Today is a lazy fall day here in Michigan. Rick and I spend the whole day yesterday driving to Mackinaw city and back. Tabby had a Halloween program and that program was worth every long mile. She was so cute and SO excited that we had come up to see her. She was dressed up as a little ghost and did her part perfectly! We got to take her to dinner and then had to take her back home. She was very sad we couldn't stay longer, but we will get to see her for the weekend on Nov. 7! During that weekend we will share our big news with her. I know that she will be excited, but I am also a little nervous that it won't go as well as we hope. Her life is about to change in a why she can't even imagine. I hope that Rick and I are able to balance that for her. I hope that we are able in the midst of all the excitement to make time to make her feel special! I know that she will love her little brother or sister, but I fear there may be some negative feelings as well. I pray that God will give us the patience and guidance to do what is right for her!
Tomorrow marks 8 weeks along. A week and a half ago we got an ultrasound and saw our little one for the first time. He/She wasn't much bigger than a pea, but we could see the heart beating. Life is so incredibly amazing. That little tiny pea will become our kicking smiling baby! It's amazing how much you can love it, even when it is just a pea. It is had to believe that 8 weeks have already passed. We keep saying that we have lots of time to get ready, but before you know it, it will be June 11 and we will be holding our little one in our arms. I can't wait for that day, but we are definitely not ready. We are currently remodeling the basement so we can move our "office"/junk room out of the baby's room. Our basement has a long way to go before it is ready for us to move stuff down there. Hopefully we will be able to make progress quickly and start working on our baby's room!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
September 19...
That was a historic day for our family. Two wonderful things happened. First my sister Tracey had brain surgery. They found a small tumor in June and she went to Duke University to have it removed. It was removed by world famous neurosurgeon Allen Freidman! If he is good enough for Ted Kennedy he is good enough for my sister. We did not know before the surgery what kind of tumor it was, so we were all on pins and needles. My parents and brother and sister-in-law went down for the surgery (I'll explain why I didn't go in a minute). Mom called me once she was out of the OR and told me the tumor was a benign grade 1 polycystic astrocytoma and the only follow-up she would need is periodic MRI's. PRAISE GOD!!! We all breathed a huge sigh of relief.
The other great thing on that day was for Rick and I. That is the day we got to go to the Grand Rapids fertility clinic for our intrauterine insemination. So we were hoping for a good turn out for both Tracey and us. Rick turned in a spectacular performance with 37 million! Woo Hoo! They inseminated me at almost the exact moment they took Tracey into surgery. The only draw back for us was that we would have to wait for 2 weeks to know our results! So we waited and we waited. That was the longest 2 weeks of my life. Then we had planned to wait until the following Monday because I didn't have to work. If we tested on Friday and it was negative I didn't want to cry at work all weekend because things didn't work. However once Thursday night rolled around we decided we couldn't wait. So at 2:30 am on Friday Oct.3 we got our first positive pregnancy test. I did do another home test on Monday...just to be sure. :-) Then the fertility clinic wanted me to confirm with an HCG test. That is a blood pregnancy test. I did the first one for them on Monday Oct. 6 and it was positive at 750. They told me that anything over 500 is considered positive. Then I did a second test on Wednesday, Oct. 8. They had me do the second one just to make sure the level was rising. It too was positive at 1393! So I guess that means I'm PREGNANT!!!! We are so very excited and so grateful to all our family and friends for all of their thoughts and prayers!
The other great thing on that day was for Rick and I. That is the day we got to go to the Grand Rapids fertility clinic for our intrauterine insemination. So we were hoping for a good turn out for both Tracey and us. Rick turned in a spectacular performance with 37 million! Woo Hoo! They inseminated me at almost the exact moment they took Tracey into surgery. The only draw back for us was that we would have to wait for 2 weeks to know our results! So we waited and we waited. That was the longest 2 weeks of my life. Then we had planned to wait until the following Monday because I didn't have to work. If we tested on Friday and it was negative I didn't want to cry at work all weekend because things didn't work. However once Thursday night rolled around we decided we couldn't wait. So at 2:30 am on Friday Oct.3 we got our first positive pregnancy test. I did do another home test on Monday...just to be sure. :-) Then the fertility clinic wanted me to confirm with an HCG test. That is a blood pregnancy test. I did the first one for them on Monday Oct. 6 and it was positive at 750. They told me that anything over 500 is considered positive. Then I did a second test on Wednesday, Oct. 8. They had me do the second one just to make sure the level was rising. It too was positive at 1393! So I guess that means I'm PREGNANT!!!! We are so very excited and so grateful to all our family and friends for all of their thoughts and prayers!
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