Life With Diabetes

As most of you know...I now have Diabetes! I had Gestational Diabetes with both of my pregnancies and now I am a type 2 diabetic. I have been insulin dependent because I was nursing Kenley.

About 3 weeks ago, I noticed that I was starting to get really fatigued again and so I started checking my blood sugar more regularly. I was back up in the 200's (the normal average fasting level for someone with diabetes is 130). Getting up in the 200's is NOT GOOD! I was so tired that I could not stay awake. It was almost like being in the first trimester of pregnancy...you just can't get enough sleep.

So, I went to the doctor yesterday. Apparently...birth control makes your blood sugar shoot up! Well...THAT would have been nice to know!!!! Grrr....

I just started birth control again since I stopped nursing Kenley. Yup...I started it 3 weeks ago. Exactly when my numbers went up. I am now taking a higher dosage of insulin, but he also put me on Metformin. Our goal is to get me off of insulin all together. Yay!!!

We will see what happens.

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Here is the video of Kenley crawling...

Since The Last Post

We have been BUSY!!!

After camp Travis built the first level of our new deck. Our friend Tong came over and helped too. It is nice to have it and much more appealing to look at than the concrete patio we had before. He did such a great job!

While they were building the deck, Kenley decided to start sitting up on her own. She is now crawling a bit and it is so fun to watch Jayden encourage her sister. (I will upload a video as soon as I can. This thing is giving me a hard time!)

In July we had Jayden's birthday. She turned 2! It is amazing how time flies. Our little girl is growing up so fast. She is testing at the 3.5 year old level on her developmental evaluations. She is too smart! We don't get away with much these days! :) For her birthday party we had a Backyardigans theme. Jayden had so much fun!

Yup...I made that! :)

To start our August, we have two of my nephews here with us! Wade and Lafe came to stay with us on Wednesday and they are staying until Monday. We are having SO MUCH FUN!!! Thursday we just laid around and had fun playing games. Yesterday we went to the Zoo and then swimming! Jayden was so excited about Wade and Lafe coming that she kept saying, "Take Wade to Zoo?!" She kept telling me to get my shoes on and go get Wade! It was precious. SO, of course we had to go to the zoo. I forgot my camera, so I don't have any pictures from there. Today (Saturday) we went and had lunch with Mimi and Pop and tonight, we are going to have Aunt Norma, Uncle Danny and Grandma Mary over for dinner! It is going to be a good time!

That is it for now. We will keep you posted on the exciting times here at the McHam's! :)

Here are some pictures I took of the girls to hold you over! ;)