Ultrasound

John and I had an appointment on Monday for our first ultrasound! As far as they can tell everything looks good so far. Baby is growing well and seems to be healthy. They said he's the perfect size, which is good because it means he's not too big. We will find out more at the next ultrasound when I'm around 19 weeks. At that one they'll look for any neural tube defects, downs syndrome and one other thing that would be fatal for our baby...and the gender of course! I continue to pray that there will be no defects or problems. It's amazing how much you can love this little person that you haven't even met yet.

Expecting

Well, as most of you know, John and I are expecting a baby. We got our puppy and the very next day we found out I was pregnant. We are of course very excited. Things are going well so far. No real morning sickness, although I can always tell either when my blood sugar is high or when I haven't eaten in a while. My doctor (well, nurse for now since I haven't actually met my doctor yet) has been very helpful. I call them about 2 to 3 times a week to report my blood sugars and they make changes as necessary. It has been very helpful in getting my blood sugars in good control and my last A1C (3 month average of my blood sugars) was 6.0 percent, which is pretty much what a normal person's A1C would be. There was a period there where I was fighting a cold so my blood sugars were almost always in the 2oo's, I was afraid to eat during that time! After I got to feeling better and some changes were made things really turned around and, besides a few flukes here and there, they have been really good.

We have our first ultrasound on October 25, our anniversary! We are excited and can't wait to hear the heartbeat and hopefully find out that everything is going well. We continually pray that the baby will be healthy and happy and not have any complications because of my diabetes. I know many of you are praying too and I'm so thankful for you all. You can keep up to date on how big the baby is by checking the ticker at the top of my page. Right now baby is the size of a medium green olive! Which is a big step up from the size of a nail head that "he" was when we first found out about "him"! Yes, I'm going to be using male terms until we find out the gender.

Max has adjusted well to life with us. We were trying to give him freedom during the day when we were gone at work but he kept pooping and peeing on our floor so we had to cage him. But he must be a very smart dog because one day we came home and he greeted us at the door! After the second time that happened I put him in his cage before I left for work and stacked some books in front of the door so he couldn't get out. When I called John later that day he asked if I had caged Max because he was out again! He figured out how to open the top door of the cage! We now lovingly refer to him as "Houdini." :) Now we lock the front of the cage and put a book on the top so he can't get out and he's done really well ever since. He hasn't had any accidents in almost a week. I know that the last picture didn't show up on here so I'm going to post two new ones. Hopefully these work! Enjoy!

Here he's sitting in front of the fan, he loves that spot!

How can you not love that face?!