Friday, January 20, 2012
A Movie.
About 43 seconds in the baby starts scratching her nose and you can see her cute little fingers!!!
The Baby.......
is a GIRL!!!
We got to the ultrasound way early today. They told us they would record a little of the baby if we had a dvd so Dave ran to the store to buy one. While I was sitting alone I got emotional and felt it was going to be a girl. I told Dave and then I said I'm sure it's not going to happen and I'm just being crazy.
The baby had her legs crossed almost the whole time. The tech kept kind of hitting my belly trying to get her to uncross them. Then........ I saw it. I saw the girl parts and started to cry while saying, "it's a girl isn't it?" The tech then assured me, yes, it's a girl! I asked her if she was 100% sure and she told me they can't say 100%. She said, "I will tell you this. If it isn't a girl you need to come back to me and tell me so I can figure out WHY it's not a girl!" To me that was her way of saying 100% without saying it out right!
As with dates and all my babies dates being off, the dates have been further along the last two ultrasounds. The last one was a few days further, but today the babies size was 9 days further along. I might talk to the doctor next time seeing if they'll move the dates. 9 days seems like a lot to me! Especially when our babies come fast and they won't let me go full term.
Needless to say, we are beyond EXCITED! I almost still don't believe it! It will be all new territory, but I'm very thankful for the awaiting adventure!!!
This week has been a crazy up and down week! I have been so set that this baby was a boy and I was ok with that. This week however, my attitude had changed and I was starting to get really sad about it being another boy and kept thinking I would be heartbroken if it wasn't a girl. Of course I would still love the baby even if it's a boy, but it would take time to wrap my head around it.
The baby had her legs crossed almost the whole time. The tech kept kind of hitting my belly trying to get her to uncross them. Then........ I saw it. I saw the girl parts and started to cry while saying, "it's a girl isn't it?" The tech then assured me, yes, it's a girl! I asked her if she was 100% sure and she told me they can't say 100%. She said, "I will tell you this. If it isn't a girl you need to come back to me and tell me so I can figure out WHY it's not a girl!" To me that was her way of saying 100% without saying it out right!
As with dates and all my babies dates being off, the dates have been further along the last two ultrasounds. The last one was a few days further, but today the babies size was 9 days further along. I might talk to the doctor next time seeing if they'll move the dates. 9 days seems like a lot to me! Especially when our babies come fast and they won't let me go full term.
Needless to say, we are beyond EXCITED! I almost still don't believe it! It will be all new territory, but I'm very thankful for the awaiting adventure!!!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The Argument.
Today I had an argument with Porter. He was insistent that the baby was in his tummy. I finally got him to accept that the baby was in my belly and he started whining and was doing his own made up sign to hold the baby. I told him that he couldn't hold the baby until it came out. The next thing I know, Porter has his face close to my belly and yells, "baby come!" It was super cute that he wants the baby out. A few other times today he has said "baby out". I guess he knows what's going on! He might not remember tomorrow, but he'll figure it out for sure eventually!!!
Saturday, January 7, 2012
The Fire.
About 2:30 a.m. Friday morning I started hearing weird sirens outside. There is a road behind our house that emergency vehicles drive down so I just assumed that they were going elsewhere. Then I started seeing the lights. I looked out the window and saw tons of lights two buildings down from us. We know someone who lives down there and I worried about the woman and that something might be wrong with her. I ran outside without any shoes on or anything and couldn't tell which townhouse they were at, so I ran back in, grabbed a sweatshirt, my keys, my phone, and put on some flip flops and started down the street.
I got almost there before I started seeing smoke spilling out of windows on our side of the street. I was relieved that it wasn't our friend, but stayed out with some other neighbors watching as the firefighters entered a home and started breaking out windows with their hatchets. As I was coming out of our house they were hooking up their hose to the fire hydrant outside our place. I got there before they even started fighting the fire.
I talked to some neighbors who told me they heard lots of pounding and that's what woke them up to begin with. There was a young guy in the unit adjoined to the burning one who smelled smoke and saw the fire. He called 911 and then started banging on the mans door as loud as he could. It took almost five minutes for the man to open the door and when he did he had no skin on parts of his head, hands, legs, and feet. He was bleeding, but insisted he was fine and didn't need to leave his house. He stayed in the doorway until the paramedics got there and took him out of the house.
After about an hour I decided I needed to come inside. My childhood asthma is triggered with smoke and I had inhaled if for too long. I had started to cough and was worried about the baby and being too close the whole time I was out there. I was only about 20 ft away from the unit the fire was in. After I came in I couldn't fall asleep. There were lights flashing outside our windows. About 4:30, 6-7 firefighters came and unhooked the hose and were talking, their radios were up loud going off, and they were banging the hose on the ground while rolling it back up. At about 5:30 I thought I could still hear trucks out there, but when I came down at 7 and the noise was still outside I looked and it was a news crew parked outside our house.
The unit connected was unharmed. The woman and her son who live there are pretty traumatized by the event. I can't imagine when you are the ones who know there's a problem and working against the clock to try to save someone!
Little did I know that this fire would make national news or that we had a coach of an NFL team living close to us. When I saw his picture, I recognized his smile and realized that we went trick or treating at his house and he was giving out candy. He seemed very nice.
This is an article about it:http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEoQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fsports%2Ffootball%2Fnfl%2Fsteelers%2Fstory%2F2012-01-06%2Fkirby-wilson-house-fire%2F52413994%2F1&ei=NdIIT72nF8TW0QGIvMi_Ag&usg=AFQjCNEm7-wPdQuz5J4QWkTkGawDO1KTxA&sig2=8zKNQAMsmCql9OK-4Dfn-Q
From reading nienie dialogues, I know with up to 50% of his body being burned he has a LONG way to go for recovery. It will be trying and painful. He will most likely have to have surgery after surgery. Hopefully they won't keep him in a coma for 6 months like nienie was. We will keep him in our prayers and hope for a good recovery. Luckily he has a big team pulling for him and to support him through this horrible tragedy.
I got almost there before I started seeing smoke spilling out of windows on our side of the street. I was relieved that it wasn't our friend, but stayed out with some other neighbors watching as the firefighters entered a home and started breaking out windows with their hatchets. As I was coming out of our house they were hooking up their hose to the fire hydrant outside our place. I got there before they even started fighting the fire.
I talked to some neighbors who told me they heard lots of pounding and that's what woke them up to begin with. There was a young guy in the unit adjoined to the burning one who smelled smoke and saw the fire. He called 911 and then started banging on the mans door as loud as he could. It took almost five minutes for the man to open the door and when he did he had no skin on parts of his head, hands, legs, and feet. He was bleeding, but insisted he was fine and didn't need to leave his house. He stayed in the doorway until the paramedics got there and took him out of the house.
After about an hour I decided I needed to come inside. My childhood asthma is triggered with smoke and I had inhaled if for too long. I had started to cough and was worried about the baby and being too close the whole time I was out there. I was only about 20 ft away from the unit the fire was in. After I came in I couldn't fall asleep. There were lights flashing outside our windows. About 4:30, 6-7 firefighters came and unhooked the hose and were talking, their radios were up loud going off, and they were banging the hose on the ground while rolling it back up. At about 5:30 I thought I could still hear trucks out there, but when I came down at 7 and the noise was still outside I looked and it was a news crew parked outside our house.
The unit connected was unharmed. The woman and her son who live there are pretty traumatized by the event. I can't imagine when you are the ones who know there's a problem and working against the clock to try to save someone!
Little did I know that this fire would make national news or that we had a coach of an NFL team living close to us. When I saw his picture, I recognized his smile and realized that we went trick or treating at his house and he was giving out candy. He seemed very nice.
This is an article about it:http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEoQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fsports%2Ffootball%2Fnfl%2Fsteelers%2Fstory%2F2012-01-06%2Fkirby-wilson-house-fire%2F52413994%2F1&ei=NdIIT72nF8TW0QGIvMi_Ag&usg=AFQjCNEm7-wPdQuz5J4QWkTkGawDO1KTxA&sig2=8zKNQAMsmCql9OK-4Dfn-Q
From reading nienie dialogues, I know with up to 50% of his body being burned he has a LONG way to go for recovery. It will be trying and painful. He will most likely have to have surgery after surgery. Hopefully they won't keep him in a coma for 6 months like nienie was. We will keep him in our prayers and hope for a good recovery. Luckily he has a big team pulling for him and to support him through this horrible tragedy.
The Baby.
I haven't said much about the baby this time so I thought I'd post a little! I had to have an ultrasound about 3 weeks ago because they couldn't find a heartbeat in the doctor's office. As soon as the lady put the ultrasound probe on my belly, all you see is a black hole and then a leg come out of nowhere and kick it. Then it returned back to a black hole for a minute until the lady started moving the probe around. I told her as soon as the baby kicked it you can stop it's obviously ok! What a relief!
I was worried that once I hit the 16 week mark, my contractions would start like they did with Porter. So far I haven't had that problem! My biggest problem is feeling gross whenever I move. I prefer to sit on the couch and not move. If I get moving around too much I get light headed and feel like I'm going to pass out. I'm beginning to think I don't want to go through this again! I love my kids, but each pregnancy gets more trying on me and I don't know if I could do it again! Obviously though I might change my mind in a few years when I haven't been pregnant for a while......
Two weeks and we get to find out what the baby is! I'm banking on it being a boy, but I guess I could be wrong! If it is a boy, I had to get all new clothes with Porter unfortunately the seasons are off so I still have to buy everything all new again.... If it's a girl, the girl clothes I've collected are the right season for this baby! It would be convenient. I don't have enough, but enough to get started at least!
I was worried that once I hit the 16 week mark, my contractions would start like they did with Porter. So far I haven't had that problem! My biggest problem is feeling gross whenever I move. I prefer to sit on the couch and not move. If I get moving around too much I get light headed and feel like I'm going to pass out. I'm beginning to think I don't want to go through this again! I love my kids, but each pregnancy gets more trying on me and I don't know if I could do it again! Obviously though I might change my mind in a few years when I haven't been pregnant for a while......
Two weeks and we get to find out what the baby is! I'm banking on it being a boy, but I guess I could be wrong! If it is a boy, I had to get all new clothes with Porter unfortunately the seasons are off so I still have to buy everything all new again.... If it's a girl, the girl clothes I've collected are the right season for this baby! It would be convenient. I don't have enough, but enough to get started at least!
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