Less than 6 weeks??

This month has been busy but fun... Andrew and I celebrated our 4 yr anniversary & my birthday at the beginning of the month... I worked my last few weeks (last day was the 20th!)... Andrew's parents came to visit for a few days... Andrew & I went to Indy for a quick 'babymoon'/celebrated his birthday... Tomorrow is my mom's birthday so I'll be hanging out with her... Definitely been pretty busy... But that's good because I don't know how well I'm going to take to unemployment and not having a baby to keep me busy...

We met with a pediatrician today that we really liked (yay!) so I sent in my pre-registration for the hospital (OH MY GOSH). Every little thing keeps making it more and more real... finding a doctor for him, registering at the hospital, soon I'll be having weekly appointments... All so crazy, but totally exciting :))

August, finally!

Nothing new to report on the Ben front... we go into the doctor on the 4th and then we start going every 2 weeks... Scary to think we're getting so close!!!
Yesterday my sister had her baby, a girl named Eleanor Hill Abels... Everyone is doing well as far as I know :)
Otherwise I continue to get bigger and little things become more and more uncomfortable, but it's all so exciting and totally worth it :) Ben's going to get some yummy food soon as this is the month of celebration in our little family! My mother-in-law's birthday, our anniversary, my birthday, Andrew's birthday and my mom's birthday (whew!). Andrew and I are going to celebrate our anniversary on the 4th as I work in the evening on our anniversary and my birthday (bummer) and then we'll go out again probably mid month for a co-birthday dinner somewhere else nice. And I quit working on the 20th! That probably deserves another good meal somewhere too :)) I don't know what I'm going to do for a month and a half-ish of no work... I've been working for the past 10.5 years and it will be so weird to have *nothing* to do... Oh well, I suppose I should be grateful for some down time before Ben comes to keep me extra busy!!

Belly movement

Yesterday Andrew got to see my belly move for the first time... I so wish that I had of had a camera to catch his expression... He was expecting like a little ripple, not a full on quake :)

3D ultrasound

We had our 3d ultrasound yesterday (exactly 3 months before the due date :)). It was a lot of fun to see him like that, but he was an absolute stinker!! The first second that we could start seeing him he had both of his feet in his face and an arm behind the head... He would then move really quick and then get right back into a bad position. It took a while and a lot of tapping my belly, having me roll over this way and that and coaxing to get some good shots... still don't have like a full face shot, but we do have some cute pics. He yawned once while we were watching him, stuck his tongue out at us and we even got a smile out of him :) So very precious!

Where does the time go?

Less than 100 days left, only one more week till the 3rd trimester, less than 2 months of work and we're going back to get our 3D ultrasound already! Where does the time go??? Nothing new really, we'll get to see Ben again next Tuesday evening, can't wait :) Go see the doc again on the 8th and also have dentist and dermatologist appointments coming up soon too. Busy few weeks. :)

Good Test

Just got my test results back and no diabetes here! So very happy about that... A little irritated that I had to go thru that ordeal but better to be safe than sorry when it comes to the diagnosis. If you ever need to have the diabetes test done, don't eat Chipotle before you go in...

Baby Showers and Sweetness

Andrew and I just got back for a mini vacation to Illinois... Had lots of fun visiting family and had a wonderful baby shower (I'll post some pictures to Facebook later). I had my gestational diabetes test on the Monday before we left, and Wednesday while we were driving I got a call from my doc saying that I 'failed' my 1 hour test... So today I had to go in at 8a, after not eating for 12 hours, and have my blood taken 4 times over a 3 hour period. I feel that 4 vials of blood is excessive for a glucose test... can't you just prick my finger and write down the number??? Sigh. Here's hoping I 'pass' this test...