♥♥♥ Baby has a heartbeat ♥♥♥

I went for my first OB appointment today and I am so relieved to hear the heart beat!!! I wasn't overly worried that there wouldn't be one, but it's so nice to hear it!! It sounded so strong and consistent!! And if I can remember correctly, it sounded slower than the other 2, which by old wives tales standards, that could mean it's a boy, LOL!!!! It was funny, when the OB first walked in she said "Weren't you guys just here?" cause it was only 1 1/2 years since we had Juliana! It seems like it was just yesterday we were sitting in that room and she told me she was going to induce me! Man, how the time flies!!! She booked an ultrasound for me for next Thursday, October 4th to check my due date. And it's awesome cause I'll be 16 weeks the next day and there is a chance they could see the sex of the baby at that time!!! So, if baby cooperates, we could know what we are having in 9 days!!!!! And it would be a wonderful anniversary present cause it's our 5th anniversary on October 5th, the next day!! I also have to go get some blood work done to check for Downs Syndrome and Spina Bifida (not that it matters, cause if our baby had anything wrong with it, I would still carry it to term, aborting it is no option!) and then I go for my next OB appointment on October 23rd. And at that appointment, she'll schedule another ultrasound for 20 weeks, so if baby doesn't cooperate next Thursday there is always that ultrasound. I can't believe how fast this pregnancy is going!! I am already 14 weeks, it seems like yesterday I was so excited to be 6 weeks!! I'm only 6 weeks away from being halfway!! So that's my exciting news for now, I know I haven't been posting much, but I haven't much to say. The girls and I are all sick with colds and of course I can't take anything so I'm not getting the best sleep at night. Hopefully it won't last too much longer.

Wow, long time no post!!

I can't believe that it's been this long since my last post! I honestly don't know where the time has gone! Not really anything new has happened here, that's how exciting my life is!!!

Well, we had another biting incident at our house last night. Juliana was pushing the bar stools around the kitchen and Kayla being her bully of a person sometimes decided to get in on the action and took over. She was holding one of the stools from Juliana so she couldn’t push it and Juliana decided to retaliate. Luckily, the skin wasn’t broken this time, but I think that is because I was able to intervene in time and stop her before she did (Last time, she bit Kayla on the calf and it bled, and of course Kayla freaked out when she saw the blood!). Aw, the joys of having a 3 year old and a 1 ½ year old (note the sarcasm!) Life should be interesting in 6 months when I have 3! Let me just say, bring on October 5th when we go away for the weekend for our anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it was pretty funny after Juliana let go, I slapped her hand and told her “no biting” so what does she do? She bites her own arm several times! She really is strange!


(Sorry for the quality of the pic, for some reason my camera wouldn’t let me get a very good close up shot of it. At least you can an idea of the bite, perfect indent of every single tooth!)

Jeff has been busy working on the basement for the past few weeks. For the past week every free minute of his has been spent down there. He'll get home from work, go straight down there, come up and quickly eat supper, go back down and if he has a meeting or something that night he'll come up 10 minutes before he has to leave and then go back down when he gets home and he stays down there until at least 10! The girls miss him but it's to the point it will slow down now. All the electrical is done, and my parents are coming down next weekend to start the drywall!!! YAY!!!! I can't wait until it's done. It will be so weird living with a second floor. Right now we have 1100 square feet for 4 people (2 of those being crazy chickies that leave toys everywhere!) It will double our house when it's done! And the toy room will be downstairs so I'll actually be able to walk around up here without stepping on any toys! We're hoping that we'll be done the whole basement with drywall, painting, drop ceiling, flooring and the bathroom by the time the baby comes. So that gives us 6 months! Here's some pics of the progress.

Here's Jeff finishing up the last piece of tape!

This is where the tv area will be

This is looking at the computer area and the bathroom and bedroom

This is where the kids play area will be and our exercise equipment.

The hall and stairs