Megan's 1st Birthday Party

We had Megan's first birthday party last Saturday the 20th at our house. We had quite the crew show up to watch her open presents and dig into her cake. Megan had caught a cold from the back up daycare i took her to on Thursday (her actual birthday) so she was a bit crabby at times and quite the mama's girl. I was not one to complain about her being the mama's girl because i love to hold her when i get the chance (which is next to impossible since she is always on the go). Megan received a ton of really nice gifts. Some of her favorites are the Tickle Me Elmo (batteries are almost dead on it already), the blue ball and the Dora Mobile (as I like to call it).





After presents we moved on to cake and ice cream. We sang Happy Birthday to her and then i blew out the candles. We gave Megan her own 7 inch cake and stood back to see what she was going to do. After waiting for a minute, Nick took her hand and put it in the icing. After a little bit of prodding, she started to get into the spirit of things and pretty much destroyed all the icing on the cake. The cake was a disaster, Megan was covered in blue icing, the floor was a mess and so was the highchair. The birthday party was a success and so was the bath that she got that evening.

My baby is 1!!!

Megan turned 1 yesterday. it was quite a momentus occasion considering how her little life started out (www.caringbridge.org/visit/meganroehl).







She had quite a big day yesterday. i decided to take her to the back up daycare that my work provides so i could bring her to lunch with my co-workers who were giving me a baby shower. i dropped her off at 7:30 with no issues. i picked her up at 11:30 to take her back to work. Megan was a HIT with my co-workers. she had some graham crackers and pizza and then just wanted to get out of her stroller and crawl. we shut the doors to the conference room and let her do just that. she also got a chance to play ball with Brian who i work with. she was having a blast. we left to go back to daycare just before 1pm and then i walked back to work for another 3 hours till i had to go and pick her up again (just so you know, the walk from work to the daycare is approximately 6 blocks, i am 36 weeks pregnant and i did the walk 6 times). We arrived at home around 5:30 and had dinner. she was so tired from her eventful day that she ended up going to bed at 8:30.

Tomorrow is her big birthday party with the family. i think i am more excited than she is about it.

The Ultrasound

Friday i had an ultrasound to check to make sure the baby is growing properly. we found out that i still have a HUGE amount of sugar in my urine and because of that, the baby's abdomen is a bit bigger than it should be. i am now on a strict meat and fat diet which means NO CARBS!!! i am so missing my carbs right now because of course you miss something you can't have. hopefully this kid will arrive within the next 2-3 weeks and i can go back to life as i know it. i now have to have ultrasounds every week to make sure things are alright. good for me because i get to see the kid, bad because i don't get any pictures of her. we will just have to be surprised when she arrives.
nick installed a new light switch and outlets in the baby's room today while i put more clothes away. i have also slowly started to pack my hospital bag. for some reason i am not in a hurry to do it when i think i should be. oh well. i am sure i have plenty of time to do it.
i am so excited for megan's first birthday next Thursday. i am so excited to have the family over for her first birthday party on Saturday.

The Baby's Room

What do you do when your husband goes out of town, you are 34 weeks pregnant and the baby's room needs to be painted? you call in the troops for help is what you do. I am VERY fortunate to have such a great family and friend to be able to help me paint the baby's room last weekend.

Before picture:



my troops consisted of my mother in law Donna, sister in law Amy, friend Katie and sister Nina. Megan was our entertainment for the afternoon. my thought on the whole color scheme was to go with pink. a nice pastel pink and after looking over samples with my friend from work and then going to Target to pick out the bedding, we were able to come up with a color that was going to match nicely. so saturday morning arrives and i get up at 8 to shower, get megan up at 8:30 to make our trek to Lowe's to get paint and then to Rainbow to get snacks. luckily we were able to get it all taken care of by the time everyone showed up at 10. i had prepped the room as well as i could considering that i had been banned by nick from climbing on ladders. nina continued putting the painters tape up where i could not reach and then we got to work. we had 3 people edging and 2 people rolling. it worked out really nicely the rountine we got in. after the first coat, i went and got another can of paint and some pizzas so we could take a break and refuel.

Amy



Donna




amy was on a mission and continued to start edging the last coat while the rest of us ate. donna had a couple of pieces of pizza and then joined amy on the second coat. in the mean time i was feeding megan and getting her ready to take a nap. not too easy to do when there is a lot to watch but i was able to get her to go to sleep anyway. by the time i got back in the room it was pretty much done. Amy and Donna were nice enough to clean the brushes and peel the tape off from around the room for me when all was said and done.

Here is the finished room:


Next task is to have another ultrasound on Friday to make sure the baby is growing properly and she has enough amniotic fluid around her. this is all because sugar keeps showing up in my urine even though the 3 hour glucose test showed i don't have gestational diabetes. i will be sure to share the ultrasound pictures with you as soon as i can.

Here's to not having to worry about the new baby's room anymore and having such WONDERFUL friends and family. i could not have done it without you!!