was 138 again at our check up on Thursday. guess the diet and exercise is helping. in talking to deena, i realized that i gained about 36 lbs in my pregnancy with caleb, and only 21 lbs with brynna so far. of course, i started much lighter and probably needed to gain more weight with caleb than with this one, and with the gestational diabetes, gaining weight is not easy.

did the strep b test...never fails that when i know he's gonna be doing something in my butt, i get gassy and think i'm going to explode a fut in his face. luckily, i didn't.

doctor said brynna's head is pretty far down already, but not dilating yet. this time her heartbeat seemed irregular...he said that since the ultrasounds have been good so far, we'll just wait until the ultrasound on the 22nd to verify. i think it's just that he has a crappy monitor thing and brynna was not positioned well.

the ultrasound on the 22nd should help determine when she'll arrive...if she's big, they may schedule me early, if she's not, we'll probs just wait until she's ready, but no later than my due date cuz of the diabetes.

i'm lazy and tired. walking is not happening very often, but the blood sugar seems to be doing okay. i'm getting hungrier, though, so we'll see how it goes in these last four weeks. i'm getting hella tired of eating almonds, granola bars, and peanut butter.

as for caleb...he's one funny boy. very adventurous, great at mimicking, and very tempermental. i can just imagine him in the toy store, throwing a fit...he'll be one of "those kids". He loves to climb everywhere, loves remotes, and is now learning to put things away (if he wants to). He's so cute when he puts his books away and claps for himself, or takes out all my makeup brushes and then puts them back in the container and claps. I'm not very good at words of affirmation, so good thing he affirms his own actions...lol. he's starting to "help" with laundry, putting the clothes from the basket into the washer now that he can reach. he'll also put his toys in the washing machine so we better remember to check for them before we do any loads. he's had a runny nose for the past couple days...how to teach a kid to blow their nose is beyond me...oh well. i still can't imagine what his reaction is going to be when we bring brynna home. his biggest challenge right now is food...he will eat continuously and will still start throwing a tantrum when he knows his meal is pau. he also doesn't believe in putting one thing or one little bit in his mouth...he likes to stuff his mouth, then choke. dave says he gets this food temperment from me, cuz i get hella grouchy when i'm hungry too. lol.

yay, super bowl today...which means no more football for a while!!!! dave is going to take caleb up to his parent's house and stay there to watch the game...and i'm going to correct papers, watch some non-superbowl tv, and hopefully take a nice nap. yay.

wth...on dec 10 i was 138.5....yesterday i was 138. that's more than a month with no weight gain and my doctor didn't say anything...that's weird.

doctor yesterday...the last of the only listen to the heartbeat visits...starting next time we'll do the strep b test and checking for dilation and head...yay...

weight yesterday = 138...i've hovered here for a while, so maybe i won't be too far off my 141 when i gave birth to caleb. ha, there's still 6 weeks left, so i better not speak too soon.

yesterday's blood sugar counts were all good, despite the fact that my clueless husband ate half my sandwich, thinking that they were all made with wheat bread. i wasn't about to eat a white bread one cuz that seems to drive my sugar up and i knew i wasn't going to be getting in a good walk after lunch. God knew that and provided me with school lunch...lol...i would have been super pissed if i only had half a sandwich and nothing else!

i haven't been walking nearly as much lately...cuz i'm not being disciplined enough to get off my butt and go walk during lunch time. 30 minutes is just too short...and i feel bad going walking after that cuz i no like be like so many of these other peeps who take advantage.

yay for it being friday, but after last weekend's super long weekend, i'm sure this one is going to seem like it's flying by! two days of weekend??? what's that??? lol. so spoiled.

i trip that january is already nearing its end. man, in no time imma have to be at a bon joveee concert...lol. that'll be a busy week cuz my nephew will be up here for soccer states. but that also is the super hella long weekend with furlough friday, holiday on monday and pc day on tuesday. lucky kids...five day weekend!

okay, bell rang, time to start the day!

this has been a long freakin' week already. can't believe we gotta go work on a friday...lol! i was looking at the calendar for the rest of the year and those two five day weeks are gonna be killer! well, i don't think i'll be in school...but i'll feel the pain for the rest of you...

caleb's been a freak this week. he woke up at 5 a.m. on monday and tuesday, then at 530 yesterday, then at 130 this morning. wth? stayed up until about 330 just tossing and turning and grumbling here and there...we were in the living room, so needless to say it wasn't the most comfortable sleeping accommodations for dave and me. he finally went to sleep and then got up again at around 5-something. by this time i had just moved back to the bedroom cuz my body was getting sore sleeping on the floor, so dave picked him up and let caleb sleep on him on the couch. grr. didn't want to wake up when my alarm went off at 545 so i kept snoozing it...and then didnt' have time to make myself breakfast so had to stop at 7-11 to pick up a little breakfast and a jumbo soda...lol.

last night i made chili so we had that for dinner...and it freakin made my blood sugar SUPER HIGH. it was 181 and it's supposed to be below 140....dang! i even went walking and it was still high. by the time i had my night snack, though, it was down to 116...which at that time is still pretty high i think. oh well. whatever. we see doctor today but i doubt he'll say anything...

well, bell rang to start the day...yay...

far be it for me to grumble about rest...but today was BORING. i did registration stuff for the first 15 minutes of each period, then twiddled my thumbs the rest of the time. i did get a lot of walking time in going from the library to a10, but other than that, today sucked.

tomorrow i'm going to start trying to work with a social studies teacher. we'll see how that goes.

brynna moves around like crazy and it's so uncomfortable...like she's trying to rip her way out from the inside...

caleb freakin woke up at a little before 5 today...again...and that sucks. imma be super tired tomorrow. little shirt...

he doesn't seem to like to be cuddled too much...i hope he learns to like it cuz i'm a cuddler and will demand cuddles from him! lol.

he has the hugest booger ever in his left nostril and refuses to let us take it out. the three of us tried one night and besides major screaming from him, nothing was accomplished. it's freakin' stuck in there...and it's hard and seems like it's connected to his brain and will pull out brain along with nose hairs if we force it out. we think it will fall out on its own but it's been about a week since i noticed it in there.

gonna go do some walking before dinner...yay. i love walking...

well, the zoo was better than I expected it to be...the kiddie zoo part is REALLY nice. i'm not much of an animal-watching lover, and i've been spoiled by florida's busch gardens...but we'll definitely take caleb to the zoo more often...after i'm pau being pregnant cuz lugging 35 extra pounds around that entire zoo was not fun by the end.

my lunch sugar was high...ate 2 pieces of kfc chicken and a biscuit...dangit! i could feel it too...just felt funny and yep, when i took my blood it was 164, which is the highest it's been for a while. goodness gracious. that sucks. oh well, hoping my dinner one is better. and here i was thinking maybe i could sneak some candy or cookies every once in a while...guess not! actually, i'm pretty sure it's the bread that did me in...seems to affect my blood sugar a lot.

we just started week 34...7 more weeks!!! doctor again on thursday. hope everything is all good. i think this one we do the strep b test...which, like the strep throat test, is a swab...but not of your throat...it's such a weird one cuz they gotta swab your butt and down there...i don't even really understand what strep b is except that if you have it, they give either you or baby some kind of medicine during labor or something like that.

caleb's been tanking about 20 oz of whole milk a day...no set schedule, just kind of when he feels like it. he'll drink a bunch in the morning when he wakes up and then usually after his naps...and sips here and there. the sippy we have him on still has the silicone sipper part...i wanna try see if there's silicone straws that he can start trying out too. i did hear from blake, though, that the straws are hard to clean and get moldy and yucky...and after hearing about greg and deb's bubba kegs getting yucks, that kind of scares me. we'll see...

okay, gonna listen to dave read the lost symbol some more...we got a lot of reading done today!

goodness gracious i get such anxiety when it's time to prick my finger. i thought it was getting a little easier, but it's not. i think it's actually getting harder...it's taking me longer and longer to press that dang button to prick myself.

my sugar counts have been good for the past couple days. i'm glad. hopefully after a few weeks of it being good, maybe they'll tell me i only have to prick myself twice a day...wishful thinking...

the doctor said a lot of people have their blood sugars spike when they eat rice...for me, it seems to be the opposite. if i eat bread or pasta (non-whole wheat kine) then my sugar seems higher. if i eat 2/3 cup white/brown rice, it's all good. i actually like brown rice...i like the texture of it. we've been mixing 2 cups brown and 1 cup white and i like that mix. dave doesn't complain about it either, so we'll probably keep that up even after pregnancy...

caleb is grabbing at my arms cuz he wants to come up here and mess stuff up...he's very persistent!

i'm loving this long weekend. we bought a twin size bed yesterday for caleb's room for my mom to sleep on...that'll provide more room since we have a full size in there right now. eventually we'll get caleb a twin size too and move the crib to our room. today we're gonna switch out the beds and hopefully go look at some open houses in waipio and ewa. we're not fully looking yet, but wanna start figuring out how we're going to change our living situation. the thing that sucks is that this place is not going to sell for nearly as much as we bought it for...we bought it for $290,000...there's one on sale for $280,000 and one for $238,000 in this same building. damn $238,000 people are screwing us up!!! we're hoping that once the rail comes in it'll up the price of this place since we'll be so close to one of the main hubs...but how we're going to hang on to this place for that long is beyond me...