Well, Monday was a very exciting day. We hung out around the house together and took a walk around the neighborhood with our neighbor, Denise. Denise gave Thumper a present. Its a "My first tools," complete with tool box, hammer, and screwdriver! If Thumper is a boy or a girl, we still want him/her to be able to fix things and use tools, even if it is just to hang curtains! ;) I've refrained from buying much stuff, as sometimes I think its not real still. I did buy Thumper his/her first book about a week ago. Its called, "God Gave Us You." Its a cute book about a mommy polar bear telling her baby polar bear a bedtime story about how they became a family. Its very sweet and cute! Also, I brought some old books of mine home from Nonna's (my mom) house. The list includes: "Goodnight Moon," "The Giving Tree," "There's a Monster at the End of This Book," "Corduroy," and "What God did for Zeke, the Fuzzy Catepillar."
Monday afternoon, we had another OB appt. We got to hear the heartbeat!!! It was such a sweet and exciting sound! I didn't know how important it would be for me to hear it! In addition, the nurse had a hard time finding it and we kept hearing this "swooshing" noise. She said that was the baby moving around. So, not only does Thumper have a strong healthy heartbeat, but he/she is moving all over the place....sounds like Thumper has Daddy's energy! The doctor felt my belly and said, "She's so petite, you can't even tell she's pregnant," then he told Josh to keep telling me that. I can notice a little difference in my belly, and a few other family members have noticed too, but it isn't very noticable yet. We haven't started taking belly pics yet, we've been talking about it for weeks, but haven't gotten around to it. I'm sure I'll regret it, but oh well!
On another note, Josh has raised almost enough money to go to Liberia! He's began looking at flights and is finalizing the final details of his trip. He's planning on going about 2.5-3 weeks. Its still bittersweet for me to talk about and I get teary eyed often. I'm so excited he is going, but I'm going to miss him like crazy! He's promised to try to find a little baby outfit or something bold and bright the baby could wear to bring back for Thumper. He's also agreed to let us go to Build-A-Bear and build a rabbit for Thumper. It will be a small stuffed animal we "made" for our baby. We're going to name it Thumper and I'll sleep with it while Josh is gone. That way it will smell like me and hopefully bring comfort to Thumper when he is born, if we aren't together!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Update...Big News and Africa
Well, we hid some great news for about 6 weeks. Most of you probably know by now, but Josh and I are going to have a baby! I'm 12 weeks pregnant today! I am due September 22! It has been an exciting 3 months, full of nausea, lots of emotions (a lot of tears for no reason), and lots of extra sleep! I have began to feel better within the last week. I'm close to the 2nd trimester and it is making a big difference. We have really enjoyed sharing this news with family and close friends. We have enjoyed all the responses, but noticed 2 things. After everyone congratulates us and asks all the questions about the due date and how I've been feeling, they always have one of two questions. One is, I thought you guys were pursuing adoption. Well, we still plan to adopt, but it will be after our first child is born! It is something we are still very passionate and excited about! We look forward to how our family is going to grow not only through the child we are expecting now, but through adoption of one or more children in the future!
The other popular question, if you haven't figured out and asked already, is about Liberia. It is with mixed feelings that I must announce, I won't be going this trip. I'm really excited about being a mom and want to protect my unborn child from everything I can. I wish that I could go, as I had began to get really excited about the trip. However, I must tell you, back in November, I wasn't so sure if I was supposed to go or not. I prayed and asked God to give me a definitive answer. I prayed, "Lord, if I'm not supposed to go, let us only raise enough money for one of us to go AND let me be pregnant." That way it would be easy for me to know and understand that I'm not meant to go. Well, He has answered that prayer! Part of me still wishes I could go, but then the mommy brain kicks in and I'm okay with staying home. If I were to travel to Africa, I'd have to get several vaccinations, including the Yellow Fever one. It is a Class C drug during pregnancy. When we asked my doctor about whether or not I could/should go to Africa, he responded, "Well, I've never had anyone ask me that before." The shot as well as meds for Malaria are class C and while there isn't a proven harm, it isn't for certain safe. He said it would be a decision I'd have to make. We decided that since it is an avoidable risk, we wouldn't take it. Then I asked him if it would be okay for me to travel to the mountains (I'll be 35 weeks then and travel isn't always advised) in August for Camp Horizon (the camp for kids with Down Syndrome). He said as long as things remained perfect and healthy he didn't seem to have a problem with it. He then said, "Y'all seem to have some pretty cool interests." This made us happy!! We scheduled our next appointment for March 23 and at that appointment we'll schedule the next ultrasound.
We did have an ultrasound on February 5th. I was only 7.5 weeks then, but they needed to verify my due date. At that ultrasound all we saw was a little tiny bean and a strong heartbeat! It was 154, which is excellent. We have nicknamed our baby Thumper, since the heartbeat was thumping. We hope to wait until delivery to find out what the gender is and didn't want to call Thumper "it" until then. :)
The other popular question, if you haven't figured out and asked already, is about Liberia. It is with mixed feelings that I must announce, I won't be going this trip. I'm really excited about being a mom and want to protect my unborn child from everything I can. I wish that I could go, as I had began to get really excited about the trip. However, I must tell you, back in November, I wasn't so sure if I was supposed to go or not. I prayed and asked God to give me a definitive answer. I prayed, "Lord, if I'm not supposed to go, let us only raise enough money for one of us to go AND let me be pregnant." That way it would be easy for me to know and understand that I'm not meant to go. Well, He has answered that prayer! Part of me still wishes I could go, but then the mommy brain kicks in and I'm okay with staying home. If I were to travel to Africa, I'd have to get several vaccinations, including the Yellow Fever one. It is a Class C drug during pregnancy. When we asked my doctor about whether or not I could/should go to Africa, he responded, "Well, I've never had anyone ask me that before." The shot as well as meds for Malaria are class C and while there isn't a proven harm, it isn't for certain safe. He said it would be a decision I'd have to make. We decided that since it is an avoidable risk, we wouldn't take it. Then I asked him if it would be okay for me to travel to the mountains (I'll be 35 weeks then and travel isn't always advised) in August for Camp Horizon (the camp for kids with Down Syndrome). He said as long as things remained perfect and healthy he didn't seem to have a problem with it. He then said, "Y'all seem to have some pretty cool interests." This made us happy!! We scheduled our next appointment for March 23 and at that appointment we'll schedule the next ultrasound.
We did have an ultrasound on February 5th. I was only 7.5 weeks then, but they needed to verify my due date. At that ultrasound all we saw was a little tiny bean and a strong heartbeat! It was 154, which is excellent. We have nicknamed our baby Thumper, since the heartbeat was thumping. We hope to wait until delivery to find out what the gender is and didn't want to call Thumper "it" until then. :)
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