It's the final countdown

Oh yes, I've started a count down. We are 9 weeks away from the due date currently. That equals 63 days! Last time we went to the doctor my uterus measured 30cm which means the munchkin is right on track. We go again this Wednesday for another check up.

I've been retaining water in my ankles if I'm up on my feet too long so I do most of my teaching sitting down now. My wedding bands have been relegated to a necklace for fear of my fingers swelling too much and my not being able to get them off.

Cody is set to finish Jake's room this next weekend, over his four-day. Hopefully when I get back from NB we'll have a floor in there! Then we'll have a place to put Jake's stuff that's he's already received. Is it silly that I'm so excited about putting his room together?

Anyway, Cody's cousin and aunt threw a baby shower for me up in Coppell a few weeks ago. I haven't gotten pictures up on Flickr just yet but after I post this I'm going to take a few snap shots of the things we got and post them on Flickr. They're up! Then I'll go write thank you notes.

4D sono's

Well Cody and I went to the Doctor's office on Monday and pretty much spent half the day there. We got to do our sonogram first thing (after I choked down the glucose solution it wasn't too bad I was just full from Breakfast and couldn't chug it like Cody suggested). The sonographer, Cher, did her fetal survey. She said everything looked good from the sonograms, I don't remember what she measured him at but his size was 27 wks 4 days, and I was at 27 wks 1 day. So he's measuring a LITTLE big but not as much as he was at the last sonogram. She also said he weighs 2 lbs 4 oz currently, and his heartbeat was around 134 or so. After the fetal survey we got to see his sweet little face on the 4D sonograms. To see some of the sonogram pictures head over to our Flickr Page, you have to be marked as a friend or family to see them.

After we did the sonogram, we had a few more minutes to wait until I could go get my blood drawn for the glucose test. Finally the timer went off and I wandered to the Lab, got jabbed and then wandered back over to Cody to wait for our visit with the Doc. That part of the visit was pretty uneventful. Cody and I asked some questions we had been wondering about, got some answers and went on our merry way. We also found out we have entered the stage of going every two weeks to the doctors office. I'm pretty sure I don't have any more sick days to take to go to the appointments. I'm not too terribly worried about it, the school has been very helpful during this entire deal.

Anyway next Appointment is January 19th, I'll update measurements and what not at that point.

Happy New Year!

Well Cody made a comment a few months back that made me laugh, it was something along the lines of "I'm surprised you haven't started a blog about Lil'un yet." At the time of course we had no idea we were having a boy, nor did we know what we'd call the little tyke. Well thankfully that's been taken care of and we do have a name for him! Cody and I decided on Jacob Mathis to go with Cody's family tradition of having boys with JMA initials. We go on Monday for the 4D sonogram, glucose testing and regular check up. I'm sure that this one will take an eternity, just like the last time we had a sonogram, but Cody and I are very excited (words really don't express my excitement) to see his face so here's hoping the kiddo cooperates! If he does I'll post pictures on Flickr for family and friends to see. So if you don't have a Flickr account get one! This is my Flickr URL to friend me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tex_bap/ I upload pictures to this all the time, and once Jake is here I'm sure there will be daily updates of photos.

As for the kiddo and me, we're doing fine. He's decided that my lower right rib is an AWESOME spot to plant his heel and stretch to try and find a little more room. That's just about the most uncomfortable thing I've ever experienced so far during this journey. He also likes to kick at anything that puts weight on "his territory" as I've decided to call it. Cody has received a few knocks to the ear region when he puts his head down there. Also he doesn't like when I'm in one place for very long so sitting or laying down for hours is out of the question, he'll let his displeasure be known by hooking his heel in my rib or kicking the snot out of my insides. I can tell that he's going to be quite a handful when he finally arrives but am TOTALLY looking forward to it. So basically he's behaving like a boy and I'm pretty sure he's going to be exactly like Cody...God help us, from the stories I've heard we're in for it.

Cody's been fine, working his tail off like normal during this time of the year. Hopefully after this weekend things will wind down for him. He's being hard a work trying to get Jake's bedroom finished but has been having a hard time finding TIME to get it done. He and a friend put down the laminate wood flooring in the living room a few months back and I'm very much looking forward to having it in the bedrooms. It is ten times easier to keep clean than a carpet!

As for me and work? It's been an entertaining year so far! Middle school is entirely different from 9th grade and teaching 3 grades at once is quite a challenge (add in a pregnancy and it's enough to drive a person insane!) but manageable. I'm very much looking forward to next semester, 7th and 8th grade are doing Mythology (Greek/Roman and Egyptian) the 4th six weeks and 6th grade is going over World War II. The students are very sweet and I enjoy teaching them, the people I work with are amazing and I really enjoy it in Menard over working in Angelo.