Changes In The Combs Clan: Jaid’s 15 Month Appointment & 35 weeks along for me!

First of all, I’ve officially reached the 35 week along point, in turn, meaning 35 days left!!! Hopefully less than that! I’m so happy to be at this point. I need to say that anyone who knows me knows that I feel truly blessed to be able to be pregnant and I definitely don’t take a minute of it for granted. I know too many people that either cannot get pregnant, have miscarriages, or have children with severe health problems. I have been so blessed… that being said—can I just have a minute or two to complain? This pregnancy has been so easy in terms of morning sickness, but I’ve really been struggling the last few weeks. I’m hoping things will get better, but if not, it’s definitely going to be a long month. My comfort level is non-existent. For the last week I’ve had an awful pain under my left breast. I’m swollen. I’ve had awful migraines. I’ve had weird vision changes (seeing black dots that move around crazily). I could go on. The pain on my left side is so intense that there are times that I can’t even lift my arm, let alone pick Jaiden up, and so on. I spent yesterday morning in the doctors office having them check and recheck blood pressure which was elevated a decent amount compared to my normal levels (I’ve never been over 108 and today it was 149). Long story short I left with no answers. There are countless things that it could possibly be…. but we’re just praying that something isn’t getting overlooked. I’ll suffer through it if it’s just normal aches and pains of pregnancy… but I feel like there are too many red flags to not mean something. I’m going to monitor everything over the weekend and if things don’t get better, I’ll go back in Monday morning. I feel that there are definitely so many parts of pregnancy that are a complete mystery, but there’s something to be said about intuition. I’ll keep everyone up to date.

all of the arts & crafts Jaid & I made at the St. Patty's day party!

Other news—Jaiden had his 15 month appointment on Wednesday morning. He is 32 inches (77th percentile) and weighs 24 lbs (48th percentile)… right on track. He is such a FLIRT with ever female in sight. He continues to blow us away with his ability to learn new things each day. He loves looking at animal books and is starting to point to specific animals if you ask him to. He is learning more animal noises and is starting to add more words to his vocabulary. If he can’t say what it is that he wants, he knows exactly how to tell you. He will pull your arm, push your legs, come up from behind you and start pulling you, until you get up to follow him to what he wants to show you. He loves to make us laugh and has what we call the “cheesy” smile which gets us cracking up every time. He is quite the ham. We’ve continued to work on being gentle and talking about babies. If you walk into Makenna’s nursery and ask who’s room it is he will tell you it’s “Maaa” I know, I know, he has no idea who Makenna is, but he knows it’s her room :) Kevin has worked with him for the past week on trying to go down the stairs (he mastered going up a LONG time ago, but never has understood going down). He’s finally mastered it, which I couldn’t be more thrilled about. Carrying him up and down along with the extra weight in the belly has started to get really difficult. Plus once Makenna arrives it’ll be much easier (and safer) for all of us if I’m only carrying one baby instead of two. Jaiden has just started to be picky about certain foods. I talked to the doctor about it, and as much as it sucks, it’s completely normal as well. I can’t complain too much because he still eats a really good variety of stuff, but there’s been a few times where we end up having to make two different dinners, which I hate. Oh well, it’s a phase, we’ll keep offering him our stuff, and hopefully he’ll appreciate the variety sometime soon. All in all he has been growing and changing so much that we’re just trying to soak it all in. He’s turning into such a big boy and I can’t even imagine how much bigger he’ll look in a matter of weeks when he’s holding his little sissy in his arms.

blurry picture-- but it portrays the CHEESY smile PERFECTLY