So here we are! So far this month I have reached 2 cool pregnancy milestones! I passed 25 weeks which is always HUGE for me (both literally and figuratively...). After 25 weeks your baby can survive outside the womb if born early. Yes, with tons of medical intervention and a long NICU stay, but survival none-the-less! There are 3 "micro-preemies" at Lucy's preschool (all of them are 4 or 5 now and thriving!) that were born at 25 weeks and 28 weeks. Hearing all about how awesome the Dartmouth NICU and Mass General in Boston are (ranked one of the best hospitals in the Nation) gives me relief that we have amazing facilities around me if I ever needed one.
The second milestone I hit TODAY is making it to 27 weeks: The 3rd Trimester (see pictures below- I took them a day early so that Shawn could help before he went out of town)! Yaaaaaaay! We're in the home-stretch, Sully! As much as I can't wait to hold you in my ever-lovin' arms, I actually don't want you to come early this time around. I don't want another Christmas baby (as magical and sweet as they are, one is enough for me!), and I REALLY don't want to have you across the country without Daddy at your Uncle's wedding.....So please, PLEASE stay inside your warm cocoon until February....Also, let's get past Daddy's birthday and Valentine's Day and just make it all the way to February 18th :)
I'm feeling Ok. Sometimes I still get that pesky nausea and some-days my uterus is so achy that laying down is the ONLY relief I can get. I'm constantly out of breath....I'm heaving and wheezing everywhere I go and probably look and sound like the crazed Mommy at Lucy's pre-school drop-offs..... but we're managing. Most days. I haven't hit the hardest part yet; that comes right at the time of Jess' wedding....Woo- hoo (not really). So yeah. Utah and Boise are gonna be tough for me. I've been pregnant before and I know how much it hurts me at the end, so am I worried? Yes. Am I stressed about it? Yes. But I also can't miss his wedding. So for 8 days of my life I can try to suck it up and make-do....Even if I might cry a couple times from the pain.... But, such is life....
A couple other things happened this last week. Piper went to the eye doctor again to get her "wandering eyes" looked at and although they still wander a bit, they're the same vision and the same strength in each eye so the doc said that's good and means she won't need surgery or anything. They still want to monitor her every 6 months and eventually she will need glasses, but that time has not come yet. She had her eyes dilated for the first time, which was weird for her, but she took it like a champ and walked away with some cool new sunglasses :)
Lucy got to go to her first "big-girl" drop-off birthday party of a classmate of hers. It was at an art studio where they made ceramic figurines. It was super cute. Daddy took Piper on a Daddy-Daughter date that day to get ice-cream so that she got some lovin' too.
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| Her hair.....what's better?! |
As for this week, Lucy is "Star of the Week" at school! That means she got to choose a show-and-tell to bring in and she thoughtfully chose her little photo album of our trip to Disney World (back in May) to show her friends all of her "meet-n-greets." Also, the Pre-K class was able to eat lunch at school yesterday (usually they don't show up until after lunch) and oh my GOODNESS, she could NOT contain her excitement. You would have thought I was offering her a new puppy when I told her lunch was at school. She went back and forth between all of her lunchbox choices and finally settled on Barbie, along with telling me EXACTLY what I was supposed to pack in her lunch. She was one HAPPY little preschooler!
Daddy put the Christmas lights up on our house a couple of days ago to avoid having to put them up during a cold-spell, but luckily November has been good to us! I hope this is an omen for what's to come....Last November at this time we were already knee-deep in snow! We haven't had more than a dusting last month and the temps have been fairly mild. Yes, it's getting colder and there is snow in our weekly forecast, but to have made it this long without a big Winter Storm is awesome to me! The word on the street is that El Nino is actually going to bless us with a more mild Winter. Compared to all the records we broke last year with outrageously cold temps and mountains of snow that didn't melt until nearly June, this is music to my ears!
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| Piper is giving her pony a makeover :) |
Thanksgiving is next week and although we won't be with family, I'm still going to do my best to serve up all the traditional fixin's and Shawn's going to smoke a turkey! Yummmmm! Before I know it, it will be Piper's birthday, then Christmas, then the wedding, then Sullivan's debut! Crossing my fingers it all happens IN that order!
I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that I will love this little boy just as much as I love my daughters. Remember how nervous I was to bring Piper into this world, wondering how it would be possible to love her as much as I loved Lucy? I was honestly terrified. It couldn't happen (I thought). Boom. I was dead-wrong. You hold that precious newborn and feel such a strong love for BOTH of your children that you almost don't feel like your heart can handle it all. And you can't explain it. You just have to FEEL it. So I know that my heart is going to swell and grow until it's bursting at the seams for all three of my darlings and I can't even wait until that moment. I love him with such an incredible force already, but the icing on the cake will be when they place this angel in my arms and our hearts are beating together and he feels the love emanating from me.... what a beautiful moment that is. The miracle of birth is so incredible.....I am beyond blessed to have experienced it.
So, let's do this! In 13 weeks, my life will begin again. And I can't wait!
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