The Daily Hailey

Today was super relaxed. Dekker got up around 11-ish and had breakfast while we waited for our afternoon guest to arrive. Grandma!!

Dekker played in the living room, reading book after book, and showing off all his great dance moves until around 1pm, when it was time for a nap. I put him down and we got lunch ready. My mom is recovering from a surgery and trying to be very healthy in the way she eats and exercises. However, we all know that a solid cheat meal is necessary once in a while, so probably over a week ago now, we planned for a cheat meal at my house. Today. Hot dogs and chips for lunch. And I mean we did it right! White bread, and BBQ Pringles. Sooo delicious! It was one of those meals that I was sooo disappointed to finish, because I just wanted it to keep going. But life does go on I suppose. There will be more lunches like it.

My mom left after lunch and just a bit of TV, around 3pm. I made my way upstairs and lay around, figuring Dekker would be up sooner than later. It was after 5pm by the time I hear him make any sound! Once he was awake, I got him up right away and hed ate a HUGE meal, which I always like to see. Brady was on his way home by the time Dekker was eating, and by the time we were eating, Dekker ate a second supper with us, haha 🙂 He’s a hungry boy recently!

Our house was so hot today, so Dekker hung around in his diaper most of his awake time. I’m so thankful that he’s never tried to remove his diaper (yet) or make a big mess that way. In fact, in all of his naked times in the evenings, he’s only had one accident and peed on the floor, and that was when he lost his balance and fell down and cried. But hey, kids pee. It doesn’t matter.

On the note of naked time, his bum is looking sooo much better these days! The cream we’re using says to only use up to four times a day, but every time we don’t use it, he gets yeast within an hour or two. So we’ve been using it exclusively for a few days and its making a huge difference. I called the pharmacy to check on the side effects, since I was reminded today that some creams can thin our a persons skin, and I do NOT want to do that to Dekker! Luckily, the only possible side effect is drying out his bum and skin irritation. So far, it seems like everything is looking perfect, and he is sooo much happier! So I’ll just keep an eye on it and talk to my doctor about it on Friday at my prenatal appointment. Can’t  believe I’ll be 19 weeks by the end of this week, and then halfway done the week after that! Time is sure going by faster this time!

Now I know I have friends who really genuinely do not care about belly pictures, and thats fine, but I do, and I think some of you don’t hate them at least, so I’m posting a few. I always suck in my belly, as in all the time. Not to an insane extent, but a bit, so my belly these days looks like this:

However, I can still suck the whole thing in if I want to!! So do I even have a legit bump? I don’t know!

Ok, its not the whole thing I guess, but pretty much! However, if I don’t suck in at all…

Forgive the face. As soon as I let it hang out, Brady laughed at me. Punk.

All in all, the real, first thing in the morning, laying down belly looks like this:

So there is a little something there anyway. I know, the photo quality sucks. But its the best I could get at the moment.

Thats about where I stand for 18 weeks. I’m still sooo thankful I have a kid that sleeps in the way he does so I can rest throughout the day. Blessed mom.