It’s For Real!!!! - Updated

Joseph tried to write this post earlier but couldn’t get the pictures right.  So this is actually Ashley!

Here are some close ups!

So the little bug is really in there!  Crazy, isn’t it?  I started crying as soon as the picture came up.  The little heart was just beating away, 155 beats per minute, nice and strong.  The baby is already being a stinker because he wouldn’t move around for us.  I guess she was sleepy!  I’ll be switching back and forth between he and she until we find out.  I can’t call our baby an it!

The ultrasound actually shows the baby measuring 6 days ahead of the due date calculated by my last period.  But my due date was actually bumped back a day from what the internet told me.  So official due date is April 8, 2009!  I think it would be awesome to have the baby on April 1st. 

I don’t think we’ll be going back to that doctor.  We broached the subject of low intervention natural childbirth and she basically shot it down.  Basically if she thinks an intervention is needed it would happen.  Not what we wanted to hear!  I’m going to meet with a doctor that actually teaches at Logan.  I’m hoping she will be more receptive.

Now we have to read through all the paperwork we got at the appointment.  Yea for free samples of prenatal vitamins!

8 Weeks

This was supposed to post yesterday!  Don’t know how I messed up.  That’s how tired I was!  Be sure to check out the post and picture below this one.

So 2 months!  Yea!  Except for I feel like complete poo.  So no cute outfit today!  I remembered the picture after I got home from school and changed and collapsed on the couch.

Oh my poor body!  It is so very tired and moody.  Nausea comes and goes but mornings are usually the worst.  My stomach can’t be empty at any time or the wave of doom washes over me.  Also, where does all the pee come from?  Teachers are supposed to have bladders of steel!  Now that my kiddos are more settled in their routine hopefully I can start training them to stay in nice quiet line while I run into the teacher bathroom.  I fear that might take awhile!  Kinda hard to beg the other teachers to watch my class when they don’t know I’m pregnant.  Still hoping to hold off until October before I tell them.  Let’s hope this belly cooperates!  First prenatal appointment on Thursday with an ultrasound, can’t wait!  Now counting the minutes until I can curl up in bed and pass out for the night. 

Who Gets Our Sense of Humor?

Not Broken!

Joseph went to the specialist on Friday and this is what he is wearing now:

Apparently his thumb is not broken, thank goodness!  It is just severe tendonitus (sp?) in the joint.  So he has a new brace that is much more comfortable than the old one.  He just has to leave his hand in the brace until it stops hurting.  He will have to do some rehab at the school because his muscle tone has gone to crap.  Very glad he doesn’t have to have surgery!

Now Friends!

I think I’ve said that 1000 times in the past two days!  My friends are 15 five year olds and we are working hard on learning not to scream in each others face and to keep our hands and feet to ourselves.  Now don’t get me wrong I absolutely love teaching kindergarten but the first month of school is always exhausting!  One teacher compared it to child birth.  Moms keep having babies because they forget how hard pregnancy and labor are on your body.  It’s the same with teaching!  You forget how much you have to do at the beginning of the year and how little they are.  So we are learning how to walk in a line, how to sit criss cross apple sauce hands in your lap, how to push your chair in, how to LISTEN, etc.!  There is really very little academic work going on.  More of assessing where they are and what they can and can’t do.  I can already tell that I have a lot of work to do with some of them.  Did you know that you can write your name up and down?  It doesn’t really need to go left to right in line!  So I’m totally worn out and the nausea is getting worse in the mornings.  At least I’m sleeping better at night!  Tomorrow is the Family Picnic at school.  Teachers don’t have to go but we probably will.  I want to make a good impression and make sure they want to keep me around for awhile!

Now here is one of my favorite friends.  We got to watch her last night while Rachel had a patient.  Rhagen is just so cool, isn’t she?