I'm PREGNANT & I'll CRY if I want to!

4:55 the alarm goes off...  Bailey and I are out the door 5:08!  We do our morning walk with fellow Preggo Val.  Come home, take a shower, and then somehow this morning, I ended up back in bed!  :)  This BIG GIRL was tired!

6:20 Bailey is doing her little bark in the laundry room.  I knew she put her ball somewhere where she couldn't get to it.  So, I called her in our room and asked her to please go lay down.  Which she did... SO I THOUGHT!!!

6:45 I finally decide that it is REALLY time to get up AGAIN!  I am dressed and walking into my closet when I feel a dampness underneath my right foot???  Beeper cleaned the carpet yesterday, so at first I thought it must be a place that hadn't dried yet.  I continued to feel around with my feet trying to see if anymore of the carpet was wet... ODD just in that one place.  I make my way down to the floor (which is a task) and decide to use my BIG SNIFFER!  OMG  it is TT, PEE, TINKLE, or whatever cutie little name YOU call it!  SUPER, I have URINE all over my feet and now in my BIG SNIFFER!  Who let their dog in my house to do this... because BAILEY BOO is perfect (besides her gorged anal glands) and would NEVER do something like this!  

At this point, I am NOT HAPPY to say the least, because I am discovering that my dog has lost her mind and did her business on my CLEAN carpet... and it's no where near the door, therefore I know this wasn't a accident.  After making enough noise, Beep gets up mad and looking for Bailey. SHOOOOOT...  Bailey is out underneath Kingston's bed (her newest place to crash!)  That girl doesn't know anything is going on.  Beeper then calls her out from underneath, saying "WHAT DID YOU DO?"  He walks her over to "the SPOT" and then begins to scold.  She has NO IDEA what she is in trouble for... now I am NOT MAD anymore I am SAD, because she doesn't know why Beeper is getting on to her.  She did this hours ago.  So, I scoop her up, take her into the living room, and turn into the Dog Whisperer... telling her that she knows better... BLAH BLAH BLAH!  Oh, but then $#*T hit the fan...

After our talk, I was walking back to the bedroom, when I saw the dress that I wore yesterday out of the laundry basket and on the floor.  I slowly walked up to it like it was a python that was going to strike at any moment... I lifted it up with my fingertips and then I saw it!  My four-legged-little-friend had EATEN a whole in my dress!  "WHAT THE HELL?"  She has OFFICIALLY lost her MIND!!!

GET OUT OF MY WAY...  I grabbed the dress and came barreling down the hall shaking it... oh and I should mention, at this point PREGGO is having a EMOTIONAL breakdown!  Tears are going EVERYWHERE!  Beeper comes running out of the bedroom... I'm sure that he thought I was in labor!  Nope, just have a dress with NO BACKSIDE!  

I am LIVID at Bailey...  Then Beeper, who was just throwing a fit over her "tt episode" says to me "it is okay Amanda, it is not a big deal!"  OH NO, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, thing to say!  My "RAGE" took an awful shift... it moved from Bailey... to BEEPER!!! :(  In my mind I didn't understand why he didn't want to BEAT HER after what she had done... he was more worried about carpet... THAT WE COULD CLEAN! I had LOST it... at this point it was way past time to take my CRAZY EMOTIONAL self to school.

I cried all the way to school... Thinking that my perfect little Bailey is basically acting out due to Mr. Kingston's arrival.  Cried because my dress was now TRASH.  Cried because I TOTALLY lost my marbles on Beep.  Then I cried because I looked like POO! I'm telling ya "IT WAS BAD!"

10:15 Lil Kraus walks in my room... I am puzzled!  He has a sack...  My PRINCE went to MOTHERHOOD and bought me "THE DRESS" and a slice of cookie cake to go with it! I don't care who you are... NOW THAT IS SWEET!  Melted my heart and then I was crying all over again... (can't wait to be TUFF again) He made my day!  :)  I was Happy!

11:15 I called Beep to tell him how much it meant to me, what he had done!  I could barely hear him... so I said "where are you?"  He said, "Oh I am eating with Jeff!"  I was thinking "oh man... I would much rather be with him, eating out, then eating this microwave pizza!"  I then said "Oh that is fun,  I just hope that you aren't eating Gonzalo's!" All I could hear was SILENCE!  (Oh yeah that's where he was)  Poor Beep... I know he was thinking "DAMNIT I can't catch a break!"  

Just an FYI: Not only am I  PSYCHO, I am a PSYCHIC! :)

I haven't been sick these past 9 months, and that is a true blessing, BUT I HAVE had some kind of BI*POLAR MOOD SWINGS!  Beeper has seen me turn into a crazy women at times, and he is ALWAYS trying to make life easier and  better for me!  I know that I don't have to tell you this, but I am so LUCKY to have such a UNDERSTANDING and LOVING husband!

 "SHMILY Beeper Kraus!"       

It's been way too long... time to catch up!

Alrighty, let's back it on up...  

My PT family threw me and Mr. Kingston one AMAZING shower!  I really do work for the best school in PINE TREE ISD - the PRIMARY ROCKS!  I am so blessed to have such great people to work with!  Nothing, is better than to be able to say that I work with "ALL MY FRIENDS!"  What is better than that people?  Notta - Nothing!

Mr. Kingston was hooked up with everything that he could imagine and possibly need!  He is going to be one SPOILED little dude!  Would we have it any other way?  I want to thank everyone again that helped make my shower so special, and personable.  I am one lucky preggo chick... :) 

After the shower, my cousin came in town from good ole' Whitesboro, Texas.  She is such a HOOT,  and there is NEVER a dull moment when Angela is around.  

We were sitting up in Mr. Kingston's room looking at all his new stuff  when I noticed my precious Bailey doing something TOTALLY DISGUSTING!  Good Gosh, she was dragging her butt on my floor!  Umh... What the hell?  I immediately yelled, "Bailey Kraus what are you doing?" (Guess what... she didn't answer!)  Anywho, I was thinking great just what we need... our dog to have WORMS ALL UP IN HER BOOTY! As I am freaking out... because Bailey has NEVER done this before, Angela is laughing hysterically saying, "Oh my gosh she just needs YOU to squeeze her anal gland!"  Uh-Do-WHAT?  ANAL GLAND?  SQUEEZED?  And you think that I am going  to do it? Ha... You must BE CRAZY!!!

Needless to say, I thought that this was a STINKY joke until she said that she would do 

it.  Naturally I said, "okay let's go outside, I will get you some toilet paper and GLOVES!"   So, there we were sitting on the deck... I'm held Bailey (who didn't even have a clue how she is about to be TOTALLY VIOLATED!)  and that's when it happened!  A "TOXIN" emerged from my "lil brown dog" a SMELL that NO ONE should ever have to inhale.  My eyes began to water... and my nose was burning!  Ahhhh... I was outside and still couldn't get away from that FUNKY STENCH!  

What's worse is Angela then says... "Good LORD , I didn't even get all of it... there is MORE in there!"  OMG we have to do it AGAIN?  Are you kidding me?  I gagged my way through it and then began to laugh hysterically as Bailey looked at me as if saying, "See I was just trying to drag that Nasty $*#t out of me...LITERALLY!"  She was relieved and unharmed... as for me on the other hand my eyes and nose will NEVER be the same!  

So, now her ANAL gland is filling back up... and NO I will not be going ANYWHERE near her little tan booty!  The next time that she will be relieved is when "VETERINARIAN ANGELA" comes back in town to "Get her Squeeze on!"  

SICK!!!   

Last weekend was Aidan Cain's 7th birthday! I can't believe how big my little cousins are getting! I mean,  I still call my cousin Baby Paige and she is 9 years old!  :)  It's just insane how fast they, WE, all grow up!  I am going to have to come up with a way to freeze time when Mr. Kingston gets here.  

Needless to say, we had a lot of fun celebrating and just hanging out.  There really isn't anything better then being with your FAMILY, where you are FREE to be YOU and they don't mind when your BIG BABY BELLY hangs out! :)  Love ya'll!!!   

1st Baby Shower for Kingston!

March 28th, I had our 1st baby shower for Kingston!  I didn't think that it could get any better than wedding showers... well guess what?  It can!!!  Baby Showers are SO MUCH FUN (especially when it's YO baby!) Even though you register for all this stuff... it doesn't make it REAL until you get home and lay it all out in his room.  Beeper and I just sat in the floor saying "WOW!"  This is when you realize how blessed you are to have such great friends and family that have helped out during this very special time.  I cannot thank Brenda, Michelle, Crystal, Tina, Teresa, Jennifer, Julie and Paige enough for hosting this shower for us.  Thank you to everything for helping Beeper and I celebrate this AWESOME time in our life!

Some captured moments from the shower...   

Part II

Warning:  In some people's eyes I always seem to tell WAY TOO MUCH information ( TMI if you will.)   So, I am telling you ahead of time that this posting will be no different and this is your opportunity to make a decision... TO READ or NOT TO READ!  As my principal says... "The choice is yours!"  lol

Let's Begin...

March 22nd, Sunday Morning, I awake at 8:30 needing to use the restroom.  Normal right?  I roll back into bed and realize that I have some pain in my lower back on the right side.  Not two minutes later, the urge is back... "OH MAN, REALLY A BLADDER INFECTION?"  I wait until 10'ish  and then decide to give my doctor a call to go ahead and get some antibiotics flowing.

The LONG day goes on and the back pain is getting WORSE, it has now spider webbed up and over my right hip and taking over my tummy.  This is NO BLADDER INFECTION!!!  Braxton Hicks got nothing on this!  Beeper had watched enough rocking and listened to enough moaning, it was time to call the doctor AGAIN!  I called and the on call nurse says that it is sounding like I am having contractions... OMG!  She said that I needed to go to the hospital.  Off we go...

We are placed in a labor and delivery room and they do everything, BUT give me something to relieve the pain!  I mean seriously, can't all the questions, baby monitors, IV's, wait?  I will lay still if you just GIVE ME SOMETHING!  After all the yah-da, yah-da, they discover that KINGSTON is sitting on my right kidney and blocking some fluid from passing through, which was creating somewhat of a fluid pocket. SUPER, I thought... "WELL JUST MOVE HIM!"  Nope, they can't do that... we have to WAIT until HE decides to move!  I feel as though I have already lost CONTROL!  :)  After being rejuvenated and finding a pain killer that wouldn't make me HURL, I was finally doing BETTER!

I know that this next part is TMI, but I can't NOT write about it...

Thursday, I decided to go back to school... evening though I looked and felt like a ZOMBIE!  I was still taking my pills every four hours for my back that was still throbbing.  That evening I thought about something that hadn't happened in 4 days... I haven't had a bowel movement!  This is very ABNORMAL for me.  I looked up the side effects for my pain pills... BINGO the very first one CONSTIPATION!  Houston we have ANOTHER  "STINKIN" problem!  

Friday morning, I called the nurse and she suggested that I take some Milk of Magnesium.  After all the gals at my school told me how WONDERFUL it tasted I couldn't wait to get my hands on some.  So, I took it at lunch... waited and waited some more!  NOTHING!  So, I took it again that evening... STILL NOTTA!  I am now thinking that something is seriously WRONG!  I decided that this "ISSUE" would just have to wait until after my shower on Saturday.  

My shower (which I will be bloggin about soon:) came and went and still NOTTA a RUMBLE or nothing, BUT...  there was one thing that kept being suggested to me to take...  MiraLAX!  

I was desperate it had been almost a week!!!  I got the GOODS and mixed it in my SONIC sweet tea... and did what I do best WAITED!  In less than TWO HOURS  a miracle happened at 212 Millpond Drive.  I have never been so excited about a BM in my life! :)

Let this be a lesson learned... don't let yourself get BACKED-UP, when there is an AMAZING powder out there to help you!   I stand by this product! I swear by MiraLAX... this stuff is THE BOMB BABY!!! 

Here's hoping that MiraLAX, will put me on a commercial, to share my story and help others, so they don't get "plugged" like I did!  People need to know that there are resources out there to help them in their time of need!

Thank you for reading my story! :)

 

   

PART I

WOW!  Do I ever have SO MUCH to share... be prepared guys this is going to be a LONG-DOOZIE!!!

It all started last Friday, when Beep and I made a quick trip to good ole' Prosper, Texas to visit "My PREGGO" Michelle and James!  I wanted to see her BEAUTIFUL house and hang out ONE last time before we became Mommies!  We had so much fun... ate SO MUCH FOOD... and grossed out our husbands like we always seem to do.  There is something about when the two of us get together we turn into.... well BOYS!!!  We had two main goals for that weekend... take some BELLY PICS and go on a LONG WALK (we love to go on walks!)  Saturday we were off... Jetta & Bailey Boo were ready to go!  Needless to say, our pace has SLOWED down incredibly... and an hour in 1/2 later we were dead tired and ready to get back.  I could see Michelle's house and the only thing that was stopping me was a fence.  No big deal right?  I mean hands down I knew that we could get through the fence...  if not we could climb it! :)  HA!!!

As we get closer to the fence, Michelle says "Manda there is no way I can get through that fence!"  Oh, but I am still confident that BIG MAMA can do this!!!  Nothing is more comical than a BIG GIRL thinking that she isn't very big and attempting to CORK herself through a fence.  I swear it was an optical illusion... It looked bigger from a distance!  Anywho, I just knew that I could have climbed over it, but Michelle wasn't EVEN going to let that happen.  :)  Someone has to look out for me!

After wasting SO MUCH TIME... we decided to

 get walking, and we finally made it home.  After, downing some water we were delirious and took some BELLY PICS!  

I have said for the past 7 months that there was NO WAY I would ever post any belly pics on my blog, because I care about my BLOGGIN BUDDIES EYES!  Well consider this a warning...  if you wish to save your eyes you 

may stop reading now!  If your feeling a little daring then venture on... don't say I didn't warn ya!

Like always, we had so much fun,  just spending time together.  How exciting it is that we will have OUR little BOYS at the same time!  I mean really Michelle I don't think that we could have planned it any better! ;)  So, let the countdown begin until those little dudes jump out of our BIG BELLIES...  and the REAL FUN begins!  Thanks again Michelle and James for letting us crash at your BEAUTIFUL CASA!

I just thought that my Spring Break was over... little did I know that my weekend was about to take a turn for the worse!!!

Stay Tuned for Part II

Hip-Hip Hooray!!!

Well first off... can I get a BIG WHOO-HOO?  LOUDER PEOPLE... IT IS SPRING BREAK for goodness sake!!!  Needless to say I am beyond excited... A break long overdue that is FO-SHO!!!

Beeper and I have been cleaning out the upstairs... "YOW-ZA" have we ever collected a bunch of CRAP!  Now, I can proudly brush my hands together and say "ALL CLEAN!"  

Next, up on the list was to get one of our guest rooms ready for a new resident that is planning on moving in this June!  You just never know about people... sometimes they SHOW UP early so we new we had to start eventually and Spring Break seemed like a perfect time. 

Almost seven months ago, I began to think about Kingston's nursery...  Ha!  Who am I kidding? I have thought about it since I was little, playing house with Lauren and Whitney and the rest of the Northwood Crew!

As mentioned earlier I have had some ideas... You see this is how it has always worked, I come up with the ideas, pass them on to my INSANELY CREATIVE DADDY, and HE makes it happen!  We work great as a team that way!  (Love you Daddy! :)  
As luck would have it... my Dad took off the same week as my spring break!  Lucky for him right?  I said "Dad this is going to be EASY... here are the colors I would like striped on the wall, and on this wall we are going to create a magnetic chalkboard, then on top of the chalkboard, I wish that you would draw a big "K" with a crown!"  If you know my Dad, there is nothing that MOOSE can't do... and like always he looked at me and said "Yeah, okay we can do that!"  

He started on Friday... and we officially finished Kingston's room on Monday!  My chalkboard took us a little longer than expected!  You see I I wanted a magnetic chalkboard... it would have been too easy to go and by one from the store!  I wanted something different and I don't do easy anyway (I get that from my Mama!)  After buying the different paints, to create this one of a kind chalkboard, I realized that if we do it right... it is going to take some time!  (Have I mentioned that my Dad is a PERFECTIONIST!)  So, it took us some time!

Of course throughout the weekend I had to document everything that was happening.   

Kingston's room is perfect... exactly the way I imagined!  

I couldn't have done ANY of it without one special person...  

My Dad, 

Thank you again for helping make another one of my visions come true!

Side Note to BIG DADDY:  

I just realized that we still have five more days left...  do you know what all we could get accomplished?  No worries I'll start thinking...  

You know you love me!  :)

  

Another Peek In on Kingston Hunter...

So I am LONG overdue for a posting... I KNOW, I KNOW, I have heard ALL of you!  You want an update?  Your wish is my command!

Let's back up to February 5th...   We went in for  a normal checkup and at the end Dr. Hucheson revealed that Kingston had a Chorid Plexus Cyst on his brain.  She told us not to be alarmed and not to worry, because they believe that this is another form of development.  NOT to WORRY?  Ha... 

Even better she told us that our next appointment wouldn't be until March 4th. For a month we were supposed to NOT worry!  YEA RIGHT!!!  What made it even worse was I came home and did exactly what you should never do... began searching on the INTERNET!   I knew better... but I READ everything, the GOOD and the BAD. 

Long story short... March 4th finally made it here.  Our appointment was at 7:30.  So at 7:30 I had blood taken for the diabetes test, YES, I finally got to drink that AWFUL drink that everyone loves so much.  I must say it really wasn't that bad... Now, don't get me wrong it totally made me GAG, but it was fun to CHUG something again! (LOL) Just kidding... or AM I? :)  After, getting my arm jabbed we headed up to the 2nd floor for the BIG SONOGRAM!  Nothing but GREAT news.  Our prayers had been answered and the cyst was COMPLETELY gone!  I was relieved and to top it off I passed the other test so we didn't have to hang out there for another 3 hours!

All-in-all another great day... God is good! 

Here are a couple of pics from the sonogram...

No lie... does Kingston not look like Benjamin Button here... SERIOUSLY?

This most likely will be the LAST time that we get to peek in on our Lil Guy!  I can not wait to see him...  hopefully the next 3 months will fly by just like the past 6!