Maren Nichole Tolman

38 week pregnant.

Our first family photo.

Baby Maren was born May 19th, 2011 at 5:16 pm. She was 8 lbs 2 oz and 20.5 inches long. I was induced and had to me into the hospital at 4:00 am. It was a long crazy day. I had an epidural but it stopped working an hour before Maren was born. I felt the whole thing and I have a real appreciation for modern medicine and also for women who have babies natually. Both my little girls are so amazing and I love them so much. I was not very happy when I found out that I was pregnant but now I know that I would not want my life to be any different.

May!!!

I know it is already the 6th of May but I just wanted to say Yea! May is here. It seems like I have been waiting for this month forever. So in 11 or 13 days I will have my little Maren! I have been going to the doctor like every other day. I have had my stress tests and the ultrasound done for the week and I passed, well I should say Maren passed, with flying colors. Thank goodness my little one is doing ok. On Thursday I decided to ask my doctor if I could just be induced and have my baby this next week and she turned me down flat. So I was a little irritated, imagine that!. So I asked if I still needed to take more tests since the baby is doing fine and my Doctor said that yes I still have to do all the tests. I wonder if she knows how much those things cost. By the time that Maren will be born I will probably have 8 ultrasounds, 8 non-stress tests, blood work like 5 times and there is probably something else I am forgetting. But seriously if the baby has nothing wrong with her why all these tests. We are going to be living on the street once we see how much this is all going to be. I know I am thinking about this in the wrong way, I should be more worried about her health and not the cost of it all. But really. URGH!

So Kodi is super funny these days. She is just learning so much and she is so smart. She totally runs the house and she knows it. She lets me know when she thinks I am doing something wrong. She will say "no no ma ma" and then she will give me a look. She also learned the word "ouch" which she uses to her advantage, usually in public. And now she has "uh-oh" down. So when ever she drops something, which is usually on purpose she says "uh-oh". Another fun thing that she is doing that totally melts my heart is she will blow kisses. She does a good job and blows really hard to make sure you get that kiss. I love her so much. Its a good thing we have her.

Andrew is done with school for the semester. YES!!!! FINALLY!!!. He just works so hard at his job and at school I miss being able to just hang out with him. He starts summer school the same week the baby is due but all his classes are on line.

This weekend is Mothers Day. Andrew and Kodi got me a Kindle reader. I love it. Riley, my mom and I are getting our toes done on Saturday and that should be fun. It will be nice to have cute toes for a while. John is in town for a few days and we are having a family party tonight. I made blueberry pound cake and it is super yummy. So good in fact I don't want to share it. But Andrew told me that I dad to. :) Its a good thing I have him to keep me in check or else I would be 200lbs by now.

Well that is all for this edition of Ashley's random thoughts! Happy Mothers Day to everyone.

Baby Maren

So this morning I went to the doctor to have an ultrasound to check the size and if the baby was breech. Right now she is 6 lbs 8 oz and she it not breech. Thank goodness. Bad news: there is too much fluid aound her so I am now considerend HIGH risk. I have to have a stress test 2 times a week and have an ultrasound in addition to my regular doctor visits. So I will be living at the hospital. I am super glad that they are taking such great care of me. It makes me wonder if I had the same problem with Kodi and no one ever checked to see when I was in New Mexico. I am so grateful for insurance and being able to go to the best doctor now. I am totally freaked out about what is going to happen, but deep down I am just so glad that I have so many people looking out for me. Especially my Heavenly Father.

April 26th, 2011

Well today started off not so fun. Kodi had her 15month shots yesterday, boo. So last night she woke up at like 3:30 am. Since I have a very active baby inside I was not able to get back to sleep. So I have been awake since 3:30. Then Kodi decided to wake up for the day at 5:00am. Yeah me. Well actually she was so happy to see me and she was all smiles. We sat on the couch together and she watched cartoons. Every 5 minutes she would look at me and give me a cheesy grin then she would jump on top of me and give me a hug. So that part was pretty nice. But then when Andrew finally got up he started ordering me around, telling me how I needed to do all these different things. And let me tell you I do not take orders, especially since I did not get much sleep and I also played with Kodi for 2 hours while he slept. I am positive that pregnancy is the time in a man's life where he is just way out of touch. I honestly feel bad for men when their wives are prego. I know for me I am so moody. One minute I want nothing to do with Andrew then the next I am crying because he hasn't said anything nice to me that day. I am so ready to be over this craziness. And I am sure that Andrew is also. :) But this morning it was snowing again. I was a rebel and decided to wear some ballerina flats instead of real shoes. I went to the grocery store since I was not going into work until after I went to a doctors appointment. By the time I got out of WinCo there were big puddle of water that could not be avoided, so my feet got really wet and cold. Then I had to pack all my food and other grocery store crap inside. I got the lovely opportunity to go to the doctors office. I am now to the point where I have those really, super, amazingly not fun weekly appointments. Urgh! But good news my baby is fine. She might be breech right now so I am going for an ultrasound on Friday. If she is in fact breech then I have to go to the hospital on Monday and have her turned. (I really hope that I don't have to do that, so pray that I don't) The whole process of turning a baby sounds painful and not fun for mommy or baby.


I need to put up some pictures this week. Kodi had a great easter. We got to spend time with my family. All is well in Pocatello. I am pretty sure that I am falling asleep while I am writing all this. So if I made no sence at all forgive me. I have 22 days left to be pregnant.

April 2011

Well as of today I have 37 more days to be pregnant with my second child. WOO HOO!!!!!! This last weekend I was with some of my sister-in-laws and we were talking about contractions. I had not had any this pregnancy and I was feeling really good about that. I told them that I hadn't had any so far. Then the very next day I had a bunch. Since then I just keep randomly having really hard contractions. They are not close together and they vary in length of time. So I am not worried, but I never should have said anything. DANG!. But back to seeing my sister-in-laws. We all met in Utah and had a grand ol' time. I laugh so much when ever I hang out with the. I just love them so much. Plus we got to go shopping and I love to shop. The weather was really crappy and it snow/rained the whole time. We were really dumb and didnot take any pictures and I am super sad about that, but oh well. April looks like it will be a busy month so look out I am sure I will have lots to share. :)

Yes I am posting again

So I go through these waves of blogging. Some days I just have nothing to say while others I cannot say enough. So I went to the doctor today for a checkup. We pretty much scheduled the day my little baby is going to be born. May 18th, 2011. I counted and that is 50 days from now. I am measuring right on, which is a good thing. My weight gain is not too low and not to high. Just right for where I am. In the end if I continue the way I am I will only gain 25 lbs, I was the same with Kodi. One kinda scary thing is that the new hospital will open right before I am due. Like they are moving into the new hospital on the 10th of May. I really hope that I don't go into labor. I don't see that happening but who knows. I also really hope that they get all moved and ready to rock and roll at the new hospital. Ok now I am done blogging for the week. I promise. :)

14 Months old