The Final Countdown

Ok so i haven’t been on here in quite some time. I have been crazy busy. There is so much to take care of and get ready. We had both of our baby showers actually we had 4 showers total. Her work threw her one and my work did as well. So that put us up to 4. we got some good baby loot. there were only a few things we had to pick up. Haven’t picked them all up yet but almost there. The final preparation to bring a child home is a ton of stuff. I never realized all the things until this past week. unpacking all the stuff get all the cloths washed. OH and ill tell you what washing a full load of laundry of baby cloths Horrible! cause a full load to a normal person is a few pairs of jeans some shirts and done. A baby 25 receiving blankets, 50 burp cloths, 20 shirts, 10 pairs of tiny socks, 17 bibs. yeah try folding all that at once. CRAP took me forever. anyway got all the stuff assembled and still having to get D batteries i finally know what D batteries are for baby toys i swear i never have use a D battery in my life and all of a sudden i need a case of them to make all these toys sing, vibrate, swing, & talk.  I have been trying to be as good of a husband as i can Trying to get all of the things done for the nursery for her and making as little work as possible. I also finished the nursery. Here is the link to my flickr to see the pics.

www.flickr.com/meadsblog

it turned out pretty sweet. all the eggs are hand painted and i created the art work of the yoshi’s and got them turned into wall stickers. but that whole thing took me about 3-4 solid months to do. started from re-drywalling and ended at the pics. everyone that has seen it says its amazing it took a lot of work. I hate painting but its a little different when you are doing it for you unborn child who would of thunk. we have less than 4 weeks to go still haven’t packed the labor bag. yeah super slacking on my part. christina is doing as good as can be expected for having another human inside her. the baby is starting to bare down. which means its coming in the next 4 weeks some time. she is totally ready for this baby to get out. I just want to see what the hell we have been waiting for. Boy or Girl thats the mystery i can’t wait to solve with the first glance of my child. (sappy part over)

-MeaD.

It’s A BOY…..or girl

    

Click here for all the Ultrasound Pics

So my little sea monkey now looks like a alien. YAY alien baby. heh well ill tell you what it goes a lot faster than you think it would. we are 20 weeks into pregnancy half way over. its a strange feeling sometimes just thinking about the little thing in Christina’s belly. she started feeling it recently and wow that is crazy too. sometimes its hard to really wrap your head around that there is some living little thing in there. i automatically think she got a face hugger on her and she feels fine and then at dinner bam little alien comes out. he he seriously though its a strange feeling cause it kicks so hard you can see her stomach move and you can feel it hit your hand. I can’t even think about what that would feel like on the inside. but any way we went to the doctors today for our 20 week ultrasound and check up. Up front everything looks great. 10 finger 10 toes a head and some other parts. everything points to a beautiful healthy baby just needs to bake for a few more months. So we have had a few arguments/disagreements lately concerning the baby. let me break it down for you so you will compeletly understand every argument

 

ME

Don’t want to know the sex

 

HER

Wants to know the sex!!!

so now your up to speed. I really would never have believed that we would dispute so much over this. even though i should have seen it coming. Christina is a very planed organized have to know everything to plan everything type of person. i am the type of person that … how does she say it…… the kind of person that flies by the seat of his pants. yeah that it. so personality wise we are ying and yang we fit perfectly together cause the things she really cares about and wants to control i don’t care and let her control it. and just the opposite so we complement each other rather well. but i will tell you what we have butt heads on this topic more than we have ever butted heads being married. mainly cause the dispute never ends cause no one is right and no one is wrong thats what makes this such a hard thing to dispute cause this is a dispute where no one is winning or losing.( i keep saying dispute cause its not an argument where it ends up screaming and throwing things across the room FIGHT. it just disagreeing) I never wanted to know what my first child is i think the joy of finding out when you first see it is part of the fun the experience. that is something that will stick in your mind for the rest of your life kinda thing. Its just something that makes that moment even better. it one of the last real surprises left in a persons life. then walking out to the waiting room where you family is and saying Its a (insert gender here)!!!! what a feeling it must be. thats what i have tried to explain to her but she thinks its just as surprising knowing while she is laying on a table with a bunch of jelly on her stomach while a woman rubs this probe on her belly and we see something or nothing on a black and white monitor ITS A ….. yeah thats not exciting not a moment you will remember for the rest of your life. it goes yeah we found out what you were we planned and everything…. meh. everything she comes up with i come with a counter and vise versa so you see how difficult it is to disagree on such a topic. so what are we doing? as of now we do not know the sex….. as of now.

(fingers crossed)

-MeaD.

What a Trooper.

 

This has nothing to do with this post. i just like this artist.

I’m not emo i just think its funny and a cool style.

 

So the past few days have been awful. just plain horrible not for me but everything christina has gone thru. At times you just wish that there was something that you could do or some how you could just go thru it for her so she doesn’t have too. you know what I mean? Well it all started last Wednesday. Christina started having chills and a fever. Being pregnant that is not a good thing. so we kept a close watch on it. i called the OB and they said if it gets over 101.5 or 102.0 get to the ER. next day guess what! 102.0 i left work in the afternoon to get her to the ER and they really didn’t know what was wrong with her. they were thinking it was the flu or some kinda of virus. they gave her a IV and some Tylenol and thats about it the fever left but it came back the next day. then her back wisdom teeth started hurting both of her lowers. so we took her to the Urgent Dental Care place. and they really didn’t do much for her but told her what we already knew. She had two lower impacted wisdom teeth that had to come out. they started to cause an infection. in the lymph nodes which caused the fever but it was too bad for them to deal with it. So we called her regular dentist and said they have to be taken out cause she can’t eat or anything thing. Mean while she started to develop lockjaw which was awful for her. So we got her in the the dentist monday morning and they preformed emergency surgery on her and removed both lower wisdom teeth. the horrible part was she was awake for all of it. they usually put you out for it. so she was awake while they pulled her teeth out. so i take her home while she is a huge amount of pain with her mouth stuffed with cloth. she is just in so much pain its aweful to see her like that but all we can do is just keep her like this. 

but here is the good news! what good news well the only thing that is getting her thru this whole thing. She finally felt the baby kick. its pretty awesome we are 18 Weeks today almost have way thru it. then i felt the baby kick as well and its pretty crazy too feeling something inside her and kicking my hand and it was hard. crazy hard for something that small. crazy…

-MeaD.

Life Lessons & Pregnancy.

 

So i have realized i am not always the brightest bulb in the pack. why do I say this cause i have done things with out thinking and realized that i really should have thought that thru again. I have recently realized there are new rules that have came into play since my wife has been pregnant. things that i never would have thought about before hand. So when a woman becomes pregnant hormones go thru the roof….of a 40 story building. everything is heightened and more touchy. its easier to hurt feelings. words are misunderstood and taken wrong. I am not going to go into super detial with all of these examples. What i am going to do is tell you things that you never should do. One thing i have learned recently is never ever ever rent or watch a love story sappy movie with out expecting her to start crying. Crying whats wrong with that ” AHHH why did you get this!! I’m Crying like a baby NOW MY EYES ARE GOING TO BE PUFFY IN THE MORNING THANKS ALOT!!!” yeah….. don’t do that stick to comedies. The ovbious never talk about weight. you will find that your words seem more harsh and mean when a woman is pregnant or she will think that. i know my wife is great i could say alot and she would never take offense to any of it. Something changes in a woman though no matter how cool they are when not pregnant when they do get pregnant watch your words. i have a simple 12 step process that will help you if you think something or want to say something that might hurt her feelings. or something that she will get mad at you about. so just follow these simple steps.

1. get a pen and paper

2. write your thought down make sure its legible and clear and concise.

3. fold in half and then half again.

4. go to a secluded spot in the woods

5. start a small fire

6. once you are warmed by the fire.  Place all your Feelings, Emotions & the note in the center of the coals

7. once note, feelings & emotions are ash put out fire

8. collect all ashes and put in a coffee can.

9. drive to another state with coffee can.

10. bury the can.

11. go back home forget about everything. 

12. repeat process as many times as necessary (choose different states each time)

MeaD don’t you think these steps are a bit much?! ill tell you what friend I would gladly go thru this each time then to really tick off my wife right now. the stress is not good for Her & the Baby. And think heightened PMS x A Lot when angry. but if you don’t listen to me the first time i understand but the second time i know you will do what i advised. I just really advise this more for her than you my friend. when you are in this awesome situation you really want your wife always in the best state of mind. cause nothing is worse than making her feel like crap she will cry guaranteed. some times she will just cry cause she can. so take my advise don’t hurt her if you can help it. yeah….

-MeaD.

Let the Construction Begin.

I am underway with the nursery. I have started my construction so to speak with a little demo work. Yes the best type of work. but not really cause the best kind of demo work is the kind you have a sledge hammer in your hand. i just had a hammer and a chisel. due to the fact i have to save things i couldn’t just go in bashing things. Even though that would be the best in the world. So I what i am doing all this little demo work is that I live in a Manufactured home. which means when they put up drywall instead of plastering the seams they just put up little strips of wood to cover up the gaps. yes this does look as bad as it sounds. So i have taken all of the strips off the  walls and had to pull all the nails that kept those strips up on that wall. I also tore down all the molding around the room. So now the room is completely stripped of all the stuff and its just bare walls. I now am going to completely re-drywall the entire room to make it nice and smooth so i can paint all the things that i am going to paint on the wall. I just bought all the drywall this past weekend and all the supplies that i will need. So this saturday i will be Dry-walling the Nursery with my father-in-law. i have no idea how to do it but he does so he is going to be helping me. once i get all that i will start to keep you updated on what i will be doing next.

All i am going to say this is going to be the sweetest nursery in the world. 

-MeaD.

That’s not no sea monkey! Thats my kid!

 

So today i saw my child. it was by far the greatest experience yet. It was amazing christina & I saw its little heart beat again this time it wasn’t a pixel heart beat it was about 12 pixels acrossed. thats guesstimated of course. but it was pretty freaking great to see my little baby growing in my wives little tummy. i also say it move which was the most greatest part of it by far. it did a tiny curl twitch kinda thing. it was cute cause its the size of a gummy bear right now. so yeah we go back to the doctor in 4 weeks but we don’t get to see it. that is what sucks. we have to wait till its 20 weeks along thats along time to wait to see your child but i guess in retrospect 9 months total is a pretty long wait. takes a while to bake a baby in the mommy oven. (thats a sentence i never thought i would say)

In other baby news.

I am almost done ripping apart the nursery. i am going to re-drywall the whole thing then paint it and so on. that will be getting done in the next few weeks ill keep you updated on that. 

Also I am going to be starting the crib soon with my dad we are going to be building all the furniture in the nursery. don’t know if have said that yet. so we are going to be making a round crib. something different and something that will be an heirloom. plus i can’t do anything normal i have to be different thats just what separates me from the weasels & all the other weaselly like animals. 

-MeaD.

Houston…We have a Heart Beat!

So we have our first baby picture. I have become one of those people that talks about there kid all the time. I never understood those parents. I kinda do now. Its hard for me to describe it its the most exciting thing in the world to me. nothing is more important that my child and my wife right now. I think about both of them constantly. I never had anything against these types of people the ones that always had pictures of there kid. Telling you what they just did the other day. How cute it was and you should of seen it. OH no you can see it i was video taping. Those kind of people i never thought there was anything wrong with those people they love there kids good for them but sometimes i don’t care about what your little tike did with a spatula, a trampoline and a baby duck… well i kinda want to know that but you know what i am talking about. I know i am not really a full fledged ” You’ll never guess what [kid name] did yesterday” Parent yet. its slowly happening though i am turning into one. I’m not really trying to stop it either. I don’t know if that is a sad thing or a good thing. It kinda hit me today by the way I am a father. the second i saw that gelatinous blob with a tiny flickering heartbeat that was it. I was that little blobby things DaD. No matter how good you are with word & no matter how many words you use there is nothing to describe that feeling the second that you realize your a father. Today was kinda of scary, exciting, and a whole bunch of other words i don’t know too! we had a bit of a scare Christina had some cramping and she called the doc and they told her to get there or go to the Emergency Room. I don’t know about you but every time i hear from a doctor go to the Emergency Room I don’t automatically go “Oh! So nothing is wrong at least.” so I left work in a hurry and got her and took her to the doctors office they check her out and we saw our BABY!!! and we say it was looking good it was the right size and in the right place. Which made us very very happy. Thats where we saw a tiny little heartbeat. Actually let me explain how tiny this pixel heartbeat really was on the screen look below to see about how small it was

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see it. yeah thats how big it was. but they didn’t see anything wrong so they just said must be from growing pains. so now we have our first baby picture. its super exciting and i have already begun to become one of those parent type folk.

-MeaD.

Future Thinking.

 

So I’m having a kid which means I’m going to be a DaD. It really just makes me wonder what kind of DaD I’m going to be. Its kinda scary right now trying to think that I’m am going to be responsible for a little things life. Well half responsible. I know there are always those people that are like “when i have my kids I’m not going to be like my parents. I’m going to be better.” well quite honestly my parents did a damn good job. i hope i can be like them. Then only thing I really want to do is be one of those DaD’s that play a lot with the kid. I know I won’t be the kinda dad the forces the kids to play sports. Due to the fact that i never played so i don’t talk about the big game my senior year like it was the pinnacle of my life. So its just so much to think about me being a father. Its just thinking about will i do the right things to make the kid grow into a good person. I’m not horribly worried if I’m going to be a good DaD. All you need to do for that is love the kid no matter what and the whole no beating it thing too. There’s another thing too i really don’t want to be the dad where the kid fears me. I know someone fear you HA! well i don’t want to have my child fear me but at the same time you have to have respect. My dad always told me you Demand respect from a kid to earn there respect when there older. I think that holds a lot of weight too. I’m not going to lie there were times where i was scared to death of my father. I just want to kinda be that DaD where the kid can come to me if something is wrong. i dunno its just a lot to take in all at once. I guess its the fathers-to-be that don’t worry about it that need to worry about it. and the ones that worry about it are the ones that don’t need to worry about it. i think I’m in that “don’t need to worry” bracket. i think since i care i’m doing something right and the kid isn’t even born yet.

-MeaD.

Wait?! What does two lines mean again?!

**I know before i really even start this this is going to be a long entry. there is alot i have to talk about  so before you even start sorry for the novel blog…

well… IM GOING TO BE A DAD!!!!!

yeah crazy. so i will start at the beginning.

Chrisitna & I found out about a week ago. We had a pretty good feeling that she was pregnant cause of certain signs she was showing.  We were really excited and thinking about all the awesome things that would happen if she is. Then she took the test and it was like…”is that another line?! IS THAT ANOTHER LINE!? first reactions: Me- I’m going to be a DaD!!!(super excited) Christina- Oh my god. what are we going to do. I’m Pregnant.(super worried about how we are going to do it) So of course she started worrying and I told her to just enjoy the moment. So we were SUPER excited and had to tell someone and we got dressed and we were at my MoM & DaD’s in 5 minutes. We told them and it was so awesome to tell my parents that I am going to be a parent. it was great the first thing that came out of my DaD’s mouth was “Really?! Well its about Damn Time!” my mom didn’t say much she was in shock i think but they were both happy. Everyone we told was really happy for us. that whole day we went visiting to everyone in my family and Christina’s Family. That was a very tiring day with all the visiting. I think the highlight of the whole trip is when we were at christina’s great grandma’s she is up in her years and so it started we got there and she was going to tell her right off. but she couldn’t get a word in edge wise which was hilarious. it wasn’t till 45 min of us being there when she finally told her and this is how the conversation went down:

GG(great grandma): Yeah so Mike is doing good with everything.

Christina: well thats good. So Guess what granny?

GG:What sweetie?

Chrisitna: I’m gunna have a baby.

GG: well thats great. So next week I am having a guy come in and grout my bathtub its gunna cost me 250 dollars and to finish it another 50dollars thats 300 dollars just for that.

Christina: …..oh……uh….really? how about that.

I love her great grandma she is so funny sometimes. We think that it kinda took her by surprise so she just didn’t know what to day but that. or just is just funny and old. so after we told the whole family we got home and took time to pass out and be exhausted. So then we really started to let it sink in and all the things that we have to start thinking about. We also started to make fun of how Christina has started to Pee like every hour. She was putting out more liquid than what was going in. I know for a fact there were some laws of physics being broke. then monday morning when we were driving into work I scheduled our first baby apt. and we were all excited. that night is when we had the start of what you never really hear about when expecting. all the fear that goes along with having a baby in that belly. Christina went to the bathroom and she noticed there was a little bleeding everything we read said that can happen with the implantation but she also was having cramping and all the books say having one of those is ok. but both together is bad. it is signs of a miscarriage. so that worried us to death so we called the doctor and he told us to come in the next morning. So we got to the doctors in the morning and they took blood and made her pee in a cup. Then we went in for a ultrasound which was really cool to see Christina’s insides. so they did that and the doc said the walls are getting thick and the hole is closed. so those were all good things to hear i was told. Then they told us to come back in two days to check  her levels to see if they are going up. so she did and they didn’t draw blood but they did another ultrasound. he told her everything is looking really good and he didn’t want to draw blood if he didn’t have too. but she was showing all the good signs and all her lab work came back really good. so we really got out of that scare but we are not out of the woods until we are out of our first trimester. I asked christina how many trimesters there are and she told me 3. then i figured out that play on words. So after that i felt really good and i decided to tell everyone at work about the baby. it was so hard that being the only place that i did tell the news. I told everyone and everyone was happy and it was great to tell. its one of those things where you really can’t wait to tell people of your great news. so i think i will end my very long novel blog. 

other things to notice with a crazy change on my life all at once i have created another Category 

FATHERHOOD

well my blog is most likely going to start changing into a weekly update kinda thing for everyone that wants to know what’s going on with christina and everything baby. I will still have my rants but just be aware that I am going to be ad DaD and thats all I’m really going to want to talk about. but i will still have my rants.

thx for reading,

-MeaD.