Sorry It's Been A While

Well hello everyone, I'm so sorry it's been so long sine I've been on here. I will update about the pregnancy, our family and our little almost two year old pumpkin! :)

Pregnancy to begin with: It's been a pretty good pregnancy so far. I've had my ups and downs this time, just like with Elijah, but nothing horrible. My feet are no where near as swollen as they were with Elijah, which makes me super happy! I can walk and do a lot of thingsthat I want to. Bending over, and changing diapers are a bit of a challenge, but that's to be expected- I'm 38 weeks pregnant... if I was comfortable I would be questioning myself. I've gained 25 pounds so far, which I'm in love with! Since my 20 week appointment Baby G has been measuring a week ahead, and the last two appointments he's been measuring a week behind, which I found weird... my midwife said he could just be smaller than Elijah. At first she thought it was because he was going further down into my pelvis, but he's not. He's still really high. :/ Also at 37 weeks I got checked and got my strep B test done, when I got checked I was 1cm, thick and high.... kinda sad, so I worked all week to try everything to get him to go down, and to get more dilated, and thinned out, go back at 38 weeks and my test came back negative, wooo hooo!! he's measuring 37 weeks, and she couldn't tell if he was head down or not, but went ahead and checked me, and I was still the same. :/ And... she couldn't feel his head... AT ALL so she decided to do a quick ultrasound to make sure he was head down, and he is, but he's on the right side of my pelvis instead of the middle. So, now I'm doing squats like crazy, rubbing my lower belly from right to left, to try to get him to move over. It gets painful at points. I've been bouncing on my ball, and I sometimes bounce for hours! I stay on my feet most of the time during the day cleaning, playing with Elijah, playing with Buck, and walking... the other day, before my appointment I was folding clothes on my ball, then I got up to put the clothes up and had Pandora on and some nice fast songs came on, and I started like bouncing, dancing around... It was pretty funny slightly uncomfortable, and it still didn't help, but I'm going to keep it up! I have too! At least I can say I tried to help things along. I can never get in the mood for sex anymore, which sucks, and hubby wont let me buy some Evening Primrose Oil Pills. Only because he does math and says that it wouldn't be worth the money to spend, because I'll have left over pills. BOO!! He's such a meanie. But, who knows if they would actually help or not.... Oh-- one other thing, my blood pressure was amazing at my last appointment! It was like 101/67! I was so excited! It hasn't been high or abnormal, it just hasn't been that low for a while. :).... If y'all have any other questions about Baby G or my pregnancy feel free to ask :)

32 weeks with Baby G

27 weeks with E

                                                      



36 Weeks with G

We/as a family have been doing pretty good. I think it's dawning on all of us that we are adding another little Flippen to our mixture! Matthew has started a part time job at Dollar General, just to get some extra money on the side, to try to put some into savings, and to try to pay off some debt sooner, and it's helping- I think/hope. It's hard for me to really get into the swing of things on the weekends though. He doesn't work on the weekends hes on standby. So, he was off this weekend- which was a nice change! We went to the fair, and had a nice time walking around, and looking at the animals. Elijah enjoyed it. We also have a nice new family friend, who happens to go to the same church as us. Her and her husband are a joy to be around! She's great with Elijah! And she's helped me with the nursery so much! She's helping with Elijah so much, helping potty train him, helping him with words, teaching him so much! She's like a second mom to him, which I'm ok with! She has a hard time getting on to him, but since he's starting to disobey her more and more, she's starting to put him into time out- which I'm ok

Elijah is growing up really fast! It's starting to hit me. He's almost two- he was running a fever of 102.7 the other day, which really scared me, because he never ran a fever that high before, but we think we know why now! Matthew checked his mouth today- noticed his top two, two year molars have popped through! And his bottom two are about to cut through! He didn't get his one year molars until around 14-15 months! haha! These are the first teeth he's ever gotten "on time" or "before time" He's talking so well! He plays ok with others.. In the nursery he plays awesome with others, but here at home, not so much. But, he's learning so much! I need to start putting him on the potty more. He's so short! His 24 month pants are way to big on him because of his legs! His waist isn't big either. He just has chubby cheeks. I'm trying to teach him not to tear down his blinds. He's messing them up so bad. I have to get his curtain rod back up, he tore it down. We had to take his toys out of his room,because when we would put him in his room for time out, he would play with his toys, so they are all in his closest! Which he can open the door, but at least he can't see them when he goes in there. He was weighed the other day- 30.6 pounds! He's so strong, and muscular!