Bryce & Brennon

I now have a little less than 3 weeks left until little Brennon is born.  - 2 weeks and 4 days to be exact.   I can't wait!  I am more ready than I thought I would be.  I have had such a hard, scary pregnancy these last couple of months but it will all be worth it.  I fell a couple of nights ago, but all is well.  I had to stay at the hospital for observation for just a couple of hours.  Baby is fine and so am I.  My sugar is under control thanks to diet.  Pricking my finger 4 times a day is not so much fun but I have no swelling or high blood pressure due to the gestational diabetes and thanks to the diet I've lost weight instead of gained.  The GD sometimes makes women have very large babies but my doctor doesn't think that Brennon will be too big.  We have a c-section scheduled for the 8th of June.  She does not want to take him a day early due to lung development (it is slowed by GD).  So I'll try to keep you posted on the next couple of weeks!

I am so behind on posting an update on my sweet little Bryce.  Our computer had to go into the shop but it's back now so I am going to overload this entry with pictures.  We love playing outside in his little pool...it is a pain filling it up everytime we want to play in it but it is sure fun! - and cools us off...nice for me especially!  Bryce loves being outside and so do I.  The weather has been so nice here...warm but not humid.  Which is shocking for East Texas, usually the humidity makes the air so thick you can hardly breath, but it's been great lately!  Emjoy the pictures!

Oh yeah - I had to mention something funny!  Everytime we pass McDonald's, Bryce says, "Oooh!  Old McDonald's!  I want some pancakes!"  It's so funny - he thinks that McDonald's is like the song Old McDonald...it's too cute the things they think up!

Brennon's room is finally finished!  It turned out exactly like I wanted!  There is not really a theme but it is really bright and colorful!  Can't wait to walk in there and see that little guy lying in his bed.
P.S. This blog will be a blog for both of the boys. I thought about making a new blog for Brennon because this blog is brycecolby.com...but I decided that it would be much easier to just put both boys on this blog and hopefully it won't hurt Brennon's feelings in the future!

I went to the Dr today and am dialated to 1 cm and baby is in head down ready position....this doesn't really matter with a cesarean, but it's nice to know anyway!  We had a sonogram today to get weight of baby and look at amniotic fluid.  Brennon weighs about 6 pounds today and had plenty of fluid, his heart looked great and so did all of body parts.  For me - no weight gain, perfect blood sugar and blood pressure.  Everything's set, now we just wait!

I love lounging around on Saturdays!  This morning we went outside and played in your pool until lunch and then came in and you sat at the coffee table, watching tv, eating pizza and drinking coke.  I had to take a picture because does it really get much better than just doing what you want to on Saturdays and not feeling lazy?!

We had a great Memorial Day!  Abigail and Bri Bri came over and played all morning.  You guys swam, ran, jumped and laughed the whole time.  You were both playing so good together!  They left around noon and we all took naps. (yes, even Daddy!)  That night we went to see Shrek the Third, but didn't see all of it...you and Abi just can't seem to sit still for too long...but for 45 minutes you were both excellent.  Then we met the guys at Zappata's for dinner.  All in all it was a fun day!
And yes...swim diapers do count as swimsuits! :)

I went to my last required doctor's visit before our scheduled cesarean.  I was thinking about the difference between my pregnancies with my two boys and they have been so different that if we hadn't found out the sex of the baby I would have been sure I was having a girl!  With Bryce I was not sick at all (except for when I ate too much) and with Brennon I was sick at least 3 times a day EVERYDAY for 5 months.  I carried Bryce so completely different than I have carried Brennon.  Bryce was breech and Brennon's head down ( and his feet are under my ribs! - and it hurts!)  I weighed 10 more pounds when I gave birth to Bryce than I weigh with Brennon.  That is obviously due to the fact that I have had to be on a strict diabetic diet.  I have gained a total of 19 pounds with Brennon.  I had gained 23 but after they put me on the diet I lost.  I will be happy about this after he is born even though it has been really tough.  Testing my blood 4 times a day has been alot more hassle than I expected. When I was pregnant with Bryce I could sleep late, lay around if I was tired, take naps, and just pamper myself when I felt like it!  But this pregnancy has been so different in that aspect because I have Bryce to entertain.  I have absolutely loved every second of it and am not complaining at all...I just wanted to write all of this down because as all of you other mothers know, I will be brain dead after next week!

I decided to cut your hair off because it has been so hard to keep clean with this heat!  You pull at it and always wanted it off your neck because it would be wet with sweat.  I really almost cried...hormones maybe...but I think it is adorable on you.  You look like you're 4 years old though...it makes you look so much older!!!  I took these pictures when you and Daddy were checking on the baby birds that we have in a nest in my fern on the front porch.  You love to look at them every evening - I think Daddy enjoys it as much as you.