12 week ultrasound!!!

Hi!

Well Bill and I had our genetic screening and counseling today. Since I am 35 years old (0r 36 when the baby is due) my doctor requires us to go to this appt and talk about family history etc. Everything in our history doesn't indicate any problems. We did apt for the 1st trimester screen test (although I start 2nd trimester today WOOHOO).

This test is non-avasive and will give us odds (in about a week) of us having a baby with 3 chromosomal problems. There are more than that but this shows the 3 major ones. The odds will come back as 1:300 or some form of that. It won't make a bit of difference to us however we thought if the odds were high, then at least we could educate ourselves more about the difference disorders.

The test consists of an ultrasound and blood work. They look for certain proteins in the blood combined with measurements from the baby. They measure the baby's nec area and the normal range is 1-3mm. As the area gets bigger, that could indicate a problem. Our baby's measured 1mm. So we are in the very NORMAL range on that. So that is a great sign. Now we just wait for the blood work. However the doctor (this is a perinatal doctor, a specialist, not our reg. doc) said that everything looks wonderful.

We got to see our sweet baby today. I saw a sweet face, body, arms and legs. The baby had her (I think it is a girl, however too early to see any boy/girly parts yet) hands up against her mouth at one point. And what was SO wonderful was seeing the heart beat. That was so great!!

Anyway, here is a pic of our sweet baby. I did label the parts since some of you may not have any idea of what you are looking at. HAha!!

Have a great week!

Still feeling bad!

Well I am at 11 weeks today and still feeling yucky. I had a great day Monday and thought maybe I was getting better. No such luck but maybe soon. I figure with the other kids I was better by 12-13 weeks so hopefully by next week!

We got to hear the baby's heartbeat on Friday. It was 174 beats per minute and sounded wonderful. I LOVE that sound.

We are meeting with a genetic counselor next week (due to me being 35) about genetic testing. We have decided to only do the 1st trimester screen (or maybe triple screen, I can't remember). That is non evasive and they will test my blood and also do an ultrasound. So I will get to see my little one in a week from today! :)

The Daily Show!!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184111&title=john-mccains-big-acceptance

First Day of School

Well my babies are officially at school today. They were so excited to start today. I am feeling kinda sad but I sure am getting lots of stuff done today. :)

Nicholas is now in 4th grade. That just seems so big. When did he get so old? He didn't really have a lot of friends in his class yet he was just excited. He said that this will give him a chance to get to know some more people. I am so glad that we have raised such good kids with good self esteem.

Riley is in 2nd grade. He seemed big too this morning. He even told me that he has been up since 4 (I am not really sure about that one) because he is just so excited to go to school. What a sweet little person.

Well I am officially feeling crappy. Morning sickness should just be in the morning but crap if I don't feel bad ALL day long. But that is a good sign, so I am certainly not complaining. We have picked out a paint color (a nice light yellow) for the nursery. I will start painting next week. It is a good distraction from the morning sickness. I will be at 7 weeks tomorrow!!

Have a good day!!

WOOHOO!!

Well it is official, we are having a BABY!!

Our sweet pumpkin is due early April. I will post more soon!!!

Nick and Riley are so excited!

Out of School

Well today is the first day of "no school". We are all (well not Bill cause he is at work) sitting here in our PJ's. What a good start to the day. :)

Well Riley was puking again on Monday pm. For those of you that aren't aware, he has been having random bouts of throwing up. It started in mid March and since then he has missed about 8 days of school. The throwing up starts in the absolute middle of the night (like 2-3am) and last for hours. This has been out of the blue. No fever or any other signs. Then the next day he is just fine. And no one else ever gets sick.

The doctor has run test after test (and the insurance company can certainly say that too) and everything has come back fine. He has an appt with a pediatric GI specialist on Monday at Children's Mercy Hospital. I hope that we can figure out what may be wrong. I swear I didn't sleep very well at all last night cause I was just waiting for the "mommy, I am puking" voice. My sweet baby! But luckily he slept fine last night.

We are going to St. Louis this weekend for our cousin Nikki's graduation party. I am so excited to get away and just hang out! Woohoo!!

Famous American Report and cute kids!!

This is Riley's Famous American Report that he did in his first grade class. All the kids got to pick someone that they wanted to learn about. Of course, he picked Abe Lincoln. They did all the research and made several rough drafts. And all the kids got up in front of an audience and read their reports. They did SO good. Riley has a great class and even better teacher, Mr. B.

Here is a link to all the reports of the kids:

Here is the photos from the presentations:

Here are photos from the First Grade Valentines Day party:

Speaking of Riley, he started his guitar lessons this past week with the guitar he got from Santa. He did really well and was SO excited to be taking lessons.

Nicholas is still taking piano lessons and just loves it as well. If you look under the older posts, there is his piano recital from Christmas time. He is doing great at school too. I just can't believe how old he is. Boy do they grow fast!!

Here is a photo from his Valentine's Party last week:

Bill is doing great at work. He really is enjoying himself. I am still subbing in the district and am really enjoying it. I seem to be at the kids school alot (along with lots of other schools) and they love it when I am working there. I also have lots of sweet kiddos that see me and say hi. They see me there and say "Hi Mrs E.". I love it!!!

Hope everyone is doing well!!!