My Doctors Appointment and Sadie Update

My doctors appointment was good.....next week will be my monthly sonogram.....I am excited to see how much Junior has grown and see how much he/she weighs now.

Little Sadie is doing better. When I took her to the doctor on Tuesday she did have a parasite....so she is now on medication and everday is seeming a little perkier! Sadie does NOT like for me to talk on the phone. When I am on the phone she will find anything that she knows she is not suppose to have and start running around with it or if it is paper she will begin to shred it to pieces. Anyway, I noticed last night and then again a little while ago when I was on the phone that she must be feeling better becuase last night she was shredding paper and today she was running around with my shoe. She will be really excited in just a little while when she sees Hubby come in the front door and so will I for that matter since he has been out of town.

Doctor's Visit & Sono Picture

My doctor's visit this past week went well.....I measured the number of weeks I am and did not gain weight!!! I keep reminding myself that each week is one week closer to the delivery day.....and one less weekend that we have to get things in order at home......I have also included one of the 3D pictures from my sono a couple of weeks ago.....some people have told me this picture looks like a boy and someone even told me they thought this picture looked liked Hubby.....

Baby Names

Ok, just for fun I would love to hear what some of you think are great baby names....now for me personally, I like "old" names and Bibical names....as of yet we still have not come up with a name for Junior...and we have to come up with two names this time!!! I have decided that boy names are harder to choose than girl names....I think we may have middle names picked out just not first name...ok, let me hear what you think are some good names.

Latest Update on Junior....

***I have not forgotten about the sono pictures...hopefully I will have them on here by tomorrow***

My doctors visit went well this past week and I did not gain any weight. Last week I measured a centimeter larger than what I was and this week measured the number of weeks I really am. My doctor told me that is "ok" because it is +or- 2.....so I am ready to see what I measure this coming week. Not gaining weight did not really surprise me I guess because I have not been as hungry lately therefore I am probably eating a little less.....and since Junior is growing I don't think I have as much room to store extra food in there..one of the girls at work told me my belly is finally starting to look like a ball...so now I think people are finally able to tell I am pregnant and not just gaining weight:)....the last 2 days after I eat I then have trouble breathing so I guess I need to start eating smaller meals several times a day....Junior seems to be getting more active these days as I have been feeling him/her move more and more.....he/she does not wake me up during the night moving....maybe he/she moves more in the day and less at night but I do have a hard time getting comfortable at night when I first go to bed....although I must find a comfy spot at some point because when my alarm goes off I sure do not want to get up!

So, the last time I posted was April 26th. In that post remember me talking about how busy I had been that weekend...well, that afternoon I started having chest pains. The next morning when I got up to go to work I did not have enough energy to even get completely ready for work. My doctor told me I needed to stay home and rest and take naps that I had probably overdid it over the weekend and the chest pains were probably anxiety. I stayed in bed most of the day on Monday....and felt much better Tuesday. I went in for my weekly appointment on Wednesday and they checked me out and said I was fine and Junior was fine...but I now know you really do not need to overdo it...but lately I have so much to try and get done on the weekends that I guess I need another day off during the week:).

Even though we are not decorating a nursery before we bring the baby home we do have to clean out the room that we are going to use for the nursery. The room we are using for the nursery is the same room that was Kate's room. It took me over a year to be able to take Kate's nursery down and pack it all in boxes but when I finally got to the point I could do it we turned it into my craft room. So last weekend we worked on getting almost everything moved out of my craft room. Hubby let me have his office since he really did not use it that much. I told him I would share it with him:)...so after many, many trips up and down the stairs we just about have all my stuff in its place in my new craft room! It is amazing how much junk and stuff you can collect over the years. As we are cleaning out we are also throwing stuff away and giving stuff away and then if there is other stuff we will be making a run to two to Goodwill and dropping stuff off there as well. We still have other closets and rooms to clean out so hopefully over the next few months we can get all of that done so we can check that off the list of things to be done....

This past week my I had my monthly sono. I knew that toward the end they were going to do a 3D but they surprised me this week and did a 3D sono. I was so excited!! I never thought I would have gotten one this early. Of course, just like last time Junior had his/her hand in front of its face and we were only able to get profile pictures but it is amazing how different the 3D sono pictures look versus the regular sono pictures. During the sono I found out the baby's head is right in the spot where I have lots of pain....the pain on the front side is just like the pain I had with Kate but this time it wraps around to my back to....so now at least I know it is just his/her little head pushing against something......

So after the sono I had my weekly appointment....everything was good.

***I decided to go ahead and post this without the sono picture...hopefully I can get the picture on here tonight...Hubby has them on his computer....

Baby Update & Sadie Update

This has been a very busy week! The last week of tax season and Hubby has been traveling. He had a late flight in last night and got home around 1:15 this morning. I am so glad he is back from NY though! Tax Season ended for me around 6:30 Wednesday night...and it will be my only tax season this year!!! The second tax season is tougher than the April deadline and now the IRS has changed some of the filing deadlines from October to September so that will be an adjustment for everyone. My office will be a very busy place come the end of July....

Speaking of busy at the end of July, we will be busy around our house to! By then we will have a little one keeping both of us busy. I had a good doctors appointment yesterday. This week was just a tummy check and a heartbeat check. Ok, we are not finding out the gender of this little one and he/she will not even give us a hint with the heartrate. I am sure many of you know the old wives tale regarding slow heartbeats for boys and fast heartbeats for girls but Junior can change from week to week and even second to second.....

Sadie seems to be doing a little better. She has not been getting up as much during the night to go out....we have one more week of antibiotics before she goes back to the vet to see if the bladder infection has cleared up. She is actually laying next to me on the couch taking a nap right now. It is so hard to believe that she is going to be 3 years old next weekend!!! For those of you wondering if she is having a party again this year she is....so be watching for pictures in a couple of weeks!!

Update

So we had another sonogram this past Thursday to check the growth of "Junior". The doctor said we are right on target. When they were doing the measurements I think "Junior" was moving around a good bit but when they were done with that part and then it was time for us to watch "Junior" I think he/she decided to go to sleep (or maybe Junior is shy) and put his/her hand over his/her face...so I will have another one in 4 weeks and take something sweet to eat or drink to wake him/her up! We did get a video but I have not had a chance to watch it yet....maybe Junior was moving around more in the video because it may have been on during part of the measuring process....I will have to see.

I actually got to see the doctor twice this week because on Monday I thought I was having contractions so I finally called her on Monday night and she said they sounded like Braxton Hicks....I do not remember having Braxton Hicks when I was pregnant with Kate so I really did not know how they felt. I woke up on Tuesday morning and was still having some so I called her again and went in and she said I was not in labor and we realized that I may not be drinking enough water....so back to work I went and some of the girls at the office were waiting to see what the doctor said and one of the girls told me she had the same problem with one of her kids....not drinking enough water caused her to have painful Braxton Hicks to....so now I am drinking a LOT more water and of course trying to keep myself well rested.

Even though it is less than 2 weeks before the end of tax season I am still not working on Saturday's. Just adding a Friday work day in there and a few extra hours a few days during the week is taking every bit of extra energy I have. This is the first tax season in I guess about 16 years that I have not been working all kinds of crazy hours....

I think we are suppose to have nice weather today so hopefully I will get a chance to work in Kate's Kourtyard a little today and maybe even plant a few flowers....a lot to do inside the house to..and since I have limited energy I will probably not get to everything I want to but hopefully I will be able to get some of it done. I so miss having my Friday's off but only one more Friday and tax season will be over and I will be back to my regular schedule.

Big News....

So yes, it has been a while since I have blogged. So much has been going on in our lives....to just be the two of us and our furry girl Sadie we are really busy! Well, it is not going to be just the two of us and our furry girl much longer....WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!! Now, it is really hard for me to refer to it just being the 2 of us because that is not how it really is in our lives...that is just how many of us live in our house....we will never forget Kate and our little baby girl....there is not a day that goes by that they are not thought about. They will NEVER be just a distant memory but always a part of us.

We are very excited about this little one on the way. I have been wanting to blog about this for months but have not for several different reasons but decided I would finally start blogging about it. We have lots of sono pictures from the beginning of the pregnancy as I have been monitored weekly since we got the positive test back...I actually go to the doctor each week which really helps keep my anxiety to a minimum - what ever that might be...maybe I should just say it helps us get sleep around here at night:)

We had a scare in the beginning but everything seems to be going good so far! We are taking it one day at a time and enjoying every minute of the pregnancy. I even enjoyed the morning sickness this time.....not sure how much Hubby did as he was having to cook every meal because if I cooked we knew that I would not be able to eat it and if he cooked at least I would be able to have something.....I have been very tired this pregnancy but it could be partially because I am a lot older than when I was carrying Kate. Being tired is ok to.....

Now maybe I will start blogging more as I am going to have alot to blog about. We actually have another sonogram this coming week! Can't wait to see "Junior" again. Right now, I call this little one "Junior" as do a few of my friends because we are not going to find out the gender. We are going to let it be a surprise. For those of you that know me very well, I am sure are in shock being the planner person I am.....but we are going to wait.