Almost 2 months.

Nov has been an interesting month so far. Lyrah is weighing in at 10lbs and that was when we were in Kearney the first part of the month. She is sleeping pretty well at night only getting up two times and sometimes only once. She likes to be held the best but will settle for her swing or laying on the floor sometimes though not if daddy is around. We are trying to get her used to a pacifier but she really has no use for it. My Dr appt in Denver went okay and I will go back in Jan for them to run tests. I had some tearing in muscle when I had little bit but they can't fix it until I quit nursing so it will be awhile. My bottom is becoming bearable and I will start work again the middle of Dec. I am looking forward to getting back to the people I take care of but not looking forward to leaving little bit at home. At least we will have a auntie here so she will be in good hands. Floyd is busy at work and has been asked to stay over and help on the docks after he is done each night so that means that he has plenty of hours. We are looking forward to finishing up our month with Thanksgiving at mom and dads and hopefully news of a new little one in ND.

Humm I think I actually like this swing.


A funny picture of me.

Auntie Kaela figuring out if she holds me and walks I won't cry.



Grammie Cine spending time with me.

This is my mommy (Jeanne) with her dad (my papa Leon) and his mom Grandma J.

Mommy and I went to Kearney for the weekend. While there we took some generation pictures. This is mommy great grandpa Arthur Herndon and Grandma Jane.

While in Kearney we got to meet some of the workers. Mommy didn't get a picture of Aunt Jana and I on her camera though.

I think uncle Morgen likes to hold me.

Me with Grandma and Grandpa Ogden. It was NE football day so I got them all to wear red! I had on my overalls to match grandpa.

The first smile mommy caught on camera. I was happy the Huskers won.

Watching the game with grandpa.

I am growing into my overalls but mommy still has to roll them up.


My first bath in the tub by myself. Usually I crawl in with mommy. I love my bath and always try to get my face wet but for some reason mommy doesn't let me very often.

At our house we like to play find the baby. My little baby booties uncle Doug got me,

Uncle Doug made me some moccasins. Soon they should fit.

My favorite way to sleep is in mommys arms.

Prefold diaper.Mommy didn't get my face cause
I was crying.

Great Grandma J and aunt Elaine got me this outfit. I just about grew out of it before mommy got it out of the closet.

Sleeping on the floor while Grammie and mommy clean my room and go through my clothes. I have outgrown some of my clothes already.

Almost a month.

Cousin Kyrie like to keep me close every chance she gets and I like to be snuggled.


I am starting to keep my eyes open more to observe this crazy world that I live in.




My longies from Auntie Layna. These are so nice and warm.

Look how big I'm getting. These are some of my favorite sleepers. So nice and cuddly and warm. When she is wearing these I don't have to worry about her kicking the blanket off which she likes to do.

Two and a half weeks.Well now its 3weeks.

It has been a very busy 3 weeks since little bit was born. We got our cloth diaper soap last week so started using the cloth diapers. We are still learning how to get them on well and which ones need a cover so right now I am washing lots of clothes and diapers but we are making progress. Little bit is growing but my scale wont weight her so I don't know how big she's gotten just that she is filling out her clothes better. Both setts of grandparents and most all the aunts and uncles have been to visit and now we are enjoying a nice quite house (well not really today because daddy is sick downstairs and little bit is fussy today so mommy hasn't gotten much done except for building up a headache) for the most part. Little bit likes going on walks wrapped in the moby wrap auntie Nisha loaned us and is beginning to stay awake longer at a time. All for now as it is feeding time again.

Lyrah Renee

Well I don't really know where to start. This last 7 days have been busy ones. Last Thur was my last day of work. Friday we had our Dr appt to go to and not much had changed. I was dilated to 2 or 3 I don't remember and 70% effaced. Dr said anytime now so I went back home. When we got home I packed to go home with mom and we left that evening for Kearney. Sat am I got up feeling kinda crampy and ready to get the show on the road. Around noon I started having heavy contractions the kind that you have to focus through and Floyd had just got to Kearney so that was good. I had an absolutely wonderful labor team and every move or need was anticipated. I tried all sorts of positions and found several comfortable ones but couldn't stay any one way for long. As far as having pushing contractions well I can't say that I had many and she wasn't crowning or didn't seem to me to even be moving down. I would start a pushing contraction and it would just disappear into a regular one or I would start a regular one and then end up pushing but a contraction start to finish with pushing involved I don't think happened until the last one and then little bit came flying out into grandpas arms. No she didn't come a little bit at a time either she came all at once.
I ended up tearing really bad so have that to deal with but when I look at her it is totally all worth it and would do it all again. When I got back home we went to the Dr for an exam and I have a 4th degree tear with swelling so they can't do anything about it right now. For the time being I am on antibiotics and anti-inflammatory until the inflammation goes down and they can have a colo/rectal surgeon examine me and see what they can do. So I am looking forward to a long road to bottom recovery but then nothing in this pregnancy was normal so I am quite used to the abnormal popping up to deal with and it may give me more time off work to spend with little bit which I am all for.

Baby's room

Babys room pictures.

38 weeks!!!

Well I am 38 weeks much like the photo challenge. Guess I have been taking pictures with my child all along and didn't even realize it. Soon little bit will be out in the real world and I will get to take pictures with her as a person instead of a bump. My belly does finally seem to be big enough for people to see that I'm expecting though not as big as people expect it to be with only a short time to go. Floyd and I are enjoying getting ready for the little ones arrival though both of us are experiencing times of panic it doesn't last long and fortunately not usually at the same time either. I am really enjoying these last few weeks of being pregnant though I still have lots of mornings when I think I will be sick that usually goes away after lunch time and I have yet to be sick these last few weeks. The gallbladder problems have quit since she has drooped so although I still have to be careful what I eat it seems I can eat more with not as much problem and have actually gained 5 lbs in the last 2 weeks.
We have baby stuff ready to go and my in laws are here this week painting the baby's room. Work, well this week I've picked up 3 days and managed to work all of them so now I am ready for baby to come any time she chooses. I'll put pictures up when the room is done.

30 so days left

I've been having good weeks of pregnacy since I found out I had gallstones and could fix my diet for the most part to advoid the pain. We got a baby crib from a girl I work with and got a mattress and glider chair for the babys room. Then we found a cute little dress that we had to get also. This week I am going shopping for a car seat and a few more baby diapers. We had our appointment with the surgen last Friday and found out that I should be okay as long as I watch my diet and a stone doesn't get logged somewhere it shouldn't. I can wait until after I have the baby and maternity leave is over to schedule having my gallbladder removed. YEAH!! Dr appt went okay also though I am still loosing weight now they have a good reason for it. Only grew 1 inch in 3 weeks but little bit is moving around well so everything looks good. We got a monitor from walmart that you can hear sound on so I listen to her heartbeat every night before I go to bed. I think that is prety cool. You can also hear her making sounds. I think she likes to suck her thumb a lot and am interested to see if her thumb is blistered when she is born. The Dr said that happens to some babys when they suck their thumbs before they are born.
Looking forward also to convention and the rest of the week of work although my job is going well it is getting harder to manuver around and lift people. Little bit sleeps through most of work though so that is good, at least I don't have her kicking people to often or me while I'm trying to take care of someone.

Oh and if you average the guess for the baby game the baby will weight 6.8lbs be 19 1/2 inches long and be born between the 27th and 28th of Sept.

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Baby guesses.

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33 weeks.

Two of my favorite baby pictures. I don't know why they show up sideways as they are not like that in my picture file.

I was losing weight and still am because of my gallbladder problems so the Dr wanted to do an ultrasound to make sure baby girl was growing okay. She is, she measured in at 4.5lbs and from the pictures looks like she is getting fat on her checks. I had a gallbladder ultrasound also because I've been having a lot of upper right side back pain. My gallbladder is full of gallstones which I don't think I can do anything about before I have this baby so its try to eat a low fat diet. I am proud to say I haven't had any caffeine now for 2 1/2 weeks. As far as foods that bother me well I am still figuring that out and still end up having attacks a few times a week but it is getting better I think. I did find out that organic apple cider vinegar in hot water with some hunny in with it to help the taste takes care of the heartburn so now I only have pain in my back instead of back and front.

30 weeks

Sorry no pictures. Will have to have someone take one tomorrow. I am finally begining to look pregnant in my work clothes though. Today we went to the Dr and this is how it went. I desided to do the glucose test. I mean how bad can it be and if I am going to be a nurse I want to know what these tests that I tell people about are like. Well lets just say I'm not doing that again. So I go in yesterday before our prenatal class and get the glucose to drink and the instructions are you will probably feel better if you eat 2 hrs before drinking the glucose, then you have to have your blood drawn an hour after drinking the glucose. So I got up before 5:30am and ate a little breakfast. I mean realy anything so I don't get sick. Then I went back to bed but made sure my head was raised so I didn't get heartburn (my very close companion in this pregnancy). Well a little before 7:30 after dozing some off and on I woke up and could feel the heartburn building up. I thought well this isn't to bad yet so lets try to get the glucose down. YUCK!! It took me 10 minutes instead of the 5 you are supposed to drink it in but I did get it down then went to take a shower to get ready for the day. Well by the time I was done with that I could hardly move or talk. We got to the lab just in time with my handy puke dish which I have carried everywhere with me for the last 6 months and I was told just to have a seat in the waiting room and wait. Well this is a timed test and I was pretty desperate to get my blood drawn before I threw up as if I did that the whole experiance would have been for nothing. So I made it back to the bathroom and when I came out the secretary asked me why I didn't tell her it was a timed test. Well lets see I think my exact words that I managed to get out of my mouth on arriving were " I am here for the glucose pregnancy test." Okay if you are working in the lab you should know that is a timed test and if you don't get it done soon enough it is NO GOOD!! I was not going to redue this whole thing. So then she got my insurance paper and drivers license from Floyd and started asking me if my info was current. Okay so I'm still sitting there trying NOT to throw up and managed to get out everything is exactly the same as 3 months ago when I was here. UGGG. Finaly although I never though I would say this as I hate having my blood drawn the lab lady came and rescued me. So I got a blood draw in my right arm. Just got out of the lab and lost everything I had tried to eat in the last few hours but that helped get rid of the heartburn.

So I am still having some heartburn and we desided to go over to the mall because we had checked out of our room and the Dr appt wasn't until later. They were setting up for sidewalk sales so I got a 1/2 hour nap in the car which seemed to help and then went in with Floyd to look around. I managed to resist all the baby girl clothes except for a pair of newborn overalls. Just couldn't resist them. So we got them and then went back to the hospital for my dr appt, which went somewhat like this. First I stepped on the scale and I have lost 5 lbs since my last visit. (I am the only one in the prenatal class of 18 or so that has lost weight) Then I got the Rhogam shot after making sure that it was the right one, so now I have a bandaid on my left shoulder also. Then the Midwife comes in and orders a ultrasound for next visit because I am not getting any bigger although I can garante little bit is as her kicks are getting harder and she can get me in the bladder and the ribs at the same time so I know she is growing. Then they also order a holter monitor which does your heart beat as my pulse tends to go way up while I am at work. So I have low B/P and a high pulse No wonder I feel kinda off sometimes although it could just be job stress. Then before I left they informed me that they didn't draw enough blood (they drew three tubes) at the lab and I needed to get my fingure stuck. UGGGG!! So there went my fingure on my left hand. Well at least I have 3 others. I sugested that I just leave my left arm there and they could do all the blood work they wanted on it and I would pick it up when we go back for our next visit. HAHA.

Then we went to one of the friends funeral lunch and got to see lots of old friends and that was a good time. We also had a nice drive home and it rained this evening so I didn't have to go out and water after all.

As far as I can tell little bit is doing fine. She moves around a lot, has started kicking when we sing in meeting and seems to like music. If I pat my stomach then a lot of times I can get her to kick or maybe elbow where I am patting. She also gets the hicups which the dr said is a sign of a healthy baby.

An announcement

Well we have known since we had babies ultrasound that we were having a girl but since I didn't want to know in the first place we thought we would try to keep it a secret and only tell 2 people each. Well to give my husband credit he did really well until his grandpa died and then he really really wanted to tell his parents. So now the cat is out of the bag so to say so we might as well tell the rest of the world that we are having a girl. Well at least that is what the ultrasound says.

Fathers Day and Funeral stuff

Kuehn cousins at the lunch after the memorial service. All but Neil were there. Have to get the rest of the picts onto my desk top to transfer over.

baby game.

I got this off of Layna's blog and thought it would be fun to do on mine also. Good luck and have fun.

Oh some clues well lets see 1)its a baby 2)heart rate at last dr visit was 140
3)I don't have any cravings that I can think of but ice cream and milk give me really bad heart burn. 4)Floyd says girl and I say boy but only because the Ogdens always have boys. I don't have any specific feeling about what it is. 5)Chinese gender predicter says its a boy.

Baby's 20 week pictures

Babys legs (you wanted to know what I was? Haha I will keep my legs crossed and you will just have to keep guessing.






Already working at getting my thumb close to my mouth.

20 weeks

Lynisha came over today and took some pictures for me. This is us under our hanging crabapple tree and me at 20 weeks.