Jace thinks it is fun to push on my belly button (or turkey timer as my friend, Angie calls it).
Thursday, August 21, 2008
It's been a few weeks since I have posted
Well, it's been a few weeks since I have posted, so I better post an update. We took the boys to the Nicollet County Fair. I wasn't all that impressed with the fair. The boys got to see all the animals and go on a few rides. Gavin did get scare on the little kiddie roller coaster. It did go a little too fast and bumpy. They had fun. A couple of weeks ago I took the boys up to Como Zoo. Gavin was so anxious to see Giraffes, so that was the main goal. It was a bit of a challenge taking them myself, but it worked out fine. The boys were very good when we were there. We are planning to go back up there on Labor Day so that Levi can go with us and we can do more up there. On our way home, the boys and I stopped in and visited my great grandma. It was nice to see her as I only see her every few months or so. Last Saturday was my sister, Tina's baby shower up north. She is due two weeks after me. Her shower turned out wonderful. Gavin and Jace got to play with their cousins as well. I did get to stop in and visit my friend, Melissa, who I haven't seen in a long time. It was great to see her and her family.
We had recently found out that Levi's sister is pregnant also! Very exciting news, she is due at the end of March. Another March baby for Levi's side of the family.
The boys are doing good. Gavin is pretty close to being completely potty trained. He does pretty well with a few accidents here and there. Jace is starting to learn how to count and learning his colors. He is learning more words, but still not up to where he is suppose to be. He is suppose to go to the audiologist next month for another hearing test. He is also suppose to be re-evaluated for speech therapy next month. We are hoping that he qualifies this time.
I'm now 30 1/2 weeks pregnant, but feel like I am farther along. I had more regular doctor's appointment yesterday. I'm right on track with everything. They are going to have my alternate appointments between Mankato and Abbott. So are next visit is up at Abbott on Sept 3. We are very anxious for that appointment. We meet up with the neonatologist that day as well. I will send out a baby update after that appointment.
Some sad news...we did find Duke (our dog) a new home. It was a little hard to do, but we knew it was for the best. He has too much energy for us and the kids. He was always knocking kids over. He was just getting to be too much and we didn't have time to exercise him. Where he went there were 2 kids, ages 6 & 9, so he will get played with and get some of the energy run off. We don't plan to get another dog.
Well until the next posting.
We had recently found out that Levi's sister is pregnant also! Very exciting news, she is due at the end of March. Another March baby for Levi's side of the family.
The boys are doing good. Gavin is pretty close to being completely potty trained. He does pretty well with a few accidents here and there. Jace is starting to learn how to count and learning his colors. He is learning more words, but still not up to where he is suppose to be. He is suppose to go to the audiologist next month for another hearing test. He is also suppose to be re-evaluated for speech therapy next month. We are hoping that he qualifies this time.
I'm now 30 1/2 weeks pregnant, but feel like I am farther along. I had more regular doctor's appointment yesterday. I'm right on track with everything. They are going to have my alternate appointments between Mankato and Abbott. So are next visit is up at Abbott on Sept 3. We are very anxious for that appointment. We meet up with the neonatologist that day as well. I will send out a baby update after that appointment.
Some sad news...we did find Duke (our dog) a new home. It was a little hard to do, but we knew it was for the best. He has too much energy for us and the kids. He was always knocking kids over. He was just getting to be too much and we didn't have time to exercise him. Where he went there were 2 kids, ages 6 & 9, so he will get played with and get some of the energy run off. We don't plan to get another dog.
Well until the next posting.
Monday, August 04, 2008
Baby Update at 28 weeks
Hello to all!
Today was our appointment up at Abbott. We still don't know the why, but we will not find anything about the why until after baby is born. The cysts on the brain are now gone--Yeah! What was a cystic hygroma on the back of baby's neck is now just considered swelling. With a hygroma there is a clear fluid and there is no longer that clear fluid, it is just the swelling. The nose bone is short. The swelling around the baby's belly seems to be stable. Baby weighs about 2 lbs and 7 oz. So this is what we know about baby. Now the other things that we found out today. I will be delivering up at Abbott. This makes it easier to take care of baby right after baby is born. Baby then can go to Children's Hospital (which is right next to Abbott) and they will be able to do all the stuff they need to do and run all the test they need to do. Hopefully we will find out more answers at that time. They want me to transfer my care up to Abbott now. It sounds like I will be induced and probably around 38 to 39 weeks (I'm 28 weeks now). This way we can avoid me going into labor. It sounds like it will be likely that I will have a c-section (which I am scared of, but I know that it will be best for baby). So my next appointment up there is September 3rd. We will have another ultrasound, then we have a transfer of care appointment (which I think is like a regular check up appointment) and then we will meet with the neonatal people from Children's Hospital. So that is the latest on baby boy Selly. Until next time. (Oh and for some reason I am having trouble uploading pictures).
Today was our appointment up at Abbott. We still don't know the why, but we will not find anything about the why until after baby is born. The cysts on the brain are now gone--Yeah! What was a cystic hygroma on the back of baby's neck is now just considered swelling. With a hygroma there is a clear fluid and there is no longer that clear fluid, it is just the swelling. The nose bone is short. The swelling around the baby's belly seems to be stable. Baby weighs about 2 lbs and 7 oz. So this is what we know about baby. Now the other things that we found out today. I will be delivering up at Abbott. This makes it easier to take care of baby right after baby is born. Baby then can go to Children's Hospital (which is right next to Abbott) and they will be able to do all the stuff they need to do and run all the test they need to do. Hopefully we will find out more answers at that time. They want me to transfer my care up to Abbott now. It sounds like I will be induced and probably around 38 to 39 weeks (I'm 28 weeks now). This way we can avoid me going into labor. It sounds like it will be likely that I will have a c-section (which I am scared of, but I know that it will be best for baby). So my next appointment up there is September 3rd. We will have another ultrasound, then we have a transfer of care appointment (which I think is like a regular check up appointment) and then we will meet with the neonatal people from Children's Hospital. So that is the latest on baby boy Selly. Until next time. (Oh and for some reason I am having trouble uploading pictures).
It's been a little while since I last posted. I would like to post every week, but it may not always happen. Last Thursday morning we had a wind storm that came through here. We had a little damage. Some of our siding from our house came off, singles from our shed came off, lost the top half of a tree and we lost the trampoline that grandma and grandpa just got for the boys about 2 weeks before hand. Unfortunately, the trampoline blew into our neighbors and did some damage over there. No more trampolines for us! Levi's parent's dock was over turned. The winds were clocked at mid 80's (mph) in the surrounding cities, so I'm not sure exactly what they were here. I had the boys and all the daycare kids in the storm shelter. I was so impressed by how well they did in there. We do our practice drills every month, but this is the first time we actually had to be in there. Great job, kids!
Saturday was mine and Levi's 5 year wedding anniversary. Can't believe it's been 5 years already. It has gone by fast and we have gone through a lot in that time. We spent the day doing yard work. Our yard has been getting neglected. Saturday evening, Levi's parents took the boys for a few hours and we went out to dinner. Sunday...well we were pretty much lazy! Gotta have one of those days every now and then right? We did take the boys to Minneopa State Park and saw the falls. They really enjoyed that. On the way home we stopped in at 7 Mile Creek Park. Then when we got home, we all take a nice long nap. It was great have a lazy day.
Today, I had my appointment at Abbott. I will write more about that in my next blog. As far as everything else...we still keep pretty busy with the boys. Jace is getting into the terrible two's. He gets into a lot of things and is constant about it. We still work with him and his speech. He is learning more words. He should be going back to the audiologist in September and he should be getting re-evaluated for speech therapy in September also. Gavin is getting to be so grown up. He talks up a storm sometimes. He is learning new things every day. He has also been getting for sassy with his mouth (which is not good). He has been doing well with the potty training. He just basically does a pull up at nap time or if we are out and about for a long period of time. Sheldon moved back to Missouri. Unfortunately we have a lot on our plate right now. We will miss having him around. Levi has been keeping busy with his tinkering with 4-wheelers and jet ski's. For those that don't know...he buys old ones, fixes them and resells them. As far as me...I keep busy with everything. I get tired easily, but I guess that is to be expected. I get overwhelmed sometimes with everything...I can't always keep up with all the household stuff.
Anyway, I will post a few pictures and then I will write the baby update blog.
Saturday was mine and Levi's 5 year wedding anniversary. Can't believe it's been 5 years already. It has gone by fast and we have gone through a lot in that time. We spent the day doing yard work. Our yard has been getting neglected. Saturday evening, Levi's parents took the boys for a few hours and we went out to dinner. Sunday...well we were pretty much lazy! Gotta have one of those days every now and then right? We did take the boys to Minneopa State Park and saw the falls. They really enjoyed that. On the way home we stopped in at 7 Mile Creek Park. Then when we got home, we all take a nice long nap. It was great have a lazy day.
Today, I had my appointment at Abbott. I will write more about that in my next blog. As far as everything else...we still keep pretty busy with the boys. Jace is getting into the terrible two's. He gets into a lot of things and is constant about it. We still work with him and his speech. He is learning more words. He should be going back to the audiologist in September and he should be getting re-evaluated for speech therapy in September also. Gavin is getting to be so grown up. He talks up a storm sometimes. He is learning new things every day. He has also been getting for sassy with his mouth (which is not good). He has been doing well with the potty training. He just basically does a pull up at nap time or if we are out and about for a long period of time. Sheldon moved back to Missouri. Unfortunately we have a lot on our plate right now. We will miss having him around. Levi has been keeping busy with his tinkering with 4-wheelers and jet ski's. For those that don't know...he buys old ones, fixes them and resells them. As far as me...I keep busy with everything. I get tired easily, but I guess that is to be expected. I get overwhelmed sometimes with everything...I can't always keep up with all the household stuff.
Anyway, I will post a few pictures and then I will write the baby update blog.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
July 22, 2008
Well, I haven't been on here in a really long time. I do more blogging through my myspace, but not everyone is on myspace, so I thought I would start this up again. I have posted about previous blogs and most of you have already read about the updates, but they are on here for those who haven't.
Our boys are growing so much! We have accomplished some potty training with Gavin. He still has accidents every now and then, but he is in underwear pretty much all day long. Then just a a pull up at night. We are very excited about this and of course this will save on some money also. Now if we could Jace potty trained before baby comes, that would be just great! :) Jace just turned 2 last week and still gets into everything.
I have my regular doctor's appointment next week and I am always anxious for those appointments. Then I have my next ultrasound up at Abbott on August 4th and I'm extremely anxious to see how baby is doing.
We are starting to get things ready for baby. I had gotten rid of all the baby clothes, so now I have been rounding up baby clothes again. We just got the crib bedding last week and I just ordered the baby book. We have a lot of the actual baby stuff, so that is good.
Anyway, I will post a few recent pictures also. I will try to keep this more up to date for those who would like to keep updated on the Selly Family :)
Our boys are growing so much! We have accomplished some potty training with Gavin. He still has accidents every now and then, but he is in underwear pretty much all day long. Then just a a pull up at night. We are very excited about this and of course this will save on some money also. Now if we could Jace potty trained before baby comes, that would be just great! :) Jace just turned 2 last week and still gets into everything.
I have my regular doctor's appointment next week and I am always anxious for those appointments. Then I have my next ultrasound up at Abbott on August 4th and I'm extremely anxious to see how baby is doing.
We are starting to get things ready for baby. I had gotten rid of all the baby clothes, so now I have been rounding up baby clothes again. We just got the crib bedding last week and I just ordered the baby book. We have a lot of the actual baby stuff, so that is good.
Anyway, I will post a few recent pictures also. I will try to keep this more up to date for those who would like to keep updated on the Selly Family :)
Baby Update 7-7-08
Today we had another ultrasound up at Abbott and things look a little better than 4 weeks ago. Baby's hands are no longer clenched...this is good. Baby moved hands and fingers around and even grabbed at it's toes. The cysts on the brain have decreased to almost nothing...this is good. The cystic hygroma on the back of the neck has decreased also...this is definitely good considering this was a huge concern before. This doctor didn't seem that concerned with the baby's nose. He said because that bone is so small, it is really hard to tell. It was hard to tell if the swelling around the belly has decreased or not. The measurement of it is about the same as 4 weeks ago, but baby has got bigger, so it is hard to say. Baby has swelling throughout it's body and at this point, we don't know why. Since there has been so many things ruled out, we just have to keep monitoring baby and wait for baby to arrive to run more tests. I have to go back up to Abbott in 4 weeks (August 4th) for another ultrasound. If this swelling is like this towards the end of the pregnancy, there is a good chance that I would have to deliver up there instead of Mankato. My regular doctor also said that there was a good chance that I would be induced. This way, we would have the delivery more scheduled and controlled, so to speak (during regular business hours and more staff available). So now we play the waiting game again and anxiously wait for the next ultrasound. Overall things are looking better, so this is good. Thanks for everyone's thoughts and prayers! Until the next baby update...
July 3
I had my regular doctor's visit yesterday. I have gained 6 pounds in the last 4 weeks, which is good. Baby's heart beat is nice and strong. Gavin came with me so he got to hear the heart beat also. I am measuring right where I am suppose to be at. It's too early to decide what I will actually need to do at the time of delivery...as far as maybe delivering up at Abbott and a c-section. But it did sound like there is a high chance of inducing me. This way it is more controlled and baby would then be born when more staff is around. She said that she will know more after my ultrasound on Monday. I have another appointment in 4 weeks and then depending on how this ultrasound goes, I may then go to every 2 weeks after that. My doctor also said that I will probably have to go for another ultra sound up at Abbott after this one on Monday. So we are anxious for my ultrasound on Monday. We will hopefully learn more then. I will keep everyone posted. Until next baby update....
Update - June 20th
At the beginning of June we finished our basement. What a nice relief! It is nice to relax a little in the evenings. I moved daycare to the basement. It is nice to have a separate area for daycare. I get to "go home" at the end of the day.
Some of you know what has been going on with my pregnancy, but for those who don't, this is a little update. I went in for my regular ultrasound on June 4th, hoping to find out if baby was a boy or girl. We were unable at that time to find out because baby did not cooperate and was curled up. Unfortunately my ultrasound did not go that well. There were 4 concerns with the baby at that point. I was sent over to see my doctor right away and she scheduled me for an ultrasound up at Abbott. I had my appointment at Abbott Northwestern Hospital on June 9th. Things with the baby aren't going very well. They did an amniocentesis. At this point the baby has swelling around it's tummy, 2 cysts on the brain, cystic hygroma on the back of the neck (this is probably one of the main concerns); all of this I knew at my last appointment. At Abbott, I found out that there is something wrong with the baby's nose, either missing a bone, the bone is shorter or something along that line and they said that the baby's hands were clenced. By all of this information, at this point it is being determined that there are some deformities with baby and baby has some kind of syndrome. At that point, chances of baby surviving were not good and it didn't sound like those chances were going to increase. We also learned that baby is a BOY. Which we were then able to rule out Turner's Syndrome since that is only in girls. We have gotten the results back from the amnio and that came back with no chromosomal disorders. This is good thing, because this rules out a lot of things. This is also a bad thing, because now we are left with the unknown. Before we knew this, there was some focus on baby having Trisomy 18. Which there is no survival chance, but that has now been ruled out. This week I went in for a blood test to rule out CMV and the result came back negative. So we keep ruling things out, but still left with unknown. I am scheduled for another ultrasound up at Abbott on July 7. Hopefully we will learn more at that time. So we just play the waiting game now.
Jace had tubes put in his ears (again) on June 11th. Hopefully this will help with his speech. Levi and I have been trying to work with him and his speech.
The boys are enjoying summer so far. We are trying to do more family things, since we have been so busy with everything since the tornado. This is all for now. I will try to keep this blogging more up to date.
Some of you know what has been going on with my pregnancy, but for those who don't, this is a little update. I went in for my regular ultrasound on June 4th, hoping to find out if baby was a boy or girl. We were unable at that time to find out because baby did not cooperate and was curled up. Unfortunately my ultrasound did not go that well. There were 4 concerns with the baby at that point. I was sent over to see my doctor right away and she scheduled me for an ultrasound up at Abbott. I had my appointment at Abbott Northwestern Hospital on June 9th. Things with the baby aren't going very well. They did an amniocentesis. At this point the baby has swelling around it's tummy, 2 cysts on the brain, cystic hygroma on the back of the neck (this is probably one of the main concerns); all of this I knew at my last appointment. At Abbott, I found out that there is something wrong with the baby's nose, either missing a bone, the bone is shorter or something along that line and they said that the baby's hands were clenced. By all of this information, at this point it is being determined that there are some deformities with baby and baby has some kind of syndrome. At that point, chances of baby surviving were not good and it didn't sound like those chances were going to increase. We also learned that baby is a BOY. Which we were then able to rule out Turner's Syndrome since that is only in girls. We have gotten the results back from the amnio and that came back with no chromosomal disorders. This is good thing, because this rules out a lot of things. This is also a bad thing, because now we are left with the unknown. Before we knew this, there was some focus on baby having Trisomy 18. Which there is no survival chance, but that has now been ruled out. This week I went in for a blood test to rule out CMV and the result came back negative. So we keep ruling things out, but still left with unknown. I am scheduled for another ultrasound up at Abbott on July 7. Hopefully we will learn more at that time. So we just play the waiting game now.
Jace had tubes put in his ears (again) on June 11th. Hopefully this will help with his speech. Levi and I have been trying to work with him and his speech.
The boys are enjoying summer so far. We are trying to do more family things, since we have been so busy with everything since the tornado. This is all for now. I will try to keep this blogging more up to date.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Picture of Gavin. He is learning a lot of new things lately. He just learned how to drink out of a cup. He does pretty good, but sometimes spills. He is saying some more words. Pizza has been a favorite word lately. Gavin is still adjusting to all the changes and everything that has happend in the last 4 months.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
We got our durango back today. They think they got it fixed this time. So far it hasn't acted up. So hopefully it is fixed. Time will tell. The boys are doing good. Jace is always so smiley. He actually laughed today. Gavin is really starting to communicate (most of the time it is still some kind of babble), but he lets you know what he wants and he understands a lot. He is always so busy. The boys leave tomorrow to go stay with Melissa and Tina. I am already starting to miss them. It will be nice to get a bunch of things done and it will be nice to spend time with Levi with no kids. We are getting ready for the house set on Tuesday. We are very anxious and excited. It will be a very busy day out on our property that day. I will be taking pictures. I am going to put a photo albulm together of our property from tornado time to finish house. Well until next time.
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