A Few Updates

Peter's ankle is slowly healing. He is starting to realize that it is going to be quite a while before he is 100%. We are still icing it and keeping it wrapped so hopefully he can get back to his normal routines in about three weeks. We'll see.

It seems as though our entire household is under the weather lately. Earlier this week Koa and I developed a cold...on the same day! I took off from work early on Wednesday since I wasn't feeling well and by the evening Koa was coughing up a lung. I never knew dog coughs sounded so horrible! I feel so bad for her. Anyway-Koa and I stayed in bed all day Thursday. The rest was definitely nice.
Yesterday I felt good. Blake was over so we dyed some eggs. The Easter Bunny also made a visit which Blake decided to tell us about at about 6:30 this morning! He said, "I just knew he would come!" How cute.
I guess maybe I should have rested yesterday too, because today I am not feeling too swell. My plan was to do some cleaning but I could barely even walk from the kitchen to the living room without needing to sit, so that plan got shelved. Hopefully tomorrow I will feel better.
Koa on the other hand, wants to try to still play with us, but it doesn't take her long to start hacking. So we are trying to keep her calm (HA!).

And now that Peter is incapacitated...to a point, we have had to put our plans to get rid of some furniture and move some stuff around on hold. We are still trying to get out and buy a glider or recliner to put in our room, but this will have to wait since he can't really be moving anything like that.

My doctors appointment earlier in the week went well. Everything looks good he says. Apparently I have been experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions and didn't even know it. I told him I hadn't had any, but when he was checking her heartbeat he could feel on my tummy that I was having one right then! He told me that that feeling was a contraction! Oops. hehe. I thought it was just the baby sticking out her butt or her head or something. How funny. This makes me feel a lot better though because I was starting to feel like I was going to be pregnant forever. At least now I know that my body is "practicing" for the real thing.

Next Sunday is my baby shower and I can't wait! Whitney will be in town and I can't wait to see the new addition to their family!! It will be so nice to see everyone all at once.
I'll post pics as soon as I can.

Love to All

Swollen Ankles and Rising Nerves-Let's All Just Drink

Earlier this week, Peter was at the park with Blake and he took a spill and sprained his ankle.

Looks nice, eh? Of course, this is the worst type of injury for Peter who has to be "doing" something all the time. He will have to abstain from tennis, softball, and ping pong for the next few weeks and I just know he is going to be going stir crazy by the time this is all said and done. The bright side of this story is that his ankle is not broken and he will not be on crutches when the baby is born....unless she pulls a suprise appearance, which I highly doubt.

Speaking of ankles, mine have started to swell as well. But it's just at the end of the day when I'm home from work and it's not too bad. For the most part I'm hanging in there. I'm tired of not being able to bend over and it's frustrating that I get winded so easily. I also am hot all the time! Mostly though, I just feel like there is no way there is any more room for her to grow! But she has been good to me. No painful kicks and she's pretty mellow at night so I am sleeping pretty well.

Peter is getting really excited for her arrival and we both are noticing that our nerves are on the rise. I am constantly asking questions that can't be answered yet. Like, "well what if I can't get her to stop crying and you're sleeping, are you going to help me??!" and "Do you think that she'll be calm since she seems to be pretty calm now??" and "What if I go into labor when I'm at work, and the dog is at home by herself, and we don't have time to go home first....." yadda, yadda, yadda. I'm probably driving Peter insane. But so far he has kept his patience.

As we enter the final home stretch of the pregnancy I can't help but think that the time has just flown by. I can't believe I'm actually going to have a baby in this house in two months!

Heather's sister Maria is getting married on Saturday and we had the bachelorette party for her a few weeks ago. Jennifer and Francis happened to be in town that weekend so it worked out that Jenn could spend the eveing with us. Here are few photos from our evening.

Popping the champagne in the limo:

A little too rough with the glassware:

Two beautiful ladies:

More beautiful ladies--Elizabeth, Shannon, and Jennifer:

Laser-Tag Assault Unit--one of these girls scored 4000 pts, and one scored 0 points!