Savvy Toddler Mom

Just signed up the toot for swimming lessons at the Bountiful Rec Center.  I’m so excited!!!  The next session starts July 14th.

We have a busy weekend shaping up… Oakley Rodeo tomorrow (if you’ve never been, you need to go), BBQ at the in-laws on Friday, SavvyDad is going to do some electrical work on the family cabin on Saturday.  (I love having such a talented man around!!!) 

The toot and I had a great time yesterday at the park and then shopping at the Gateway.  I think I am going to try and get him to the park daily, if I can.  He was SO much more cooperative about everything!

To summarize, today’s summer activity ideas are:

• Swimming lessons
• Trip to the park
• Shopping at the Gateway - take the kids’ swimming suits and towels and let them play in the fountain!

If you are really ambitious, you can go to Lagoon.  That’s where CTM is today.  Hot day for Lagoon!

I wrote the following post yesterday and thought that I had lost it during a computer blip.  I think I lost the last couple of paragraphs, but today I will take what I can get.

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I’m trying to get some work in this morning before going to our park play group, but I keep getting shot by Buzz Lightyear!  We have been having a Toy Story 2 fest at our house the last couple of days.  It’s pretty funny.

We just got back from a few days in Steamboat Springs, CO.  What a beautiful place!  I will post some pics this afternoon.  We went with SavvyDad’s parents, siblings, and families.  Mass chaos, really.  We met my SIL and her family there - it was SO good to see them.

Here she is!!  She’s sweet and adorable and already wary of the toot.  He just wouldn’t stop following her around and trying to get her to play ball with him.  It was really cute.

This article totally made me laugh today.  I hope you enjoy its truthfulness as much as I did.

On a more personal note, I am finally off of bed rest and started back working and being a functioning adult on Wednesday.  MAN, this whole staying vertical all day and being responsible thing is exhausting.  I crawled in bed last night at 9:30pm.

I still have a bad cold, but it too is going away and I hope to have my normal voice back soon.  Other than that, I feel pretty good.  Finally.  I went and got my hair cut and colored yesterday and that cheered me up immensely.  Isn’t that a funny thing? 

I’m looking forward to a relaxing weekend of easing back into normality… SavvyDad is going golfing, I’m going to venture to Costco (first time in a month!!), and I think I will even make it to church so that my friends and neighbors can see for themselves that I’m still alive.  And so that I can hug and hug and hug them to thank them for all of their love, help, food, and prayers.  I’m really looking forward to that.

Also, my parents left for New Mexico this morning to pick up a new puppy!  We are all very excited.  Dogs are part of the family in my parents’ household.  They/we have had either one or two dogs at a time since I was in high school.  Our current dog, Velvet, has been alone for a couple of years since Durnik died (all of our dogs have been named after characters in David Eddings’ books - yes, we are total nerds), so getting a new puppy is really a big deal.

All of our dogs have been Bouviers… they are HUGE and wonderful.  My dad has been looking for a puppy for a while, but had a hard time finding a breeder without a huge waiting list!  He just got a call on Sunday that he finally had a puppy waiting for him.  It was a great Father’s Day gift.

This new little gal will be named Poppy… my dad insists that it needs to be spelled with an “i” (as in the book) and especially with a heart over the “i.”  Gah.  Apparently my dad’s girlish side is starting to come out.  I am going with “Poppy” because it also reminds me of the flower, which I like.  Also, this is my blog and I will write whatever I want.

Stay tuned for pics of the pup.  They will be back with her on Sunday.  The toot can hardly wait!

This is me a week ago yesterday.  What a horrible couple of weeks.

To bring you all up to speed… not only did we lose our twins at 13 weeks, but after the D&C I had on Friday, May 30th, I apparently retained some tissue that caused internal bleeding and hemorraging.  On Wednesday, June 4th, I went to the doctor (had to see one of my doctor’s partners since my doctor was in surgery) and he prescribed methergine to control the bleeding. 

Needless to say, 24-hours later on Thursday, June 5th, I was back at the doctor’s for an ultrasound after no improvement.  The ultrasound found my uterus to be still about 14-week size (since it was carrying twins, it was about 18-week size the week before) and FULL of huge blood clots.  They sent me straight over to the hospital for a second D&C.

After this second surgery, I wasn’t feeling very well at all.  That combined with an insanely low blood pressure had SavvyDad insisting I spend the night at the hospital for observation.  An excellent decision.  By the next day, they discovered I had lost so much blood that I needed a blood transfusion.  Two units of O+ later, followed by 12 hours of sleep, and I felt like a new woman.  I woke up Saturday morning feeling better than I had in months.

Since arriving home from the hospital, I have been on varying degrees of bed rest — for a day or two there it was bed rest with bathroom privileges ONLY — and am now healing normally.

I have so much more to say and to share about this entire experience, but will save it for another day.  Today I would like to leave you with this…

As SavvyDad so eloquently wrote on his Flickr page: “We’d like to thank anyone who donates blood, as someone’s generosity has immensely helped her [my] recovery. We are deeply grateful to you, anonymous donor.”

Alright… who sent me the box from Philosophy?  It didn’t have a card or message on the packing slip or anything!!!  Please let me know who sent it so that I can properly thank you.

Found this over the weekend… the Barenaked Ladies (one of MY favorite bands) released a children’s album in May called “Snack Time.” Listening to snippets, it sounds awesome.  Gotta get me a copy.

I woke up today to the FedEx guy bringing me an awesome care package from my amazing friend Heather.  Heather, thank you again!!!!  What a way to start the day.  I felt/feel so overwhelmingly loved.  Oh, and your cookies are really YUMMY. 

Not feeling great today.  Not healing as fast as I’d hoped.  SavvyDad stayed home this morning and took the toot to tumbling class.  I am so grateful for him.  I would be in really bad shape without a loving, sweet, selfless, hard-working, wonderful husband.

I am also grateful for the makers of Percocet, Zoloft, Xanax, Ibuprofen, and Diet Coke.  I would be in even worse shape without them.

We lost our twins.  Don’t know what else to say. 

Had a D&C on Friday and am at home recuperating. 

Life sucks sometimes.

It’s 11:30pm and my ultrasound is tomorrow at 8:30am.  I’ve been trying to keep it together all week — trying to not let the anxiety get to me.  So, instead of focusing on the “are they alive or not?” question, I’d like to wonder about “what gender are they?”  The optimist in me thinks I might be able to find out tomorrow.  I’ll be a day short of 13 weeks — I found out with the toot and Elizabeth at 13 weeks — so it could happen!

So, since we are focusing on the positive, what is YOUR prediction for the gender (or genders) of these twins?  I certainly don’t have a preference — at this point, I will be happy with a healthy baby (or babies), no matter what flavor!

I have my suspicions that they are a boy and a girl.  At first I thought they were for sure both boys, but I’ve changed my mind… that’s my guess: a boy and a girl.

What’s your guess?

Well, he made it!  I was telling CTM this morning that I thought he would be born around 3pm… he was born at 2:54!  How crazy is that?!?!

I just got home from a visit at the hospital, and mom and baby are doing great.  CTM actually looks amazing for a woman who just gave birth.  Her new little guy (blog alias still tbd) is adorable.  6 lbs 15 oz and 19 1/2 inches long.  Lots of dark hair.  I held him for quite a while during my visit and he slept the whole time.  Cuddly little guy!

CTM’s labor and delivery went WAY better than with her first, so hurrah!  Congrats to CTM and family!