27 week pics.

ok so its 27 weeks and a few days... but better late then never. today i actually did my hair and makeup. so today was as good a day as ever.

27 weeks. and moving.

gosh we've been busy. we are moving into our new apartment this weekend... so every chance we get we are moving over everything we can carry on our own. and when i say we i mean naz. he has been moving stuff over and then i put it away. we are making really good progress... and when it comes time to move the big stuff... it shouldn't take too long.

my best friend carly is going to come up for friday to help me. and then my sister jamie and her husband rob are coming up for saturday and sunday to help with the big stuff. we are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family. life is never fun alone.

this last weekend, naz was on call to go and be a prelim judge for the new show x-factor. he ended up not having to go down there so we were able to get stuff done. sunday we went and registered at babies r us. i love my amazon registry more... but its nice to have a brick and mortar store too... for all the little basics we are going to need.

we also made it to our bradley class... which i thought i was going to have to go alone... but we made it. and at the end of class the husbands got a massage by us wives. naz knows that somehow they are going to end up paying for it.

baby: she's almost 2 pounds! we were given a sample diaper at babies r us... and have been freaking out about how cute and small it is. it seemed to make it so real. we now have the diaper out and grab it periodically. it's just so cute.

mom: so since i failed my glucose test last week... i now have to go in for a 3 hour test. where they test my blood sugar levels. the lame thing about it is that i can't eat or drink anything for 8 hours before my test. which means... right now. so i'm going to bed and hoping it isn't the worst thing ever tomorrow. luckily naz gets to go with me. praise God.

i'll try to take a pic later in the week.

some days are just for crying.

i failed my glucose test. so i have to go in and take a more annoying test. where i can't eat breakfast and then go in a get my blood drawn every three hours... continuing not to eat or drink. so lame.

oh well. i've had it pretty good so far.

26 weeks.

today was my check up at the doctors. all is going well of course. i am up 15 pounds now.. which i think is pretty good. i stayed at 10 for so long that i was getting a bit worried that she wasn't gaining enough. i eat super healthy... so i am not worried about any weight that i gain during the next 3 months. my doctor wants me to see a cardiologist. something i've known i should do, but just been busy with other things.

i can't believe all the stuff thats going on right now. the move is big enough... and then add the impending birth of our daughter in less then 4 months. and the fact that i need clients at work. it's hard not to feel defeated.

i know without a doubt that God provides. and has always provided for naz and i. but it has been about 9 months since i started working and i still have yet to build a solid clientele. i feel like a disappointment most weeks when it comes to that area of my life.

but God who is rich in mercy never fails to show me how much i am loved by Him. and when He wills for me to be crazy busy... i will be. He knows what i am able to handle. and knows what is needed for us to be taken care of.

and on a sunday

had another great bradley class today. we talked more about birth and i think naz and i are realizing how much dang information there is to learn. there are so many choices and decisions to be made. so naturally... we are now beginning to think about hiring a doula. our bradley instructor is a doula... but its going to all come down to money. which is lame... but its reality. more research.

we finished up the painting in the new apartment today. it looks so good. i can't wait to start moving our stuff in and putting things on the walls. i'm also looking forward to going through our closets and getting rid of stuff we don't need. its the weirdest thing. i'm not a shopper. or a hoarder... but we still end up with all this useless stuff. where does it come from? i guess its just that at some point i thought we did need it. naz likes to think we will need it again... so its up to me to just get rid of it.

it has been raining non stop today. which makes LA into a flooded city with all the streets are turning into big puddles. glad i have my wellys.

25 weeks. and an ambulance ride.

I don't know if i've ever talked about my SVT. It is when your heart races abnormally for no reason other then the electrical system in my heart is jacked up.

It has been happening more often now that I'm pregnant. This week alone... 3 times. But last night it wasn't converting on its own, even after doing all the usual tricks, so Naz called the paramedics. When they got to the house they didn't seem to think there was too much going on with me. I was pretty calm, just sitting on the couch. But when they hooked me up to their machines and saw that my heart beat was over 260... we started talking about options. Though I didn't want to have to go into the ER, they felt it was best for the baby to go in and get checked out... they couldn't leave me in the state that i was. And my heart going the fast for much longer would ultimately put her into distress.

So in goes the IV, and out goes little Joy Joy for yet another ambulance ride (this time with the sirens on). On the way to the hospital it went down to 230 but it wasn't converting. When they got me in and saw the doctor... we tried some more non-medical ways to get the heart to convert, and it was now over an hour that it was going nuts. I was going to have to have the Adenosine.

Of course our only concern was for the little girl. This whole time they were monitoring her, listening to her heart.. and the nurses even got to see her move through my skin. She was giving them a show for sure. After they cleared that the adenosine would be fine for her... and they talked it over with Naz as well, they hooked it up. I've had it before... and it is not fun, but not painful. It basically restarts the heart. It feels like there is a house on top of you... and then the house begins to squeeze your whole body. It only lasts for a few seconds but it feels like an hour... waiting for your heart to start again.

With my heart rate back down to a more normal 80.. they took us up to Labor and Delivery to monitor the baby girl. The upside to all of this, was that we got to hear her little heart beat for a whole 25 min. It was nice and strong and normal; and she was so active, moving around and kicking. It was time to go home.

Today I will be taking it easy. Though these episodes are not painful, it does take a lot out of me. And the worst is feeling the phantom feelings that its back again for the next day or two.

There is so much to do in the 15 days before we move. We painted over the weekend and it is looking great. We just need to finish her room and then we will be done with the paint. Onto cleaning and organizing...and getting the carpets cleaned. (after my day of naps of course)

Sunday we had our first bradley birth class. It was really fun to get to be with other couples going through the same things as us, and being able to all talk about our little girls and boys. The class was really encouraging and I think it is going to be such an asset.

baby: Considering what happened... she's a champ. My only prayer is that the adenosine won't have any lasting effects on her. We were assured that it won't... but it's still hard to think about. I've been so cautious to not take anything...and here they are giving me a drug that stops my heart for a few seconds. It is all in God's hands and not mine. He is mighty to save.

me: i've talked enough about me.

24 weeks. back home.

What an awesome vacation! We had such a blast, and are now ready for the rest of the crazy year.

We had a great flight home and somehow arrived early! Our shuttle driver was from India and told us all kinds of unknown facts about India and the Indian people. "You wouldn't believe it if i told you... that Jesus is actually buried in India." he was right... we don't believe it.

During the trip, Naz and i talked about how much fun it will be that the next time we come we will have a little girl with us, a little girl who recently decided to start kicking a lot. She's getting strong too, she moves my whole body when she moves....so weird.

Now that we are home, all i can think about is getting ready for her to come, even though I should be unpacking. We are able to move into a 2 bedroom apartment in the same complex we are in now which is SO rad. We love where we live and now having a bedroom for the little girl just makes it even better. I had no idea where i was going to put her or any of her stuff in our little place, but now its on to cleaning, de-cluttering, organizing, and painting a new apartment. Lord give me strength.

baby: like i said... she is moving. a lot. She might not be lazy like we were hoping. haha. It's great that Naz can finally feel her move. I love our family time.

mom: I did surprisingly well on our trip. I had lots of energy to keep up with everyone else. our last day i got a little burnt so i stayed home for the second beach adventure, but i did much better then i thought i was going to... energy is an awesome thing.

loving.

We are loving our time here in hawaii.... so what if it rained the first two days? and it wasn't just typical hawaii rain... it was a solid downpour. Today it cleared up enough for us to try some snorkeling. Jon wasn't feeling too well so he and Jen stayed at the house while Naz and i went down to Kapa'a for lunch and to go to some shops. We then went to 'Anini beach and Naz talked me into going into the water. It was a little chilly but it was mostly because of the pounding wind and the sun wasn't out completely. Naz saw a huge blue fish but i missed it. When we got out i noticed this local guy combing thru the sand with a little jar, i asked him what he was collecting and he showed me these tiny little sea shells. they were so rad! Naz and i spent the next 20 min collecting them... I'm so excited to bring them back home to the jar of sand that we brought home the last time we came.

at 'anini beach

at ke'e beach

23 weeks. hawaii tomorrow

we leave in the morning for hawaii. i'll have to write more about what a blessing it is to get to go. how things that aren't that important in the whole scheme of life... like going on a vacation.. are still important to God and He wants to use them to bless His kids.

the house is clean. laundry done. bags packed. and the pigs are at their aunty brandy and uncle ash's house for the week. jen and jon are here asleep in the living room and we are getting ready for bed.

i've been busy preparing for our trip that i didn't take a 23 week picture. but i figure there will be plenty of time to do that while in hawaii. with a much better backdrop then my shower curtain.

aloha.

mom: trying not to get freaked out about all the little things and trying to just enjoy the ride. oh and milk of magnesia is awesome.

baby: apparently she can hear pretty well... and she's still moving around the same as last week. naz finally got to feel her a few days ago and that was pretty cool.