Well we are 1/2 way done. I am finally feeling much much better! Only small bouts of nausea now and then, and I am not so tired anymore! Both Pat and Alex are enjoying having mom back to normal, there have been more suppers made, cleaner clothes and no sounds of throwing up coming from the bathroom!
We went for our ultrasound today! I was anxious and nervous from the moment I woke up this morning. Up until today I had no fears that something would be wrong with him/her but today it hit me like a brick wall, "what if there was something wrong?" So it really got me thinking and worrying. Finally 1:00pm hit and my name was called and I worked very hard on calming down. The technician was a very nice woman who wasn't mad at all when my bladder wasn't full. I hadn't gone to the bathroom for over 2 hours and had drank a XL coffee & bottle of mugs root beer! So the poor technician had to work around the whole bladder thing, then our little monster was curled up in "the corner". Monster was obviously asleep and in no mood to wake up! So try as she might the technician couldn't get the best of pictures, and couldn't see the legs or feet (don't worry they are there!).
"So you probably can't tell if its a boy or a girl then?" I asked, very disappointed by the way!
"Oh no I got a glimpse of that!" She said knowingly.
"Oh don't tell me until my husband is here!"
So I had to take a walk, in hopes of getting the monster to move. I went and brought Pat and Alex back to the ultrasound room. The technician had to consult with the doctor (don't worry everything is fine!). So she came back in and "Monster" had moved a little bit! She was able to get some better pictures of the head and face. We saw 2 perfect leg, 2 feet, 2 arms, 2 hands, lots of fingers, a very nicely shaped head, a nice looking spine.
She was also very surprised to get another look at the "money" shot! And guess what she saw? Our little boy!!! Yep you read it right, we are having a boy! Both Pat and I were stunned (we would have been stunned if it was a girl too lol). It make it so much more real for us to put a name and a gender to the creature in my tummy!
So now that we know I can start organizing all of Alex's old clothes. They will be spending some time in storage until we find out if Des is having a girl, and then they will be sold! But we get to get a whole bunch of blue stuff! In fact, right after we got out of the ultrasound I made Pat drive to the mall and we went and bought "Smokin' Joe" his coming home outfit. I damn near cried while looking through all the blue & green stuff! So he got some new clothes already!
Alexandria is very excited to be having a little brother. She even knows his name and yells it proudly! And the proud big sister had a wonderful birthday on Saturday. We, along with Des and Matty went to the water park, where Alexandria loved the kiddy pool and all the other water stuff going on. But she did not like the wave pool. So we took turns, Pat and Matty would watch Alex while she played in the dolphin pond, while Des and I braved the "huge" waves in the wave pool. Then Des and I would play with Alex and Pat and Matty would go on the water slides. They went on some very crazy slides. One was damn near straight down, both said they didn't even touch the slide for the first 30 feet, and another was like a huge toilet that you were shot into and swirled around and around until you dropped out the bottom into a deep pool.
So after the water park we went to Galaxyland where the arcade was the big hit. Alex loved to get all the tickets after we won at all the games. She also like the merry-go-round, but thought the tunnels on the train too scary!
It was a great day, filled with lots of great memories. Pat is on holidays for the next week so we get to spend lots of quality time with Daddy all week long!
Lots of love!
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