Nov 28th

howdy all! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!!! Ours was very nice. We got to have 2 thanksgivings! My parents, aunt Irene, and uncle John came to visit us last week. We had a really good time. My parents got to see their property and My mom and Aunt Irene got to go with me to my ultrasound!!! Its official we are having a girl! Sophie Irene is due March 30th. They said that everything looked great and that she was right on track. We also had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our friends here in the area. So, now the shopping begins!!! Mom and I picked out a theme for the room this past weekend and today I bought a crib. The theme for the room is going to be Ladybugs!!! I found the set at Burlington Coat Factory. Its made by a company called Kidsline. I have also found that Target and Walmart have a ladybug set that is very similar to the Kidsline one. I think the one at target is made by tiddlywinks and the one at Walmart is Lil' kids. Slowly but surely we are starting to put the room together. I also wanted to let people know that I have registered at Walmart and Target. Of course I don't have too much on there yet, but hopefully I will keep adding more as we go along. I have also added one of my favorite ultrasound pictures of Sophie. Its a side image of her! you can see her little nose and her smile.

Tuesday Nov. 4th

First things first!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM!!!!! Yep, Tim is another year older. The sad part about today is that he has to work on his birthday and I don't. Yeah, Jess has today off because of the election. They are using the schools as polling places. So, this leaves me with plenty of time to get ready for celebrating Tim's B-day. Well, it has been awhile since I have written so I guess I should update everyone. We went to see Dr. Waxman at the end of Oct. Everything was good. Tim got to meet Dr. Waxman and got to hear the baby's heartbeat. She then told us that our next appointment would be an ultrasound!!!! Yep, Nov. 20th is the big day! Hopefully the baby will cooperate and we will find out the sex. Another exciting thing is that my parents will be here that week!!!! Now on to the Bell's Palsy.... I still have it but it is getting much better. Last night I found out that I could whistle again!!! But let me back up a minute and tell you about everything. Last week I finished all of my meds for the Bell's Palsy. Unfortunately after coming off the meds my ear started to hurt again. By thursday I was calling my doctor again to make another appointment. So, on Halloween I was back in the Doctor's office. He said that there was a chance that I had mastoiditis as well as bell's palsy. He put me back on more prednesone and put me on ceflin. He said that the ceflin was a lot stronger than the amoxicillin. He also said that if the pain is still there after taking this round of meds then I will have to go in for a CT scan to see if there is an infection in the bone. If there is an infection then they will have to go in and scrape the bone. Yea, sounds like fun. Right now I am kinda down, because I have been on the Ceflin for 4 days now and I still have ear pain that keeps me up at night. Other than that things have been really good. Just the other day I was using my baby heartbeat monitor and I actually heard the heartbeat!!! The directions say you are not suppose to be able to hear the heartbeat until the 3rd trimester. I was very excited, but of course the baby moved before tim could get the headphones on. Well I have put quite a bit of info into this blog so I will finish here and write again soon. Oh yes, one more thing... Our friends Ian and Janelle Thomas gave birth to their son Liam David Thomas on Monday Oct 27th!!!! Congrats and love to them and their new bundle of joy!!!!