Lazy Day

I have been feeling a lot better lately. While I've had some cramping I attribute it to growing and stretching pains and nothing more. I am looking forward to my doctor's appointment on Thursday to confirm everything is okay but I'm confident it is.

I found out I did have a bad infection two weeks ago, so that is why all the cramping and contractions. I don't know why the doctor's office didn't call and let me know - ugh!

I go back to work on Monday (unless I become a Millionaire for Life tonight ;)) and I'm looking forward to that. It's boring sitting at home all day alone. I couldn't keep the girls home with me because I couldn't get off the couch and do anything like make lunch for them, not to mention walking Madison back and forth to school.

Madison and Annika are both so excited for Kelsie. Madison took all of the ultrasound photos to school on Friday to share with her classmates.

Today the girls were supposed to have dance but we all slept in and just skipped it this week. It was nice to not be rushing off in the morning. Allan and Madison did go out and brave Superstore this afternoon while Annika and I stayed home.

Tomorrow M's going to her friend's house to play and I need to go out and buy some clothes, I can't squeeze into pre-pregnancy clothes anymore and I leant someone almost all of my maternity clothes awhile ago, so I'm in desperate need of a shopping spree but haven't felt up to going out. Since I need to work all week and we have a strict "no pajamas" dress code, I have no choice!

Hope you're having a great weekend!!

Kelsie McKenna Grace CLICK PIC TO ENLARGE!

Profile with her hand under her chin.

Profile

Hand by face, sucking her thumb.

Waving Hello

Face, side of body, hand.
Stretching, profile with head tilted back.

Stretching profile again.


Leg and foot.

Side of her body, arm and leg up.

Profile with arm under chin

Leg and foot and money shot.

Arm

We had a second ultrasound at Babymoon Ultrasound today as we weren't able to get good profile pictures last week. Well this time was so much fun as Kelsie was moving all over. She was moving her hands and mouth, we could actually watch her suck her thumb! She kicked around like crazy too. Hopefully Allan can figure out how to get to get the DVD online!

Introducing ...

Kelsie McKenna Grace

Kelsie is a name we love. McKenna is after my Grandpa (Kenneth) and Grace is after Allan's sister. Her name is Jennifer Ann, the meaning of Ann is God's Grace.

Yes, another girl. We grow them so well we figure why stop with a good thing? ;) Click on each photo for a larger view!

Pregnancy Update

I am 17 weeks and 1 day pregnant today - the past week has been horrible but I'm hoping things start looking up from here!

I've been cramping off and on for a week and been in the hospital for it twice now. Nobody can figure out what's going on. I had an ultrasound and the baby and everything else looked just fine. They took blood, urine, etc. and ran all sorts of tests which all came back normal.

I went back to work on Friday just long enough to go to the dentist and find out I need a root canal and then once back at work I was really dizzy and had to go home. I layed low all weekend but Sunday night I was cramping again and Monday it was worse. Back to the doctor yesterday who did more tests, gave me another prescription and told me to stay home in bed for 10 days and see what happens.

I am worried but I'm trying to stay positive. I have my gender ultrasound tomorrow (we had to re-book since I was in the hospital last Thursday) and I can't wait to see if this baby is a boy or girl.

Heartbeat

A friend leant me her doppler to hear the baby's heartbeat at home. I didn't think to take video until after I'd listened for awhile so the baby started squirming away.

The videos are only good in the beginning, then the baby moves. Thursday is our big gender ultrasound!

Enjoy.

Finally

Madison's friend is sleeping over tonight and the girls enjoyed pizza and popcorn while watching High School Musical 3. Because they were so transfixed by the tv I was able to finally upload our photos from Christmas.

Once I got them to bed Allan and I watched Marley and Me. Wow - what a tear jerker of a movie. We were both bawling by the end. Ok, I was bawling and Allan had a tear or two in his eye ;) Fabulous movie, I recommend it to everyone but stock up on kleenex first.

Hope you enjoyed the pics! I'm not going to caption them all, they're from Christmas at either my work Children's party, Allan's parents house or Mom's house. Gift opening was at Allan's parents, the zoo (aka numerous cats and dogs) is at Mom's ;) You can click on each photo to open a larger version and right click to steal it and save a copy of your own. (For those of you who complain you have no photos of the girls ;)