Beans Count Down

Cupid Shuffling Baby!!!

Today I was jamming to my dance music at work, when all of a sudden I feel a thump. Then another thump. Could it be? Then I feel three more thumps! It's my Mexican Jumping Bean! He is dancing! I have to admit it was a very strange feeling knowing that inside of me was a baby moving around. I am really not sure but I think he was doing the Cupid Shuffle. Course it could have been the electric slide. It's so amazing to be pregnant.

Yesterday we went to our four week check up which was uber exciting. The usual PP into the cup routine and the million questions. Everything showed up perfect. I even had low blood pressure which is considered wonderful. Go God!

The best part of the visit was when they used the Bean Mic to hear Rap Master B on da microphone. Course our little Beanie baby was super shy. He was like but Mommy I don't want to be an American Idol! He ran from one side of my belly to the next. He would not hold still for anything. We got to hear a couple heart beat a couple times but he was cruising. I just hope that Bean isn't this active in three weeks for our next visit. Otherwise we might not see if it's a girl or boy. To bad they aren't like puppies.. Siiiit, Staaaay.. Goood bean, Gooood..

Romance in Bow Tie Pasta

O.K, I feel bad about what I had written in my prior post about Dan being a lame cook. So now it is time to do a bit of groveling.

As you read in the last post my husband has been gone quiet some time lately. Everything from late nights at work to ski trips with the youth. I have been finding myself playing on my computer quiet a bit lately or working in my yard. It has been nice to have me time but at the same time I kinda like having my hunk around.

After being gone for five days my husband decided to make me a present. So when I opened the door of my car in the garage the taunting garlicky aroma filled my lungs causing me to practically fall out with delight. When I open the door to the kitchen my eyes fell upon the most amazing sight ever. The table was covered with romantic dinner for two. Complete with candles and the fancy china Taboot!!!

For my dinner present he made me Bow tie pasta with a roasted bell pepper Alfredo sauce, feta pesto bread (that I taught him to make), a salad and for desert we had strawberry shortcake! HOLY COW! My man is da bomb! I wasn't expecting anything so wonderful.

What topped the evening off was the only time the T.V. came on was when he was showing me all the pictures from his trip. The rest of the time we sat on the couch talking like when we first started dating. It was the most relaxing evening ever. WoW God answered my prayers.

You see I had started getting a little anxious after day three of his time away. Then God had me listen to this amazing sermon about being happy in your circumstances. Joyce Myers sometimes can just nail you right smack between the eyes with a bowling ball.

She said, when we want something so bad that we start obsessing about it, then it has become a lust. Thus it is outside of God's will. She said, God will never grant something like that.

I realized I was starting to step into the freaked out stage. I needed to be O.K. with Dan not being home when I needed him to be. I can't change him by worrying. Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it really doesn't get you any where.

So many times we get so stressed out with our mates because they aren't growing through something fast enough. So we cry to God, we want you to just give us a perfect mate right now! We don't like to wait. My husband drives me batty with his with long hours. Dan sees it as pulling his weight, providing whatever. To me his long hours, texting and phone calls really stinks. What I am learning now is how to be happy in my circumstances. I can't change him no matter how much I yell, scream or cuss at him. But I can pray for God to intervene in Dan and I 's marriage instead of me choking my husband into submitting to my breakthrough. I can be such a Santa's little helper. THE POWER OF GOD COMPELS YOU!!!

Since I have stepped out of God's way and let him correct my husband over this matter, rather than me doing the evil deed, he has become much more responsive to my needs. God really does have it figured out. The waiting on God part is always the hardest. God is amazing..

Thanks Honey for such a romantic evening. You have healed my soul more than you know.

When your sick, your sick...

Ok so I woke up Friday morning feeling some what O.K.. I even straitened up the house. Though I did my usual morning gag reflex thing a couple times as I made my breakfast. Nothing out of the norm but as the morning wained on I began to feel worse and worse.

After managing to get up the courage to go to work, I find myself only sitting there for about 40 minutes before I quickly realize I needed to head home. What is worse is my parents had asked me to come stay with them over the weekend. Ugg I am thinking. This isn't good at all. Though after taking a two hour nap I felt refreshed. I really didn't want to stay at home all weekend alone while my husband was off skiing with his youth group.

So I hopped in the car and headed towards my folks. About 30 minutes into the drive I begin to get a sneaky feeling I had a fever but I trudge on through. Needless to say I walked into my parents house and fell on the the couch like a old dead tree. Crash!

Mom pulled out the themometer and Dad covered my chilled body with a blanket, while my nephew jumped up all over me. Ah family. There is nothing like it. Of course I had a 101 fever and I was offically permitted to be sick.

For the past 6 days I have been coughing like a smoker on his last days of his life. It sounds horrible. I eventually broke down and took some Acidified on Saturday. I had woke up with goo squirting out my eyes and I couldn't hear anything except ringing. Not to mention I couldn't breath out my nose.

I waited a hour or so before I took anything that morning hoping that it would drain out. Course that strategy didn't work. It just sat there in my sinus' like a angry Sumo Wrestler with a death wish.

I really feel like such an evil soul for even taking anything. I have weathered Migraines, Acid Reflux and so many other things. But I just couldn't handle this. (Don't' worry it's on the list of things I can take.)

I also did a salt water Sinus Rinse.. Gargled with Apple cider vinegar water and ate Moms magic chicken soup the whole weekend. Mom's chicken soup is the bomb! In fact I had three bowls that night.. LOL! Not to mention having my family there picked my spirits up so much. There is nothing more powerful than having your family around you. They just know what to say, How to say it, and when to say it. I am so glad I went home instead of trying to weather the storm alone.

I am still coughing and my ears are still super stuffy. OY! I just thank God that I feel a whole lot better.

Waring With Prenatal Vitamins

Most mothers understand the battle with prenatal vitamins. The kind that make you feel like you have been partying all night with shots of tequila, then having to wake up early the next morning. Yes, me and the old prenatal do not get along at all. I literally feel like puking my guts up.

When I was in a store I piped up a conversation with a very pregnant sales lady who was bored to tears. (I was getting the foot massage in one of those massage chair.)

((: Ahhhh! She told me that she couldn't take the vitamins either. Her doctor of course suggested taking two children vitamins. What a concept I thought. So I go to the store and end up with the gummy vitamins. I figured if I am going to take a kid vitamin, I am going in style and this one had the most bang for the buck.

Needless to say I woke up this morning with a start. God was poking my brain saying, your missing some very important vitamins in there. Calcium of course was one of them! Dang I am a sucker!!! Now I got to find a calcium supplement. Not to mention a bunch of other things. So the once good idea might not be the best after all. Drats...

Migraines

Recently I have been having massive migraines. The kind that make you want to just crawl into a dark hot shower and disappear for several hours. Course I have been doing this procedure for the past three day and I only get limited amount of relief before the migraine returns. Needless to say my poor skin is much like alligator skin. I got the Dry, flaky and well honestly I feel like I have thousands of tiny critters crawling around my skin. Oy! I just hope Bean doesn't come out like re fried beans from all the hot showers I have been taking. ((: Don't worry I haven't been sitting directly in the stream. Just more or less in the steam.

This morning I woke up and my head was still swimming, so I decided to do a little research to find out how I can overcome the pregnant migraine with out drugs..

Below are a few things that I found that have been interesting and some what helpful. Though none have a complete cure.

Keep a headache diary: This diary should include when the headache happened, what “triggered” it, and how long it lasted. If you keep a log of your headaches, you can learn what triggers them and therefore avoid those things.

What Might Cause Your Migraine,

* Stress
* Chocolate
* Cheese
* Coffee
* Weather
* Hormones

How to Rid The Pregnancy Migraine

* Apply a cold towel on your head
* Take a cold shower
* Take a nap
* Exercise
* Biofeedback (ask your doctor)
* Relaxation techniques such as meditation or yoga


I also read that if you get cluster headaches that pure oxygen helps.

I find laying in dark room with a warm rag over my eyes, nose and mouth helps while taking big deep breaths.

Also gazooks amounts of water. Sometimes we can get toxic and not even realize that is what is causing our headaches. That's why water is so good, it helps the flush garbage out of our systems.

I have a sneaky suspicion that this might actually be a hormone headache. I am going to try eating soy to see if that regulates my hormones a little better. Soy is supposedly really good for woman that are going through the change of life. I wouldn't see why small doses of soy couldn't help me and my raging hormones. Maybe I can find some relief soon... I will tell you if that works...

If you folks have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to hook a sista up.. Pain is no fun.

Understanding My Blog...

Hey family,

So today you are finally getting a glimpse of what has been going on our lives for the last 14 weeks. We have had hard days and some absolutely wonderful days. Days that are filled with tears and other days that are filled with puke. LOL! O.K., not so much puke but a couple sick days.. Ha! Puke you say?? Well please take the time to scroll to the bottom to catch up with where this whole thing began.

(For your enjoyment, try reading this blog from the bottom up. Blogs are kinda like reading Hebrew. Ha!)

Now with out further tadoo! Let's get this Blog on the road!!!

My Big Fat Greek Baby

So the family has been informed "FINALLY" that bean is a new member of the family. The responses were from calm, Oh that's great honey" to Big Fat Greek Wedding Screams! "Praise God!!! He finally answered my prayers!" Tears were had by all.

My sister of course was my most favorite. She said her body started stuttering and she couldn't move. All she could do was scream. She said her heart started beating wildy like she was going to have a heart attack. All I can say was her face was priceless. It turned redder than a Assembly of God preacher preaching one of his most fiery sermons. Her arms were stretched out like Frankenstein as she stood there shaking! What a honor to have a sister that loves you so very much. Needless to say I inserted myself in her arms and we had the biggest family hug ever! The whole family crowded in around us. They were Hugging and kissing us like a bunch of crazy Italians.

It was the most wonderful day of my whole life.

(Side Note: my family is pretty much like the movie "The Big Fat Greek Wedding") If you haven't seen the movie, check it out today..

Thump, Thump, Thump...

*side note* Just because blogger saves doesn't mean that it actually saved anything*

So it was check up time again to make sure everything was going O.K.. We were told that this visit would just be a typical doctors visit. Just the old P.P. in the cup etc.. So Dan decided to opt out. Which he was really upset that he did.

I walk in and they hand me the old cup. I do my dangling from the toilet seat routine and manage to fill the cup to the optimal amount liquid. I think everyone understands the great agility it takes to fill one of those suckers.

After I am finished I am whisked off to the interrogation room where I am asked the same sequence of questions I have already filled out in prior visits. Not to mention asked by every doctor in the practice. I really think it is a conspiracy to try to squeeze out information of cult activity. Who knows..

Any way after my 10 minute interrogation I am then locked in my ice cold cell until sentencing. Thank God I had a phone so I could text my friends. I think I would have lost my mind sitting in there alone for 20 minutes. Silence! AAAH!

After a few minutes the nurse came in and had me lay back on the sandwich table. She said, we are going to listen to your babies heart beat today if he cooperates. With in seconds of her placing the microphone to my belly I can hear beans little heart beat thumping a million miles a minute. Of course I turn into Tammy Fae with mascara blobbing my vision. I lay there listening to the most beautiful sound in the whole world. The sound that I have waited eight long years to hear. My sweet baby beans heart beat! I am a mommy!!!

Our next doctors visit will be at the end of the month. Supposedly it will be another pp in the cup routine. Course Dan said, I don't care what those crazy nurses say. I am coming!

Part Fish, Part Tears

I have found I am starting to get the moodies. LOL! Last night I was a big baby. I was feeling ill cause of the tuna sandwich I had for lunch. Not to mention I was stuck in traffic for over a hour on the way home. (Roll Eyes)

When I got home I plopped on the couch in a ball feeling quiet ill. Of course Dan was extremely hungry. He had suggested Mexican Food but that had required me to stay in the car 30 more minutes picking the food up on the way home. So when I got home he says, I am hungry I am just going to eat a TV dinner. I said, Oh please don't say that foul word. Just the thought of one of those suckers makes me ill. Then I say, don't worry. I will make you dinner. So then he list off what he thinks might be good. I get nauseous. He says, It's ok I will just make a TV dinner. I swallow and dash for the bathroom. I gagged a few times then slither into the shower. I think I sat in there for about what seemed to be a hour. Water make me feel better. Probably cause I am part fish.

Anyway, I call from the shower, Daaaaniel.. Yes dear.. I am hungry sick, make me dinner.. A few minutes later I can hear him clanging around in the kitchen. Then I hear him talking on the phone in the office. A few moments later I smell something burning. I yell, Dan the breaad is burning. (Silence) Then I start moaning Daaaaaniel. Daaaaniel. If I were trying out to be a ghost. I would have gotten the job. LOL! !

Poor Dan. He doesn't know how to cook. I must say I felt really out of control. I am the cook. I make the dinners. Dan is Mr. Premade man. Which is ok with me because he sometimes can cook a mean tv dinner. ((: Oh yes, and he makes really good cottage cheese pancakes.

Anyway back to the moaning. I realize I am going to need something other than a greasy lasagna and veggies. He comes in the bathroom where I am curled up in the bottom of the tub like a pet frog. Oh poor baby, he says. I look up with the biggest puppy dog eyes I could muster. Fruit smoothie peas. He takes a deep breath, grumbles and said in a irritated but sweet voice. FINE, I just burnt supper. Give me a minute. LOL! 10 minutes later he toddles back with my amazing fruit smoothie. I nearly cried. He is the best man in the whole world.

When I got out of the shower the smell in the house was putrid. With one hand holding my robe over my nose and the other holding my smoothie I force myself to the kitchen. When I get there I wrap my arms around my husband and begin to boo hoo. Wiping my tear covered hormonal face into his chest. Then I begin to whine, I don't feeel good Danrow. I want my mommy. (in which I still haven't told)

All I can say is that my husband is a champ to put up with my old winy self. Thank You God for my amazing friend. I never really understood why Mom said, choose your mate wisely! Now I know why. Cause you want someone to hang around when you get sick on Tuna Fish Sandwiches.

Three more weeks til I tell my mommy. Ugg! I hope I can make it that long. I was pretty darn close to calling her last night. My mommy is the best for making me feel betters. She can listen to my hours of blubbering. I hope I am halve the Mom she is.

Week 9 Yawn!

So I layed on the couch last night and yawned! Boy my baby, the size of four paper clips, is wearing me out! I can only imagine when he is a couple lbs! I won't be able to keep my eyes open unless he kicks my spleen.

I find that I am becoming narcoleptic! That's right. I will be working away at my desk one moment. Then the next moment I am yawning awake. What! 10 minutes has gone by!

I also feel like I am a can of coke! Full of bubbles. My poor tummy is always jacked up. I guess that is what you get when you got a bean inside you. LOL!

Good news, Lima Beaner has offically got webbed fingers and toes! Bean also has little eyes, Ears and is also getting wittle nice shoulders to go with the elbows.

My next visit is in two weeks! Yeah, Just a typical check up. PP in the cup please. I will get to see baby in 10 more weeks. By then he will be the size of Godzilla! Weeee! and we will be able to see if he is a he or she.

We are already getting votes in at work. Most of the men are claiming Boy. We shall see. OH yeah, we had to tell the people at work because I was getting really sick and most of the people kinda figured it out already. LOL! I am not good at hiding stuff like this when I am green looking.

Oh I Am Sick! ():

Let me just start by saying Morning Sickness sucks! I think the only thing that got me through this terrible part is Butterfingers and bread! When my sister was pregant I vaguely remember her saying keep food by the bed. So when you roll over the first thing you do is eat. Well, let me just say. This is an amazing tip. I got a little tupperware dish and filled it with bread. Then about 30 minutes before I was due to be up I started my munching. Bottle water and Sprite are real winners as well to get that blood sugar up. Poor Dan. I am sure he thought he was sleeping with a mouse halve the time. Ha! He did complain a little bit about my crumbs from time to time as he swept them on my side of the bed.

I was pretty much sick for two weeks. After that, I was good to go. Very strange. Course I do have problems taking my prenatal vitamins. I find that if I take halve in the morning and halve at night on a full tummy, I don't wake up feeling like I have been at a frat party the night before.

Though the other morning I kinda dinged out and took halve on a empty stomach. Course I immediatly started eating my cereal so I thought I would be safe. In the mornings I sit in the bed and talk with Dan about the day while eating my breakfast. With in moments of sitting down I was I looked at Dan and started gagging. A moment later John and I were becoming well aquainted. Course my totally sweet husband holds my hair out of the way of the projectle vomiting. Then puts a cold rag on my neck.

The rest of the day I slept in a ball in my office chair. Thank God the Boss was out off town that day. He would have wondered what the heck I was doing. LOL!

I can't tell you how some of the dummest things take it out of you, while others don't. For me standing for more than 10 minutes makes me feel really weak. Yet I can stair at a computer all day. Then go home and stair at a computer all night.

I also find that I am hungry all the time now. I just ate a huge lunch 2.5 hours ago and now I am starting to get the munchies. OY!

Telling The Family?

So ok, you might think we am cruel but I guess we are. Humphff You see, we want to tell the whole family all at the same time but how do you do that in a really cool way? We have decided to wait for my Mom's 60th birthday to pop the big news. We figure we will be in the safe zone at that point with bean. Also what a great Birthday present to give your Mom!

So all this time we have kept the lid on our pregnancy. This has been really hard because we talk to the family all the time. Especially now that the party is growing nearer.

What is sad is that I was looking forward to my brother coming for Mom's party. He told me the other day that he was not going to be able to make it due to his over flowing plate. Let me just say this news not only crushed me but sent me into a selfish tirade. (I blame it on the hormones! Ha!) I had to do a bit of groveling because I knew he didn't really understand why I was so upset. Sorry Bro! My poor brother always gets the heat of all my anger. It's funny how family can push the buttons that no one else even notices. I know I am a horrible sister. I have a sneaky feeling we might get hell for this. )): I say in advance that I love you guys and I just wanted this to be super cool.

Beans First Debut

Let me just say first doctors visit is the most exciting and yet the most real visit you will ever have. At least it was to me. This visit was the visit that made me face reality. The reality that "HOLY CONOLY I AM A PARENTAL UNIT!"

Being that I couldn't remember when my last cycle was, they decided to do a ultra sound to measure the size of (Ok if you are reading this blog you are going to have to get used to some realistic facts. I am going to use medical terms. Some might kinda gross you out. So Sorry in advance) my uterus and possibly see if we could get a glimpse of our little baby bean. To our surprise we saw our little pencil erasure smiling at us. He was only a dot but needless to say I felt a lump grow in my throat. I grabbed Dan's hand and began to wipe tears out of my eyes. God had finally granted us with a baby.

As we headed out the door they handed us prenatal vitamins and told us to come back in two weeks to see what our due date was.

Telling The Man

Well, let me tell you a little history. You see after 8 years of waiting to finally be pregnant, you have plenty of time to plot out a game plan. Though after the first year of marriage I had already decided how I wanted to pop the news to my sweet unknowing man.

My plan was to wrap up the pregnancy test in about 6 boxes, one inside the other. So when he unwrapped the present it would take him some time and egg on the suspense.

Well, here is one of my little stories of how I popped the news to my sweet husband.

All of a sudden I hear the garage door open and in pops Dan. He of course decided to take shower. Which was super lucky for me. This gave me time to hide my Papa Cam on the mantle of the fireplace and do a few last minute things. ((: I really wanted a candid video of Dan's reaction to the news. I have always wanted to document the whole pregnancy.

So I nestled the camera behind a fern of the fireplace mantle and lined it up with the couch. ((: Tee Hee. (I think you see where I am going with this don't you)

Now my only other hurdle was my mother n law and niece. They were due back at any time. I was hoping that they might be late.

You see my mother n law has been living with us for quiet some time. She has decided to build a house with my brother n law's family because she knows she is getting close to retirement age. So until their house is built we have a live in Mom. Which is so wonderful.

Every once in a while she will have one of her grandchildren come stay with us so that she can have quality time with them as much as she can. She is an awesome woman.

Anyway so for my mother n law I swung by Cracker Barrel and bought her a bunny. I was going to put it on her bed but I kinda got side track. Oops!(You will see in a moment what happened there)

Well the shower was done and he came toddling into the living room. I said, Honey I found that last Christmas present that I had lost. He laughed and was like. Oh Boy! As planned he plopped down on the couch and began to unwrap each box one at at time. Several times I thought he might never make it to the bottom. Finally as he reached the last box he looks at me says, I know what this is. I said, Nope it's not for your mountain bike. He said, "nooooo, I know what this is." I said, "you do?" He smiled really big and finished unwrapping the last box. He reached in and pulled out the pregnancy test. Shock fell over his face and he said. Reaaaally! At that very moment we heard the door being unlocked. I grabbed the test out of his hands and threw it the box. I was like "IT'S MOM"!

In a wild fury of feet I ran to the garage, grabbed the bunny. Then went whirling through the house with a dash. I threw the bag on her bed and before she reached the hallway I was sitting on the couch as if nothing happened.

A moment later I felt Dan put his hand on my leg and I glanced at him. He smiled at me with a oh my word. I am trying to hold it together smile. Then as if on Que I hear her scream. Really! I said, uh Huh. After that the house was filled with laughter as I reveal the rest of the story to them. I am soooo glad that I that God has given me such a wonderful family. I am so blessed beyond all measure.

How did you find out?

How did I find out you say? Well, being that Aunt Flow hadn't come to visit for a while, I decided to get up extra early and just do a little check see. All I can say was I just sat there staring at the test in shock! I started to laugh while covering my mouth with my hand. Then I started to cry. Then I did both which is kinda like rain on a sunny day. I guess you could say I was a wee bit manic!

You see Dan and I have been married for 8 years now and haven't been able to get pregnant. So to see the "Hey Chick Your Pregnant" on the little test was a serious jaw dropper.

The Saga of the Lima Bean

So you are probably wondering what the heck this blog is about. Well, I decided to tell a little story about a little baby that we like to call Lima Bean. This is whole blog is dedicated to our first child that is due to be in our arms Sept 2nd of 2008. We are so excited and want everyone to be a part of all the funny stories. Also I needed a place to vent. Ha! As we all know most first time parents think that their stories are the most interesting. (Which of course mine are) Hope you enjoy.

The Bean Keepers