Purchase of First Baby Thing!

When we first found out we were pregnant Jared made me promise I wouldn't buy anything until I was six months pregnant. That seemed logical to me. It would be after we found out the babys gender, only three moths left, and would give us plenty of time to prepare for that expense. Around the fourth and fifth month it was SUPER hard not to buy anything. I wanted to buy baby things so badly, I resisted, but counted down the days until I was six months. Well, I am over seven months and I have just purchased our first baby item!! A four piece crib bedding set! (called bananafish, even the name is cute and fun!)I don't really know what happened, the baby stuff desire just faded away I guess. This is not our first baby item though. Over Christmas my Mom bought us a couple baby outfits and baby odds and ends (she wanted to be the first to get us baby things, and she was =>) and some of my aunts gave us their old baby stuff that they were done with (thanks again!) So we have accumulated baby things, which tripped out Jared at first (walking into a room and seeing baby things is definately something that takes getting used to), but this is our first purchase! I love it! I am so excited to set it up and admire it in real life! (its still in its package). And it is kindof a daunting thought, that a baby could be here in as little as 8 weeks and be considered full term. Ahhh!! I am definately not ready! I guess I will just have to continue getting cute baby things to get me excited and hopefully push out the scareds. haha

32 lbs!!

Yes thats right, seven months pregnant and I have gained 32lbs, THIRTY-TWO!! I like to think of myself as a little heifer. haha But I have had a hard time getting used to the number on the scale going way up and my movement continually becoming more limited. Now I have pretty much accepted that I will gain weight (seven months into it mind you) and am grateful that my body does not hurt more. That was one thing I was very worried about when I found out I was pregnant. Even just gaining five pounds would send my hips and knees into a world of hurt, so bad it would make just walking hard. So you can imagine how painful I thought being pregnant would be. Amazingly enough, my body (hips and knees) do not even hurt as bad as they do when I gain 5 pounds, and I have gained 32! I like to think of it as my little miracle!!

I had a thought of taking a "now and then" picture of pregnancy. I decided to mimic a picture from the 4th of July 5k I did in Denver. I think it best shows off my size, both then and now. The fourth of July was a month before I got pregnant, and its safe to say I did not gain or lose any weight in that month. I weighed 118lbs in the first picture, and 150lbs in the second.

As for news on Jared: He got the green light for chewing from his doctor on Thursday! Wahoo!! He was so excited about it, all night he was eating just so he could chew! There are limitations tho. He has to keep it "about the same consistency as a McDonald's hamburger". So no chips, steak, anything that really needs hearty chewing, but anything is better than nothing!

This weekend we went tot he Park City condo for a relaxing vacation! Friday night we went out to dinner for the first time since the surgery! Yippie! Jared ordered a hamburger (he has been dying to bite one of these forever!) He tried to bite it normally first but only got half the burger (he still can not open his mouth very wide) so he ended up cutting it up and eating it with a fork. But hey, chewing is chewing no matter how it gets in your mouth. =>

He is also getting his feeling back! He still can not feel soft things on the left side of his face, but he can feel hard things! And that is a HUGE improvement! And he can feel medium-soft things on his right side. As for talking/communicating, that has improved greatly too! He almost sounds normal (its the annunciation tripping him up, but who can blame him if he can not feel half his face?) And the swelling is still there, but not nearly as bad as when he first came out of surgery. And this is how swollen he should be for the next couple months, according to his doctor. The sad news is that he has to go under the knife again. Some scar tissue is not forming the way it should and the doctor needs to go and cut it out. The doc says it should be a simple procedure and he will have about as much swelling as pulling wisdom teeth. So, we get to go through this whole lovely putting under/surgery experience again, but it shouldn't be as intesnse, which we are grateful for!

Family Night

So, it has been a while since the last update and I have had many requests for belly pictures and updated photos of Jared. But sorry to disappont, this post will contain none of that. => Yes I am vain enough to not take a picture unless I feel at least a little cute, and I just haven't taken any updated pictures of Jared, so those will have to wait for next post.

As for this post...

Jared and I have a difficult time doing family night. Its not that we dont spend time together, its the planning and lesson and all the preparation (ish) that go into having a "family night". But last night we succeeded! We had family night! => Yay us! And our activity was picture exposure. I have decided that I really want to be a photographer. I love taking pictures, and I take them all the time. So I figure if I could get good at taking pictures, my memories and decorations can be better, and I can even make a little money on the side as a mom if I choose to. And being in my beginner/novice stage my husband is teaching me the basics (he took some classes) and then I can move on to studying with a professional photographer.

But back to family night. Jared taught me about photo exposure, and how to set different exposure times on our camera.

He would get various light sources and I would capture the movements he made with them. Then I had an idea to make our name out of it. I think it looks pretty cool, and I can say I am proud of it! => Yay for family nights and knowledgeable husbands!!