Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Shoppers Block
I've been waiting three months to begin shopping for Little One. We've crossed that 1st Trimester mark which means I could begin to pick up a few things. Yesterday I stopped by Pottery Barn Kids. Three months ago I would have spent, spent, spent. Now that the time has come, I'm not spending! Everything I thought about getting I would tell myself to "wait until after the Baby Shower". What has happened to me??? I know I'm not becoming frugel. Sorry, Shelly, it's true, I can't be changed. But I think I do have Shoppers Block. Hopefully I'll get over it before Friday aka THE BIGGEST SHOPPING DAY OF THE YEAR!!! Maybe I'm just saving up my energy for Friday. I know I'll need it! I did buy a CD of Nursery Rhymes. Shelly and I were trying to sing with Tate the other day and couldn't remember the words to most of the songs. We agreed we better "brush up" on Nursery Rhymes before Little One is born. When I ran across the CD at PB Kids I thought I'd better pick it up and get a jump start on becoming a expert Nursery Rhyme performer. Did I mention I can't wait to shop this Friday???
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Picture of the Little One
Here's a picture of our Little One! This is from Friday, 11/17. Little One was very active and his or her favorite position was standing on its head.
Last weekend we took Tate to the Aquarium exhibit. She loved it! Lots of Nemo's, Dori's, Sharks, and Fishies. Below are our pictures from the Photo Booth there. I couldn't get Shelly to get in the booth with us. And, I have to make sure you all know this was NOT a beauty day for me. It was get up, throw a visor on, and get out of the house.
Monday, November 20, 2006
12/16 - The Big Day
I couldn't wait any longer. I've scheduled an appointment with Fetal Foto for December 16th. Our appointment with the Doctor to found out the sex is 12/29. Who can wait that long!! I need to shop BEFORE christmas! Plus, by going to Fetal Foto we can have the Grandmother's, Shelly's sister, brother, and niece all come. My Mom's asked if she could come to a doctor appointment with us but if we do that we need to bring everyone. I'm all about being fair. I can just see us showing up for a doctor appointment with five family members. So, in order to include everyone we've made the appointment with FF. I can't wait!!!
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Stubborn Little One
13 weeks today! Yeah!!!
It's been a crazy couple of days. Thursday was the first of our integrated screening appointments. We we're so conflicted about whether to do the screening or not. We decided to meet with them, get our questions answered and then decide. In the end we chose to go ahead with the testing knowing the risk of false positives but feeling like everything is fine and it could at least rule out any questions on doing an amnio. The test is done via ultrasound and blood work. We started the ultrasound and the first thing they did was let us HEAR THE HEARTBEAT!!! We both started crying! We'd seen the heart beat before but never heard it. Little One's HB was 148 on Thursday. It's been 162 before and at Friday's appointment it was 138.
Little One (LO) wouldn't cooperate during the ultrasound and move into a position where they could get the measurements on the back of the head. LO was standing on its head, punching, kicking, and stretching but would not move in the right position for them. We tried three different times with Shelly getting up, walking around, stretching, but LO wouldn't cooperate. We got some great pictures though! I'll get them posted hopefully today. We finally gave up and made arrangements to come back Friday morning before our OB appointment. Friday morning came and LO had moved and was now kneeling and laying over the placenta but still would not move into a position where they could get the measurements. We gave up and decided to do the test with just the blood work. I think LO was trying to tell us that the tests weren't necessary. But we did walk away with lots of great ultrasound pictures!
Friday morning we had our OB appointment. Everything is good so far. Shelly's lost 4 lbs. this month. I'm not surprised as sick as she's been. Our OB used the doppler and we got to hear the heartbeat again. So fun! Once again Shelly had to get blood work done. By10:00 am Friday morning Shelly had been poked five different times while they tried to get blood. After they finally got blood samples we got our flu shots which made us both a little sick. Thank goodness we only go to the doctor once a month. It was a crazy morning.
We're now supposed to get the other blood test for the integrated screening done between December 4th & 8th. We're supposed to go for our test to find out if it's a boy or girl around January 1st. But I CAN'T wait that long! I'm going to try to get us into Fetal Photos before Christmas.
Last night we took Tate for a sleep over. So much fun! Yesterday we went to the mall and rode the Merry-go-round, saw Santa, and Built a Bear at Build-a-Bear. Then we picked up Shelly and went to see Fishes at the Aquarium. Today we're coloring and playing. Lots of fun!
It's been a crazy couple of days. Thursday was the first of our integrated screening appointments. We we're so conflicted about whether to do the screening or not. We decided to meet with them, get our questions answered and then decide. In the end we chose to go ahead with the testing knowing the risk of false positives but feeling like everything is fine and it could at least rule out any questions on doing an amnio. The test is done via ultrasound and blood work. We started the ultrasound and the first thing they did was let us HEAR THE HEARTBEAT!!! We both started crying! We'd seen the heart beat before but never heard it. Little One's HB was 148 on Thursday. It's been 162 before and at Friday's appointment it was 138.
Little One (LO) wouldn't cooperate during the ultrasound and move into a position where they could get the measurements on the back of the head. LO was standing on its head, punching, kicking, and stretching but would not move in the right position for them. We tried three different times with Shelly getting up, walking around, stretching, but LO wouldn't cooperate. We got some great pictures though! I'll get them posted hopefully today. We finally gave up and made arrangements to come back Friday morning before our OB appointment. Friday morning came and LO had moved and was now kneeling and laying over the placenta but still would not move into a position where they could get the measurements. We gave up and decided to do the test with just the blood work. I think LO was trying to tell us that the tests weren't necessary. But we did walk away with lots of great ultrasound pictures!
Friday morning we had our OB appointment. Everything is good so far. Shelly's lost 4 lbs. this month. I'm not surprised as sick as she's been. Our OB used the doppler and we got to hear the heartbeat again. So fun! Once again Shelly had to get blood work done. By10:00 am Friday morning Shelly had been poked five different times while they tried to get blood. After they finally got blood samples we got our flu shots which made us both a little sick. Thank goodness we only go to the doctor once a month. It was a crazy morning.
We're now supposed to get the other blood test for the integrated screening done between December 4th & 8th. We're supposed to go for our test to find out if it's a boy or girl around January 1st. But I CAN'T wait that long! I'm going to try to get us into Fetal Photos before Christmas.
Last night we took Tate for a sleep over. So much fun! Yesterday we went to the mall and rode the Merry-go-round, saw Santa, and Built a Bear at Build-a-Bear. Then we picked up Shelly and went to see Fishes at the Aquarium. Today we're coloring and playing. Lots of fun!
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