hoped-up-on-sugar-and-no-sleep teenegaers! We played the Level records side stage sat and sun....had a blast....hung with my dancer girls the the rest of the time....*sigh*...I miss dancing....yet still, my body feels like I danced all weekend!....gotta be the whole "pregnant thing" huh :)
Well, I'm 32 weeks now....unbelievable!.....and very much feeling like it! in fact, I might just go take a nap right now...
zzzzzz.....