Half Way There!

I am half way done with my pregnancy!! Now don't get me wrong, I am enjoying it especially with it getting easier. So glad for that! This little squirt of ours is growing and moving like a maniac. He's got to toughen up those little limbs of his, and with the lack of meat thing I guess he's going to have to work extra hard! Do you ever have one of those "ah ha" moments? Well I sure do! I'M HAVING A BABY!! I'M HAVING A BABY!!=) That was my moment. I went through all of the baby boy clothes and organized them by age. I sure have a lot of sleepers, not many outfits. I guess he'll hang out in his jammies for the first few months of life. I'm getting super excited for this and after holding little miss Lonna I am even more excited!
I've been asked quite a bit if we have a name for him yet. Well, we have a list of a few names we really like, but it's pretty definite that we aren't going to pick one until he's here. It's one of those "I'd like to see your sweet little face before I tag you for life". Didn't do this with Bryson, but did it with McKenna. OH! November can't get here soon enough!

Starving!!

I wish this would just go away! I hate feeling so hungry yet nothing, I repeat NOTHING sounds even the slightest bit appealing. From my experience in the past I've learned that eating something is always better than eating nothing. So I find something to eat and I still feel so hungry!!! I blame it on my over-eating that lamb the other night. Perhaps my stomach thinks it needs to eat that much food every meal. If that's the case then I'm going to be the good year blimp by the end of this pregnancy. If only I could find something that actually sounds good.

Mary had a little lamb

Who knows if Mary ever ate her little lamb...but I did! That's right I ate meat and it was GOOD! Of coarse the thought of it now makes me want to GAG, but non the less I ate it and kept if down; BONUS!
Phil and I went out on a date the day the kids left and oddly enough Indian food sounded really good! We went to a pretty good one that we both really like and I ordered their lamb curry. Oh I ate and ate and ate! Phil was taken by surprised with how much I had eaten, but I was hungry and it was so yummy! I swear my belly tripled in size by the time we walked out of there. And I definitely felt crapy all day Sunday and even into Monday a little. The spice I'm sure wasn't a good thing for me to have.

New Info

Apparently I can't seem to get enough of these dr visits! Last week I went in to have a quad screen done, which is where they test your blood for any signs that your baby might be at risk for down syndrome. I have never taken this test before because I wasn't concerned about it making a difference, I mean it's not like I'm going to not have the baby and there isn't anything they can really do before the baby gets here to help us prepare for a down syndrome child. I remember it was an option to have the test done at all with my other two, but I was only given the option to either take the test early, or at 16 weeks so that I could opt for abortion. Whatever. I went in and my results came out 1 of 77 to have a baby with down syndrome. Needless to say my numbers were high. I didn't feel like I should be too concerned and I wasn't worried about it. They scheduled me for an asap visit with a genetic counselor and then a level 2 ultra sound to follow.
The counseling was interesting, we felt like they were more concerned than we were and that made us feel more concerned. They said that results of the ultra sound would give us a better idea of where we stand with all of this. And that was the most exciting part anyway! We went in and Phil and I got to watch from a tv on the wall, which gave us a great view of what the nurse was looking at. SO MUCH FUN! We have a very active and restless little boy! That's right I said BOY! He is such a cutie and to make things short, the dr wasn't concerned after looking at the ultra sound. There wasn't any sign that our baby has down syndrome so we are hoping for the best. In the meantime, scroll below and look at the fun pics we got of our little guy!