Yesterday I had my third ultrasound for this baby girl. They wanted to do extra ones because they were keeping an eye on the placenta - everything looks really good now though. Here are a couple 3D images they took. I labeled them this time because they can be so hard to figure out:
This weekend my little guy turned two - I still can't believe he is that old already! It was a bittersweet weekend though. On Tuesday Scott's grandpa passed away. It wasn't unexpected since his health has really been going downhill, but still very sad. Especially considering it's his mom's dad and nobody has told her because we don't know how she will respond to the news.
Saturday was the funeral which was also Nicholas birthday. He had a great time playing with his cousins while we were at the funeral. At night we were planning on taking him to Chuck E Cheese, but it was an hour wait just to get in the door. We decided to go to Red Robin. I first was a little bit sad because I didn't think it would be nearly as much fun for him, but when they came out singing to him he had the biggest smile on his face and all he could say was 'oh WOW'. The ice cream sundae helped a little too I think :)
Nicholas digging in to his cake...
Blowing out the candle...
Uncle Johnny showing him how to use the new digital camera we got him. He loves it too - I wonder where he gets that from...
So I thought the weekend turned out OK until yesterday when he woke up from his nap screaming, coughing and with a fever. He was coughing so much that he puked all over Scott (which actually saved me another load of laundry since it didn't get on our bed) :) This cold/flu has been going around 'the hill' so it was only a matter of time before he got it too. At least he saved it till after his birthday!
Just a couple from this morning. Scott got a workout, after he shoveled the whole driveway, by pulling Nicholas up and down.
Ellie loved tagging along too!
We got to take the gauze off tonight. We showed Nicholas in the mirror and he looked a bit worried about it. I don't know if you can really tell in the picture (you can click on it to make it a little bigger), but the stitches look really long. Is this normal? I would have thought they would have trimmed them a bit shorter before we left. Well hopefully he won't pull on them!
Last night we had a new experience - rushing Nicholas to the Urgent Care.
We were visiting Scott's Mom at Spectrum Continuing Care and Nicholas was playing with the toys they have there. We were there for only about 15 minutes when he ran back to Scott's Dad (who had malted milk balls he was sharing with Nicholas) and he tripped. He flew right into the corner of the chair. It was so sad - it all happened in slow motion for me and I knew it wasn't going to be something I could just make better with a kiss. I picked him up and it just started to gush blood. I could hardly get him to the urgent care quick enough. Its awful knowing that you have to put him through more pain in order to get better.
He did so good when we got there though. He hardly cried at all until they had to wrap him in a papoose so he couldn't move his arms - then he screamed! He screamed "mo more, mo more" through the whole thing, but the second they unwrapped him he laughed and said "oh wow" - that was it - he was happy again. Six stitches later and he was off and running around.
We never got to eat supper so on the way home we finally went to Steak N Shake. We must have been a sight - Nicholas had this big patch on his head and blood on his shirt and I had blood on my coat too. He was acting fine, but he must not have been feeling all that well since he hates hats on his head - he put this one on (and left it on) the whole time we were there!
Here are a couple from this morning too...
I hope that's the last time we ever have to do that!!! :)
I was just reading one of Michelle's blog posts and it made me remember the dream I had last night.
I actually dreamt that we named our baby girl Speedo Frito DeBoer!
And in my dream I was so excited about the name we came up with - I'm definitely glad I woke up! :)
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