Who Knew??

This week I finally came to the most unfortunate realization...Most of my maternity clothes are no longer fitting...ugghh, mind you many of them are not actually maternity and that might be my problem but it is depressing either way.

The good new is John and I have started cleaning out the work out room for the baby. We had someone come help us Saturday take out the treadmill and the bookcase and I have cleaned out an entire closet to make room for the baby stuff. For those of you who know me well this was a HUGE feat and I even purged myself of 25 pairs of shoes!!! We really would have preferred to be in a new house by now with more space but we are going to make this work :)

On another note, you know you're getting a fat ass when....You climb into your car and repeatedly hit yourself in the butt with the door...oh the joys of pregnancy!

Our Fun-Filled Wednesday Night

Wednesday night John and I headed to the ER...Don't worry, baby is fine, John had a really bad migraine and as a result had distorted vision...Some of you might ask, then why would you go to the ER and not just go home and sleep it off? Well John has a rare blood clotting disorder gene thing called Factor 5 Lyden which makes him more susceptible to blood clots...AND...John almost never gets headaches and had never had a migraine before...so his doctor told us to head to the ER to make sure he wasn't having a blood clot. He is supposed to take a baby aspirin every morning but I, personally, think that he rarely takes it. So off to the ER we went after work to sit and wait for a few hours. You would THINK when you tell a triage nurse that you have a clotting disorder and were instructed to go to the ER that they would see you right away and hook you up to some blood thinners...nope, we just sat and sat so I am glad that it wasn't really a clot because I don't know how long it takes for a clot to do damage but 3 hours of waiting would seem like a bad thing. We were fortunate though, brother Cliff was running rescue so every few hours he would stop in and say hi...he offered to take John to the ER in his ambulance...I opted to drive instead. Anyway, John is fine but I thought it would be important to document this fun and exciting time with my blackberry camera. I am sure I will be the one in the doghouse after this post :)

John in his wheelchair going to get a CT scan

please note he is not impressed that I am taking his photo at this point

John resting on the ER bed...after he was cleared of any clots he let me lie down there...my back was killing me sitting in those ER chairs...needless to say I was over it.

Doggie Playdate

Friday morning since no one had work for the holiday weekend we met Emily, Cody and Frankie down at the beach with Libbie. We have done this a few times and usually Libbie just eats the foam on the water and sniffs at seaweed but since she has become such a water dog we thought we would give it another shot. When we first arrived we were weary about taking her off the leash since we saw 3 small dogs running free...breakfast, right? But surprisingly Libbie was great, she was VERY interested in them but was no aggressive at all. Yay Libbie! And she never strayed too far because she likes to play with Frankie. Frankie is an excellent retriever and LOVES for you to throw the tennis ball out into the ocean...Libbie, not so much...oh well, she did have a great time anyway :)

Libbie running free down the beach

Libbie and Frankie in the water

SUCH a happy dog

BEST DAY EVER!

Vaughanie Vaughan turns 1

This weekend was Vaughan's First Birthday! Chip and Leslie threw him a party at Granny's house, where they are living and it was the perfect afternoon. We learned that Vaughan really likes beer and birthday cake!

Like father like son

Cooper helping pass out the treat bags

Vaughan is so excited that he finally can have cake!

mmmmmm....

The whale emerges :)

Bring on the Slurpees!

Great news for a change! This morning I had my 3 hour glucose test and this time I actually passed!! So bring on the fruit, ice cream, carbs and slurpees!! Needless to say I will start hitting the pool again tomorrow, all of this carb loading has left me a little squishy :)

Baby Update

So not exactly what we were thinking. I started off the day at the Ob's office for my glucose test and my tummy check. I failed my glucose test (and I guess you could say I failed my weigh in too) so now I have to go back next Tuesday and take the 3 hour test. Everyone talks about how bad the drink is you have to drink but it really does taste a lot like Sunkist, sans the bubbles...however, there was a girl there from my birthing class (more on that later) who was also taking her glucose test and she chose the fruit punch flavor...apparently that was a big mistake, so advice to all you reproducing women, opt for the orange, you'll thank me later :)

After lunch I headed into Norfolk to EVMS to see the specialist and have another ultrasound. Sadly a bigger baby does not make for better pictures. I could barely understand what I was seeing the entire time and I know that John and my mom were lost too. This ultrasound tech was super cute and seemed to like me, much improved from the crank we had the last two times. Anyway, the baby's kidneys are still dilated, no change there so we have to go back in 5 more weeks for yet another ultrasound. The doctor said if there is still no improvement we will meet the pediatric urologist so we know him before the baby is born. We are disappointed that the problem hasn't corrected itself but are hopeful that by the next appointment that it will have.

Interesting things we learned today:
1) the baby is now head down...weird to think about especially since all of those "kicks" I have been getting lately are probably really punches
2) the baby does NOT like to have it's picture taken or to be prodded by the ultrasound wand...she was kicking the wand the whole time and decided to hide when it was time for the 4D picture :(
3) She now weighs 2.8 lbs
4) apparently she has a lot of hair!!

Thanks so much to all of you for being so supportive the last few weeks. I know that the baby is in God's hands so please pray that her kidney's will be healed before the next ultrasound at the end of July.

**For those of you new to the blog I call the baby she and her but we do not know what the baby is, we've been bribed to have it be a surprise :) **

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is our big doctor day so keep us in your prayers tonight! In the morning I have my glucose test to see if I have gestational diabetes...I am really hoping that I don't because I love sweets and carbs and it would be really hard to get through the summer without either! In the afternoon, around 1:15 we go to the specialist for the follow up follow up ultrasound for the baby's kidneys. I don't think we get to see a doctor, just have the ultrasound and wait for someone to call us, fun, right? At least we get to see the baby again! She has been VERY active lately and when John puts his head on my stomach he can hear her little heartbeat!! also note that she usually starts kicking at him too, she does NOT like to be squished!
We will let you know how tomorrow goes!