I finally found the envelope where I scribbled this sentence Bren said on Christmas day. He was playing with a box of packing peanuts and having a ball.
“Come on Anthony, let’s play in the snow!”
That’s 8 words!! 🙂
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9w3d. I’ve felt much better these past 3 days than I ever thought I would. So we cleaned house today. And I killed my back by mopping. UGH!!
The baby is the size of an olive- about 2.5 cm. My uterus is the size of a grapefruit.
4 days til first OB appt. Even though the lady who scheduled my appt said I wouldn’t get an ultrasound, I wonder if the Dr. will give me one anyway if she can’t find the heartbeat? I really want to hear or see it!!
On one of my Due in August boards, we decided to name our group the “August Sunflowers”. I made a little nonblinking blinkie for it.

TMI!
8w6d. This is the day I started the actual puking in my last pregnancy. Very memorable day. Could keep nothing down until dinner. It was the start of weeks upon weeks of throwing up at least 3 days a week and feeling especially miserable otherwise. The day it all began.
Why am I not surprised then, that after 2 weeks of completely keeping it down, that today is the day I start back up again? I must be manufacturing some very important parts right now. Forget digestion- all energy must be focused on the baby.
After eating, I got immediately weak and very cold. I put “Swim” on the tv for Bren and laid on the bed shivering, under a sheet, a quilt AND a comforter and closed my eyes until the entire movie was over. My mistake was getting up.

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A few Bren-bits:
Bren calls wheels “weegles”
While talking to DH on the phone yesterday, Bren asked him, “What you doing?” DH replied, “Not much. What are you doing?” Bren answered, “Nothing.” Since then I have noticed Bren playing with his animals and stuff asking them what they are doing. 😀
I’ve noticed in the last several weeks that Bren suddenly knows his colors. At least pink, orange, red, blue, green, yellow & black. We are working on white and purple.
He adores The Little Mermaid movie. He calls it “Swim”. LOL. He imitates Scuttle perfectly in his romantic “song” right before the “Kiss the Girl” scene. He’s just hilarious with his “Wah, wah wahhhhhhs!”
He likes to pretend to get stuck places and have me rescue him.
He says both thanks and welcome (“a-come”) regularly and has for some time.
He got a set of dinosaurs for Christmas from Uncle Dave and Aunt Tammy and now knows what dinosaurs are. He loves them!
He calls the playstation/X-Box controller the “M” because of its shape.

OMG! I’ve been tagged for the first time ever!
Five weird things about me…
1. I cry at Disney movies- consistently. I cry a lot more than most women- and once I start I have a hard time stopping. If someone says something nice to me I start all over again. I hate this about myself.
2. I don’t wear any makeup at all. I find it a waste of time and don’t really think it enhances a person’s attractiveness.
3. When my house is a little cluttered, I clean it without problem but when it gets really messy, I get overwhelmed and don’t accomplish anything. But I hate to impose on my DH so it remains a mess until I go absolutely bonkers and make him help me. We end up cleaning an entire day or weekend every month or two.
4. I often eat non-breakfast foods for breakfast and breakfast for dinner. Pancakes just taste better for dinner!
5. I go to bed really late and get up really late- I’ve done it since high school. If it wasn’t for Brendan, I’d most probably sleep while DH is at work. And I require 10 hours a night!

Heartbeat was 162 and the baby measured 16.2 mm!! Doctor proclaimed everything perfect. Baby measured only 1 day small this time and that could easily be machine error. He said 20% of patients have 1st trimester bleeding and, unfortunately, it tends to not stop right away. There was no evidence of a subchorionic hematoma or anything wrong with the cervix. He thinks it’s just the endometrium shedding a bit. He went ahead and had me give blood for another progesterone check just to be sure it isn’t that. He said no sex but bed rest won’t help in this case. He asked when I had my first OB appt and then said if I had more bleeding before then to come in and he’d do another scan. He was really nice. I guess when your patient starts sobbing the moment she sees you… well… what can I say- It was the moment of truth. Had a nice Cracker Barrell breakfast and plan on a lazy day.
Bren was cute- he took the 2 ultrasound pics from me in the office and loudly proclaimed, “babies!” Everyone laughed. 😀 I also found out my RE oversaw my OB’s residency. Cool. 🙂

I continue to have blood tinged mucus, but it is definitely not like the first blood. No real cramps but I do ache in the area.
Update: Strike the lessened part. I had more blood right before bed.

TMI ahead.
Had a bit of blood this morning. It wasn’t red though- pinkish brown. About a circle the size of a half dollar on the TP. Haven’t had any more though. I know nothing can be done this early except an u/s so I guess I’ll know what’s up tomorrow morning.
I tried laying down a few hours but Bren likes to wrestle and pounce when I do. He has the sharpest elbows!

I just rescheduled my OB appt for Thursday the 19th @ 2:10. Ultrasound with RE is still this Friday morning. Wouldn’t do me much good to see my OB 2 days before my next ultrasound, would it? LOL.
Tired. Very tired. Need more sleep. Brendan is still sick. Thank goodness m/s has been tolerable. No puking in like 4 days! I am a Zombie though.
Funny story. After such a long time away with Bren sleeping with us, we do a day or two of transitioning back by allowing him to sleep on the floor beside our bed. Last night, we said all our good nights and all laid down in our assigned spots. Next thing I know, DH jerks in my direction and yells out in fright. Turns out Bren was not sleepy and had played for an hour and 15 minutes before getting bored and wanting attention.
When DH jerked my way, I gave a jerk myself and lined up along the side of the bed beside me were all our beach shoes. I keep those stored in plastic grocery sacks under the bed. How he got those out without either of us hearing anything is testimony to how tired we were.
He spent the rest of the night in his own bed. Well, til he woke up 2 hours early anyway.