Week 13

Had our first pre-natal appointment today. Everything went very well, Dr Keller said no triplets and probably no twins! Thank the dear lord for that one! Have to confirm with ultrasound, which is booked for September 21st, but I'm betting on Dr Keller! Baby Calon's heartbeat is 152 bpm. And Dr Keller confirmed what I told Mom about fetal heart rates. The old wives tale is that lower than 140 bpm indicates a boy and over 140 indicates a girl. And that is all it is, an old wives tale. But if its not, that means GIRL!!! Yay for me!!

And of course with the wonderful Doppler comes with the blood tests :( I hate needles!! Even after giving birth I still hate them, someone once told me they wouldn't be such a big deal after labour. They were wrong! But oh well I'll get through them. Since we were on our way to Edmonton I'll be going to the lab tomorrow.

Matt and Zac were trying to help us with boy names today, but after getting every normal suggestion shot down they resorted to shouting out random words they saw on signs. They were very entertaining, but alas no good ideas.

We had a wonderful visit with Zac who we had to take back to the airport today. Both Zac and Matt are so wonderful with Alex. They spent tonnes of time with Alex reading and playing at the park. Bruce also loved having them here, he had lots more people to play ball with! Linda, Robyn and Connor came down on Saturday and we had a wonderful picnic at Discovery Canyon. And after a great lunch we played in the water and sand. Both Alex and Connor were very happy and very tired after the outing. I think the Matt and Zac got just as much sand in their swimming trunks as the kids did.

Alexandria was in a weird mood this weekend. She spent most of the time pretending she was a baby. She would crawl around on all fours, want to be rocked, and wrapped up in a blanket. The really funny this was she wouldn't talk. She made lots of baby sounds, nodded yes and shook no, but would not say a single thing. We all took turns playing the baby game. Most of the time we were laughing when she was laying on the floor all fours in the air fake crying!

As for my wonderful morning sickness, it is still all day long and isn't getting any better. I'll have a couple good days followed by some really bad days. So Dr Keller upped my dosage of diclectin per day. He said that should work. So much for morning sickness ending at 12 weeks. ;)

We have a busy August ahead of us, topped off with the princesses birthday. Should be a wonderful month. Lots of love, hugs and Kisses.