Anniversary, Appointment, and Furniture

Sunday, May 24th was our 1st anniversary and we celebrated with our Cardinal baseball tix earlier in the week. We went to the farm for Memorial weekend and brought our caketop down to share with everyone. Mom and Dana had stored it for us. It was red velvet and still tasted pretty good for being a year old. Matt was a little leary...

Tuesday, May 26th was another ultrasound appt. and everything went well. Sawyer's little heart was beating strong at 162 BPM and Sue was able to get the cardiac pics she needed. When I asked for some "boy" reassurance, Sawyer was not cooperating...again! His ankles were crossed and his knees smooshed together! Sue could see the parts, but she just wasn't able to get a good picture. She assured me there would not be any "pink" surprises in the delivery room! My next appt. is June 16th where I will take the dreaded glucose test...

Wednesday, May 27th our nursery furniture was delivered...it was more than we expected! We had measured, but it was just a lot of furniture! I was able to order the the bedding and some of the accessories the week before (thank you maw maw julie and ggma bonnie...and the LG rebate program!) so we were able to set that stuff up. later in the week pa and maw maw came over to look at it and helped us arrange it in a way that it all fit...even grandma craghead's rocker! i was glad we were able to get that to fit!

Thursday, May 21

This was a big day! It was my last day of school before summer break and also my baby shower at work. Not to mention we had also gotten Cardinal tickets in the Bank of America club for our anniversay later in the evening. So the last day of school went great...the kids were only there for an hour, and my shower was after that, at 10:15. It was SO NICE! Dana and Mom were able to be there and most of the staff was able to stay. It was decorated so cute and we had yummy whipped cream icing cake and delicious sherbet punch! I had so much fun and Sawyer got so many nice things! I couldn't wait to get everything home and organized!

This was game 3 against the Cubs and we had already won 2...we were looking for a sweep! The game start time was 7:15, but we wanted to get there early because we had a dinner buffet and we just wanted to check things out. The food was good, but unfortunately our seats were not. We had seats 1 & 2 on the "drink rail" which meant they were taller chair type things with a narrow counter. Everyone else was sitting in cushy stadium seats! And I had a huge I-beam right next to me which I couldn't see around without leaning wayyy forward. Well, the usherette is making small talk with us about where we are from and such, so I ask her if anyone else had ever complained about these seats and she assured me I wasn't the first. She went upstairs to see what she could do and then came back to get us. Mind you, I did pull the pregnancy card and tell her that I was 6 months pregnant and couldn't sit in those chairs for 3 hours. She took us up to an open section with a few padded folding chairs and we were right by the doors to the Club, which was nice.

Right after the game began JACK CLARK came and sat RIGHT NEXT TO ME! How cool! Of course I waited a few innings before bugging him for his autograph. During this time was Pujols' first at-bat and he smacked a homerun right into the "i" in Big Mac Land! Again, how cool! So I eventually bug Jack for is autograph, and then he is my best friend and we chatted throughout the game, when he wasn't bombarded by fans. He is a really cool guy! We had a great night and it was an awesome way to spend our 1st anniversay! Oh, and we swept the Cubbies!

Friday, May 15

It has taken me a while to be able to put this on here, but we had a scary day on may 15th. I was driving home from work and felt like i was leaking amniotic fluid. i called the dr. office and waited for a callback. They don't take calls after 4:00, so was trying to get home to check what was going on and then get a call in if needed. They advised me to head straight to labor and delivery, which after many tears, we did. I was admitted and they immediately put a monitor on the baby and listened to the HB, which was strong. They took my vitals and all that was good. They gave me an internal exam which they have a swab that determines immediately if there is any presence of amniotic fluid, which there WASN'T! It turns out I had a horrible yeast infection and didn't even know it! They gave me a script and sent us on our way...totally relieved.

Now, the other part of this that was entirely stressing me out was this was Logan's graduation night and we were expected. I had to call my sis in the middle of all this and tell her we weren't going to make it...nonchalantly...ha! Well, huge storms came and graduation ended up being stopped and rescheduled for the following evening. We made it to Dana's house for the after festivities with the plan of not telling anyone. Unfortunately, my hospital wristband was stuck to my behind when we walked in the house. Dillon saw it and gave me a quizzical look as I grabbed it and stashed it in my pocket with my finger to my lips shushing him...We ended up telling people later, but I felt pretty stupid and embarassed about the whole thing after it was all said and done and I didn't want to take away anything from Logan's special night.

So, once again, Sawyer has scared his parents! I hope this isn't a sign of things to come with him!

Tuesday, May 5

I had another Dr. appt. this afternoon. Everything still seems to be going good. Weight is actually down from our initial January appt. Urine tests are still clear and BP is doing good. I talked to Doc about our vacation plans and those shouldn't be a problem. We discussed possibly taking our birthing classes in Alton rather than driving to DePaul for these. He doesn't see any reason why we can't do this. We did a quick ultrasound and Sawyer was moving around quite a bit. Still camera shy though! I have another big US scheduled at the end of this month to check out the cardiac stuff they weren't able to get to at the last one. Soooooo nothing really too exciting (which is good!)