Friday, December 16, 2011

It is almost 4 weeks

I love being at home with my sweet Emma and my over-active Kailey. I am happy being home with my girls. I felt like a total moron today, Buddy and I went to the grocery store, we had to get groceries and we both slept late. So when I we were out and when we were on our way back the school called and asked why no one had picked Kailey up yet.

Now I was unaware of the school getting out early today and I felt so ashamed I didn't show up at 11:30 instead I got there at 1pm because they didn't call me till 12:30. I felt so bad! Kailey did not seem to think it was funny either.

So anyway most of my days have been spent sleeping late after I pull the 4pm - 6am shift I get up with Emma at about 4am then I can't go back to sleep cause Kailey needs to be at school so I have been getting her ready at 6 am and getting her in the car and off to school by 7:15 am. Then I come back home take care of Emma and either fall asleep right after or a while after and end up sleeping a lot. This morning I came home and fell asleep at 8:30 and slept till 10:30 then made myself get up and go to the grocery store with buddy.

He and I gotta get our sleeping straight cause we don't get enough sleep when we should and we are sleeping at the wrong time. The baby isn't as confused as we are lol.

I plan on taking the girls to see Santa tomorrow and I also got to fit going to see this big wooden swing set that I might be buying for the girls then I have to be home to get ready for my work Christmas party. Melissa is my date it is going to be fun.

I am tired so for now I am going to bed. :-) hopefully my Blogging will pick up soon.

Monday, December 12, 2011

So Emma is 3 weeks old :-)

Here we are Emma is 3 weeks old! It feels like it has been months but she is the sweetest baby of them all. I love her so much. The last couple weeks have been spent dodging illness and I actually went out with buddy and left Emma and Kailey with Tabitha. It was nice to go out but I was missing my baby and of course since I am breast feeding so were they lol.

So here are some updated pics of emma.... just to keep you all up to date!
















Saturday, November 26, 2011

Being home.

It is nice being home, but it is all so overwhelming. On Tuesday they released me from the hospital late, we had to drive home in the rain and Cedar Bluff was flooded and people in Knox drive like some crazy idiots in the rain or snow. Both girls fell asleep on the way home. We had to take back roads cause the interstate was SO backed up in both directions.


We got home.. and instead of calling in my scripts for me, or just filling them at the hospital, I had to run out and take paper scripts to wal-mart, and have them filled myself not something you want to do after just having a baby. I then went to BK and got us all dinner and that was confusing because they put in a second speaker box at the BK! WOW I can imagine how confusing that would be.


So Emma did good while I was away at the store and I didn't get any calls from buddy saying he didn't know what to do cause there was nothing to do. Something that I can assure you was not the case with Kailey!


To add to my horrible anxiety I have a bit of depression. Most people know I am not one to cry. I just don't do it, I didn't even cry when my best friend died, so I am sure not gonna cry over stupid stuff... but I did and have done that and I must confess it is not my best side....now I remember why I don't cry.....ummm yeah its pathetic.


So with thanksgiving on Thursday I was a bit overwhelmed with baby feeding, cooking and trying to have to get over the fact my family was coming down. The sad part is that my mother was supposed to come down and help cook and I eventually had to call her and wake her up at like 4 or 5pm. My dad said, "you should have just called when you were ready for her to come" I just had a kid and she promised she would help I shouldn't have to call her.


when she finally got here I just went and took care of Emma and left what was left to do up to her. Kailey had helped me with a lot of the stuff earlier. she has been a big helper, she helped make green bean casserole, she helped make banana pudding, she even helped with sweet potato casserole and 3 pumpkin pies I made from scratch. She also injected the turkey with creole butter


We had a good pre-thanksgiving dinner cooking party Kailey and I did. Needless to say by the time my mom got here I had to cluster feed poor Emma who I hadn't had time to MAKE wake up and eat. Yes Emma you have to MAKE her wake up to eat. Most babies would cry and beg for food I have to cry and beg her to wake up and eat lol.


So here is the highlight of our thanksgiving evening. Before all the food was ready and before my dad got back my mother went down the hall to our communal bathroom and was using it with the door wide opened and the lights turned out. Buddy who has to drink to deal with her craziness and sometimes dad, went to go use the bathroom... and there was my 40-something year old mother (yes I am not sure of her age) sitting on the toilet. So he just turned and walked away reminding himself that it is just one holiday and gonna forget about it. She then calls for him "Buddy" as if she wasn't on the toilet and there was nothing wrong with it....he says "WHAT" she says "tell Amanda to get me a pad" (not embarrassed at all by the way).


I am in the other end of the house talking to Buddy's mom on the phone, while breast feeding my kid. Buddy comes in there and tells me what just happened so I give him his mother on the phone, walk to the other bathroom where my mother is still sitting waiting on me to hand deliver a pad which is right behind her on the shelving behind the toilet, which she shouldn't have expected me to have or supply to her anyways, she knows that for the last 5 years I haven't needed them... Oh and by the way this is the same woman who has told EVERY one that she has had a hysterectomy.


So I tell her the pads are behind you, shut the fucking door this isn't a private room, no one wants to see you on the toilet this ain't your house. She says, well Kailey left the door opened, umm all I could think is what ever when buddy walked in she didn't ask him to shut it, then she expected I believe that Kailey left it opened. Now she wonders why we don't do holidays with them! We normally just have an immediate family holiday, me buddy and Kailey but because of Emma we decided that we would let them come (cause they imposed) because I may need the help after all I just had a baby.


So after the fucked up bathroom incident, she told buddy, "i had to clean that turkey out with my bare hands it was like having sex (while shaking her hips)." umm what the hell is wrong with this woman. I am SO embarrassed of her I want to crawl under a rock. I hope that whatever stupid she is stuck on isn't passable to my children!


So I think she was sick she had made mention that if she drank too much caffeine she would get diarrhea, which I think she had been sick with for a few days, cause Emma started having Diarrhea the next morning and still has it. I am worried if she doesn't stop having it she will be at children's before the end of the weekend.


Oh my mom had to announce her diarrhea issue at dinner.


So I wanted to go out for black Friday but the new baby kind of enabled me to do so. I need to get out of the house though. I am so tired though I cant and it is not the babies fault cause she sleeps from 2am - 7 or 8 am with no waking. I love her, she is the best baby in the world. I am just wore out and in pain. I use to have a high pain tolerance now I feel like it is pretty damn low.


The only upside to my mother coming to my house for Thanksgiving is she is an obsessive compulsive cleaner and she cleaned my kitchen for me and put away all my food. so this was my holiday and I hope you have found the energy to pick yourself up off the floor and quit laughing to get off my page.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Emma is here

So on Saturday I wasn't feeling well and I finally promised Kailey I would take her to the playground and instead I took her to lunch. We had Chinese food and then we went to food city and got food for dinner as buddy said he was going to cook. So then I get home with the food he is not here yet and I decide to take Kailey and go to Misty's house and see if her and Donna want to go walking. I haven't been doing much but feeling really over full and sitting on the couch.


So then I came home and Buddy came home and we just hung out I made hamburger helper for dinner and we watched the UT game and then we watched USC vs Oregon. After the game was over I was half way dozing on the couch. I was almost asleep when I felt a huge pop in my stomach. I got up thinking it was just my imagination, then another pop and water was running all down my legs.


I told Buddy and he was like no shit? I was like Yes It broke and I went to change my clothes and call my mother who would come get Kailey and take her to her house and keep her until buddy could come back for her. It was about 11:34 when I called  my mother started packing some stuff to take to the hospital.


We got to Park west at midnight. It was now the 20th of November. The lady said, "you may have just peed on yourself so lets check." I started having contractions in the car they were not so bad... when she finally figured out that it was my water my contractions were 3 min apart she was just to stupid to know that because she was in the mindset that umm contractions take forever to speed up....


So by the time they were less than a minute apart and I was in agonizing pain and all the good that comes from labor she wasn't anywhere near my room. Thank the lord she was apparently stupid or something else was wrong with her.


So I finally get a half Epi and it takes effect almost Immediately leaving my body numb to pain but able to feel the pressure and it was a way better relief than what I was going through. I honestly thought contractions wouldn't be that bad but these things were awful. I don't know how anyone could think through a contraction? I give kudo's to women who actually get no help for their contractions and have contractions that are hard to manage with breathing mine got so bad I couldn't breath...


So I start pushing, I didn't push but maybe 10 or so times but during this time they let me know she has hair. Then she eventually crowns but she was coming to fast so they gave me an episiotomy,  I then realize her head is out they let me reach down and feel and then I have to push and get her out the rest of the way. There is more commotion and I am asked to push more and more cause she apparently has something wrong  with her and they want her out now!


So she is here and Dr Walter is the doc that is delivering her, I am looking at Buddy and I realize they didn't allow him to cut her umbilical cord and I keep asking him is everything ok and trying to see Emma but he is telling me to just look at him and not to worry bout them over there she is fine.


The Dr. is sewing me up and explains what has happened.While emma was on her way out her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck hanging up when her head got out due to the cord being around her neck it tightened up and was now choking her.


They cut the Umbilical cord, while she was stuck and then started pulling her to get her shoulders unhung and then they got her out and took her to get her help. She was ok she was just in shock from all that had happened durring the labor. I know that this labor and delivery was harder on me than Kailey and I was very upset about what happened for Emma and for me.




We got to stay until today 11/22/2011.
So below is my daughter Emma sophia born on November 20 2011 at 3:33 am. I am thankful for all that I have been given and especially this little angel


































Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Another day and no EMMA

I am wondering if Emma will show up on her own or will she be just as stubborn as Kailey. I hope she comes on her own, and not during thanksgiving. I honestly don't want her to be born on thanksgiving.

The reason I want her to come on her own is because I haven't experienced that. With Kailey we got induced and everything went according to plan with some minor stuff like "you may have to get a C-section because she wont come down." Emma is down.. she is head down, she is in the pit of my stomach she is ready to come out but she hasn't shown up yet!

I want my water to break I just want things to go as planned but at the same time I want things to go normally to I don't know if that is too much to ask or not. I am hoping not lol.

I hope that I can get some good time off with her. I get to go see the OBGYN tomorrow. Hopefully I am dilated past four and things are good. I was 4 last thursday, but over the weekend of course I went to Cincinnati and walked a bunch and then now I am back at work, working a bunch nothing has induced labor I want them to induce it so I don't have to wait patiently for water to break. lol

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

It has been almost a month

So it has been almost a month. Buddy and I just got back from Cincinnati, we went to see West Virginia Play UC. West Virginia Whooped some ass. The next day we went to see Steelers Play against the Bengals. It was a good game but not near as good as WVA VS UC.

We walked near the River, went to some bars (yes I am 9 months pregnant and due to have a baby Nov 25th) I didn't drink just hung out and socialized. We had a great time. It was a 4 hour ride to Covington KY and then we parked at the hooters took a shuttle boat across the river to Cincinnati and walked to the stadium. I enjoyed every moment of it.

It felt good to have a kid free weekend, it would have been nice if I could have drank. I wish we could do more stuff like that together without the kids. I don't know if that will ever happen or not. I am just hoping that when Emma gets here sometimes in the next 10 days she is a happy healthy baby, no colic, nothing to bad going on with her. I am hoping I can breast feed and everything goes according to plan.


I am hoping that Christmas goes well and I will still get to see my friends and work family and I wont have any postpartum depression. I did with Kailey and I am so hoping that I wont with Emma. For all those who read my blog pray for these things to go as planned. Also Pray that Thanksgiving is not ruined for Kailey who says we can not-not celebrate thanks giving. She is gonna be bummed out if thanksgiving is affected by Emma's arrival.

I love Emma already and she isn't even here I can't wait to see her little face and hold her for the first time. I know we wanted a boy but no matter what you get you love it just the same. Buddy hasn't had that epiphany yet, he thinks that he will never be able to love another child as much as he loves Kailey... but I know once he see's Emma it will be just like the day we had Kailey.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Emma Sophia Beavers Stay in there

So I am tired, I haven't been able to sleep, I am as crampy as ever, I am sure I am already dilating.... and I have a weird pain in my back. I am not being bitchy and I am not being mean, and I am trying not to whine.

I described my back pain on FB yesterday, and well some of my friends say it sounds like my gallbladder... I am not sure if I should be alarmed I am assuming  it would be quite excruciating if it were my gallbladder I don't think it is. It is a pain as if someone poked me internally a few times very hard.

Buddy went to work this morning, not sure why it is raining. I am surprised he isn't home yet... they normally don't work in the rain. I figured he would be back at home by 9am. These things make me wonder!!! If he gets sick are they going to pay him for his time off? Cause being out in this cold ass rain is not going to work wonders on his body... just make him sick!

So we go to Cincinnati in 22 more days! WOW... it is still quite far away. On a different note Kailey has been invited to her first school friend's party. Sad thing is that it is on the 29th. We already have Dallas's Birthday and the Halloween block party... so I think we are going to get Tyson a birthday card and send his mommy a thank you card for inviting Kailey. Though I am sure she doesn't even know Kailey from Ava in her class.... I am just happy she invited Kailey.

When I was a kid we were always the kids that didn't get invited to any party's not only cause no one wanted to put up with our mom, but because we were the poor kids and they figured we wouldn't get them anything anyways. I don't intend on leaving any kids out of the invites, but also don't want Kailey being left out of being invited. The worse part is I take Kailey to about 20 Birthday party's a year of friends kids, NONE ever come to hers! On January 13th the only kids that show up to Kailey's Birthday are my cousin Erin's little girl, and use to be Anna's Kids. But hopefully that will change or we will just quit having birthday party's outside of home, we will make it seem like Kailey's Birthday is special at home and wont make a big deal out of "outside party's" and I just wont take Kailey to other birthday party's and she just wont know a difference.

I just hope that now that Kailey is in school that Birthdays will be more special. It is not about getting gifts it is about spending your day playing with your friends because you were born and you are the ultimate gift.... when no one shows up it makes you feel like no one cares or likes you and you just feel all alone. So I hope Kailey never has to feel that!

Monday, October 17, 2011

My Crazy weekend

So Friday I went to the doctor and had to see Dr. Myers, my doctor is Dr. OKelly, he just listened to the baby, then measured my stomach. I had lost 5 pounds as well. I was down to 212 from 217 just two weeks ago. I am really not that big, and honestly am not sure how I weigh 200 lbs!


Buddy went to the doctor to. He was prescribed Penicillin for his jaw and ear. His wisdom tooth is giving him jaw and ear problems. Buddy went to the dentist Saturday morning, they pulled his wisdom tooth, prescribed him percocet and sent him home.


We went to the UT game Saturday, so after the wisdom tooth extraction and me going and getting buddy's script filled and taking care of everything we went to Knoxville. We parked walked about 10 blocks and met up with Bill, Chris and Kelly Priest for a tailgate party. We hung out for what seemed like 4 or 5 hours.


We got our Tickets from Bill, they were right next to him and his wife. We got to the stadium and down to our seats, we were only like 6 rows up from the field. It was awesome. No one was sitting next to me... there were like 7 empty seats and on the end a man woman and their child were sitting. Then on my right there was Buddy, Bill, and his wife (don't remember her name).


It was a great place to sit, until, the guy behind me kicked me (I was standing he was sitting and the only way this could have happened is if he had stretched his leg out to do so!) So when it happened again I tried and tried to ignore him. Then he spilt alcohol (which isn't allowed in the stadium) on me. Then it happened again then he dropped his cup and it went all over the place and he picked it up and screamed over and over loudly in my ear "it happens".... ummm ok... I continued to ignore him... I tried then he threw his cup down at my feet allowing what was left of the liquor to splatter all over the place!




I finally turned and asked him nicely to stop! That didn't fix anything! Then another lady came down and sat next to me. She looked like she was working, she had a very expensive camera and she was shooting pics... The guy shoved his large cup in her face and asked her to take a drink. She was like sorry I don't drink after other people. He continued to do this. Then he started calling her names and (she was in her 40's) telling her she was darker than a black person and asking her if she wanted him to take her to a tanning bed. She wasn't dark at all... I am not quite sure what he was saying all that for. Eventually I had had enough and especially after he threw his empty cup at the back of my head (he was sitting behind me and on seat to the left so I had to turn to my left and he was there. His girlfriend was sitting behind me. I was soo fed up with the bull shit I stood up and finally said " Look here I am not putting up with your crap we came to enjoy the game and you are the only one making it difficult to enjoy" he was like "I know your hormones are out of wack" I was like "excuse me? If my hormones were out of wack then I would have already grabbed you by your tie and jerked you down the Fucking bleachers you piece of shit" Then I just said " if you wanna keep it up Ill go get a police officer and he can handle it from here" apparently he did and Bill Priest Jumped over the bleacher and asked him if he had a problem (buddy was thanfully gone to the restroom cause there would have been something worse happened). He grabbed the boy by his shirt and the boy was like "not with you" The police then came down there and when they sniffed the guys cups they hauled them out of there. The girl that was with them acted like it was a crime they got in trouble but you know no one would have been having a bad time if those two loosers hadn't been showing their ass!


I was very thankful they got hauled out but it had me a nervous wreck the whole night! We were in good seating area, most of the people in the area were nicely dressed well behaved individuals. The guys behind us were dressed expensive but they were there to see if they could start a fight and get away with it.


    The one guy I am sure you were wondering what he was doing. He was unzipping his pants and thrusting his crotch to the back of the ladies head next to me.. then he would act soo cavalier about it when anyone looked at him. Yes everyone in our section saw and heard everything and even people who were five rolls up were starring after the guys got drug out of there!


The woman and man with the little boy were very thankful they left to because of the obscene gestures they were making that we may or may not have seen and their son saw all of it. They had asked them nicely to settle down as well with their language and the dirty gesturing, but they continued.

I am just surprised that guys dressed as nicely would act a fool and do stupid shit. The one guy was truely obnoxious and didn't want to give up and let everyone enjoy the game. It is rediculous you have to put up with other people while doing something fun.

Also I learned that Smokey (the big furry mascot not the real dog) is blue! His suit is a dark blue and you can really see it when you are sitting 6 rolls up from the field. You are just like wow!!! It is blue! But on tv it looks Black!

Sunday I couldn't function and I did nothing all day... I slept a lot.. fought with buddy because I couldn't get out of bed and Kailey was acting up because she knew I wasn't up and no one would do anything about her misbehavior.

I am now extremely exhausted still and this was my wild and crazy weekend.  

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Our Plans

So this year before the baby comes, you know when I am fat and already SO miserable, we are going to Cincinnati Ohio to see the Steelers play in the NFL and WV Mountaineers play College ball lol. Great. I just keep thinking about how miserable I am now. I am huge.. I feel very fat and unattractive like I could pop any minute if i were to eat or drink anything.

So with all that said yes this trip is going to be miserable, we are staying in KY just across the bridge from the stadium. This will be fun. it will be two weeks from my due date, and I am hoping that Buddy will not drink while we are there, I will be too far pregnant to have to worry about all that. I am very anxious about it!

I hope that all will be OK, and that nothing bad happens while we are pushing the 2 week limit of labor! I know that once you are so far you could go at any time!! Labor was quick with Kailey, aside from having to be induced it was a whole 30 minute ordeal, which is fast for your first time! Everyone was surprised... but I was more surprised cause this day and time there should not be a 24 hour labor... they have way's of moving things right along, without all the waiting and getting no where.

I have been very crampy and just tired here lately. I had a dream the other night that my water broke while I was in bed and I couldn't get Buddy up to take me to the hospital... but I know that if my water had indeed broken he would get up and take me... I am not stupid, and neither is he lol.

Well this is all for now feel free to comment at any time.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Been sick, and getting sick of a bunch of crap

So, I am tired, again, I can't seem to get my energy up or anything else for that matter.

I can't get a full nights sleep because my 5-year-old keeps coming in the room and climbing all over me trying to sleep in my bed. UGH I can't deal with it, I take her back to her room, go for a potty break, and then go back and try to sleep.

My day yesterday went OK, I went to store after work and then got home unloaded all the groceries put them all away, then sat down with Kailey to do her homework. Started a load of laundry after, made Kailey a quick microwave pizza and then got an ass chewing cause I didn't make real food for dinner. umm I didn't get home till 7pm, then helped Kailey with her homework made her something to eat....by the time I was done with that it was right at 9pm and it was her bed time. I am so sick of everyone thinking I should cater to their ass like I don't have myself to worry about to.

So instead of me getting dinner and everything I started the load of laundry and just went to bed. I woke up at 1am and Kailey was in the bedroom wallering all over me to the point I couldn't sleep, so I get up take her to her bed put the laundry in the dryer and head on back to bed. Restart the dryer this morning while throwing a load of dishes in the washer and getting my bed straightened out. It is all i can do, to do ALL of the house work! I am sick of it. I am wondering how he expects me to make his lunch, do the laundry, dishes, and get myself and kids ready in the morning so I can go to work? How is this going to work, I can't get 4 whole people ready in the morning.

I am going to need help. This is where I wish my mother could be a real adult and step in, I just don't trust her she likes to get out and drive around carelessly with children not in restraint seats and it scares me. I don't want my baby to get killed because my mom had an accident. She doesn't have a car with a backseat and the one thing they do have with a backseat is a huge truck that no one can drive properly, plus it chugs gas.

I don't know what we are going to do with Emma once she is here, I guess we will have to make a way to afford daycare again. Maybe I should just get a second job and become a workaholic! Or maybe I should just quit work all together and work the welfare system. lol.. just kidding you guys know how I feel about all that. I don't think that any of us should be a burden on another. I just think that the working class mother should have the opportunity to send her children somewhere safe without being gouged to death on the price as if they were going out for a night on the town! We don't want to be away from our children we want to be at home with them but this economy doesn't make that possible at all!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Getting Closer Everyday

So Emma's arrival is getting closer every day. Despite People telling me how popular the name Emma is most of my Close friends who are here in person say "I know no one named Emma, and no one with Children that have that name" Or "There are no kids in my kids grade with that name!" This re-assures me that Emma is a good name to go with!
I only have known 1 Emma and she is a little younger than me. Buddy's mom knows an Emma but she is in her 60's and coincidentally shares the same last name as the Emma I know which is odd, cause they live in 2 different states and are generations apart from one another in age. So I guess we are sticking with Emma who knows though still 2 months left until she is here.

I have heard a lot of people saying "this person's baby came early" IT is happening a lot here lately. The girl I met at Food City's baby came 2 months early, in August rather than Late October. I haven't had any signs of early labor.. but neither did she, her water just broke and out she came! Weighing only 3 pounds. So far I have heard about 8 other ladies who have went into premature labor and had their babies early... some their babies were too small to be coming that early... So I just keep hoping she don't just show up really early.
So I don't have much to say... just that stuff. It is about all I could think of. I haven't had a lot to say, things have been pretty normal I don't know the results of my Fasting blood sugar yet. I assume if it were bad I would have heard something by now. I haven't heard a word.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Baby Shower held for me at work on 9/15/2011

These are pictures from my Baby Shower held at the TWPC on 9/15/2011



The Bouncer I wanted for baby Emma



My Boss is hillarious how do you like the Cake she got?


You can never have too many diapers


And what would a baby be without a WOMB Bear? Thanks Mel


This was the Bedding I wanted... I love work.


Colic bottles for when breast feeding goes south or I come back to work


This is a gown for me not the baby


This is a gown for the baby


Appliques for the wall so that the babies room can match the crib bedding


All the beautiful items my work family got for me.



My hat Tammy Dowdell made for me


Me relaxing after eating ALL that food.


Kailey wanted us to name the "new baby" Spike!