Happy Easter!

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Hots and tots

I've been Mia (already I know) because maddie has had her first fever. It scared the living bajesus out of us when it hit 103, so we got into the doctor within the hour and they could give us no explanation. No teething, no ear infections, nothing that would indicate a fever should be there. We have been chalking her full of tylenol and dealing with her grumpies. She still has the fever, if it's persistent and around on Monday we get to take her to the hospital for a clean catch of pee to see if it's a bladder infection. Mama has apparently passed down only the best of her good genes.

It hits at the most glorious time as we wanted to head out of town this weekend for a quick little r and r before baby two hits town. (6-7 weeks left...Omg!)

Here's hoping that the trip goes relatively uneventful...no trips to l&d or ers!

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This pregnancy sucks

So now that we've gone through what's happened with Maddie and the joy/scare of a new pregnancy, I believe its time to be absolutely truthful about this pregnancy.

It stinks. Had we known the complications that would hit me like a shit ton of bricks in a 2nd pregnancy, we likely would have chosen to have an only child or hire a surrogate or adopt, anything other than being pregnant.

Besides the normal morning sickness and heartburn, which is nothing worth discussing in all it's normality, I have been laid up with all types of fun body issues from month 2 onward. The painful varicose veins that could compete with my 80 year old grandma's started up and are the most heinous part of this pregnancy. Only on my right leg (weird) they start at my toes and are all the way up to my uterus. My ankle swells to a baseball of spider and varicose veins if I stand on it for more then a minute or two and causes my leg to turn purple, plus the stinging of needles...painful painful needles. I was able to get some prescription support hose that help with the pain and keep me working, but nothing takes away how amazing my 30 year old leg looks. After my 6 week postpartum checkup, I will be meeting with a vein surgeon to fix the harden veins that riddle my leg.

And then there's the blood peeing. Somehow I don't have any uti issues, but about once a month I pee straight blood and end up in labor and delivery with bladder cramping. The doctor says it's just part of my awesome pregnancy issues that should go away after the baby comes.

I also measure small again, so ultrasounds are aplenty in this household. So far I've only been able to gain 12 pounds, but the baby is measuring fine so all is good there.

There's more, but damn I'm tired.



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When I've been continued...

So on to the majority of the last seven months or so...

Maddie got her first two teeth in the same day at 6 months, and has continued on this pattern for any new teeth. This is kinda nice because we only have to deal with teething for a few days here and there. So far she has 6 teeth.

She crawled at 9 months, and walked at 11 months. We are currently learning how to crawl up stairs so mama doesn't have to carry her.

No more bottles, no more formula! We cave on the binky abit. She didn't have much interest in it, but she is a tough girl to put down for naps and car rides so we have created a bit of a monster by offering her the binky as a pacifier during those times.

Still working on words, she has said bye in conjunction with waving once, and says mama but it means a variety of things (I want, I'm sad, I'm upset). Doggie is really her first true word, she loves loves loves our crazy psycho dog Sadie who tolerates her because of the food droppings she provides. We thought our lovey boy beagle would follow her and be her best friend, but he wants nothing to do with her and has twice growled at her when he has been tired. My thought is to get rid of him because I don't want the risk, but my hubs is sure it won't be a problem.

Maddie really is fabulous. She is beautiful and funny and a handful all in one. This is by far my favorite age as she squeals with delight and smiles most of the time.




Tomorrow...my pregnancy thus far.

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Well, I barely made it...

Thankfully, and only in this circumstance, heartburn kept me up long enough to fulfill my promise to post each day.

So, where to begin...

Probably best to fill you in on the last 7 months. My last post was announcing the adventure of another being added to this little family. How it happened I have no clue... We tried and tried for Maddie, yet somehow got pregnant when we had only DTD twice in the month (hey! We were busy!) and charting it to not get pregnant. We were on a little vacation to Texas and I was expecting to enjoy some margaritas by a pool, not buying pregnancy tests and wondering why my period wasnt present on the trip. The hubbs and I were not originally thrilled, it was alot of oh shits and omgs. I had been pondering moving closer to home with my job, maybe with clin.que, maybe not. I just decided to take a position with another company during the trip...se.phora. So the timing was wayyyy less then perfect. Plus we had a 6 month old. A 6 MONTH old! A teething, almost crawling ball of energy.

Plus, my body hadn't really recovered yet from trauma number one, which as this pregnancy progressed, became more and more self evident as it's taken a whole new life of "whoa is me's".

To be continued...

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Dear god it's been fo-ev-er!

Although this is not that post, I have decided to come back from the brink of the death of this blog. My plan is to post everyday, delurking from the blogs I check and read every morning and night, and try to use this as an outlet for my new crazy adventure (two under two anyone?).

For now, I leave you with some images of my current goingons.

I'm back tomorrow, full force!

Taken last month at 7 months pregnant, yep... With a one year old to boot!



That adorable one year old...


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So is it worth it to keep going...

I've thought about moving my blog back to the old name so I could get that group of readers I lost in the shuffle. Thoughts? I know at least one reader still remains...thanks Christina!

My other thought is to start over entirely, as madlittlecupcake is now cupcakes....we oops it and woke up pregnant again, which is ridiculous to be in that group after trying for over a year the first time. Maddie is only 6 months and dear god I'm going to have two under two. Motherf.

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