February

I apologize that I haven't been updating as frequently as I would like, but we just moved across town. Between cleaning, painting, and moving as well as working 38 hours a week and taking Noah to his speech appointments, I feel like I couldn't keep up. The new house is a four bedroom, one bath two story house. I don't know how we could have done it with my mom's help. She was the driving force behind all that painting. I'm hoping we can finish all the unpacking this weekend, and to finish decorating.
Noah and Matt are doing ok, considering they deal with a crazy pregnant woman everyday. Matt is finishing up his timber sale sights, and Noah has been catching on in speech, but has been getting a croupy type cough. He's rather excited by the bunkbeds that Nana and Papa got him though!
My weekend of moving went fairly horrible and I was not thrilled when, after working for seven hours, and moving for another seven, we decided to go to bed, and come to find the cat took a big crap on Matt's pillow. This was followed by a screamed expletive,followed by my bursting into tears. Upon hearing my shouted choice word, Matt came running up the stairs.
"What's wrong?" asked Matt
All I could do was point to the bed, sobbing. I had never wanted, no, needed, sleep more at that moment.
Matt just hugged me for awhile before telling me this
"At least it was on my side of the bed".
This wonderfull husband of mine cleaned up the poop, put the comforter in the wash and made up the bed with new bedding. I owe my husband BIG.

It seems as if the pets want to send me into pre-term labor, or at the very least, have a small heart attack.

• Grover decided to chew my crocs into a million little peices. I had the left sole and the middle part of the right one left. Also decided to tip over a full garbage can, and escape into the kitchen.
• Sam(my brother's yellow lab) broke out of Zach's room while we were on a date and peed all over Noah's trucks, and took a massive crap in his room. He then took a crap in the basement, in a fifeteen minute interval of being let outside.
• Cleveland decided that gravity does not pertain to him, and manages to claw my furniture to peices as he defies the laws of gravity. Also refer to story above about worst moving weekend.

Im glad to have the next three days off of work, but I know it will be filled with my house being used as a toilet, despite how many attempts we have of going outside, and of random objects being used as chew toys. We don't need to worry about the cat using our bed as a bathroom, since no pets are allowed upstairs.

I had my monthly checkup today. The glucose test was gross as usual, but I passed it, along with my hemoglobin levels being stable. I'm measuring at 27 weeks, even though I'm 26 weeks. I can hardly beleive that we will be welcoming the baby in 14 weeks. We have the rnursery almost all set up, and we are looking forward to having the shower. I'm in a constant state of hunger, and then a constant state of indigestion. I don't know wether it's an effect of Coreg or the pregnancy, but I'm also sleeply all the time. My back is hurting, and peeing all the time is starting to be a constant theme. I am not one of those women who enjoy pregnancy...time to get supper started now, Im hoping to remember to post the ultrasound pictures on the 15th after our perinatologist appointment.

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Catching Up

I have been so busy since the last post, I feel that I have so much to tell, and not enough time to do it in.
Our appointment with the perinatologist went pretty well, and it was really intresting hearing what the genetic counsler had to say. Everything is going very well so far, and they aren't concerned about the Coreg. Baby Wap looked really well on the ultrasound, and we are most definetly having a boy. Cardiology went really well too. My echo came back looking as good as possible. We will have ultraounds and echocardiograms every 6 weeks, and will do a transfer of care to Abott Northwester Hospital from Grand Itasca at 36 weeks. I will be glad when we don't need to drive down to the cities once a month.
We are also moving to a diffrent house across town. My mom, grandma, and my little brother came up this past weekend to help us paint the new house. It really needed a bit of sprucing up. Matt and I also spent about four hours cleaning the kitchen up. The landlord has redone the bathroom as well. We have our nursery decorations and crib set already, and I'm excited to get the nursery set up.
Noah has been a very busy boy, and will now be going to speech three to four times a week. We canceled the cable, and I think that has helped his speech tremendously. Seeing Pam and Jeff will be a big boost, and he loves to chatter away. He needs to pronounce the half end of words and letter sounds like "k" and "g". He seems very excited about the new baby coming. He talks to my belly and talks about when I poop out the baby. He is recognizing most of his alphabet and plays well with the cat. His new thing is" Can I help you?" which is more like " Im going to help you right now, wether you appreciate my efforts or not" Also he loves to ask about your emotions, like " mom happy?" or "mad at me" which is him being mad at himself, usually when he has an accident.
Matt has been happy about actually getting out of the office for work. He has been going to one of his timber sales lately and has helped a few co-workers a few times with their timber sales. He is very excited for baby, and is loves to look at the baby gear. He has the car seat picked out, as well as test driving a stroller made to hold a baby and can allow Noah to stand or sit in the back.
Well Noah is wanting a cuddle for night-night, so it's time to get off the computer.