Rhys Robert Kronebusch

My new little babe! He was 7 pounds 11 ounces, 20 inches long. We love him! I am so glad that it's all over. Details will come later if wanted....I'm just too tired right now!

I DID IT!!!

After two long, tiring, and extremely frustrating years, I did it!! I passed my medical transcription course and am now officially a "trained" medical transcriptionist. I am so happy. I got my results this evening after a LONG two week wait, 98% on my objective portion, 89% on the transcription portion. I am now done. WOOHOO!!! Now on to task #2, pushing this baby out. EWW. Not looking forward to that.

When things go so right!

Yesterday, I went to my doctor's appointment. It was just routine. Kaye came to take care of the kids since I thought Colby would quite possibly be scarred for life after having the doctor check out things best left for when he's married. Kaye is extremely excited about having the baby and he keeps harassing me about contractions and wanting the baby to hurry up. Anyway, as I was going in, Kaye said, "Maybe the doctor will tell you that she wants to get the baby out early." Yeah, right. As if any doctor would tell a woman who has never had a problem with pregnancy that she wanted to take the baby out early just for the heck of it.

WELL, it turned out that YES!!! When she checked me yesterday, she says that my baby feels to be at least 8 pounds already, has dropped so low that it would take next to nothing to get him out, and my cervix is nice and soft and ready for labour. I am going back next week and she wants to strip my membranes really good and she hopes that will put me in labour. Of course, that isn't a guarantee, but she really wanted the baby out (she thinks that I'm done) and so I'm assuming that if my baby doesn't come soon after that, she'll talk induction. She was saying like the next 24 hours after she'd done the swipe.

Who would have guessed! I'm excited to have the baby probably by next week, 2 weeks early. Of course, my due date as per my LMP was supposed to be June 6th anyway. Still, we were working with June 19th, so I was prepared for another 3 weeks.

Oh, sidenote, I also weighed in at just 0.5 kg heavier than 5 weeks ago. Sweet! That brings the total up to only like 10 pounds this pregnancy. Of course, Elijah was like that as well and I inexplicably came out the same 15 pounds heavier even after I had him, but I'm being optimistic here. I'm happy. Gaining weight sucks. Hopefully, I'll be a mommy of 4 next week. Yeah for getting this little stinker out of me!

Apparently...I'm HUGE!

I know that I've been a boring blogger, but frankly, I don't feel like I have the energy for it...or much of anything. Though, this was on my mind so I thought I'd mention it. It is interesting to me that people are always so eager to let me know that I'm HUGE! This has been happening for about a month now. Today, it happened again. I went in to pay my town bill when a lady came out just to tell me that she saw me walking up and couldn't believe how big I was. She asked me when I was due, sure of it being any day. I told her that I had another 4 weeks, and then she proceeded to tell me that she really didn't think that I would make it that long. Really! She then told me that I looked really tired and uncomfortable. THANKS...A LOT!! Well, yes, I am uncomfortable, and yes, I am tired. Thanks for letting me know how great I look. Don't you love when people do that?

Do I really look that bad!?! I thought that I looked, if not great, not bad today. I had my hair done...okay, let's be honest, I had my hair pulled back, but it was clean, clean clothes on, I'd had a shower.....whatever.

Oh, not be best pic. Colby just took it, but frankly, I make a point of it NOT to take pregnant pictures of myself so I didn't have one on hand.

Fascinating....to me at least!

For weeks, I have been reading about this guy who is going around to all these different churches and then writing about his experience there. I knew that he had been planning a trip to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and I was really anxious to hear what he would say about us. It's interesting to hear from an outside perspective what people think about us when they actually go to see for themselves without just listening to what other people think about us.

If you are interested too, you should check it out at www.stevenfuller.blogspot.com/2009/05/church-experiment-19-cherry-grove.html

Pathetic....

I've just had one of those 'wow you really are pathetic' moments. I just checked my email and realized that my daily scripture reminder GAVE UP ON ME! I was so behind in my reading it just stopped sending reminders. That is just sad! Obviously, there is something I seriously need to be working on!

Colby's birthday

Colby turned 5! I still can't believe it. My sisters put on a wonderful birthday party for him up in Edmonton...complete with spaghetti and meatballs for supper and spaghetti and meatball cupcakes. They were SO cool!

These are the sweet cupcakes. The meat balls were made out of Ferrero Rochers (is that how you spell that?) and the sauce is strawberry jam. Karen did an amazing job on them!