Hello again family & friends,
We have been crazy busy but things have been really good. I think I say this in every post, but man I cannot believe how
time just flies by. How exciting that it is finally spring time! We've been loving the warm days and really cannot wait for summer. We're back to walking around town & Cody can bike again. You don't realize how cooped up you were until you can get outside again.
Joe celebrated his 31st birthday on March 23rd (yesterday). My nephew AJ helped me bake him a bday cake. When Cody got home from school we gave him his gifts and then took him out for a nice bday dinner. Once his stomach was rested from the half of pizza he ate, he dug into 2 pieces of bday cake. He likes to blame it all on me, saying that it's all so he can gain some sympathy weight; hmmm, I'm not too sure about that. Unfortunately because of school, he couldn't escape homework entirely, but he did have off of work and otherwise seemed to have a really good day.
Cody is all done with basketball and moved right into lacrosse. He started electric guitar lessons about a month ago and loves it. So as usual, he is busy which in return keeps us kind of busy, but it also keeps him out of too much trouble. I'm really having trouble believing that he's going to be 14 soon and graduating 8th grade.
I have only 5 classes left until I graduate, but because of my maternity leave I'll graduate in Oct. instead of Aug. It would be nice to just be done, but I am also looking forward to a break. I'll have 3 classes to finish after my leave, then I'm done...at least until graduate school in January. With summer not even being here yet, I don't want to think about Jan. yet. The weeks seem to be flying by though, it seems like I just let everyone know about the pregnancy and now I'm 29 weeks and already in my last trimester! About a month back at my oncology appointment a couple of my labs came back abnormal. My hemogloben was one of them, but it is nothing to worry about because it's pretty normal during pregnancy. The other one was my platlets had dropped quite a bit and that is the one that they are keeping an eye on. It is not harmful for the baby, but a tad concerning for me depending on how low they drop. I've been getting labs done every two weeks to monitor it and the good news is that they are starting to come back up. The first trimester I was so so tired, nautious, and had horrible headaches. The second trimester gave me back some of my energy, and the nausea went away, but not the headaches. My sciatic nerve began giving me trouble very early on and the hurniated disks in my lower back have been a huge problem as my belly grows. In my sixth month I began having horrible hip, back, and pelvic pain that is bad enough that on bad days I cannot walk much less stand up. Due to comfort, I am not able to work out anymore now that I'm in the 7th month, however I have been swimming and I cannot begin to tell you what a relief that is for my pain. It's like going to the chiropractor, everything feels less compressed and so good after. Baby and me do a mile in the pool about 3-4 days a week and we are feeling great. The baby is growing well and is just the right size for how far we are. Baby moves around like crazy too, sometimes it is a kick, other times it's a huge thump, and sometimes it's the smooth roll where you can see my stomach stretch and move along with the baby. I had to giggle in church last Sunday because all through the homily the baby was thumping and it was really distracting to see my stomach constantly jumping. Joe & Cody were a little weirded out, but totally excited to be able to feel the baby move, now that you can see it without feeling it's kind of funny. I'm up 17 pounds with two months to go! Depending on if we make it to 36 or 40 weeks, we can't believe that the baby will be here in only 7 to 11 more weeks!! How crazy is that??? We do not know the sex of the baby and are not going to find out so everyone will have to be suprised!
