Today was the second football game. Unfortunately Kodi's team lost this one. The final score was 34-14. The refs were doing a bunch of really bad calls. I think if they had been more fair, the score would have been tied.
Finally a chance to blog some of these photos. These are more pictures of projects that we made doing the Konos Africa study. Kodi took the pictures so they are not the quality that I would have done, ie the messy room for a background.
This weekend Kodi and I went camping with Cub Scouts. He had a blast. It was fun, but a little hard for camping at 25 weeks pregnant. Some of Kodi's favorite things included:
BB gun shooting:
Archery:
Knot tying:
He finished working on his Outdoorsman activity badge and now he is working on Arrow of Light. We go camping again next month with the Boy Scouts for that. But I heard a rumor about bunkhouses for this one.
Football season is in full swing. Kodi had his first game. His team (the Bears) played against the Cowboys today. They kicked butt. They played very well too. They won the game 48-8. You should have seen how excited he was. Here is my little football player:
Things are going well on this front. Football season is in full swing. We have a camp out with Cub Scouts this weekend. School is going pretty well. I have a couple of projects that we did that I need to post photos of. Once I actually take the time to upload them to Photobucket that is. I had my appointment with my midwife today. Everything was great. I did lose the 4 lbs that I had gained last month though. Not sure how that happened since my belly is definitely bigger. Oh, I am hoping to post some pictures of it soon. I am going to get the boys to help me with that.
Yesterday, I was having contractions. Well, I have never had Braxton Hicks with my previous pregnancies, so I panicked a little. I was already in Corpus a few blocks from my midwife's house/office. So after 1 1/2 hours of this, I called her and went to her office. I wasn't dilating, so she recommended that I get some rest, drink lots of water, and maybe have a wine cooler. We ended up having to skip violin lessons. But by the time that I got home they had totally slowed down. Pretty soon after that they stopped. Which is a good thing. #1 A baby can survive this early, but we would have been spending a lot of time in the children's hospital. #2 My midwife had to go deliver a baby, so she wouldn't have been able to go to the hospital with me if I had had to go.
Originally it was headed straight for us. With a storm the size of Texas, you never know what will happen though. At first, I wasn't planning on leaving. After Rita, I was just not anxious to go there again. People stressing me out doesn't do good things for me. I was given money so that I could leave. And then my boyfriend got permission for us to evacuate with him and the guys from work. We would have ridden in his work truck a couple hours south. Well, the day that we were going to leave the storm started turning north. Because of that turn, the city decided that they were not going to turn the utilities off. Which I think helped my boyfriend's work decide not to evacuate. So, we stayed. And then we didn't even get rain out of that silly hurricane. I at least wanted some rain. It has been a very dry summer. We did get some rain on Sunday though. The boys played in it for hours and I took a walk in it. Since then temperatures have been awesome. I would say probably low 70's during the day and down in the 60's at night. Unheard of this early in the year. I wish it would be like this all year long. Instead of 80's-90's 95% of the year. I miss winter. Hope everyone else stayed safe during this crazy hurricane.
Well, Kodi started both violin lessons and football practice today. He was so excited. I kept getting tons of questions about when he was getting his uniform, what team he was going to be on, etc? I just had to keep answering, "I don't know, we'll find out."
How about you? What activities have you started up now that school is back in session?
� Sep. 2, 2008 - Science Experiment Day at Our House
Eman is finishing up Exploring Creation With General Science by Apologia from last year. We started 4 different experiments today. They will take several days to complete.
This experiment is about seeing the effects of growing bacteria. All the glasses contain a beef bullion cube dissolved in water. You can't read the labels, but the first one has salt added, the second vinegar, the third is the control glass. There is a fourth in the refrigerator labeled cold. We complete the experiment in two days.
This experiment has a slice of banana in each container. One of the slices has yeast added to it. The object is to see how the yeast decomposes.
These are stems from 3 different plants in water. We will be checking daily for algae growth.
This is the old celery in the dye experiment. To be honest, I can't remember the name of what we are testing for. We are supposed to recheck it tomorrow.
We actually started school a week ago Monday. It has been kind of a rocky start. They have had to do a lot of it independently because of how busy I have been. Fortunately they are pretty independent being in 5th and 8th grades this year. Unfortunately it has been difficult to keep them on track and help them when necessary. Today I got to be home with them all day and next week I will get to as well. For our History/Art lesson, we learned about pygmies and how they lived. Then the boys made pygmy huts.
We finally delivered a baby yesterday. We had too long of break. Things went pretty well until the end. We had a little trouble getting the baby out. Mom had eaten too much sugar with this pregnancy and ended up with a baby that was a little too big for her. Plus his hand was up for a lot of the labor. He got it down before coming out though. If she had been in the hospital, she definitely would have ended up with a C-Section. Next time, we will have to be really strict with her on her diet.
Well, my appointment went well. I am gained 4lbs this last month, which puts my overall weight gain to 11 lbs. so far. I did have a little bit of protein in my pee, which means I need to increase my protein and dandelion tea. I had kind of slacked off lately. Everything else went really well. The baby has been moving like crazy.
I threw up this morning. I am still having occasional morning sickness, especially if I have too light of dinner. When I threw up, I had a quarter sized amount of blood in my underwear. It really freaked me out at first. The baby's heart rate has been good and it has been moving like crazy today though. My midwife thinks that maybe I had some polyps that came loose or something.
Yesterday, I picked up Eman from the airport. He made the airplane trip safe and sound. He had a great time with my parents and my little sister. He wishes that he could have spent more time with her. He only got to be with her the last day and a half of his trip. She also took him to a water park, river rafting, and also rented him movies. While at my mom's he also did a lot of swimming and got to take some drama classes that he loved. Kodi had a little trouble with jealousy hearing everything that Eman got to do. Also Eman came home with a store bought haircut and a brand new outfit.
� Aug. 4, 2008 - Good Business Day/ Bad Business Day
Today started out great. I printed up a lot of the paperwork for client charts and notebooks. The lab at the local hospital has agreed to work with me. (Yea!) So I went by there to pick up some requisition forms and stuff to do blood draws. They were very nice and helpful. I got an appt. set up with a dr. that I am hoping will do some back up for me and give me standing orders for the medicines that I can't obtain on my own. That is my good news.
My bad news is this: I was supposed to go to a home visit for one of the clients that I am going to be assisting my former preceptor with. She forgot to tell me that she rescheduled it for today. So I missed it. Then my boyfriend's sil is pregnant. Every time I talk to her she changes her mind about whether she wants to use me and have a natural birth or go in for a repeat C-section. Last week we set up an appt. to do her prenatal this week. This week, she is ready to just have her repeat section. It is very frustrating for me. I wish that she would just make a decision.
And last of all, one of my fellow students hasn't passed her licensing exams yet. But she had some interested clients. She needs me to help her take on clients until she gets her license. I was all for that. Some of them are Amish. We went out there tonight to do a prenatal on one woman. They are not sure whether or not they want to hire us though. We went ahead and did the prenatal and I got some gas money for it. But I was really hoping that we would get hired for the whole thing tonight.
Eman left this morning to fly to see my family in Nevada. This is not only his first time flying, but he is also flying by himself. He is very excited and a little nervous. He called me already as he had a layover at DFW. My parents paid the extra for him to be escorted to his next gate.
I had my appt. with my midwife yesterday. It went really well. I had a UTI at my previous appt. and it had cleared up. My weight gain was .4 lbs. I am back up to what I weighed at my first appt. now. The baby's heartbeat was 138-142 and my uterus is measuring 18cm. My blood pressure is great. My midwife felt the baby move when she was measuring the baby today.
OT - My boyfriend got to feel the baby move last night as well.
Eman did really great. I was a little worried after last year's camp. He was the only one of our group that had completed the mile swim. The whole group was so proud of him for that. Plus the leader that he clashes with the most gave him a really good report.
Ok. This is the last post for tonight. We had a fishing tournament in our town last month. For the kids, they had a piggy perch contest to find the largest and smallest fish. We entered Kodi and my boyfriend's son. Kodi caught more fish than he has in all our fishing trips put together. Never mind the fact that normally these would only be cut up for bait or thrown back.
Kodi's violin lessons are going well. We have been on a break since the end of June and will be until the end of August. They put together an orchestra and had them practice the last part of May and all of June. They then had a concert. The photo is of Kodi warming up before the concert.
