Diabetes

I passed! Huzzah! No diabetes for me! Finally something has gone right with this pregnancy. All I had to do was not eat for like 6 hours, guzzle a bottle of lemon-lime syrup (way worse than the orange soda stuff), get my fingers pricked 4 times, and not throw up. And I did do all of those things. To celebrate when I got home I ate 3 bowls of 3 different kinds of cereal and took a 3 hour nap. Not a bad day. Nate and my brothers just went to play soccer, so I guess I'll try and get some stuff done around the house now. Later-

25.5 weeks

I saw Dr Porter today, but there's not much to report. I gained a little more weight, but not as much as last month (thank goodness!). I think I'm up a total of 15 pounds now. That part is taking a little getting used to. Dr Porter had me take the "sugar test" since I had the time, and I failed. The sugar test is a glucose screening test. From what the lab nurse told me, which wasn't much, all this means is that I get to come back on Saturday and take the 3 hour sugar test (as opposed to the 1 hour version I failed). So Saturday will be a fun day because I have to fast (which makes me sick) and then guzzle down twice as much orange soda as I did today (which makes me sick) and then check in and have my finger poked every hour for 3 hours (which doesn't make me sick but which will be annoying). I hope I pass this one, because methinks it will be bad news to fail twice. Dr Porter didn't tell me anything, but my trusty interweb says that about 15 to 23 percent of the time women test with blood sugar levels that are too high (like me) and have to take the 3 hour test to see if they really do have gestational diabetes. The good news is that most people don't have it and this is probably a false positive (I hope). I guess I'll have more info on that later this week.

Li'l Cleatus is around 13.5 inches long and weighs about a pound and a half (says the interweb). His weight is roughly that of an average rutabaga, for those of you who know your veggies. He's still pretty active, and I think he likes to dance. That's the only way I can think of to describe the random movements I feel from day to day.

That's all for now. I'll let you know if I pass my next test or not on Saturday. Bye!

Some Pictures

Here are some pictures of our unfinished house (some of you have already seen it, some have not), and some pictures from the Great Easter Egg Hunt of 2008. Okay, the Easter pictures are more along the lines all the funtivities we did today. I'm sure Caleb will have plenty more to post later. 

My eggs say Cleatus, Supra, Egg, and I Heart Nate...

This is Nate's happy Easter face. He's holding Li'l Cleatus's presents.

The kids sorting through their 12 pounds of candy...


Scott giving Rachel a hand...




Okay, here are the pictures of the house, starting with our bedroom. 

And here's the kitchen...

This would be Nate running on the treadmill we're babysitting for Lenna and Scott...

And here's the living room...

That's all. Oh wait. I have a couple more fun pictures of Nate. Here you go...

He's wearing the dragon we got from Ikea for Li'l Cleatus's room. We're planning on decorating with like safari/jungle animals, but how could Nate's son NOT have a dragon? 

In this picture Nate's wearing his best shirt. It says, "Your mom goes to college." 

And though I might regret this later, here's a picture of me today trying on a pair of maternity pants that I will never, ever, put on again. Ever. (Yeah, my shirt is tucked in. I think it helps add to the overall effect.) Yikes!

My next doctor's appointment is on Tuesday, so I guess I'll have another update then. That's all for now!

Good Times

So, I went to California this weekend with my mom, brother, and sister. We went down for my cousin's wedding, to see some of Seth's mission friends, and to go to Disneyland. It was a short trip, but we had a lot of fun. Seth and Heather went on their favorite rides while my mom and I went shopping with her friend Pauline. Thanks to my fake cousin Amy we got a sweet discount on most of our purchases, and we even got to go to the special employees only "Company D" store. That was pretty awesome. The store is a little ways away from Disneyland in the warehouse district of Anaheim. Everything in the store was at least 50% off of regular price. The items weren't seconds or ruined or anything--just overstocks from the other stores. I got some cute clothes and things for Li'l Cleatus, and my sister got a child's Peter Pan costume that fits her.

My cousin's wedding reception was a little weird, but it was nice to see my aunts and uncles on my mom's side of the family. We don't get to see them very often, so we appreciate it when we do. And seeing some of the families Seth met on his mission was fun. It was nice to see that people liked him and missed him. We took the missionaries in Barstow out to lunch on Saturday and enjoyed visiting with them. They seem so young. They looked about 12, but they seem to be doing good work out there. I don't know the story behind it, but now all missionaries in that mission have to have someone back them out any time they reverse out of anywhere. Seth helped them out after lunch so they could both stay in the car. (Seth mentioned that it took him a while to get used to the fact that he didn't have to back my mom out of the driveway and that he was just standing behind the car for no reason.)

Anyway, everything was great and wonderful, except for the fact that my right leg is still numb and that made sitting in a car for 10 hours straight and walking around Disneyland until midnight a little uncomfortable. I guess I'm just going to have to get used to it for the next few months. It varies between feeling like nothing's there to feeling cold to feeling like it's on fire. Good times. I think it's way too early in my pregnancy to have things like this going on, and I've tried telling that to the baby, but he doesn't seem to care.

Squash

According to babycenter.com, our little guy is roughly the length of a spaghetti squash. And he weighs almost a pound. I don't know why, but I like how the website compares the size of my kid to a different produce item every week. Stay tuned for more grocery fun!

21 weeks 3 days

So, I went to see Dr Porter today (hence the new post). Nothing fabulous to report—unless you think it's fabulous that I gained a bunch of weight in the last month. I don't find it so fabulous. I know deep down in my heart that I'm going to get bigger and the baby's growing and whatnot, but shallower in my heart I don't like feeling fatter. So I guess it's high time I got the treadmill out and started doing some kind of exercise. (Because I'm certainly not going to try and eat less. That's just crazy talk.) Also, my right leg has been going numb off and on for the last 2 weeks, so I asked Dr Porter about it. He said my right hip was out of whack. He then proceeded to force it back into whack. I didn't like that part so much. It hurt. I guess I'll be able to tell in the next few days if it did any good. Li'l Cleatus wouldn't stay put long enough for Dr Porter to get a fix on his heartbeat. It was kind of fun playing hide and seek. And that about does it for the appointment. I go back again in 4 weeks.

I don't have the ultrasound pictures ready to post yet, but Nate said he would help me scan them or whatever it is I need to do. Hopefully we can get it done for family night tonight.

Nate and I are having trouble coming up with name ideas that we both like. So far I think we have 2 to choose from. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to tell everyone what we're thinking or not (because I don't think I'd like it much if someone told me they didn't like the names we like), but I am going to solicit ideas from everyone. So if you have a good idea, leave a comment. We'd appreciate a little help in this area.

In other random thoughts, I'm getting excited about decorating the baby's room, but there just seems to be too much boring stuff to do before all the fun stuff begins. I need to clean my junk (and my brother's junk) out of that room before I have space to work on blankets and pictures and whatnot. There's still a lot of finishing work that needs to be done in the rest of the house, but I think I'll delegate that out to Nate, Seth, and Ethan and reserve the fun baby stuff for me.

I'm going to California this weekend for my cousin's wedding. But more importantly I'm going to hang out at Disneyland for a day. I can't really go on the rides, but I look forward to shopping for the wee one. (I think Nana Ruth does too.) That's all for now. Later!

Kaylee is not a witch

She might have guessed correctly in the past, but Kaylee was dead wrong on this one—our baby is a boy! Huzzah! It looks like Kaylee doesn't have any magical divination powers, she's just a lucky guesser. Or maybe our baby's just tricksy. I guess we'll have to wait and see if she's right about her new sibling. She's predicted boy for that one. But either way my faith in her is gone. :)

I'm so excited to starting pimping out Li'l Cleatus's room and collecting pirate and BYU football gear. Awesome. Hooray! Yahoo for boys! And soon we'll have our first contribution to the Silvey Family Football Club (and by football I mean soccer this time). Li'l Cleatus will make 4 grandsons, so we're well on our way to a team. And if Heather has a boy later this year, then even better. I think Nate might be a little sad that he doesn't get his princess yet, but he is excited for our boy. I'm excited to see if he gets his dad's chiseled abs and stunning features.

During the ultrasound today everything looked great and normal. And the pictures show that he is definitely a he. The doctor had to work pretty hard to get the money shot, but it worked fine in the end. He kept poking me with the ultrasound wand thingy to try and get the baby to move around and show his goods. I'll see if I can scan some of the images and get them posted. The pictures turned out really clear. Li'l Cleatus measured exactly 20 weeks and 0 days, which is right where we thought I was. So my due date is staying the same—July 4th. Actually, according to the ultrasoundologist man, my due date is July 4th at 7:00 am. He seemed pretty confident, so I'm going to plan on it. I figure I'll pop the baby out at 7:00 am and be ready to hit the parade by 10:30 am. No sweat.

My next doctor's appointment is on Monday the 25th, so I'll probably have another update then. In the meantime, here's a little something to tide you all over: The Office will return with 6 new episodes starting on April 10th. Mark your calendars. This is important stuff.

Attention!

So, Lenna brought to my attention that I had done something weird to the comments option that prohibited people from commenting. My apologies! I had no idea I was depriving you all of such a wonderful opportunity. So, it's fixed now. Comment if you like. That is all.

Nate Smelts

So, Nate has started playing World of Warcraft again so he can slay dragons in my honor. He also mines ore, smelts it, sneaks around with the stealth of a ninja, and scans the auction house to make monies. You should ask him about it sometime IRL. (That means In Real Life for those newbs who aren't in the know.)

158 days to go...

Another month, another doctor visit, another significant drop in panic attacks. Li'l Cleatus is doing just fine. He or She has a nice healthy heartbeat, which is music to my ears. Since I don't have any real pictures of Cleatus yet, here's a picture of what babycenter.com thinks it looks like.



I'm starting to feel a heck of a lot better these days. I still have to take my "special" pills every day so I don't puke, but I don't feel nearly as bad as I used to. I went grocery shopping and helped clean the house this week! Hooray for me! I'm even gaining weight! I'm up 4 pounds since my last appointment, which means that I'm now weighing in at a hefty 125.5 lbs now. I know; I'm huge.

But the best news from this appointment is that my ultrasound to find out the gender is only 18 days away! Huzzah! February 15 at 8:45 am. I can't contain my excitement. I freak out about it like every 15 minutes. In only 18 days Nate will no longer have an excuse not to discuss baby names with me. In only 18 days I'll be able to start shopping unrestrained. In only 18 days I'll be able to start working on the cutest baby blankets ever. And, you all only have 18 more days to vote in the "Do you think Cleatus is a boy or a girl" poll. So get a move on!

I guess that's all for now. Now that my fears of miscarriage are really subsiding, and I'm not so sickly, I'll try to update this more often. Hopefully I'll have many humorous and insightful anecdotes to share!