So far this pregnancy, it's gone by pretty fast. Each week is flying by and I forgot to post my last picture. So to catch up on the progress, this first photo was taken at 25 weeks. The baby is growing quite nicely, and actually looks like she's about a week ahead of schedule. Let's hope it stays that way!
Now, this second photo was taken yesterday which means it's 30 weeks! We are in the home stretch now. A couple of weeks ago both Kyle and I got pretty sick. We think it was something like a flu bug. I was up a good part of the night, sick. And at around 5:15 am, I started feeling some pretty bad contractions. We waited a few hours until my dr. office opened and they told me to head down to the hospital, just to check things out. We got to the hospital and I was really dehydrated. They had to try both hands to get the IV in and in short... it was not fun. They monitored the baby and I was having contractions about every 2-3 minutes at first. Since I was only 28 weeks at the time, they gave me some medicine to stop the contractions and keep the baby from going under any more stress. Well, after a few hours I was feeling better and we got to go home that afternoon. Everything is ok now, but being sick like that while pregnant is not something I wish to go through again.
Last week it finally decided to cool off here in Southern CA and we got a little bit of rain. Jack saw the rain coming down out the window and immediately wanted to go out and play. We weren't out there long, but he had fun running back and forth while getting wet in the front yard.
Last Saturday, Kyle, Jack and I took a drive out to Temecula. There is a pumpkin patch out there that looked more like the ones you see in TN, so we decided to go check it out. Now the most direct route to get there from where we live is to go through the mountain. Anyone who has ever driven through a mountain knows what those roads are like. They are windy and there are a lot of ups and downs.
Well we left the house at 8 am since it's about an hour drive out there. Before we started on the windy roads, Jack had drunk a bunch of milk (he is such a milk junky). We made it all the way through the mountain, and down into the city when we heard Jack let out a huge burp. Kyle looked back at Jack and he looked ok for the moment. A few seconds later, the car was filled with a horrible smell. We looked back at Jack again and this time saw our poor boy covered with vomit. We immediately pull into a parking lot and pull him out of the car to clean him off. We are pretty sure that by him drinking all of that milk, and with the windy roads, his stomach just couldn't handle it. As soon as we pull Jack out of the car, he is standing there crying while I'm doing my best to clean him off with baby wipes and Kyle is trying to clean off the car seat with the wipes as well. There was a Carl's Jr in this parking lot so Kyle went inside and got some plastic utensils and a coffee stirrer to try and dig more vomit out of the car seat. He then ran inside the grocery store next door and bought a car air freshener. I had stripped down Jack so all he had on was a diaper. Since Jack is almost 2 1/2 years old, I don't bring an extra pair of clothes for him like I would when he was an infant. So there we are in a parking lot an hour away from home with no extra clothes. Thank goodness there was a Target not too far down the road. We finished cleaning up the best we could, got back in car, rolled the windows down, and tried our best to not suffocate with the horrible smell. We went into Target, found a shirt and a pair of pants for Jack, and also got some Febreeze to spray all over the car. With both the hanging car air freshener and the febreeze, the car was much more enjoyable to ride in than ten minutes earlier.
So after all of this chaos, we drove around Temecula a little bit and made our way to the pumpkin patch. It's in the middle of wine country, which I thought was beautiful setting. Right off the bat I was having more fun than going to a pumpkin patch in an asphalt parking lot.
The first thing we did was go and watch the pig races. There were 4 pigs racing at a time and they were actually pretty quick! Jack was making his little pig noises and had fun watching them race.
Next we went and rode the "train". Jack had been talking the whole day before about riding the train, so we definitely couldn't miss it. It wasn't a real long ride, but we rode around the corn maze and that was good enough for Jack.
After the train ride, we walked through the corn maze. Kyle and I just followed Jack so we ended up in a couple of the dead ends. We eventually made it out, but following a 2 year old made it a little longer than expected.
Next up...the petting zoo area. There were little goats, sheep, a llama, bunnies, pigs, and horses. Jack only pet the goat and the sheep a couple of times, but mostly just enjoyed walking around and looking at all the animals.
Once we were done seeing the animals, we walked around all the pumpkins, let Jack sit on a tractor, and took a few fun pics.
The last stop of the day was listening to some music. Jack loves music so he liked watching them play for a few minutes.
After the pumpkin patch, we had to head right back home. We were hesitant to go back through the mountain, but because of the time, it was really our only option. So we said a prayer for Jack, and made our way home. The last thing we were able to see while going up the mountain was a nice view of Lake Elsinore.
Thank goodness we got home without any more chaos, and we were able to enjoy the rest of the day.
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