Recovering

It took a long time to recover from the C-section. In some ways I'm still recovering. I've heard from other women who've had c-sections that it'll take about a year for it to stop hurting. Which is lamo cause my child like to kick me in the stomach and that can hurt a lot. Also anytime anyone touches it it hurts. Which also sucks. But I haven't started working out yet. So maybe when I work out and strengthen my stomach muscles then I'll feel better. It took a few weeks too to be able to walk around for a while and it took a while to be able to stand and just have stamina. Luckily I had a lot of help and now I can handle both kiddos alone.

Here's me and RoRo coming out of the hospital and on our way home.

Here's Ronin's first bath. He actually really didn't cry and seemed to enjoy it. Maybe it reminded him of the womb, all the cozy warm water.

Ah after bath. He slept a lot in the beginning and now basically sleeps through the night. Mary still doesn't though.

What Happened Since June?

So about the time I stopped blogging I got put on a modified bed rest because I was getting pubis symphysis dysfunction (read about it on wikipedia.) Ironically I was not supposed to do much but sitaround I didn't blog because that would require me to sit very uncomfortably at the desk in the kitchen. So I fell off the face of the earth.

Apparently Ronin was breech and his hips were sitting in my hips and causing quite a lot of pain. But then I had to have someone home with me and Mary all the time. I couldn't lift her. I couldn't stand for long periods and to dishes and laundry and stuff. So my mom came down a few times for a week or two at a time. Rich stayed home a little bit. Derrick even came out a couple of times to help out.

Then my best gal Diane and Carol Annie came down to help us out. They were here for almost 2 months or something like that. We were all crammed in our little 2 bedroom 950 sq ft apartment. It was pretty crazy and I was pretty huge!

Then finally on Aug 25th at 4:48am RoRo was born. Ronin Oliver Augustus

It was pretty stressful at the end of the pregnancy. And I decided then that we needed to move into a rental house. For the sanity of the family!

Christmas Time Update

Wow! It's been a while since I blogged. Well we had a baby, Ronin, and we moved. Diane and Carol Ann came down to visit for a while. Grandma Kay's been down a few times and now we're getting ready to go up north for a few days for christmas.

End of June

And here it is already the end of June. We've been busy busy. Mary did a swim refresher course. She remembered stuff that she learned last year and swam to the edge by herself. She's really good around water now and she still loves it even after all the work we made her do.

We spent some time up north for a quick visit with some family and then headed back down to so cal to get more ready for the baby. Mary loves the piano, we found out. And she's not that bad for 2 years old and having no lessons. We'd like to get her a keyboard for her birthday. One that sounds like a piano but isn't too expensive.

And of course Mary loves cupcakes. Especially chocolate ones with frosting.

I haven't taken any pictures of Mary's room after we've added some things for the baby to it. we added back in the crib and a changing table and another toy storage bin thingy. The room is pretty crowded now. So we're thinking of moving again in October when our lease is up. We can't afford much but we're hoping to find a 3 bedroom house we can rent for a while. And then we'll be a little less crowded. Four people in a 2 bedroom apartment is getting crowded.

Mary got sick this week too. I think she had a bladder infection. So we're giving her antibiotics and she seems to be getting well now. She had a fever of 101.5 for a couple of days and was tugging at her diaper a lot.

Here's a picture of me at 31 weeks. Moooovin along. eventually I'll give birth.

We'll keep you posted.

End of May

So it looks like I only posted once in May. Mommy went to Vegas. We all got sick, again. And it's been busy busy. Lots of doctor's appointments for me. I had to go in for the 3 hour glucose test. I'm all good though. I don't have gestational diabetes. A couple of my other tests showed high blood sugar but I'm fine. Uncle Derrick and Marina visited for Memorial Day and that was fun. I baked cookies. We shopped and we had a BBQ. Well we cooked the meat in the oven but we had corn and a kick ass fruit salad.

We took a couple of family pics.

And we got to go to the strawberry fields with auntie Lara. (This is a much more flattering picture of me!)

We actually cleaned Mary's room too.

I got a haircut this month too. But it's actually not as short as I wanted it. So I'm going to get it cut again right before the baby's born.

We also started swim lessons last week. No pictures of her swimming yet because she was crying  a lot, but we'll get them this week. Here she is right before swimming.

We'll let you know what happens in June. See you then!

New News

So we finally got plans finalized for the summer. See as how I won't be able to travel soon. We're going to Nor Cal for the family BBQ for the first weekend in June. Then Grandma Kay is coming out for a couple of weeks right after that. 

Mary's swim lessons are May 26th -June 4th right before we leave for Nor Cal. This weekend, for Mother's Day me and my mom and Diane are going to Vegas to see the Dave Matthews Band and Jason Mraz in concert. And we plan on seeing the new Star Trek movie too. It'll be my last getaway chance til Jr is like 2 or something.

We did get to go to a Birthday part recently for a playmate. She turned 2 and it was a Hello Kitty party. Mary had a good time. She loves cake!

And we also went to the beach the other weekend. There's more pictures up on the picture website at picasa.google.com/dancingmelissas. It was a little cool. But we got some sun and had a good time.

Hopefully in August we'll be able to get Diane out here for a couple of weeks when Jr is born. Depending on her school scedule. Gma Kay will be out again in July and August too to help us get ready for the new baby. Other than all that not much has changed in the past few months. TTFN!

What's Happenin

I've been a little out of it lately because we all got the flu. Well me and Mary got it and Rich was feeling tired for like half a day and then he was better. We did have Mary's swim lessons scheduled for this week and now we'll have to reschedule them. Mary has a cough and my nose is still stuffy. I also got strep throat to go along with my flu, but I nipped that in the bud fast. I don't think we're contagious anymore so now we can get back to life. Which is nice. 

Also our air conditioning had been out for a few days. Which is a bummer when you're pregnant and it's the hottest day of the year. But they fixed it and now I'm blissful in a cool house.

And we've had a lot of requests for pictures of mom and dad as well as the kids. So we'll get to that soon. Don't worry.