100 posts and Belly

I just saw on my blogger

that it says

I have now posted 

100

times!!

Crazy..

maybe crazy good, or

crazy sad. 

Either way, YAY 

I'm sure i'll get much more when 

I blog more often and fill you all in more

plus when Elia is here. 

So we have been busy around here.

Not that I have tons of photos yet but I promise I will. 

Austin was able to FINALLY 

finish building the closest upstairs and minus doors we can 

now use it!

YAY!!

So thankful for the Kimler Men 

who have helped build it!!

Thank you!!

And I have been busy getting some 

Elia stuff done.

Mostly organizing and decorating

but working away. 

I have been blessed with many 

clothes and baby stuff

given from friends

and for that, this is

wonderful.
Elia is one lucky lady!!!

Speaking of Elia,

Here I am with her, at 27 weeks!!

Hard to believe but really, 

time does fly!!

Starting her room...

I can't tell you how many times

i've heard,

"Are you ready for her yet?"

or 

"Is her room all finished being decorated"

HAHA Heck no..

Not even close. 

Her walls are painted,

well almost finished painted. 

We have the base color finished, 

which is Olympic No VOC color matched from Valspar Signature 

Baking Stone

looks like this

That's the door to our room!!

And besides that we have her dresser- which the room is a mess

so you can see that later, 

plus we have to get new pulls and

I am working on lining 

all the drawers with fun paper which i'll show you later too. 

The first real thing I have done, 

thus far is these letters. 

I purchased these cardboard type letters

months ago from

Jo Ann, I think they were $.99 a letter

Here are my supplies:

 E,L,I,A letters from Joann's- $.99 a piece

 Matte Modge Podge- $3.99 at Michaels

4 pieces of scrapbook paper- $.59 on sale each

Scissors 

pencil

I used two sponge brushes, you only need one, I was just messy.

So what i did first, was pick out what order I wanted the paper in

then traced the letters on the back of the paper. 

Just make sure you get all the front and sides not the back. 

For the A, I also did not do the center part of the A,

you can't really see it

and i'm sure it wouldn't have been pretty. 

I did this for each letter. 

Then carefully I put each side on, 

by putting the Modge Podge on first 

then the paper. 

I made sure the straightest edge was facing the center. 

Sometimes i did the top first and sometimes i didn't. I did notice the onese

I did on top first looks better. 

I then coated the entire front of the letters with the 

modge podge and let them dry on newspaper.

NOTE*- I also used glue to bend the edges to make it look more rounded

from the excess paper. 

Remember, it's going on a wall, so people aren't going to really see every 

single brown line that you can just barely see when  you hold it

5 inches from your face!!

My finished project looked like this:

I think it turned out great!! I'm very happy and can't wait

to get it on her wall! I think these are going either above her crib or above her dresser on the wall!!!

You could do this for anything, like putting them 

in the kitchen, with a framed art wall, 

or in places like the bathroom or laundry room.

The modge podge seals the paper and makes it water proof.

Would i dunk them in water, NO

but if they get sprayed on, moisture on them, 

what have you, 

if you put a coat on everything you should be just fine!!

Hope you enjoyed my little tutorial!!

-Cassie

Feeling relief...

I had my routine 2 week endo appointment

and things are going well.

So far a little spike in my required insulin needs,

but nothing my trusty pump can't handle.

luckily!

My A1C is heading where my lovely endo wants. 

Last time it was 5.2 

and she was happy with it, but didn't like how many lows

I was still having.

It is now at 5.3 she was happy with it, 

I on the other hand wish I felt 

like I am seeing consistent numbers to defend why I am still this low. 

I guess I am just too hard on myself, 

but whatever i can actually control with insulin

I don't care about the number, 

I just want her a healthy weight and 

healthy. 

After than appointment, I then saw my 

new OB, who I REALLY

like. 

He's helpful, comforting, 

educated and 

is overall very calming. 

The one thing I feel like I've lacked in my doctors, other than my

Endo, 

is that they really seem to forget,

I'm a person, too,

with feelings, with emotions, with worries 

with serious concerns

 and that actually take the time to listen to them,

give advice, helpful advice

and understand that this is the first time I've had a child,

and obviously need professional help from them.

This new OB is answering all my questions, 

Like my need to find a great pediatrician 

so we can ask them about 

going gluten free for Elia, 

and anything I can do to help possibly 

ward off

Type 1 if we can.

to how my test results came back and what we are going 

to do about my liver and what is happening with it now. 

For those of you who don't know, 

or care, 

we don't know exactly when or why,

but last summer my doctors found that

I have a enlarged Liver, and also having

big numbers for my 

liver enzymes AST and ALT.

They would presume it is NAFLD,

which is Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease,

possibly caused by Cholesterol.

So after knowing this might take years to fix, 

(we tried fixing this however my liver enzymes continued to rise

very much and had really abdomen pain)

So to fast forward, 

in my doctor appointment with my wonderful

OB, 

he told me he got my results back

and it came back

I have 

NORMAL

LIVER
ENZYMES!!!

Some how, my child bearing ways,

or PURE LUCK

I now have low AST and ALT enzymes

within the normal ranges. 

I couldn't believe it. 

I have heard this over and over again 

all the complications 

liver disease and have

especially when pregnant too. 

Well, I'm happy to say, I am down one

bad scary diagnosis 

and only have 

the D- MAN

to now cure. 

which.... I'm just happy I have nothing else on my plate.

So YAY for no more liver concerns, or problems.

I still don't understand how I'm cured but I hope

it stays around for a 

LONNGGG Time.!!!