my dream for next spring

Anyone got any good rabbit recipes?

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potty time

Not to brag, but....
My daughter doesn't poop in a diaper. We're a very civilized family.
June's been pooping in a potty sense she was two weeks old. I don't change poopy diapers.

This week I started using my cloth diapers and wipes. Not at all as bad as I thought it would be. Of coarse, we got really great diapers and June, for the most part, only pees in them. They are all in one insert kind, if that makes sense to any of you. It barely does to me. There are a lot of different kinds of diapers out there.

My good friend told me what kind to get and gave me all her old ones, along with all her cloth wipes and stuff. They are so cute on her.

This is the only picture I have of her going on her potty and she's two weeks there. I need to get some of her in her cloth diapers and of her going with her brace on. It's so funny her little braced legs poking out.

Two months!

Go Utes!
June's first of many Ute game.

She has a hip deal from being breach. She has to wear this brace for another month.

June and Patsy

Blessing day

We had the blessing at my mother-in-law's

My dad flew up for the occasion and met up with my mom who had been helping me for the past two weeks! Thanks to them both for the support. It was much appreciated.

She wore a blessing dress that my m.i.l. made for one of her girls. It has lace from her wedding dress on it. So, so pretty. The bow was made by one of my student's mom's.

Baby June Is Here!

Look at those breech baby legs!

So tiny.

This is June four days old getting ready to leave the hospital.

Introducing...

Ok, so here's the story.
Pregnancy's going well, then at my check up three weeks before my due date we find out that baby is breach. So, I make an appointment to do an inversion (which is basically physically turning the baby). At my pre-appointment we do an ultra sound on the office's older model machine and he turns to me and says that it looks like my fluid is very low and I may be having a baby today. But, this was an old machine and I could just be the picture is crappy. Shocked, I drive over to the hospital for a proper ultra sound and monitoring. Turns out my fluid was low but not as low as they thought. This was Wednesday.

Friday, I have my inversion, which turns out to be super painful. Imagine three people all pushing and pulling on your nine month pregnant stomach. It took a few days to recover from that one and the baby did not turn. bummer.

So after this I'm getting a bit discouraged, and having a hard time coming to grips with this new reality of c-section and not vaginal birth. Keep in mind that I was planning on a natural birth and had been preparing for months. On top of this, my husband is working round the clock. Pulling in 80 and 90 hour weeks and I am alone too much with my thoughts,( and pregnant thoughts are not always the most rational).

Monday, another midwife visit, Wednesday another ultrasound and monitoring. Friday I went to acupuncture to get her to turn. Monday, I went to acupuncture again in the morning where he said that he was going to do stuff that could induce labor. Then, later in the day I went to my appointment with my midwife and set the c-section date for Wednesday Oct. 5th. (It was the soonest we could get)

That night about 2:30, I woke up to go to the bathroom and realized I was bleeding profusely. Called the midwife, she said to watch it and see. Then I started having contractions and timed them for about an hour. They were 8 minutes apart when we got ready for the hospital.

We get to the hospital at exactly six in the morning. I was feeling great. The contractions are light enough I don't even notice unless I'm lying down. Really, I was kind of thinking they might send me home or something because I knew they were booked till like noon. They hook me up, get me an ultrasound, and my midwife walks in the room and says "OK, we're having a baby." Turns out the 7 o'clock had her baby the day before so we immediately start prepping for surgery. I'm in the room getting my spinal an hour later. It was crazy fast! I was so scarred! I was frightened, for some reason, that the anesthesia was going to wear off during the surgery by accident. I know, but it was all I could think about. When I got my wisdom teeth out I was conscience for a second but couldn't move or open my eyes or speak. But I could hear them and feel pressure in my mouth and it was terrifying! Like being buried alive or something.

Anyway, it was not terrifying once we started and all the drugs kicked in. The whole thing was wonderful! The moment she came out she started screaming! Later, they told me that there was no fluid in me when they opened me up. So, ether my water broke and I didn't know it or something went wrong. Ether way, it was good she came before the scheduled date. I don't think I could have slept knowing I was going to have a baby the next day.(not that I slept anyway:)

This is my midwife! She was so like a conductor during the whole thing.

Her legs went straight up because that's how she was in my tummy!

preg. pics

My friend Julia got a new camera for her birthday and took some beautiful pictures of me!
Thanks Julia. Your the best!

It's a girl!

Holy Crap!

Andy just got offered the job at Pago!!!!

He starts Monday when he gets back from a trip to Tucson. Seriously, I just can't believe it. Pago's head chef was nominated as the years best new chef in Food and Wine magazine. He's a big deal, and it's amazing that he got the job. They haven't hired anyone new in over a year so this is really, really good news. Can you tell I'm excited?

Some things that are happening

Well, I guess I should start with the fact that I'm pregnant. I'm four months along and doing well.
Baby is due the first week of October.

Andy is looking for a chef job. He's done very well at his work interview things. They are called stages. So far the search has gone much better than expected. His first restaurant choice (Pago) sounded very interested but they don't have much turnover. We did hear some rumors about someone quitting in a few weeks so we'll keep our fingers crossed for that.
But more likely he'll get offered a job at Meditrina. He'll work there or where ever until something opens up at Pago.
I'm so proud of him. He's really impressing people and it's so exciting so see him doing so well. He really is an artist.

Patsy is doing well, although a little more deaf and blind. She's been running into things and falling down the stairs but all in all healthy and energetic for a dog her age.

I am in my eighth year at Discovery Kindergarten and still loving it. Just trying to keep up my old pace and failing but I guess that's to be expected. Turns out being pregnant is tiring and hard and all encompassing. Man, this baby is already a pain.(that's a joke, sort of.) I'm just feeling a little miffed cause I don't have the energy to cook or bake anymore. Cooking is my time to zen out. And me and Andy cooking together! Forget about it! It's heaven. There's nothing I'd rather be doing. Not into laying on the couch any more is the point of this rant I guess.
Despite my negative tone, we are thrilled to be pregnant. We tried for a year so this was quite a surprise in a way. I sort of thought that it would never happen so we are really excited be be moving on to this next journey in our lives.

I'll get some pictures up here some day. Not much to see in the belly department so we'll wait till till I'm actually showing a bit more.

Hope this finds all you friends well!