Last weekend

Last Friday night [May 15th] I was having stomach cramps to me it kinda felt like Daxton was pushing outwards in the middle of my stomach, so i thought it was just himmoving and getting comfortable and then later that night i was having stomach pains which that i just wrote off as pregnancy gas because i had ate so much for dinner and then after dinner ate boiled peanuts and a slim jim which isn't so healthy. I thought i was paying my price. Then when i got up the next morning to start getting ready to leave the house for the day i thought my water broke... or was at least leaking which to me isn't so unlikely because Vincent was early so it was very believable. We went to the hospital and it turned out my water wasn't leaking but i was having alot of contractions and they kept me for about an our or more to monitor them. The nurse asked me alot of questions about my first pregnancy and about my son being early and how much fluids i drink during the day especailly that day in particular... which i had only had a large glass of milk for breakfast and that was all. She kept coming in and out of the room bringing me water to drink while Jay and i stared at the monitor that tells us when i am having a contraction. Mostly it was Jay staring at it and me saying "ok, whats it doing now? is that a contraction? How about now, did it do anything just then?" Apparently the feelings i had been feeling of Daxton pushing really hard against the middle of my belly was actually contractions, and was my stomach tightening not pushing out which means Ive been contractionfor about a month now and didn'tknow, which also means i had been contracting when i was pregnant with Vincent and didn't even know it then either. After the Water Nazi made me drink four glasses of water and two small cups of juice my contractions eased and we could finally leave. The lesson from this story kids is drink more water, especially if you are preggers. Since then Ivekept a bottle of water with me at all times and my stomach has been much more comfortable than it had been before, which make me happy.

Lazy, or is it tired? Possibly pregnant?

I don'tfeel like doing anything or going anywhere at all unless it has to do with eating food. I just don't feel like much. My stomach feels so heavy to me and it makes me tired fast or I get tired of walking and my calves start to cramp. If i do go out and have to walk alot, i walk incredibly slow, then on the flip side if i sit in one spot too long the muscles on the sides of my stomach start hurting really bad. I just really cant believe im only 23 wks pregnant i mean my belly is really big to me and i wasn'tthis big with Vincent at 23 wks, more like 26-27 wks maybe even 30 wks. They like to say that your second pregnancy is easy compared to your first, and that's just not true for me. I am much more uncomfortable, and i get exhausted much easier than the first time. I ache all over, and the muscles in the middle of my back feel over stretched around my sides from the weight of my stomach. I always need help getting up and down, which i am blaming on having a csection that now i have poor stomach muscles. I can hardly bend over anymore and shaving in the shower is much more of a chore than id like it to be. I can shave the right leg, but the left leg is kind of hard to do. I hurt all over, plus my stomach is always in the way basically..... if i wasn't actually growing a baby id probably hate this all together. On that note:: I complain about all of this, then i read about how other women are sick and have every symptom in the book and i feel for them because i hardly have any symptoms, my main thing is my body just hurts... really bad, to the point that i don't think its normal. I don't think how my body hurts is how its supposed to be, and isn't how it is for other women. I feel like there isn't room in me for a baby and my stomach is over stretched, like my muscles are going to rip or something.

Vincents got mad potty skills

Vincents been potty training the past few weeks and hes been doing pretty well. I think everyday he does a little better. I started a sticker chart for him and hes been happy with that, he goes potty on the potty with no accident he gets to put a sticker on the chart which i hung up in the bathroom plus he also gets two jelly belly jelly beans, which are his favorite and i also put the jar of jelly beans on the bathroom window shelf, so everything is there in one spot. The past couple days hes gone all day with only about two or three accidents, and hes actually told me a few times when hes needed to potty. At the end of the day before i put a diaper on him for bed we talk about how well he did going potty that day and i tell him im proud of him, because i truly am, hes a very smart boy and he amazes me in so many ways. Hes getting too big, and he should stop growing so fast.