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2/15/10

I'm 32 weeks preggo this week and can't belive that it's almost over. Baby k #2 is a wild one and kicking me low like crazy . Lot's of pee breaks and no sleep aloud over her is camp K! My mom died on Jan 3rd, 2010 after a 3 1/2 month batttle with Small Cell Lung Cancer and I have been missing her terribly. It's as if i'm on automatic pilot and feel nothing. Being pregnant has given me strength, but I'm not as strong as I thought.

12-1-09

I'm 21 weeks and 3 days preggo with my second son. Overnight it seems like baby k has started to do backflips and kicks! :) I'm having a problem for the first time in my life to gain weight. Can you believe it? I've only gained 4 pounds throughout this pregnancy. I'm trying but having Bobby at 22 months old is runnig me ragged so thats burning calories and the new baby is growing, so I can't keep any calorie and pounds on me.... sounds ridiculous. LOL. I've had spotting alot but hopefully this wil get under control. Look at my little golfer...

8-8-09

I'm pregnant again! OMG

April 25, 2009!

Bobby is now 15 months old! I can't believe it. Everyday is an adventure around Camp K (My nickname for our house). He is almost walking by himself, but can walk across the room several times if and when he feels like it. As far as health, he is doing well and is extremely tall for his age. He looks like he's over 2 years old and yesterday was the first BiG BOY hair cut. That was hilarious! Yes, I took video of the cut and when I was there, I actualy had tears in my eyes as he sat on daddys lap.

For some reason, for me this was a huge milestone for me. Probably because I didn't think that I would even get the chance to carry full term and now I'm lost in baby land and live in the baby cave. We are so proud of him and of ourselves. Bob is still lokking for a job and we finally sold the house in Chicago, so now we are just worrying about one house payment these days which is nice!

I am on face book and have trouble with that site, so I'm going to be doing alot more communicationg on here again! I miss it.

PS- We are trying again. This si the second month that we are flying with out a net- for lack of a better term! Ha ha

Wish me luck,

Joell

11-11-08

Well, Bobby is 9 months old now and as healthy as an ox! yawn... we are teathing right now so it's been a rough week for everyone at Camp K. :) :)

stats so far:

• 21.5 lbs
• 31.5 inches
• 5 teeth
• and he yells Da Da, No mama yet!

Cheers

3-29-08

Yesterday was our first Dr. appt ( 8 weeks) for shots. What fun! Bobby had to get 4 shots in the upper thigh and one oral vaccine, so no wonder he was not a happy camper last night. Today was much better. smiles are back. Of course he as a complete angel at the Doctors office. We told them he has horns, but no one believes us. hahahahahah

Here are his stats at 8 weeks:

• 90th percentile -24 inches long
• 75th percentile -12lbs and 12 oz!!!!! (he gained almost 6 pounds....!!)
• 25th percentile - 39 centimers around the head.

3-26-08

Hello all, Well the adventure continues at our house. Baby "Bobby" decided that he wanted to be cranky this past week or so and I had to move to desperate measures to keep sanity, so I bought some "GRIPE WATER". What a difference in our little man! He is not nearly as gassy and seems to not mind if I put it in the supplement formula.

Cheers for some sleep! ....finally zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

3-17-08 Happy St. Pattys Day!!!!

Hello all, Heres where we are so far- Things have been going well. Apparently we have a no sleeping rule in our house now.... lol

Bobby is about 11 pounds so far. My Dr. appt. is Wed. so I hope all goes well. The baby discovered a new cry this week. Kind of whiney and then a screetch. The boy has some lungs! For only being 7 weeks old he has outgrown all newborn and 3 month old cloths ( super long legs) so we are in 3to 6 months clothes ALREADY!!!!!!

1/30/08!!!!!!!!!!!! The big day!!!!!!!!!!!

Bobby was born today (WED)after stating our ordeal at the hospital Tuesday at 12:00 noon he came to us at 4:48pm the next day!!!!!!! Induced us and I got stuck at an 8 so they decided to do an emergency C- Section. All is well. He is pretty for a boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Bobby
• 7lbs and 12oz
• 20 inches long and huge feet and hands like daddy!!!!!
• JAn 30th, 2008 at 4:48PM

My little angel> Bob is the humble daddy and I'm besides myself with awe. Glad it's finaly over! I'm moving over to the talking babies side, so I'll see all of ou aver there I hope!!!!!

Good luck to all my on line friends. I keep the same name of ragtopgirl so don't forget to keep me in the loop about your stories.

Love,

Joell and Bob and Bobby

1/27/07

Lots of stuff to catch up on- If I make it until Tuesday they will induce! I am borderline preeclampsia with high blood pressure for the first time in my life and the swelling is outrageous. I think I lost my mucus plug on Friday night and had lots of contractions. ( real ones) They are much different then the other that I had felt. Scared me....

I did spend last Friday and Sat at the Hospital for observation. Doing better now that I was in bed for a week...

Looking forward to meeting my son soon. He is moving around alot and resonded to Bob kissing my stomache last night while talking to the baby. Bob was asking him to give a kick or something and kept kissing my stamoach loudly and sure enough- the baby kept responing to him. we both cracked up!

Had my eye brows waxed yesterday, cant look like Chubaca from star wars for labor, you know! :0

1/15/08

Only 3 weeks to go. The in-laws were here this week and helped declutter the house,garage, babys room. Looks great! We had a fabulous baby shower last Sat. and received lots of goodies for the baby. There were about 27 people that were there and the room was decorated gorgeous. My mom and sister in law threw it and we had friends help out with decorations and fun stuff. I'm feeling like it won't be long now. The cloths are cute and I cannot believe how small the daipers are.....

The Feet look like Fred Flinstone feet and I am so tired most of the time that I wish I would have listened to everyone that told me that I was going to slow down, so get everyting done early. I thought NO WAY! that's not happening to me... hahaha - it happened. Bob is fine and getting anxious too. Everyday now is a waiting game... :)

1/2/08!!!! Happy New Year!!!!!!!

Well only 35 days to go! WOW can't belive that we are so close to the due date of Feb 7th. Going to do a baby pool soon. :) Cheers!

12/24/07

Merry Christmas everyone! 33 weeks!!!!! only about 6 to go......Just back from the final shopping experience this year and let me tell you, I am too popped to party! those shoppers are crazy! I have a night of wrapping ahead of me so I could really use some go go juice! I had a pepsi, but it did not do the trick! I'm still sick with a bad cold, so thats probably it.

The last week has been an adventure in baby land. BAby "K" is moving around alot and I've had some urine leakage when I cough and stuff. I think it may be due to being sick with coughing and stuff. Bob has been great, even when I had a moment last week and kick Tigger the cat OUT of the Bed and room for the evening. I am feeling really cramped these days in bed. ( I knew we should have bought the King size mattress) :) Have been feeling a little emotional lately and hearing stories of how things can still go bad at the end of a pregnancy have left me feeling very insecure. Started packing the bag for the hospital this week, but not done yet!

We put the crib together this week, so I guess it's official! We now have a BABY ROOM! ...........OMG this IS really happening...and I can't wait. Getting anxious about the labor, not looking forward to it, but I know it will be worth it

....smiles to all-Joell

12-18-07

Well it's 3:30 AM again and I'm up again. Can't sleep. This week was a busy one with Christmas shopping, wrapping and hosting a girlfriends annual gift exchange at my house. Decided to do frozen lasagna and have each gal bring something because I just wasn't up to "Cooking" this year.

The baby is moving around so much these days that sometimes it feels like it never stops. At the DR. Appt. last week this made my DR. happy. I'm so tired these days that I really want it to move along quickly. I have 6 weeks to go IF I go all the way. I think I'm going early though. Tomorrow we will be 33 weeks and have our last birthing class. I promised the instructor that I would have my labor bag ready so I guess that will give me something to do tomorrow before class. PS - the video's scared the crap out of me. I have a low tollerance for pain and those 2 girls just looked miserable so I cried, but tried to hide it in class.

My shower is not until Jan. 12th and now I'm nervous that we won't have enough time to get everything after the shower, but dont want to buy anything before the shower....Hopefully we will get some goodies. Tons of my husbands family/friends live on the east coast, so maybe the gift card thing will work for them. I sent out 60 invites including out of towners, but am only expecting about 30 people ( this include about 15 seniors form the place my mom lives at) so only about 15 close people to me and my husband will be there. Should be interesting. I let my sister in law and mother pick the theme for the shower. I figured since they were throwing it, they could have fun with a theme and surprise me. I'm not real particular about the shower so I gae them the blessing to go have fun and do what the heack they want. Now the baby room is another story...hahahaha :)

12-3--07

This little one is jumping around like crazy the past few days. It feels like an earthquake in there. Not sure what that rumbling means! :) anyways, hubby Bob painted the room yesterday a pretty blue and we finally registered. Baby k Shower is Jan 12. All is coming together nicely and I'm feeling better. I was sick Friday, sat, sun and felt bettter today. Had a stomach issue. Glad thats over! Bob took today off from work and we hung out doing nothing, just reconnecting because when Im sick and being a baby,I just kind of slept alone downstairs and was miserable, so I'm BACK now! He was very supportative when he told me he missed the real me. what a guy. Meanwhile the baby decided to learn how to do back flips or something while I was living in the bathroom for a couple of days.... That was an experience in it's self.

11-25-07

This is me at 29 weeks! Getting bigger everyday! Went for another U-Sound today to show my mom what it was like and got a black and white DVD for an extra $5.00! Very cool. Baby K has long legs and we saw a BIG FOOT too. Must be an NBA player in there since hubby is 6'5!

11-16-07

OK, so I'm huge! I'm dealing with this adjustment in size. Boobs are gigantic. Today was a fabulous day becasue we emptied my office into my husbands office ( we will share now) and the babys room is empty and ready for a make over. I won't go crazy, just some nice touches. We will paint Thanskgiving weekend (Bob will) a pale blue. Colors will be Mint green and yellow. I am getting excitied and look forward to the end. Still can't sleep a wink, so now I don't fight it.

11-8-07

27 weeks yesterday! Things are going good except for the bathroom breaks at night and the non sleeping. Baby k is moving around all of the time and I had my first rib kick karate chop last week. He wants out.... ahahahha!

10-15-07

I lost all info so I am starting over..... I'm 40, married and 23 weeks/5days today. Having a little man Feb. 7th, 2008! Happy to be married a year and even happier to be preggo. :) Good luck to all!