35 weeks (a day early)

Tomorrow will be 35 weeks with 35 days to go! Of course this doesn't apply to us too much since I will be induced at 39 weeks because of the many factors that have been going on throughout this pregnacy. So, we have 4 weeks (at the latest) until we meet Ms. Emeline!!

We are pretty good to go. I still need to do her laundry and pack the hospital bag, but for some reason I am not in any hurry to do any of this. Which could very well come back to bite me. We do still need to put the car seat together and install it, but the installation can wait until she is actually here if we need too.

I have been in and out of Labor and Delivery twice this week for a massive headache that I still can't manage to get rid of, even with the tylenol with Codeine they gave me. We were also there for dizziness, and faintness every time I stood up, and my pulse was around 120 eek! While there they found I had protein in my urine, so they are going to watch me for pre-e. I have 2 of the signs, the protein and the headache so we will see how it plays out.

Hopefully this week will be a little bit calmer. I don't go back to the OB until the 16th so we will see what they say about things then, we will also start weekly appointments then too.

Here is a picture from this week, I think she has dropped at least some!

Sorry it's a little grainy, I took it with my cell phone..not the best quality camera.

Trick-or-Treat

Sorry we have been MIA for so long, but we are back and kicking now!! End of September and October were super crazy, but things have finally slowed down a bit.

We hope that everyone had a Happy Halloween. We went Trick-or-Treating with our neighbors and good friends Carey and Sean! We also had a blast at theneighborhood block party, and have tons of candy to show for it!

Today marks the point of no return for baby Emeline. If she were to decide to make her debut, they would let her w/o any intervention other than a steroid shot for her lungs. We also set our induction date yesterday for December 9th!! They have chosen to induce at 39 weeks due to the excruciating hip and tailbone pain I have had throughout from my pelvic bones seperating, and also to try an avoid the list of complications I had when Landon was born because he was too big for me. We are excited to finally know when we will get to meet her, but have a lot to do still to get ready!

I am going to leave this post short and leave you with a picture of Landon in his Halloween Costume. He was an A-10 pilot (hog driver) on Halloween, but in this picture he is a B-52 navigator. The patches and medal he is wearing on his flight suit as well as the rank (Captain) were my dads from when he served in Vietnam as you guessed it a B-52 navigator.

26 weeks

Since  so many friends and family have asked for it, here is my 26 weeks bump picture with baby E. Please excuse the no make up look and comfy clothes!

Beautiful

I happened upon this website on accident and absolutely fell in love with this necklace. It's a secret pleasure of mine to own it one day, but until then I can be found drooling over it. The creator, Lisa, also has an amazing blog that I really love to read. She takes the best and most artsy pictures, and is a woman after my own heart because she is out to raise awareness for her son who has a disability as well. Her website is: http://www.lisaleonardonline.com/ if you are interested in checking out her amazing jewelry and blog! Below is my favorite necklace, it is called the heart strings necklace and after everything with Landon, it would just be perfect!

Team Landon

We are going to be virtually walking in the UMDF (Unitied Mitochondrial Disease Foundation) walk for energy this year. We cannot participate in the walk b/c it is Dec. 19th right after Emeline will be here. So, we have created a team of virtual walkers to help raise awareness for Landon's disorder (non-cardiac VLCAD) and others like it. Please join our team, and you can also order a t-shirt for $7.50. The girls will have "Landon's Ladies" on the back of them, and the one's for the guys will say "Team Landon" on them. Please help us to bring about more awareness to FOAD's and Mito disorders. You can join our team by clicking on the link below!

Team Landon/Landon's Ladies

Amnio Results!

We finally got the amnio results for Emeline on Landon's Disorder (VLCADD). Emeline is only a carrier for the unknown "variant" for the disorder. Which means, that there is no way she possibly has the disorder!! We are so relieved and excited. I am very interested in talking to the geneticist about it at Landon's next appt on the 7th to see what they have to say about it all. We do know it is a variant of the disorder that no one has ever seen before, and they are very interested in it. The theory is that this unknown "variant" is why Landon does not present as or have the classic symptoms and issues as other children with the disorder.

I am most looking forward to not having to repeat the every 3 hour feedings until 6 months that we had to do with Landon, and this baby can be exclusively breast fed since she won't have to have any of the Rx formula's that Landon did...our wallets let out a huge sigh of relief!!!

On a ntoher note: Landon is doing wonderfully. He had pictures taken at Little Gym (see below). They are copywrited by Dodson Photography so please don't copy them. He's a bundle of energy and a ton of fun. He says lots and lots of words now like: mama, dada, hi dach (zach), boomer, yuck yuck, uh oh, tank ooh, bess ooh, hello, bye, uh huh, yes, yea, ma, tons of animal noises and their names" and many others. He also shakes his head no when he doesn't want something, and can jump and get off of the ground! It's crazy to see him change so much week by week!

Playing on the Parallel Bars is fun!

It's a Girl!!

Landon and Zach will be getting a little sister in December, we are so very excited to finally have a little girl in the house!! We are still awaiting amnio results on whether or not she has VLCAD like Landon, but it will probably be September before we know anything more about it. They also took blood from Scott and I since Landon has a never before seen DNA mutation, and they are curious to learn more about it! So, we are excited to see what they can find out about it. Prayers please though, that our little girl is unaffected by the disorder, and that we will get great amnio results.

We have come up with a name for her! We wanted a German name since Scott's heritage is German and mine is Irish...well Landon Patrick is about as Irish as you can get, so we went German this time around. So without further stalling, her name is: Emeline Arley Heise!!

I will post u/s pictures from our anatomy scan (all 3 of them), once I get the good camera charged since our scanner is currently on the fritz!