Happy Anniversary!

Do you remember when we first met

I sure do

It was some time in early September

You were lazy about it

You made me wait around

I was so crazy about you

I didn't mind

So I was late for class

I locked my bike to yours

It wasn't hard to find

You painted flowers on

Guess that I was afraid

That if you rode away

You might not roll back

My direction real soon

Well I was crazy about you then 

And now the craziest thing of all 

Over 10 YEARS have gone by

And you're still mine!

We're locked in time

Let's rewind

Do you remember

When we first moved in together

The piano took up the living room

You'd play me boogie woogie

I played you love songs

You'd say we're playing house

Now you still say we are

We build our get away

Up in a tree we found

We felt so far away

Though we were still in town

I remember watching

That old tree burn down

I took a picture that

I don't like to look at

Well all these times

They come and go

Alone don't seem so long

Over 10 YEARS have gone by

We can't rewind

We're locked in time

But you're still mine!

Do you remember?

-Jack Johnson

In Between Dreams

2005

Gestational Diabetes

I called the doctor's office yesterday and finally heard my results from the glucose screen.  I do indeed have gestational diabetes.  After talking to Kristine, I've learned that my diet will drastically change and I'll have to check my blood about four times a day and urine once a day. It's kinda of scary to think about how the little brain power I have left will be spent studying food labels for sugars and carbohydrates.  You gotta do what you gotta do, right?  Kristine did it with Casey, so I'm sure I can handle this now.

Perhaps the hospital will call today to set up an appointment to discuss my new diet and daily testing routine...  I can't believe my doctor's office mixed up my paperwork.  This is frustrating enough, but the fact that I loaded up on sugars this weekend because I thought, "Hmm, no phone call, they must not be in a rush to tell me anything important" makes me mad at myself and at them.  I was told that Rex (Hospital) is quick to contact people, so let's just hope that I don't have to wait another week to get more info.

Sigh!

Update

The big girl bed is awesome!  Katie is doing so well, I can hardly believe it.  We still haven't purchased bed rails, but on the advice of Mama Judy, we just put the back of a chair next to the bed and it seems to work great.

This whole transition has caused a whirlwind of emotions, yet again, for Mama K.  We used to look at Katie in the crib and think, "My goodness, she is getting so big."  Now looking at her in the big girl bed all I can say is, "Sweet Jesus, she is so small!"  I check on her while she sleeps now more than I did while she was in the crib, mainly because she is so adorable passed out in her bed.  In the crib, she refused to let us put a blanket over her.  But, now that she's in her big girl bed, it's like she's loved blankets her whole life.  

I'm happy that I will have the chance to relive all of this again with a new baby, but I'm still sad that these milestones are coming and going so quickly for Katie.  

I'm a little embarrassed to say that I was watching Tori and Dean last night.  I'm even more embarrassed that I was crying through half of it.  It was the episode where she had her second baby.  She said something that actually made me stop and think about this new arrival, something I haven't really allowed myself to do.  She was sad that it wasn't going to be just her and Liam (first born) anymore. She told him how she was going to share her love with the new baby girl, but that there was certainly enough love to go around for the both of them.  I've thought about this, but not necessarily long and hard.  Katie won't be an only child anymore!  I'm going to have to love two equally!  "Have" is probably the wrong word since I'm sure the love just flows naturally :)

My friend Katie mentioned how she felt guilty in the hospital, right after she had her second, for giving all this attention to a new baby and not the first born.  That is something I never considered.  The nurse told her it was very common to have those feelings.  I imagine so!  It will be so strange to split my time between two girls.  I'm crying just thinking about it.

I'm pregnant, I cry a lot!

Anyway, time is ticking away and baby girl #2 will be here before we know it.  I just hope we can get our act together so we're ready for her when she shows up early, because c'mon you know she's gonna show up early!

Also, maybe my doctor's office will finally call me back today to tell me if I have Gestational Diabetes...  I mean, I took the test last Thursday.  Results should have surfaced by now, right?

Time Flies!

We apologize for not writing in ages, but things have gotten so hectic around here in the last few months.  I guess it's mostly been because of family and friend visits, spontaneous travel plans, and getting ready for baby girl #2, which includes getting baby girl #1 potty trained and into a big girl bed.  The potty training isn't going very well, but the big girl bed went rather smoothly this afternoon, until...   ... she fell out of the bed and woke up :)  Don't worry, Katie was perfectly fine, just stunned a bit.  We plan on getting a bed rail, of course, but were unsuccessful during our morning search at Target and Kmart.