FMLA

This whole thing FMLA thing I find confusing...or I am probably making it more confusing than it really is...its nice at work that we can voluntarily use our sick and vacation time during that time to get paid...and as long as your receiving some paycheck you still earn sick and vacation time...so the hard part is is not knowing when its going to start...

He's due on the 10/4 but he can come whenever his little heart desires...I'd prefer him to hold off till that weekend but I mean I don't have much of say there...the 4th is a Tues...so I wonder if I should just start maternity leave that week but then it'd be a waste if he decides he's not coming till later...not that I want to go into labor while at work a good 1/2 hr away from the hospital not to mention a 10 min walk to the car...though I'm pretty certain someone would drive me out to my car...but then I'd end up annoyed if they wouldn't let me drive myself and call an ambulance and I'd rather not my car be stuck out in Boyers...

So as you see this FMLA thing is not so easy...or again I'm making it not easy...but to me there are too many what if's and not enough definite answers...and I'm not too certain I really like my new supervisor to really ask him about it...I know I need to get over that or I may just see about talking to my old supervisor about it and then talk to the new one...though the new one should be use to maternity leave or will be soon w/ a total of 3 girls pregnant in the department...

I'm making my head hurt now...so I'm done thinking about it...

Me and a 3 year old...the 3 year old wins

My little Tyler Jacob wears me out...by the time he and I parted ways yesterday he had half of a hair cut and I had half of a nervous breakdown...

We went shopping yesterday for Chelle's baby shower...and he was good in all the stores...I needed to pick up hair coloring and when we were in Sally's he said he had to pee...so I put down the hair color and we ran up to Dunkin Donuts where he would not pee...so we had to go home so he could pee at pap's house...already a phobia of public bathroom not a good sign...

So decided to give him a haircut...to which he just had a break down in the middle of and wouldn't let me finish...so there he went home w/ literally half of a buzz cut...

Well they came over today so that I could color Kris's hair...he didn't want a hair cut but I told him we'd get soup from panera and he was fine then...cut his hair and jumped in the tub to get the hair off him and off to panera we went to get him soup...he was a very happy camper then...his mom just left when we went to get the soup so when we got back we played outside he rode his big boy bike and he had a good afternoon till his mom showed back up and he got grumpy...but he sure wore out his aunt bubba...

When Zander is here it should be interesting...he'll either act like the best big brother ever...even though he's not Zander's brother...or he's not gonna like it at all...I guess we shall see...

Brandy

This is boring

Well with everything pretty much all set to go and just waiting for the baby to come it has become boring...i mean seriously how sad is that...room is done...shopping is done...kid is either killing my hip or making it hard to breathe...same old same old everyday...

Work is annoying me as usual...we better work on cases on monday or I'm going to throw a temper tantrum...I cant take anymore "training"...I just want to work and then figure out what I'm suppose to be doing on my own...then maybe I'll actually understand what we were to be learning this whole time...

Alright as sad as it is since its a friday night...I'm exhausted and may just call it a particularly early night

Brandy

6 more weeks ppl

That's it just six more weeks...how time flies when your pregnant...

So the dr appt today didn't entail a 2 hr hospital visit afterwards thank goodness...heartbeat was fine and I am measuring 34 inches so that's right where its suppose to be...next appt is w/ the midwife to go over a birthing plan...insert eye roll...pretty sure after that they'll ship me to 3N when I tell them I don't want anyone near me while in labor...even better if the nurses and stuff can leave me alone for the most part...and I don't want to hear the word drugs unless its coming out of my mouth...I'm not completely unreasonable if something is wrong and the baby needs to come out then drug me and cut him out I'm okay with that...but otherwise just leave me alone

Yes I realize that may seem odd...and that yes since I have never had a kid the pain maybe worse than I think it will be...but if I start thinking otherwise about pain then I'm just setting myself up for failure...and I believe I said before that I don't know why I would want ppl in the birthing suite with me...they wouldn't be there for any other medical procedure why would I want anyone there for that...it creeps me out...I'm much calmer doing things by myself...other ppl make me fussy and I'd feel like I'd have to reassure them everything is fine the pain isn't that bad when really I'd just want to tell them to get the $#@$ away from me...

Anywho lets talk about how this kiddo won't give my right hip a break...he's either laying on it and it hurts...if he's not he's kicking it...and by that I mean he is kicking the sh!t out of it sending pain shooting thru my hip...its like he knows it hurts and loves to agitate it more...I'm sitting at work and for a good 5 min time span if anyone was paying attention they could see him literally kicking my right side...

Oh Chelle was told her baby was too big and has a big head...so either they have her due date wrong and she is due the same time as me...or she is gonna have a beast of a little girl...considering chelle herself was 11 lbs its not out of the question...but she has to go thru another battery of tests to make sure her and the baby's hearts are okay...if she makes it to her baby shower we'll be amazed...if not we'll be turning into meet the baby shower...

Alright I think that's an update on everything

Brandy

I Don't Get It

I'm not sure how much more training at work I'm going to survive before coming annoyed to the point of getting snippy...I just don't get why some ppl keep getting suck on stupid things and why when we were to have looked at the cases they gave us at the beginning after each thing we learned that practically no one had or at least not to the point they knew stuff was missing or not right...

I just feel like I'm sitting there wasting my time...come on ppl keep up I'm on a deadline here...we need to get thru this stuff and finish up a littler early cause Zander is due the last week of our training so I'd actually like to have learned what is needed before that so that I'm only missing lab time and reg work when I go on maternity leave...I am already at a slight disadvantage since literally my first 6-8 weeks that were to be on our own working I won't even be at work...though I'm not too concerned with that since I retain information and am already ahead of the class...

Sorry enough whining about that...but at least if I whine here, me being snarky at work may hold off another day

Brandy

Baby room is DONE!

Sorry I'm behind again on this...but I've very busy getting the baby's room ready...Chad got the carpet laid and I pretty much worked Friday night and Saturday getting everything organized and done...I think Zander is all ready for his arrival...obviously if I don't have it at this point I probably don't need it...he has everything and then some when he gets here I bet I'll wonder why I even have some of the stuff...better be prepared than sorry...

So I'm sure the moment you've been waiting for aside from the 1 pic I posted on facebook here is his room...

Here is the crib from the doorway

Close up from the front of the crib

Close up of inside with the mobile  

Straight shot from the door way

Changing table (yes that diaper bag is packed and ready to go)

Zander's baby talk corner lol

So the only think I need to do is have a bag packed for me and get my work paper work set...but my sup is on vacation this week so that can wait another week...and me having stuff isnt that important I'm fine with some sweats and a shirt in the hospital just gotta be comfy...alright gotta do some work for chelles shower...

Brandy

Yay Carpet

Chad as I type is laying the carpet in the babies room so maybe I can finally get this nursery out of my room...though we still dont have curtains for the windows...the bedding came with valances but we need some type of sheer that we can put in both rooms...mom doesnt want ivory cause she'll think it looks dirty but white wont look right either...

I will say my ankles and hips have been killing me...okay not killing me but def uncomfy...even when my feet arent swollen my right ankle feels like it needs to be popped out of its socket...but only a 7 more weeks not that long at all...crazy actually

And if we dont figure out what the hell is beeping right now were gonna be sledge hammering walls...its not the smoke detectors...its not anything electrical cause we literally shut off the main power to the house...yet there is this annoying beeping that is coming from somewhere in the kitchen area...its not too noticeable upstairs but downstairs forget it...it wasn't going off when me and mom left for kohls and it wasnt going off when Chad left after us to get the carpet...and dad can't give us any straight answers as to when it started...we think he somehow did it...hopefully whatever it is the battery will die soon...

Brandy

Baby shower follow up

Well off to a great blogging start this week skipping two days lol...Sunday I was exhausted after the shower and had so much stuff to try to organize and put away...but it was a wonderful time.

Brit, Sarah, and Theresa did a wonderful job throwing it and went way above and beyond the call of duty to make sure it was a success...here are a few pics I stole since I didn't take any...

The table center pieces...super cute

Cake and Diaper Cake Table

Gift Area...

Onesies that were decorated by guests

I so couldn't of asked for anything more...Zander is one spoiled little boy already...still in no hurry for him to get here...he can keep baking...but only 1 month and 19 days left anyways...oh boy these months have flew...alright got some more organizing to do...

Brandy

Sucking at this lately

Sorry I pretty much sucked all week on this blog...b/w the hospital visits this week and then trying to get a million things done before the baby shower...which I only had to make pasta salad and ice tea for tomorrow so its not even the baby shower that I'm needing to do things for...

I had got all the stuff to the pasta salad but my jack@ss of a brother came home drunk and ate half the ingredients so I had to run back out to the store and get more...then I got all that stuff done and had to get paint for the baby's room and a ceiling fan...and hair color for moms hair...

I have the room all prepped that all my moronic brother needs to do is slap a coat of paint on it and put up the ceiling fan which he is to do tomorrow...probably depends on how hung over he is...he's just been ridiculous and really just needs to go to jail already why keep dragging it out the stupid court system...

So now I'm gonna rest I may throw some dye in my hair and finally take a shower...but I really should just lay with my feet propped up cause they have had it...

Brandy

Jinxed Myself

Well no time for a blog yesterday cause I jinxed myself and spent 2hrs in the hospital last night...of course after I say on Tues since we had been there with Trey that one day it would be for me...

I had a dr appt Weds evening that was to be at 8...well I got a call asking if I could come in at 6...so I said sure...well that wasn't too my benefit since they asked me to come in at 6 and the dr didn't see me till almost 630...so what should of been another short to the point appt wasn't...

After the usual round of questioning..any contractions, leaking, bleeding, blah blah blah...and me saying no no no...no real problems...time to listen to the heart beat...well she said rate is good at 143 but continued to listen...now I had thought it sounded funny but wasn't sure if she had moved the monitor or what and almost asked if I was hearing a heart murmur...she then says did you hear it skip a beat there...she says that its common but she was sending me for a ultrasound to look at the heart to make sure there are no defects and its just that the nervous system hasn't matured yet and most times its fixed prior to birth...

Well there went the benefit of an earlier appt...now I was off to the hospital...that wouldn't be too bad if I just had to go take the test...but no they have to admit you to the maternity ward...so I had to put on a gown and the babies heart was monitored till I had to go to the ultrasound which at that point you could still hear the skipped beat...so then had to be unhooked and wheeled to ultrasound...to which the little guy was stubborn and didn't want to cooperate to get the pictures of the heart she needed...finally that was done for me to be wheeled back up and lay there for another hour and half for some dr somewhere to read the ultrasound...

Well the baby was tired of being listened too as well and decided to move around for a good 15 mins so that the monitor couldn't detect a heart beat at all u'd just hear him kick it...not to mention after the ultrasound when he was still the skip beat wasn't there anymore...we finally got the okay to go home that the dr said the heart looked fine...and I'm just to keep my normal dr appts and come in if I think I'm going into labor...

I think he just wanted attention or possibly a practice run so he knew what the hospital looked like...I'm glad that he's supposedly ok...we know what kind of faith I have in drs...but gee whiz not how I wanted to spend my evening that rugrat...

Brandy

One day the trip to the hospital will be for me

Sorry for the lack of blog again...I was annoyed by the computer cord and had a long evening to worry about posting something...

I was planning on a relaxing yesterday evening...just had to run out to get lunch food...Kris texted me asking what I was doing and then called me 3 times in a row...between me never hearing my phone ring and the shady reception in walmart I missed them...so we finally connected and she was bawling cause Trey fell and hit his eye and she didn't know if she should go to the ER...

So I checked out real quick and forgot half of what I wanted...and went over there...his little eye was swollen and had a good scratch and bruise and he was sluggish...so I immediately said we better take him cause we'd rather be safe than sorry and it was super close to his actual eye...Ty heard my voice and started bawling in the tub...cause he was upset cause his mom was upset...so we finished his bath and dropped him off at mom and dad's rather than drag him to the hospital...here Kris didnt have a car anyways cause Marques was at work and they are down to 1 car...

They determined that his cornea didn't seem scratched though they wanted to see him today...and he was said to be okay and just follow up at his pediatrician which he has his 9 month appt next week...by the time we left the hospital he was much more is amicable self...he was a real trooper the whole time and not much crying or fussing just seemed to be saddened by his injury...

Ty was super cute cause as soon as we dropped him off he goes gma baby brothers eye is dead...I get back in the car and say to Kris she'll have some explaining to do if Ty tells everyone that his baby brothers eye is dead...but he was very worried that he was okay...and supposedly didnt even pick on him today cause he has a boo boo...

Nothing too new with me...the baby has officially began to squish my diaphragm making it hard to breath...hopefully he'll drop down cause that makes the walk in and out of work a little difficult...but I could have far worse symptoms...another dr appt tomorrow night...fun fun...training is going...only one lady is driving everyone in the class nuts so at least its just not me wanting to tell her shut up...

Brandy

Another Tiring Weekend

Well right now all I feel like I accomplished is a headache...I think everything for my baby shower is ready god I can only hope...I got chelle's gift done for her shower...cause I'm the nice sister and the other two are like evil step sisters...chelle is just a spoiled brat and kris doesn't have a brain...

Anyways I need a nap this headache needs to go away...watching tyler all morning does that...but no he didn't cause it...he was a good boy...we did a little shopping...baked cookies...had lunch...and played...how he wasn't exhausted i don't know

And my computer power cord has decided to be finicky and only work when it wants that shall be fun to deal with...if anyone has an extra dell powercord i could borrow i'd appreciate it kthxbai

Brandy

Oh Good Grief

Oh bother...and everything else...the stupid VA decided it was okay to discharge dad cause he couldnt get his last round of chemo cause his blood count is too low...well they should of kept him so he doesnt drive us all insane...we dont have time to be worrying about getting him to and from stupid appts cause we all work and have our own appts to worry about...

The crib bedding came and I like it and mom is happy it came with valances...though he keep laying on my right side and annoying my right hip that likes to pop out of place anyways so when I go to stand up it takes a good few steps to not as look as though I'm limping...always cute at work...

Chelle has power in most of her house...the electrician was no help...the air conditioner guy got the air fixed here it just needed whatever they put in them that has replaced freon...so it wasn't the ac the blew up the electric...well it might of been cause the house is wired retarded...so the lack of that liquid could of cause the ac to surge and somehow not blow it up but blow the other stuff...they tore down the basement ceiling and the electrician is to come back out and see if he can see where the wire damage is and replace what needs to be replaced there...then if that doesnt solve the problem adam will have to continue to tear stuff apart for the electrician to come back and look again...poor girl hopefully it will all be fixed before the baby comes

Brandy

Yippity Skippity

Not much to say today other than my crib bedding should be here tomorrow...and though I'm sure that seems random I'm quite excited...it'd be better if the room was painted and I had a mattress but I'll settle for just the bedding tomorrow...

Alright I'm off to bed cause I need to be at work at 630 cause I need to leave work early for an appt...fun fun

Training Day

First day of training is done...and its gonna be a long 2 or so months...its gonna be boring not to mention no one seems to have a definite answer to things...even in scenarios they try to give as example they get themselves confused and then say well we don't have to worry about that now...well then why did you mention it...

My desk had been a mess cause it was used for storage apparently for a long time...so it still had lrg boxes of light bulbs on it...a work order to move stuff was put in but the little cleaning boy actually seemed to make it happen sooner rather than later cause he felt bad that he wasn't told when I was moving in or it would of been done...though the computer ppl made a mess...how does one move a computer from one cube to another and manage to get the wires completely tangled when everything had to be unhooked for the move...I then had to unplug everything and rewire so the wires weren't in a big jumble...I knew I should of moved it myself...

Alright enough of that...I'm sure exhausted from this cold and haven't been sleeping well so I think its off to bed...hopefully the baby will agree with that idea...