Only 8 Weeks left (hopefully)

So We are at 32 weeks along now. Or 8 months. How exciting. We have gotten pretty much everything ready for Brandon's arrival. I think if he were to arrive now we would be able to get by with everything we have. So that makes me feel good. not that he is coming quite yet, but ya never know.

So last weekend I had my last two baby showers. Brandon got Lots of nice stuff for his Nursary and for him to wear and play with. I had such a great time at both showers and want to thank my friends Jessie and Kelly along with my cousins, Kristin, Amy and Candace for throwing those showers for me. They were a great time.

We ended up with enough money in gift cards after the showers to get the Stroller/Car seat set, and our changing table that I really wanted, along with some more onesies and sleepers. Everything is coming together quite nicley.

As far as his room goes. Jason has gotten all the painting done now, which is a huge relife. Now all we need to do is go get the chair rail we are putting up between the two colors. I was gonna post some pictures but I haven't gotten around yet to taking some of the 1/2 finished room.

This week is Thanksgiving, I have the day off however Jason will be working (double time baby, YAY) so anyway, We decided to just do a little thanksgiving of our own for the night. So when he gets off work we are planning on deep frying a (chicken) i think not a turkey. ha ha.. and making all the fixings, It willprobably be a late dinner but it's ok. We will have fun.

I have been sick this week with a bad sinus infection. I was really hoping it would hold off enough to not get in the way of my showers and it seems to have done just that. It hit me on Sunday night (even though I knew it was coming for a day or so before that) and I have been dealing with that for the past few days. NOt fun. We did have our 32 week appointment on Monday so the doc was able to put me on the Zpack they call it. Which is supposed to help me get rid of this infection. Other than that the 32 week appointment was pretty normal. In and out. Brandon's heartbeat is still around the 140's so thats good. Now we are at the point where we go into the doc every two weeks, then in the last month we will go every week. So that is exciting knowing we are that close to his arrival.

We are getting more and more excited as each day goes on for Brandon to arrive. It is gonna be such a fun experiance and I can't wait for it.

My leave from work starts on December 18th, so I only have a few more weeks of working left then I am off for 4 months. I can't wait. Work is getting harder and harder to do as it used to be just the sitting made my back hurt a lot but now the sitting the standing the walking the stress, the everything makes me ach. By the end of the evenings I am all worn out and Really ready for bed. So it will be nice to relax in a few weeks when I can put work behind me for a while and just think about Brandon and Jason. My precious little family.

We hope everyone has a Wonderful Thanksgiving and Be safe.

Till next time.

The Sandmeier's

7 Months Along

Well, we are a little over 7 months along now. 29 weeks to be exact. Things are going pretty good. I have had some back pain I have been dealing with most evenings. Latley It doesnt really matter what I am doing, I still have this pain in my back. But Oh well.. not too much I can do about it.

Not really too much is new. Jason has got the first coat of brown on the baby room now, and hopefully will have the second coat done by maybe the end of this week. It is really starting to look pretty cute.

I did have my first shower last weekend. It was a lot of fun and I thank my aunt cindy and cousin Nikki for throwing it for me. Brandon got lots of cute stuff, bouncy seats, rattles, musical gyms, and lots of hooded towels and onesies. I can't wait now to dress him and bath him and all that fun stuff.

I have two more showers in November, One is being thrown by my friends Jessie and Kelly, and the other is for the Drangstveit side of the family thrown by my cousins Amy, Candy and Kristin. They both should be a great time.

We are getting more exiceted for the Holidays to come, as we will be able (with doc approval of couse,) make it to Aberdeen for christmas this year. hopefully we will be able to stay about 4 or 5 days this time. I think we do plan on driving. But of course we do need to talk to the doc about that first. So we'll see.

Well, only about 76 or so more days to go.. so hopefully the time passes by quickly.

Bye Bye now...

Only 98 days to go!

Hey there, well we are 26 weeks (or 6.5 months) along now. We had an interesting night a few nights ago. I was at work and feeling some bad pains in my right side and around to my back around my kidney area and the pains wouldnt go away. I waited a few hours till I got home, Jason had me drink water and take some tylonol and we went to bed hoping laying down would help, well anyway nothing helped so around 11:30 ish we decided to go into the Emergency Room just to make sure everything was ok. I felt like it was a Kidney infection so I wanted to make sure and get it taken care of. Well I guess with all the H1N1 going on if you are pregnant past 20 weeks you cant sit in the emergency room anymore, so they sent us directly to Labor and Delevery. (let me tell ya, that felt weird being there since i didn't expect to be there for another 3 months or so) we did get to walk past the Nursury and see all the tiny babys... (it made me tear up a bit). So anyways, after a ton of test and listning to Brandon's hearbeat and all of that it ended up being nothing. No Bladder infection, no kidney infection. They said it was probably just my Ligaments in my belly streching as the baby is growing.. (it definitally felt more than that) but if thats what they say. I will belive them. So All is good.

Jason is working hard now on the baby room. He is painting the second coat of blue as I type this. It is starting to look so good. I wil post some pics of him in the process.

I also finaly took some 6 month pics of me and my belly so I will post some of those too.

We are headed over to the Gisch's household tonight for dinner with them and the Cavanaugh's. It should be a great time. Pork Tenderloin is on the menu.. MMMMM sounds great.

We have our next appointment in about a week and a half I think. Not too much at that appointment, however after that one we start going ever two weeks.

Dani

25 Week Update

So I got my phone call back from the doctors office about my glucose test and I passed! Phew.. I was kinda worrying about it, but all is good. They did however find out that I am Anemic. For those who dont know what that means (as I didn't) Anemia usually is caused by deficiencies of iron, I guess it can also be caused by a deficiency in red blood cell production. So I am now on a medication (I will start tomorrow) to get some more iron in my body. Which all makes sense.. I do get really weak latley, really tired and worn out after doing simple things as in walk for about 5 min (somewhat briskly or not), climb stairs and what not. I figured it was just due to pregnancy which, I guess partly can be but now i know it is more due to the anemia. Hopefully the pills will make it better.

Other than that.. I guess that's all. Jason started working on the baby room a bit more. He has got the holes in the walls (where old pics were) all mudded up and ready to be painted. That will probably be done this weekend. Then my uncle Roy, later on, Is gonna help us with a Chair rail.

So far we still need to put the new dresser all together, It is now still in a box in the loft (along with a lot of other items with no home yet). I dont know where I will put all this stuff. Oh well.. I will find a place i guess.

Love ya all

6 Months along now

Hey everyone, So I am offically 6 months along now. WOO HOO.. I have been feeling pretty good, (if you dont count the pain in my butt) Literally.. ha ha.. I have thought this whole time it was my Tailbone that was giving me lots of problems but now have finally found out that it is my sciatic nerve. So as far as I know... The sciatic nerve runs under your uterus to your legs. The cause of sciatic nerve pain is thought to be associated with pressure on the nerve caused by the developing baby. So the doc says that he is sitting on the discs in my back and it is causing me to have this pinched nerve pain in my butt and let.. (only my left leg). So it has been slowly getting worse.. it is hard for me to move quickly, i cant bend over and do things i did before as well, as in put clothes in dryer, sweep, get things out of the fridge.. WALK... ha ha.. All things i need to do. So it is a pain in the butt (ha ha.. PUN intended) but nothing I can do about it but put a heat pad on it and strech it.. which i have been doing..

Brandon is over one pound now. He is steadly gaining about 4oz per week as of right now. He is Kicking like crazy, and now starting to wake me up at night because of the kicks. He is I think just over a foot long now. (the length of an ear of corn i guess). He is doing great though.

Apparently my uterus is now the size of a Soccer Ball.. And man does it feel like I am carring one in my belly. I had my Glucose Screening test today, and should have the results by tomorrow (i think) to see if I passed or not. I really hope I do cuz if I don't I have to go back in for a 3 hour test. Today's was only an hour long. The doc measured my belly today and said everything is lining up just right, I am just as big as I am supposed to be at 24 weeks. So that's good. He said my weight gain is also doing good. So that's good. I was getting worried about the weight gain this morning, but, apparenlty i am right on track.

We did get a baby gift from my brother Andy and Lynn since Lynn wont be able to make any showers. They got us a little toy box, with lots of goodies in it.. Lullibie CD, travel bottle heater, hangers, baby tylonol ect. It was fun to get a gift and I had a great time putting it all away in Brandon's new closet that is all ready for him.

I will post again when I know the results of my Glucose test, and maybe with some 6 month Pictures of me and the belly.

Jason and I did have a nice trip this past weekend as well. Probably our last on a plane until after Brandon is here. We went out to Washington D.C. to visit Matt and Lindsey. We did lots of sight seeing, (which was a challange with a pinched nerve in my back, but it was fun). Since we have been there so many times now and seen all the usual monuments, this time we went to see some things we haven't seen. We first went to the Holocaust Museum (which was sad but very interesting) then we went to Lindseys favorite, the Museum of portraits (not sure if thats the offical name), then we went to see the National Archives. That was pretty neat as well. Matt brought us out on his boat on Monday morning, however it was Really windy so it was hard to go too far from their house. We did find a little cove to go into so Matt and Smells (his roomie) could show us their Wake Boarding skills.. MAN o MAN they are good. I had no idea they were so good at it. I told him Next summer I am gonna try it. We also got to see Mt. Vernon (from the Potomac river) so that was cool too.

That's all for now. Dani

22 Weeks Along

Not too much has changed here in the past few weeks. We did get our crib and dresser for Baby Brandon, so we have finally started working on his room today. We got the old bed and old dresser taken out of there and is at my parents house for storage right now. Now we have just been going through the room and getting rid of old things and finding places for all the stuff that was in there before.

I have been feeling pretty good. For the most part, I have had some bad lower back and tailbone pains still but i talked to the doc about it last week at our appointment and he gave me some back excersiese to do, along with Prenatal Yoga. So I have just started doing that and it seems to be helping a little bit. When I have busy days at work and stand too long it still hurts but I assume that is just how it's gonna be.

I will post some more pics up here when we get the baby room finished. It probably wont be for a while though.

Bowling started last week. That was a ton of fun. We were really looking forward to starting up the bowling season again. Our team name this year is Married and Expecting cuz my friend Jessie who is on our team is also pregnant now too! We are so excited for them as well. So our babies will only be about 3 months apart. But bowling was a good time. I didn't bowl the best but that's ok the first day cuz we are just then establishing our averages and what not. Jason did pretty good, as usual.

Next weekend both my brothers will be in town for my cousin Pat and Sam's wedding. It should be a great time.

That's all for now. Talk to you all later.

20 Week Ultrasound

20 Week Ultrasound

Well we had our 20 week Ultrasound on monday and found out IT'S A BOY!! We are so excited. The Ultrasound was one of the coolest things we had ever seen before. It was so neat seeing him squirm around (which he did a lot). He kept putting his feet down and lifting his butt up, and also he kept moving his jaw up and down like he was talking in there.

For his name we are pretty sure we have settled on Brandon Paul.

His room is gonna be decorated in Light Blue and Brown with Stars and Airplanes.

Jason's Parents were in town last weekend as well, and we had so much fun with them. Lots of running around. We did get Brandon his very first Twins shirt when we were at the game on monday night. Also we went to the mall the next day and got him his first Fighting Sioux (UND Hockey) Outfit. It says "Little Sioux Fan" on it. Very cute.

We did start a registry at Babies-r-us but haven't completed it yet, that will be for the upcoming shower. I think my cousin nikki wants to throw one for my around the end of October or somewhere around there. I will let you know when it gets closer.

We do also plan on registering at Target since that is easier to get to for some people. but we still have plenty of time for that.

Brandon is kicking a lot now. They are getting bigger too. Acutally just last night I was sitting on the couch and he started kicking a lot so I had Jason put his hand on my belly. (we have tried this tons of times so far and he hasn't been able to feel him kick) But last night he was kicking so hard, I had Jason put his hand there and I just watched his face.. When the big kick came.. Jason jumped a bit and just looked at me.. I said yeah that was a kick.. did you feel it... he was like YEAH I FELT IT.. It was soooo cool. I am really glad he is able to feel the kicks now.

That's all for now