Motion

Sitting on my butt watching tv I saw a commercial that says,"A body in motion tends to stay in motion." And I'm always doing the exact opposite. Unless it involves me cleaning my house, I feel like that never ends. But I decided to try and "stay in motion". So here are a few of the things that I have accomplished the last week...



This was a hat that I was making for Mason but it turned out to small so I decided to make a flower and sew it on instead. Now I just don't know what to do with it. But it was fun to make! I wish I had a little girl I would make tons more!









Cant decide which one I want to use. Alan is going to crop some of them for me so there isn't so much head room on top but again fun to do! I just couldn't stop :) My friend wanted one and that made me so excited! So if any of you want one of them for you I can always swap out the picture :)

Choose Your Words

Choose your words wisely and make sure they are uplifting. Sarcasm is all fun and games until someone gets their feelings hurt. Choose your words and make sure they are uplifting. Being a member of the LDS Church, we believe that families can be together forever. We need to make sure we don't put down others especially our families (even when we are joking). Our families are the only way we can be happy forever. We need to hold them close and speak kind words to them. Aleca taught me this valuable lesson yesterday. Its one to be remembered.

Update from my last post

I'm finally getting around to updating what has been going on. Sorry for the long wait but our whole family has been sick with colds and flu's and all the in between. I had one last blood draw last Monday which reveled a normal miscarriage. phew. My HCG levels dropped from 3000 to 1000 and now to 45. Which in some way is great news but in others still hard to hear. But it really makes me feel blessed for having Mason in our lives. No one ever really knows how its going to be to build a family, whether it will be easy and no complications, or very difficult and have to take painful measures (physically/emotionally) or simply incapable to have any at all.



We love Mason so much and he is a HUGE part of our lives. We simply are lucky to have him here to raise him on Earth. He loves to smile at anything and everything you do. He has this amazing personality that melts our hearts. He has pretty much the most random hair on top of his head but if you look a little bit further down his eyes will captivate you. His teeth are at the stage right now they are so funny its cute and his skinny little tan (at least compared to me) body, luckily he got from his dad, makes it easy to pick him up. Although it would be nice to have a forward facing car seat. He has pretty much zero desire to walk and learn words but he can crawl at the speed of light and speak in his own language that I'm pretty sure he can understand. He loves working with his hands and playing with legos and fitting things where they don't belong. He loves banging on his legs and opening his mouth and wide as he can while doing it lol so cute. All in all I love my little M. And if he is all I get in this life, I'm a lucky gal.

So Confused

So I was so excited when I found out I was pregnant again with baby number 2 that I took 3 test from 2 different brands and all came out positive!! I surprised Alan with little M wearing a shirt I made that says "BIG BRO" for when he came home from a work trip. I wanted to wait to tell everybody after the 3 month mark so I new we were in the clear. But I only made it to 2 1/2 months. I started spotting on tuesday but it never stopped. We also found that little M had a rather large bump on his cute little butt cheek with a rash all on his front. We went to the doc and found that little M has an abscess the size of a quarter and if it doesn't go down by today he has to get it lanced which means to cut it open and drain it because it is so far into the tissue. On top of that he got 4 shots for his year check up. Needless to say it hasn't gone down with the meds he is on it has only gotten bigger.
The doc took an ultra sound and nothing was in my uterus. We are at a loss and so confused. Nothing really makes any since. Here are some scenarios of what could or is happening.

1) I lost the baby but never felt the pain of it
2) I never had one in the first place
3) I have another tubal pregnancy
4) I have a really early pregnancy
5) I lost the baby but also have a tubal pregnancy

1) don't you feel pain when you miscarry? 2) I don't see how 3 tests and almost 3 months of no aunt flow could be wrong. 3) If I had another tubal pregnancy I would be in so much pain and probably dead by now having a baby that big in a tube (last time it ruptured my tube at 8 weeks and I had about a day left to live with how much I bleed internally). 4) Prego tests dont even show up until your at least a month along and I had taken it 3-4 weeks ago so no early pregnancy for me. Number 5 is what we and the doc think what happened to me my last tubal/ectopic pregnancy. I bleed like a period and about a week and half later I was in surgery to remove the pregnancy in my tube.
They took my blood to check my HCG levels and scheduled for another visit at the hospital for later today so I can get another ultra sound to see blood flow and check my tubes to see if there is anything in them and take my blood again to check if the HCG level has changed.
If I do have a tubal pregnancy that means surgery. If little M's abscess doesn't go down it also means surgery. Ugggg I would just really love a normal pregnancy and delivery. No complications, no confusion. But most of you know so far that hasn't worked for me. But that's okay. This is my test in life. I know I have at least 2 babies in Heaven working hard and got saved from this world. What a blessing to know that I could give them a body so they could finish their work in Heaven. I'm a lucky girl.

Mason Update

Great News! All of Mason's tests came back normal except for his hemoglobin is slightly low. So we have to go back and get it checked one more time in 3 months. He is now only throwing up a tiny bit once every few days which I can totally deal with! Thanks for all the prayers and concerns. We just have to guess that he is so small because of all the energy he has :)

What we thought was going to be a normal day....

We didn't take any pictures since we were only planning on a doctor visit for Mason's acid reflex and a bad cold. Just so you can get the scoop, Mason was throwing up about 5 times a day after he would eat, drink, get excited, or move. Even sitting still he would still throw up, we just never knew when the next time would happen. We have taken him in several times for normal visits to a different doc and he said he would grow out of it but he never did. He is normal for height, 29 1/4 inches, but less then 3% for weight. Needless to say we went to a different doc and he is now only throwing up once every couple days about with help of prescription. We went back today for the follow up and he still has not gained any weight, he is still exactly the same weight last time we weighed him 16 lbs 12 oz. So we know its not the Acid Reflex that is causing it. After Mason did a pee test he sent us on our way to Primary Children's Hospital to do a Sweat Chloride test and some blood work to check if he has any diseases that would cause him being so small. I'm optimistic that he will be fine and he is just little because of who his parents are. ( I'm just throwing myself out there, it makes me feel better ;)) He was a trooper for the tests! Test one, pee test: I always wondered what they would do for that but they just put a bag with a band aid like seal around it to keep it on under his diaper. Test two, Sweat Chloride test: they rubbed some liquid around his arms and biceps that helps the sweat glands and put a 2x2 gauze on with 4 hook ups to machines that send electricity through for 5 minutes of a constant shock. Little M started to cry as he was in daddy's arms. Then the wrapped his arms up with more gauze and plastic to make him sweat, we had to put a coat on him and wrap him up nice and tight to make sure he would sweat for 30 min. Test 3, blood test: they had to take out enough to do 4 more test so they took it from his arm. He cried when the needle went in but just watched as the blood came out. He did so good! I couldn't handle it I had to go and wait for his prescriptions. I was glad for that! and of course as soon as he saw me he had a huge smile on his face, it melted my heart. I'm so blessed to have such a great little guy I get to raise. We will find out monday or tuesday what he tests come out as.
Please pray for Mason, we hope they all come out with Negatives!!!!
Thanks Alan for missing work and being there for Mason. We both appreciate it!

Tech Support for Installing a Husband

I was looking at some fun blogs (love actually) I like to go to and this just made me laugh so I have to share it with you. Because just like she said some times you just have to. If your marriage is some what boring with the same old routine every day I might of found your problem



Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?

Signed,

Desperate

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Dear Desperate,

First, keep in mind that Boyfriend 5.0 is an entertainment package while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Please enter the command: ithoughtyoulovedme.html, download Tears 6.2 and be sure to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If those applications work as designed Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, please remember that overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (It runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)

In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0-program. This is an unsupported application and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck!

Tech Support

Source: StrengtheningMarriage.Com, author unknown