Have I told you lately?

Your first birthday was a blast.  You were so funny and cute and sweet.
Here are some new things you're doing:
You started throwing fits the day before your birthday.  If you wanted to be held for no reason, you let me know about it.
You started walking a WHOLE lot more the day after your birthday, and now you're walking all over the place.
You are gabbing like crazy and started saying "Daddy" last week.  And it's so sweet to hear you call out for him when you wake up, sometimes.
You've stopped eating vegetables.  Ever since your daddy shared a steak with you a few weeks back you won't touch a vegetable or bread.  It's all hot dogs and steaks or burgers/lunch meat.  You're definitely a carnivore by nature. 

OK I've got to go fix breakfast for Delsin right now.  Kai's getting caps put on her teeth today so we're gonna spend some time at the hospital this morning.  I love you sweetie.

Diagnosed with gestational diabetes today.

I took the 1 hour glucose test two weeks ago and tested 212.
I took the 1 hour test again last week and tested 186
Took the 3 hour test yesterday and the first blood draw came back 64, 2nd was 175, 3rd was 207, & 4th was 171.

The nurse (Misty) at Women's Health Center, where we plan/hope to do a water birth, just called to tell me to start taking medication and checking my blood sugar 4 times a day.

Medication: (Metformin) Pick it up anytime, start taking it tomorrow morning.  I will cause some nausea and diarrhea at the beginning of taking it.  Make sure to eat protein when taking it.  It's not insulin.
If we do really well with this along with diet then we won't have to take insulin.
Check blood sugars 4 times a day.

I pray that you're OK in there baby.  I'm worried about us now.  You more than anything.  I love you.

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Kai just got her first typing lesson, placing her fingers on the proper keys for typing!

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Ultra Sound Pictures!

You've been kicking for quite a while now.  The ultra sound nurse said you have long legs.  I believe it!

The Docs says we may have gestational diabetes, so I've cut out our daily hot fudge cake sundae.  And am trying to watch what I eat more.  I didn't realize till now just how much junk food I'd been letting myself have.  I normally don't crave it at all, but with this pregnancy I've been eating a lot of junk food and craving it nonstop.  We go back for another test this coming Wednesday to make a final determination if we are diabetic right now or not.  Praying.

Baby# 5 - I feel you moving around in there!!!

It's been about a week since the questionable gas bubbles became obvious that they were baby movements.  I've been enjoying it immensely.  I haven't been to see a Dr. here in Tennessee yet.  We've been here about a month now.  I need to get on that.  I love the movements though.  We were lucky enough to get to see you on ultra sound before we moved and you were sucking your thumb.  It was such an awesome thing to see you.  We have pictures and I'll try to be better about scanning those and posting them on here.  I slacked off with Carolina and did a pretty pitiful job of keeping a baby book for Delsin and Kai too.  My blog is going to replace the baby book.  I think I can maybe print a book of the blog.  I'm sure we'll work all that out later.  It makes me know you are alive and kicking.  Literally.

Your daddy and I have different feelings on what sex you will be.  I say I think you will be a boy and he says he thinks a girl.  So, I've been working hard to come up with boy names.  I haven't found anything yet that jumps out at me.  I have found a few that I like, but I keep praying that God will let me know what your name should be.  Maybe you are a girl and that's why God hasn't given men any signs, or maybe it's just not time yet.  I can't wait to see you though.  We are all eagerly anticipating.... except maybe Carolina.  I don't think she has any clue that you are in my tummy.   I can't wait till the day she feels you kick and takes notice.  That will be so funny.  I love you sweet little baby!

You Are Crawling!!!

For the past several weeks now you've been scooting backwards.  So last Thursday, when you took off like you were in a race it took me by such surprise that I actually screamed out loud.  Then Delsin and Kai did too.  Your daddy came running in from the other room, to see how badly you were hurt because we had scared him.  You saw a piece of scrap fabric laying on one end of the rug, it was shinny, and you had to have it.  I declared you a girlie girl because you are attracted to shiny things.

Then, this past weekend you got your 3rd tooth!  Officially!  It's on top and it's your left, 3rd from the center, tooth.  And you are such a pro at eating.  Tonight you had chicken quesadilla and loved every bit of it.  You get so upset if you see someone sitting at the table and if you smell food and you haven't been given anything.  In fact, you look like your feelings are really hurt.  I might have to get a video of that tomorrow, or sometime soon.  I have jury duty selection tomorrow.  Georgia doesn't have a law exempting breastfeeding mothers from jury duty, so it looks like I'll be pumping and you'll be learning how to accept a bottle.  Good luck with that.  Good luck to both of us, actually.  Pumping is very uncomfortable and I never get as much when I pump as you can efficiently extract from me.  But I am excited about the possibility of participating in a jury.  I've never done this before.

Well, it should be official sometime around November.  We just found out two weeks ago.  Daddy is out of work, so we have taken the past two weeks to get approved for medicaid and I really should have looked for a Dr. today.  I could use Dr. Spainer.  He's the Dr. who was supposed to deliver you, but his partner did.  He did provide us our prenatal care.  I could see him, but he doesn't do water births.  I really, really, really, want to have a home water birth, but with Daddy being out of work I'm not counting on that.  I wish though.  It costs out of pocket though to have a midwife and a home birth.  It would be so cool though.  I'll pray for God's will to be done.
Here are some more pictures that we've taken of you over the past few days.

 A day at Fernbank Museum...

We've had a lot of fun this past month

Let's see if I can post something without overloading in pictures...

Oh who cares!  You're beautiful and we want to see pictures!

Your first bath with the big girls...

Your first Urick ladies luncheon at the German Bakery...

Precious!

And your first time to eat steamed green beans and roasted chicken!

Carolina, about 2 weeks ago you started sitting up alone for a minute or two at a time. 
Then Wednesday night, when we dropped you off at the nursery at church all of the babies in there had learned to crawl or walk.  Well, the next day you were hollering at me while I was in the kitchen and you were on the rug.  When I looked over at you, you were on your hands and knees rocking back and forth, and scooting backwards.  Shortly after, you started picking up your legs and moving them forward.  You didn't move your hands though, so you just kept falling on your face.  But you never cried, just brushed yourself off and got right back up at it.  A couple of days later I got down on the floor and you watched intently as I crawled in front of you.  Then you started moving your hands like mine.  You almost have this crawling thing down.  You just need to figure out how to move your legs and arms in the right order, to get it. 
It won't be long!!!