Dog love

This is what you call love for your dog - a brand spanking new, first rate dog ramp built by Justin for his beloved and recently more crippled Max dog. It has a gentle slope, small steps to create that gentle slope, outdoor carpet so he won't slide and a guardrail to keep him from falling off.

Now Justin has to figure out putting a dog door at the top of the ramp in a door that has panels in it and could create some complications.

Justin starts school next week and the honeymoon will be over - I'm trying to be in denial about it.

Baby GG is moving like crazy. I've felt a lot of pressure and lot of "stuff" going on, which I assume is growing.

I want to send special shout outs to:

Heather who is waiting a wait of a lifetime, and

Laura who is doing her own waiting/worrying/hoping

Hang in there ladies!!!

Great report

We got a great report at the perinatologist yesterday. Between the good 16 week ultrasound, the good quad screen test results and the good 20 week ultrasound everything looks great and he suggests we don't need to do amnio. We'll do another ultrasound at 28 weeks. So, I'm walking on sunshine!
I won't feel (very) confident until 32 weeks but I'm headed in the right direction!
They estimated GG to be 12 oz. and I can feel her moving like crazy. I'm getting big(er) but not having any bad pregnancy symptoms. It's been interesting to hear people talk/make comments about my widening hips.
Our oldest dog, Max, went lame on Sunday and wouldn't use the bathroom. Justin and I assumed the worst thinking we'd have to put him to sleep - it was horrible! The vet tried a shot and some medicine to see if the problem was pain (an injury?) and he improved very quickly. He's weak and wobbly but we're hoping the problem is not systemic. Max is old and had a good life. We don't want him to suffer or be incapacitated and really hope he'll die peacefully in his sleep when it's his time. I didn't have pets as a kid and discovered as an adult how difficult it is to lose a pet.
Hope you all are well!

2 days and we're even

My count down to baby is rapidly approaching the halfway mark. I was well below 100 "days so far" when I added the ticker to my blog and can remember thinking in May "I can't wait until I get to June" and now we're already in August. That's exactly what I need, for time to fly by.
Now I've got to get past and way beyond the scary 23 week mark (because of what happened last time) - breathe! breathe! It's anxiety producing. I'm trying to decide whether I'm going to do something special/different or just try to let it fade into the night. It also happens to be the same week that Justin leaves to go back to school (I told him yesterday that he was going to have to miss the first week of school but I'm not sure that will fly). My Mom/Sister/Aunt will be here to visit the next week so that will be good. I keep reminding myself that I'm building character throughout all of this!