Beanstalks......!!!!!!

I yelled as i got the second of my two shots, at Oliver's two month appointment. Turns out not only did he have to get 3 shots but Sara and I also got to join in the fun. I getting two (flu and H1N1) Sara getting the h1N1. We voted and because its now two to one in our household Sara had to go first, but by now getting poked with a needle is second nature for her. Oliver did pretty good when we first arrived. He started very chatty coooing and smiling. Then they weighed and measured him. Again still doing reasonably well. Then, there are 3 shots and one oral. We started with the oral shot which he did not like at all. Started fussing as soon as it hit the back of his throat. Then the shots, the screams, oh the screams as the nurse poked him three times. (Funny that the doctors always have the nurses do those kinds of things. "Hi, i'm the nice doctor, everything looks good. My nurse will be in to do the dirty work.") Actually after it was all said and done Oliver setteled pretty easily in his mom's arms ate a bottle and fell asleep for the car ride to Target then Home.

Height : 24 1/2 in

Weight : 14.6 lbs

Our first bath

Our first bath went way smoother than expected. There was not even a squeak out of Oliver as we put him into his cute little whale tub. Seemed to like the water on his belly. We both figured he would pee when we put him in but instead he waited until we got him out of the tub and into his little duck towel. So we had no choice but to re dip him in the tub and put him in the vikings towel. I tried to find a different towel, but Sara insisted it was the only other one we had.

Halloween was a fun day. We took a trip out to the farm where Oliver got to meet his Grandpa Fischer, and more uncles and aunts. I just love this costume the stem on the top makes me smile every time. He actually didn't mind wearing it after he got used to it. Oliver and Sara are both doing very well. Oliver is gaining weight non stop when we were at the farm I stepped on the scale it read 175. I picked up Oliver held him on the scale with me it read 189. Apparently he is having no problems eating. If we could just get him to sleep longer than 2 hrs. He has had a couple nights that he slept for 3 or 4 hrs, but lately its been no more than 2 hrs. We think he just likes to be cuddled.

Oliver Russell Grogg

"What a big boy", said the doctor as Oliver Russell Grogg was born into our family. Getting into this world proved to be a challenge filled with laughter, excitement, strength, love and will no doubt fill all our lives with many memories to come.

"My water broke" those are words I thought I'd never hear considering only something like 35 % of all women actually have their water break as a sign of labor. Right Then, an alarm went off in my brain. Game Time!! So, I called the on call doctor to hear him say that the hospital in Burnsville where we had been planning to have him was full. That we would have to go to a different hospital. A hospital almost more than an hour away. So our Journey began to United Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Mn. The drive there was not to bad besides getting lost because of a detour for some road construction. Hitting the biggest raccoon I've ever seen and that guy on I-35 N in the fast lane next to a semi doing 65 in a 70. Now a days when you flash your lights at some one to have them get out of the way for an emergency they slow down and keep chatting on their cell phones. Anyways, the doc had told us we had plenty of time even though her water had broke. But i kept remembering Grandma Fischer saying her water broke with one of her kids and ten minutes later they were born. By this part of our drive I was still pretty wound up. The whole water breaking, doc telling us to go somewhere else, and the raccoon killing really had me on edge. That's when Sara miss always calm and cool turns to me and says.. "Do you want me to drive?" We both chuckled and continued on our way. We did Find the hospital pretty easily. When we got to the hospital we were lost. This isn't the place we had a tour. Where do we park? What floor is the delivery on? Who will the doctor be? So I would have to say we started out a little nervous but by the time we met our nurse and started going into labor we were at ease with the whole deal. Maybe the epidural helped Sara. Which in turn seeing her a little more relaxed helped me stay a little more calm. So at 2:02 in the afternoon after 8 1/2 hrs of contractions and 8 hrs of labor. Little dude was born.

We got to leave the hospital on Monday, spending our first night at home. Felt great!! He eats, he poops he peas he eats he poops and then sleeps some more. Mom and I are glad that hes eating so well. We just our excited for the day he sleeps for more than an hour at a time. So here begins the adventure..............

Countdown...

Well, we had another appointment and there wasn't much change from the last. Although, we will get induced on Wednesday, if he doesn't decide to come out earlier. The doctor is thinking we have at least an 8 pounder brewing, which we expected since both Patrick and I were healthy 8 pound babies. Taking after his parents already! :) So now we continue to sit and wait some more, at least only until Wednesday. We will keep you posted when our little guy shows up.

Week 40

Well, another doctor appointment has been completed and we are still slowly progressing along. I am currently 3 centimeters dilated...only 7 more to go. They say he is pointed in the right direction and that it is just a waiting game. Our doc said if we don't have it within a week I will most likely be induced. Although, he did say he doesn't think it will come to that. I guess we will see what the little guy has planned. I have a sneaky feeling that he may interupt the Vikings game on Monday night when they play the Packers. All I know is that he is getting bigger and there isn't much room to spare. Let's see what the rest of the week will bring.

38 weeks

Had another doctor's appointment today. Nothing exciting to report. Everything seems to be okay. Little Grogg's heartbeat was about 130. Mom is doing good, feet are swelling and the appetite for cookies has become greater. Nothing better than some homemade chocolate chip cookies. Or there is last weeks choice of monster cookies.(those are my favorite) Oh, and i can't forget the big glass of milk to go with those cookies.
So we are both like a lot of you anxiously awaiting the arrival of little Grogg. Like the Nurse Practitioner said today it could be any time.

35 weeks

Its been an eye opening couple of days, over the weekend we had our baby classes. We opted to get it all over with in one weekend instead of going every Tuesday for six weeks. We watched movies and talked about the birth the first day. kind of funny being in a room full of pregnant women. Every two minutes another would get up to pee. I was thinking on starting side bets with the other husbands on whose wife would be next down the hallway to answer natures call. lol. Second day of class was all about after the baby is born. We walked in the room greeted by a baby doll in our chair that we had to take turns holding the entire class. At first Sara held her, it didn't take long before it was my turn. What a weird feeling to know that in only a few more weeks this doll will be a real live little man. Sweeet!!!!! A Pediatrician came in and talked to us about all the baby shots and stuff that he will have to get. Oh yeah and then there was the circumcision, poor little guy. its probably a good thing that they do this procedure at such a young age. I would hate to have the memory of when they did that in the back of my mind forever.

Before the end of class we had done all sorts of fun things with the doll. I changed her, gave her a bath. Even learned how to swaddle, that's right I learned to swaddle. All in all it was a very eyeopening experience. When it hit me the most I think was when we visited the hospital the first day. Or maybe it was during the first video we watched on natural childbirth when the lady was about to give birth, Sara turned to me and said "That does not look like fun"

As you see in the pictures little man's cool little safari room is almost done. We have some more clothes and stuff to wash. Also, We have to figure out where to hang the other three animals and some pictures. We are very pleased with the way everything turned out. I just love that nite light.

Paint and PB&J's

I am currently watching Patrick put some green paint on the walls...we are trying to be creative and have a light and dark green. At first when I saw it on the walls I thought it looked terrible...it looks better now that it has dried. If we feel really ambitious, we are thinking about putting up some safari animals on the walls. So all in all, the baby room is finally coming along.

Now for a subject that I love....food. For the past month, we have had to have watermelon in the house. I can not get enough. Yum! And for some odd reason, my cravings have turn towards Patrick's usual snack.....peanut butter and jelly. Not just any jelly either, it has to mom's homemade jelly. Now that is a sandwich.

At my last appointment I had to do the glucose testing for gestational diabetes. A couple days later, they called me back to tell me I didn't pass. So I had to go back a couple days later, I couldn't eat anything since midnight the night before and sit in the lab for three and a half hours, getting poked in the arm 4 times! I was there from 9-12:30...without eating. An Arby's roast beef sandwich has never tasted so good. Luckily, I passed this test. Woo-hoo.

27 weeks

I would like to take a minute to explain my side of the story.

What's better after eating a bunch of Pizza Hotdish then eating a bowl of ice cream. As for before bedtime snacks, I always enjoy sleeping on a full stomach, usually it's a bowl of rice crispies, or sometimes cinamon toast crunch. That night just happened to be mac and cheese. And who doesn't love mac and cheese. One time i actually woke up at 3:00a.m at the kitchen counter making myself a pbj. So, I Decided that since it was half made i might as well eat it.
Any way who is she to point the finger when watermelon and pasta is all we have eaten for weeks. Not that i mind watermelon is o so tasty.

There is a little less than three months to go and we couldn't be more excited. We have picked out colors for his room. Little bit blue some green, maybe a splash of brown. Should end up looking like a peaceful landscape. That he will stare into and dream of one day becoming a doctor or famous athlete. Ok, maybe thats a bit much. For now maybe just daydream about getting out from behind the bars of his crib and chasing the cat around.
Six and a half months, the time goes by fast. At least for me it has (sara would probably say otherwise) Everyday is filled with fun quotes and phrases like "gotta get some velcro shoes"
"I think my belly doubled in size over night" and my favorite " I am so hungry i could eat the leather off my steering wheel"

Patrick's Prego Symptoms

Well, since my husband isn't doing too hot on updating this thing, I have decided to take it over. Speaking of Patrick, you know how they say your spouse can develop symptoms like their pregnant wife. Symptom number 1: increased appetite. I have never seen Patrick eat so much in one sitting in my life than I have recently in the past couple of weeks. For example, we had pasta one evening and Patrick had eaten enough to feed a small country. He ate three hearty bowls (not the cereal bowl size, bigger) and then when he was finished, looked at me and said he wanted some ice cream which he ate ten minutes later. Symptom number 2: late night cravings. Last night, before he went to bed he had to have macaroni and cheese. This was at 10:00pm and don't worry, he devoured the whole box of macaroni and cheese and don't worry he did eat a whole pizza for dinner earlier that evening.

It has already crossed my mind..How in the hell am I going to be able to tie my shoe by the end of summer? Ladies, any pointers? I think it is just going to have to be solved by wearing more slip on shoes than the ones that have to tie. I am already starting to grunt when I bend over to tie my shoes, I can't picture what it will be like in September. Oh well.

Well, the little guy is definitely moving around. He tends to do his first tumbling act around 9:30 am. One day the movement was so swift and very healthy it caught me so off guard that I actually jumped out of my chair. I did cause a small scene in the office and got a few odd looks but after expaining what had happened the girls in the office just laughed. So maybe we have a future football kicker in progress??? Or maybe a child that just takes after my husband and has big feet! :)

Its a Boy!!!

There it is I'm buying Supershakes at the lonsdale treats. I could write how i knew it was a boy the entire time and someone has to cheer for the other team.(but i won't)

So the fun really begins picking out colors for the Baby's room. Blue, green, red, yellow so many fun colors to choose from. Has to be something fun maybe we will paint monkeys on the wall. Funny, i remember when we lived in Wilmington and Stephen and i had jungle wall paper in our room.

Right away the ultra sound tech eliminated the possibility of twins. (whew) ha ha Jay and Jessica. Not that its not cool. Just better you then us. She did however confirm our suspicions that Sara is a little further along then we realized. So we are about 20 weeks. Half way!! Holy cow!! Were already half way.....Deep Breath,.. Deep Breath. I think I'm done freaking out now. Just so many things to do.

The ultra sound was amazing. The amount of pictures she took was incredible. Carefully measuring and remeasuring tiny little leg and arm bones. He definitely has my feet they are huge. That's my boy hes getting so big weighing 12 oz. Amazing to think he weighs as much as your full soda can.

The women also kept mentioning how wonderful and healthy everything looked. I was shocked at how much the little guy was moving around during the test. Although, I have been known to be pretty antsy myself.

And the chapter Began....

What a better day than Mother's Day to begin the Grogg Blog. First, I would like to thank Jay and Jessica for starting the blog idea. What a great way to communicate with everyone, all the fun times we wish you all could be here to share with us. (plus with them leading the way if we didn't i think Grandma Grogg would kick our butts)

We are in what we think is week 18. We thought we were positive until the doc put swooning doubts in our heads. She said that it looked to her like we were more like 20 weeks three weeks ago. And caught us both completely off guard when she thought she was hearing two heart beats and that maybe there were twins. Our jaws both dropped and i think almost simultaneously we both said, Huh?? Being that we already had an ultra sound at 8 weeks she told us we would have to wait until our next ultra sound to find out. Which happens to be tomorrow, so place your bet folks. One or two?? Boy or girl??? I am almost positive its a girl especially with that initial heartbeat at 158. Sara and my mom both agree that its a Boy. We will determine a champion tomorrow. That Hawaiian super shake from the local Lonsdale treats will taste fantastic. Because of course i am right.

I always thought pregnancy cravings consisted of ice cream, doughnuts and Twinkies. Not Sara, Its fruit. Oranges, bananas and strawberries lead the way. There were two or three weeks that i was fortunate enough that it was homemade french bread pizza. (MMMM pizza)

I am also finding out all sorts of fun facts. Did you know the umbilical cord doesn't fall of until after the baby is a couple weeks old. They actually make Diapers with a hole in them. Wow the wonders of Child Birth. Also, i realized I've never even seen a dirty diaper, Let alone changed one. I hear its no big deal, but I'm not looking forward to it.

We are both very excited for this blessing. It will be tough to sleep tonight knowing tomorrow is the big day. Until then.......