shit gets real...

it's not a new thing that I am pregnant - I have known for 5 months now (exactly!).  up until this point, it has been kind of a surreal and sort of, abstact thing, despite the regular kicks and thumps from my darling little monster.  today though, shit got real, as far as this whole 'baby' thing is concerned.  I scheduled our labor & delivery tours at two different hospitals.  I registered us for a Newborn Care & Saftey class, and a Preparing for Breastfeeding class.  to top it off, I spent 20 minutes hooked up to a fetal heart and contraction monitor (all is well, perfect heartbeat & no contractions).  it feels good to actually do something to get ready for baby T to get here, however, it all boils down to one thought now.  I am actually going to have to give birth.  in the not to distant future.  and it is getting closer everyday.  and I am so NOT ready for that part of things.  oh crap.

so much for that.

Apparently I spoke to soon, when I noted that we were all 'healthy' in our house.  Friday M was crabby and complaining of a sore throat.  We made it through the day, and just kind of figured it was allergies.  Saturday we woke up to get ready for Race for the Cure (what would have been my 5th!) and he once again noted his throat was really sore.  he also mentioned that he had a headache, and he got cold and had to turn his side of the heated mattress pad on in the middle of the night.  Red flags started going off.  I got him out the thermometer, and sure enough he had a slight fever (only 100.5).  after that I got out the flashlight and checked his throat.  swollen tonsils with white spots.  after much arguing, I convinced him to go back to sleep, which he did for TWO hours.  (besides hating being sick, he hates when I am right...which I usually am)  after that I drug him to urgent care (under much protest).  I knew it was either tonsilitis or strep, and didn't want to take any chances with it being strep.  ha!  after everything else that we have dealt with and been through last few weeks & months, my husband has strep throat.  at that point, all I could do was laugh.  thankfully we went in right away, and he is on antibiotics and on the mend.  That will teach me to brag about how well we are doing though!  that being said, I hope that I don't have to see the inside of a medical establishment (other than my doctors apointments...which, yeah.  not much I can do about that) until it is time to have this baby.  and that will probably be too soon. 

shaking things up....

oh, what a crazy 6 months it has been.  I should have known better than to start a blog right before the holidays!  we go non-stop with family stuff until mid-January.  whoops.  so, to try and recap....

We found out Christmas Eve, that we are waaaaaay more fertile than we ever thought possible, and after only two months of trying, we are having a baby!  he or she will be coming around the end of August.  here is the most recent picture (from 18w3d):

so adorable, no?

On top of the newness, awesomeness, and let's face it, crappiness of pregnancy, and all the normal other things that go on (holidays, vacations, nieces and nephews have birthdays, first communions, I turned 30....) we have had 4 family medical emergencies, including my husbands emergency appendectomy (last month) and a suspected stroke for my mother in law (THIS WEEK.  I spent 20 hours in the hospital.  thank GOD, she is OK, it was a complex migraine, which can present just like a stroke).  is it any great surprise that at 25.5 weeks, our nursery furniture is all in our lounge and the nursery room is still a guest room?  despite all of it though, things are great.  we are happy, (mostly) healthy and as usual have a whole lot of awesome things coming up (weddings, graduations, etc).  most importantly, we are SO excited to meet this little wiggle worm and see what the rest of the year holds for us.  and I will definitely be back here more often.  there is so much going on, I want to capture it.  I will try to make sure it is not ALL pregnancy related.  although for now, here is what I am looking like at this point: