October!

On Friday, Aaron and 35,000 others were told not to appear for work on Monday and every day thereafter until an agreement was reached on the State's budget. Luckily, an agreement was made before Monday (or I should say VERY early on Monday), so we didn't have to deal with any days without pay. Still made for an uncomfortable weekend though, not knowing... well, anything, really. Thank goodness. I wasn't worried though because in five years, I'm going to be blown away :)

Jacob is doing much better. Still has a runny nose, but as long as that is his only complaint, I can handle it. He is officially back to sleeping through the night (thank God), but is pretty difficult for naps. Aaron has him tomorrow, good luck, hon.

We received the preliminary results on the NT scan and they are NORMAL! :) The doctor is extra thorough and will be combining the results with some 2nd trimester blood work for what they call a "sequential screen", so we are covered on all bases. I think this test can identify potential problems with like a 95% accuracy, which sounds great to me. So, I go in on the 15th for the final blood work. Then I should be good until 28wks when they will do the gestational diabetes test and CBC or something like that to make sure my iron levels are good, etc. My blood pressure was normal. I'm down a pound but I think she read my weight wrong and accidentally gave me 5lbs in my favor, like --2 instead of --7, so at my next appt she is going to be like "whoa, holy weight gain!" Because in addition to her error, I will most likely be wearing heavier clothing and shoes (it's warmer today, so I had t-shirt and flip flops on). Oh well. She didn't find baby's heartbeat right away, but I wasn't nervous since we heard it loud and clear at home on our doppler. Once she did find it though it was perfect coming in in the 150's. Next appointment is on the 29th. And for the BEST news of all... we've scheduled the BIG ultrasound for November 8th!! I can't wait and I hope the baby cooperates. I've suddenly developed this fear that the baby won't cooperate and we won't be able to find out the sex. Which is strange because that never occurred to me for one minute with Jacob. Oh well, keep your fingers crossed that the baby will keep it's legs UNCROSSED!