**16 weeks**
Today I went for my 16 week check up. Everything is looking great, good bp 120/80, gained a whole pound, and the baby's heart rate was 154 beats per minute. So I guess that the nurses first guess about a boy, may be wrong. We don't believe in old wives tales anyway, but this just proves it is always a 50/50 chance. I scheduled my next appointment for September 22 (our 2 year anniversary), and they will schedule the anatomy scan a couple of days after that. We are really looking forward to finding out if we are having a little Samantha or a little Benjamin, but as long as everything seems to be healthy we will be thrilled. After my appointment I treated myself to a crunchy zucchini roll and a ginger salad at my favorite sushi restaurant, and then went and bought Patrick's books for his classes this semester. It isn't enough that he has work, and school, and a baby on the way, but we are buying a house too... Are we nuts or what?! lol
In the same week that all of that is going on, we should also be closing on our first house! We signed a contract on Monday and are hoping to be moved in by early October. It has been crazy so far just trying to get things together for the contract, and I know it only gets crazier from here. We think we have found a lender with a great interest rate. Talking to her yesterday made me feel so good, because she kept telling me what a great job we have done financially and that we are very responsible for our ages, and that our baby is going to be so lucky to have parents like us who plan ahead. :) It's all paying off! We have a home inspector coming on Friday, and decided to ask our dad's to be there, so that if he says something we don't understand about electrical stuff or anything else that may need to be fixed, they can let us know how serious the problem really is. Luckily with the house only being two years old, there shouldn't be a ton of problems, and hopefully the inspector will give us the all clear.
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Dear God,
Thank you for everything you do for us. Thank you for reassuring me that our baby is healthy and getting stronger every day, by letting me hear their beautiful heartbeat. Thank you for taking care of me and letting me feel so much better this week even though I have been running around like crazy. Thank you for watching over Patrick and helping him at work, and school, and for letting him be such an amazing husband. Thank you for helping us through the process of getting a house and for letting us deal with the stress that comes with it. Thank you for letting our dads be available for the home inspection so that we have even more reassurance. Please continue to help us as we are going through so many changes in our lives right now.
AMEN
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
WE GOT THE HOUSE!
**15 weeks 2 days**
We got the house!!!! I don't know what else to say right now, but we are super excited. We made an offer on Tuesday, and got approved by the local bank that owns the house, and found out last night around 7 that the corporate office approved us too! Not only that but they added that they will pay an additional $2k towards the closing costs! We are a little stressed about some of the details, we have to have the home inspected within 10 days, find an interest rate we are happy with and get the actual loan through a lender,start packing, after our inspection comes back we have to break our lease with our apartment, then we close on September 23 (the day after our 2 year anniversary), then we have to change over the utilities, cancel the utilities and cable here, change our address, get an estimate of moving costs, clean the carpets, buy a refrigerator, washer, dryer, and lawn mower, move, and clean the apartment up before we can officially be out. It's a lot to take on in a month, but I really hope that we can get it all done.
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Dear God,
Thank you thank you thank you! Thank you for watching over us. Thank you for letting us find the house that is perfect for us and our family right now. Please help us through this process and make it as painless as possible. Thank you for our baby, and for taking care of them. Thank you for Patrick's job that will support our family. Thank you for everything you do for us.
AMEN
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We got the house!!!! I don't know what else to say right now, but we are super excited. We made an offer on Tuesday, and got approved by the local bank that owns the house, and found out last night around 7 that the corporate office approved us too! Not only that but they added that they will pay an additional $2k towards the closing costs! We are a little stressed about some of the details, we have to have the home inspected within 10 days, find an interest rate we are happy with and get the actual loan through a lender,start packing, after our inspection comes back we have to break our lease with our apartment, then we close on September 23 (the day after our 2 year anniversary), then we have to change over the utilities, cancel the utilities and cable here, change our address, get an estimate of moving costs, clean the carpets, buy a refrigerator, washer, dryer, and lawn mower, move, and clean the apartment up before we can officially be out. It's a lot to take on in a month, but I really hope that we can get it all done.
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Dear God,
Thank you thank you thank you! Thank you for watching over us. Thank you for letting us find the house that is perfect for us and our family right now. Please help us through this process and make it as painless as possible. Thank you for our baby, and for taking care of them. Thank you for Patrick's job that will support our family. Thank you for everything you do for us.
AMEN
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Waiting, not so patiently...
**15 weeks**
So it's 4:30 in the morning, and I can't sleep. I keep having baby dreams, followed by house dreams, followed by baby dreams. I just can't seem to relax. Most of the baby dreams are happy, but with my round ligament pain lately a couple of them are closer to nightmares that cause me to jump which wakes me up. A couple of weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night with a stabbing pain on the left side of my pelvis. I thought I was losing the baby. I hurt so bad, that I couldn't breathe, and was doubled over in pain. I broke out into a sweat and turned white as a sheet. As soon as I stopped hurting I woke Patrick up, and called my doctors office. It was 3:30am but they have a nurse on call. She said that it was probably round ligament pain, since I wasn't having any cramping or bleeding. I took it easy for a couple of days, but have still been having some pain, however it is nowhere near as bad as the first time. I called again last week to follow up and make sure that my doctor thought everything was ok, and again I was reassured, and told to take Tylenol and use a heating pad to help. I know it's all just a part of pregnancy, but I can't help but worry. My mother in law insists that worrying is a big part of motherhood, and buddy she isn't kidding. The house dreams are mostly centered around the fact that we put in an offer on the house we want last night. I know that whatever happens will be for the best, but I am so ready to be done with this process. We were in a small bid war against someone who put in an offer on Friday, but think we may have offered more than what they wanted to, without going over our budget. I am trying to have faith, but my dreams are not being kind. Hopefully we will know something by the end of today, so at least I can stop worrying either because we got it and will have a whole other set of things to worry about, or because we didn't in which case we will have to start our search all over again. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
Baby bump beginning 15weeks
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Dear God,
Thank you for everything you do for us. Thank you for our baby, and for giving us a doctor and nurses that can help to ease my worries. Please take care of me and the baby, and let us stay healthy. Thank you for Patrick. He is such a wonderful husband and knows what I need, thank you for letting him know the right things to say to me when I am in need of comfort. Thank you for our families and friends. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to try to buy a house, which is a luxury that many people do not have right now. Please help us to make the right decisions, and if this house is meant to be ours, please help us to get it. Thank you for everything you do for us.
AMEN
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So it's 4:30 in the morning, and I can't sleep. I keep having baby dreams, followed by house dreams, followed by baby dreams. I just can't seem to relax. Most of the baby dreams are happy, but with my round ligament pain lately a couple of them are closer to nightmares that cause me to jump which wakes me up. A couple of weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night with a stabbing pain on the left side of my pelvis. I thought I was losing the baby. I hurt so bad, that I couldn't breathe, and was doubled over in pain. I broke out into a sweat and turned white as a sheet. As soon as I stopped hurting I woke Patrick up, and called my doctors office. It was 3:30am but they have a nurse on call. She said that it was probably round ligament pain, since I wasn't having any cramping or bleeding. I took it easy for a couple of days, but have still been having some pain, however it is nowhere near as bad as the first time. I called again last week to follow up and make sure that my doctor thought everything was ok, and again I was reassured, and told to take Tylenol and use a heating pad to help. I know it's all just a part of pregnancy, but I can't help but worry. My mother in law insists that worrying is a big part of motherhood, and buddy she isn't kidding. The house dreams are mostly centered around the fact that we put in an offer on the house we want last night. I know that whatever happens will be for the best, but I am so ready to be done with this process. We were in a small bid war against someone who put in an offer on Friday, but think we may have offered more than what they wanted to, without going over our budget. I am trying to have faith, but my dreams are not being kind. Hopefully we will know something by the end of today, so at least I can stop worrying either because we got it and will have a whole other set of things to worry about, or because we didn't in which case we will have to start our search all over again. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
Baby bump beginning 15weeks
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Dear God,
Thank you for everything you do for us. Thank you for our baby, and for giving us a doctor and nurses that can help to ease my worries. Please take care of me and the baby, and let us stay healthy. Thank you for Patrick. He is such a wonderful husband and knows what I need, thank you for letting him know the right things to say to me when I am in need of comfort. Thank you for our families and friends. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to try to buy a house, which is a luxury that many people do not have right now. Please help us to make the right decisions, and if this house is meant to be ours, please help us to get it. Thank you for everything you do for us.
AMEN
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Holy Grail of Pregnancy
**14weeks**
So today I am officially in the 2nd trimester, YAY!!!!!! There are several reasons for the excitement actually. The big one is that most sources say that the chance of a miscarriage drops significantly to less than 5% after the 13th week, which helps put my worrying mind at ease. The other reason to be excited is that supposedly my morning sickness should decrease, my energy should increase, and basically everything is just supposed to be so much better during this part of the pregnancy. I'll have to wait and see. I have still been getting sick periodically, I still have to take a mid morning nap, and the digestion issues that come along with pregnancy are not being kind. But all in all I am just thrilled to be this far along! I am scheduled to go back to the OB on August 26th for my 16week checkup. Not really sure what all they will be checking, but hopefully I'll get to hear a heartbeat again. There was also an optional test to check for downs syndrome and cerebral palsy, but I have decided to decline. After talking it over with Patrick and my mother, I decided that no matter what the outcome of the test was, I would not terminate my pregnancy, and therefore don't want to put my child at risk during an amniocentesis, which has a 1/200 rate of miscarriage, just to find out. Patrick and I have no history of any of these disorders in our family, we aren't over 35 years old, and we are keeping the baby no matter what, so what would be the point. On a lighter note, we are hoping that our 20 week appointment will be scheduled for the day after our 2 year wedding anniversary, since this would be the day that we would have the anatomy scan to find out the gender of our baby. We are still in the mind set that we don't care if it is a boy or a girl, but would really like to start calling our child by name. :)I just hope that our little Sam or Benji will cooperate and not be modest like their mommy. lol
4 weeks 1 day..........13 week 1 day picture(no baby belly just pudgy)
Daddy is still healing well from his surgery. He actually had his first physical therapy appointment today, and the therapist was happy with his ability to move the arm by himself. He has a list of exercises that he is supposed to work on, and hopefully in another few weeks he will be able to use it a little bit more. First they will work on the range of motion then later they will start adding weight so that he can try to regain his strength. I told you my daddy was tough.
Last night Patrick and I met with our Realtor. We had a list of 7 houses to see, but 4 of them sold last week. So we went to see the other three. The first two were very nice, but not what we were looking for. The third house was one we saw a couple of weeks ago, that we still are in love with. We are seriously considering putting in an offer, but are really scared. We are the kind of people that like to think on things for a long time to make sure that we are making the right decision. It took us a year to buy a tv we knew we wanted, and 9 months to buy my car that we had picked out 9 months prior to that. So putting an offer in on a house that we just found a couple of weeks ago is really really scary! We are just hoping that if this is supposed to work out it will, and if not that God will pull the plug quick.
The house
My favorite part of the house
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Dear God,
Thank you so much for everything you do for us. Thank you for keeping our baby healthy and for letting us get to the second trimester. Please continue to care for us and to keep us strong. Please continue to help Patrick to do well at work. Thank you for taking care of my daddy, and for helping him and my mother through this entire ordeal. Please help him to continue to do well in his therapy and to heal so that he can get back to farming, which is something he enjoys immensely. Please help Patrick and me to make the right decisions about buying a house. Please help this process be painless and as easy as possible. Please help us to find a good home for our family, especially our precious baby. Thank you so much for the births of Tabitha Gail Lankford (Sara's daughter) and Landon Michael Thorne (Nicole's son). Thank you for taking care of my friends during their labors and now while they are at home learning to take care of their new blessings. Thank you for making these babies be born healthy, and please continue to bless them and to watch over them. Thank you for everything you do.
AMEN
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So today I am officially in the 2nd trimester, YAY!!!!!! There are several reasons for the excitement actually. The big one is that most sources say that the chance of a miscarriage drops significantly to less than 5% after the 13th week, which helps put my worrying mind at ease. The other reason to be excited is that supposedly my morning sickness should decrease, my energy should increase, and basically everything is just supposed to be so much better during this part of the pregnancy. I'll have to wait and see. I have still been getting sick periodically, I still have to take a mid morning nap, and the digestion issues that come along with pregnancy are not being kind. But all in all I am just thrilled to be this far along! I am scheduled to go back to the OB on August 26th for my 16week checkup. Not really sure what all they will be checking, but hopefully I'll get to hear a heartbeat again. There was also an optional test to check for downs syndrome and cerebral palsy, but I have decided to decline. After talking it over with Patrick and my mother, I decided that no matter what the outcome of the test was, I would not terminate my pregnancy, and therefore don't want to put my child at risk during an amniocentesis, which has a 1/200 rate of miscarriage, just to find out. Patrick and I have no history of any of these disorders in our family, we aren't over 35 years old, and we are keeping the baby no matter what, so what would be the point. On a lighter note, we are hoping that our 20 week appointment will be scheduled for the day after our 2 year wedding anniversary, since this would be the day that we would have the anatomy scan to find out the gender of our baby. We are still in the mind set that we don't care if it is a boy or a girl, but would really like to start calling our child by name. :)I just hope that our little Sam or Benji will cooperate and not be modest like their mommy. lol
4 weeks 1 day..........13 week 1 day picture(no baby belly just pudgy)
Daddy is still healing well from his surgery. He actually had his first physical therapy appointment today, and the therapist was happy with his ability to move the arm by himself. He has a list of exercises that he is supposed to work on, and hopefully in another few weeks he will be able to use it a little bit more. First they will work on the range of motion then later they will start adding weight so that he can try to regain his strength. I told you my daddy was tough.
Last night Patrick and I met with our Realtor. We had a list of 7 houses to see, but 4 of them sold last week. So we went to see the other three. The first two were very nice, but not what we were looking for. The third house was one we saw a couple of weeks ago, that we still are in love with. We are seriously considering putting in an offer, but are really scared. We are the kind of people that like to think on things for a long time to make sure that we are making the right decision. It took us a year to buy a tv we knew we wanted, and 9 months to buy my car that we had picked out 9 months prior to that. So putting an offer in on a house that we just found a couple of weeks ago is really really scary! We are just hoping that if this is supposed to work out it will, and if not that God will pull the plug quick.
The house
My favorite part of the house
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Dear God,
Thank you so much for everything you do for us. Thank you for keeping our baby healthy and for letting us get to the second trimester. Please continue to care for us and to keep us strong. Please continue to help Patrick to do well at work. Thank you for taking care of my daddy, and for helping him and my mother through this entire ordeal. Please help him to continue to do well in his therapy and to heal so that he can get back to farming, which is something he enjoys immensely. Please help Patrick and me to make the right decisions about buying a house. Please help this process be painless and as easy as possible. Please help us to find a good home for our family, especially our precious baby. Thank you so much for the births of Tabitha Gail Lankford (Sara's daughter) and Landon Michael Thorne (Nicole's son). Thank you for taking care of my friends during their labors and now while they are at home learning to take care of their new blessings. Thank you for making these babies be born healthy, and please continue to bless them and to watch over them. Thank you for everything you do.
AMEN
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