Good Bye Crib!

Since my last post about Jeremiah making the transition to his big boy bed he has continued to do well. At first he only stayed in his bed if I was in his room, sitting on the rocking chair. After about a week of that I tried leaving before he fell asleep. That was a nightmare, but eventually he fell asleep in his bed without me in his room. So now we're almost done with this transition and I'm feeling GREAT about being crib-less for a few months. We'll leave the crib up still but Jeremiah definately knows which one is HIS bed. I'm so proud of him. Less than 2 weeks and he's sleeping in his bed with no problems. It went much smoother than I had expected. Now, hopefully we won't have to take the pack n' play with us when we travel for a good long while! I don't know why they call them "travel" beds, because there is nothing light, or travel friendly about them! Anyway, Yay for twin beds!

Baby Hirschi Update

Just by way of update, yesterday my practitioner told me to go into the hospital and be checked because I was experiencing some minimal bleeding. I went in and got checked and everything was fine. They moved up my ultrasound to today, however, to make sure the placenta was okay, and to check on the cord insertion. Everything looked great. The cord insertion had even migrated a bit to the center (Or rather, the placenta had grown larger on the edge) So I'm feeling very relieved. I hope that I don't have to return to Labor and Delivery until September!

So it's still a girl, and she looks good. We got a funny picture of her with her leg bent up and over her head. I'll post photos later. I am getting anxious to get everything ready for this little one. I want to go out and buy all the clothes she'll wear for the next year! Greg is providing a voice of reason, and we have been so blessed with many gifts already. We're so excited. Yay for pink!

Small Miracles

Sorry this is so blurry, it was dark and I couldn't see where I was aiming. This is my little miracle. Jeremiah is asleep on his big kid bed for the first time. It took us 3 days of trying, and he only stayed put when I sat in the rocking chair in his room. So we'll see how the rest of the night goes, and how tomorrow goes. Right now the mattress is on the floor in case he falls out, in two weeks we'll put it on the frame and put the bed rails on it. I'm so excited for my small victory, even if it is just for tonight. :)

Going Private

I've realized that there might be unwanted and unknown visitors to our blog, so I'm going to make it private. If you visit our blog and would like an invitation to view it, just send me your email address at heatherhirschi@hotmail.com and I will send one to you. I'll be making it private in a week or two. Thanks!

That Fat Feeling

Okay, so when I was pregnant with Jeremiah I went through a bit of a personal crisis when I finally made the jump to 130, a weight I had never reached pre-pregnancy. It wasn't as big of a deal to me when I hit 140, or even 150, but that 130 was a tough milestone to reach. Well, guess who is quickly approaching 130? And a lot faster this time than I did with Jeremiah. As all women who have been pregnant can attest to: the toughest time for your self image is when none of your pre-pregnancy clothes fit right, and none of your maternity clothes fit right either. You either feel fat, or you feel... fat in baggy pants. Not to mention the fact that maternity pants have a tendency to sag in the derriere area, so your back side looks horrible.

Add to it that I now have to purchase a maternity bathing suit. You want to know the worst time to go shopping for a bathing suit and have to look at yourself in three way mirrors? During the "fat period" of your pregnancy. And yet, that is the time that I am forced to try on bathing suits and actually see what I look like in them! Have I mentioned that maternity bathing suits are even worse than maternity pants?

So, needless to say, my self esteem is in a down turn these days, and what do I have to look forward to? The swelling of my face, neck, arms, legs and feet! Ahh, the sweet joys of carrying another human being in your body. The one ray of light I see at the end of this seemingly endless tunnel is the fact that when it's over I will have a beautiful little girl, and the swelling will go down, the pregnancy pounds will be shed, and about two weeks after giving birth I will still weigh about 10 pounds more than I do right now and feel so skinny! That's what is so strange, it's all a matter of perspective.

Jeremiah's Favorite Things

Cooking with Mommy:

Jeremiah loves helping me bake or cook dinner. He's really good at playing with the flour :). Once we let him sit on the counter so he could be more in the action: that was more mess than it was worth, now he stands on a chair right next to me.

Making Potato Head Creations:

Sometimes he doesn't feel like coloring inside the lines, so to speak, so he puts pieces wherever he wants, like this inventive creation: three arms, lips for a nose, a video camera for a mouth, and a mouth for a hat!

Parkcenter Wood Car Nationals

Our ward had a pinewood derby last saturday and Greg and I tried our hand at making a car of our very own. Greg has some experience with this, but I had none, and I mean NONE. And I don't have a very good track record with sharp objects so he wouldn't let me handle the saw or carving knives. :( But I got the paint it! SO, together, with some help from Jeremiah (he added some orange colored pencil marks) we made the Hirschi-mobile. It was really fun to work on it together, and even though it lost terribly, we learned that next time we have to buff the axles and put grafite on them. So here is our first attempt at making a radical car!

This is just a cute picture of Jeremiah playing with Daddy's biking gear after he got home from work. :) he totally loved walking around with the helmet on his head.

Baby Names

Many of you have asked if we have decided on a name, and clearly, we have not. But we're having much better luck agreeing on girl names than we did on boy names. So we've posted a poll, so you can vote on the names that we seem to both like moderately well. Greg's favorite is Leah, my favorite is Olivia. Who knows what we'll end up deciding on. Don't worry, nothing is going to sound good with Hirschi as a last name, so we haven't been basing it off that at all.

We're having another ultrasound on June 9th, so we'll update photos then. Hope you are all having a great week!

Marginal Cord Insertion

According to our ultrasound I have (or the baby has) what is called Marginal Cord Insertion, which means that the cord is inserted in the side of the placenta, rather than the middle. It means there is a risk of the baby not getting the nutrients she needs. There is risk of being put on bed rest or induced early if growth is not adequate. Anyway, so I'm having more ultrasounds to monitor growth, and the development of the umbilical cord. So please just keep us in your prayers that everything develops appropriately.

Baby Girl Hirschi

Just thought I'd post some pictures of our ultrasounds. We haven't decided on any names, thanks to everyone for asking. It took a very long time for us to even agree on a single boy name when I was pregnant with Jeremiah, so I'm sure we won't decide on a name for quite a while. We will gladly accept your suggestions.

The first picture is of her profile (obviously) the second is a picture of her sucking on her hand. At one point she even had her foot up there playing with both her foot and her mouth at the same time. And the third picture is of her skinny little fingers. Enjoy!