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!

Ludicrous

I spoke to my perinatologist today who told me about his conversation with the head geneticist at the genetics lab. In summary, he said it was the most ludicrous thing he's ever heard (referring to what my Atlanta doctors and geneticist told me). Basically, none of what they said makes sense to him. Holy cow. Crazy!

Goodbye dear belly ring

The doc's office told me today to take my belly ring out - boo hoo.

Before I left work, there was a good smell coming from the kitchen on the floor below. I went to the grocery store/Publix to get a prescription filled (from my favorite pharmacist, Sara - Hi Sara!) and Jennifer texted from work to say the good smell was fried chicken. So I thought "ooh-ooh-ooh" I'll get a fried chicken leg from the deli, which I did, and it cost $.02! How is that possible? I kept asking the clerk "are you sure?" I haven't had fried chicken in like a million years - it was good. Then I went home, put my work out clothes on to walk on the treadmill and got a little depressed about feeling like a big fat cow - but then I had to kick myself in the ass for thinking like that.

When I got home, the dogs were inside because it was raining outside. I came in, was throwing away some things at the trash can in the kitchen, turned around and bam there were three poop nuggets on the floor (spread out) right behind me. So, I came in, greeted Max our old, decrepid Basset Hound and he followed me into the kitchen and immediately pooped on the floor. I cleaned it up, scrubbed the floor, sprayed lysol, went into the hallway toward the bathroom and bam more poop on the floor (where I had just come from - Max must have greeted me and then pooped all the way behind me). He's getting me ready for baby poop-ville. Thanks Max!

Justin has decided that Rufus' name is now Rufus-Pierre because he was watching Hells Kitchen (after the assistant Jean Pierre).

One point of clarity, Justin is my favorite pharmacist-to-be and soon enough he will be my favorite pharmacist (but I'll still love Sara)! Go Justy Go!

GG it is

It's official, the baby's nickname will be GG.
I have my 20 week ultrasound week after next.
We've been watching Le Tour de France all month and today I'm feeling a little lost since it's over - wondering what in the heck we're going to do now (since we've been watching it every day for so long). Cycling has been an important part of our lives and the excitement gets in your blood. Years ago I scheduled my tonsillectomy so I could be home to watch the Tour and we went to the Tour (for the 100th anniversary) in 2003.
My Mom and Sister will be here to visit in a month and I'm getting excited about that. My Mom is taking a month long cross country trip with best friend from college and they are visiting friends across the country.
Justin and I have three weeks of honeymoon left until he goes back to school - I always tell him I'm going back to being a single woman and then he reminds me that I'm still married. This will be his last academic year and the year after will be clinical rotations. His school crazily assigns rotation sites (cities) randomly and we are keeping our fingers crossed that he will get our town so we can actually live together - he'll find out this fall.
GG and I are doing well. I feel well and I can feel her moving. I'm still just focusing on passing time and doing it day by day.
Hope you all are well!

A blonde moment or a pregnant moment?

This is hilarious!

I just asked Justin to look at one of my jewely box drawers, which has been hard to open/close the last several days. I couldn't figure out why it was all of a sudden hard to open/close and I had previously taken the drawer out and looked inside to see if anything was stuck in the way. Justin pulled the drawer out, looked inside (found nothing), then looked at the bottom . . . finding one of my panterliners stuck to it.

Earlier this week, while getting ready for work, I had taken the back off the pantyliner and laid it on the bathroom counter. At some point, I pulled out the jewelry box drawer to get earrings out and pulled the drawer such that it came all the way out and fell on the counter (and I slid the drawer back in). I remember now thinking "I swear I thought I got a pantyliner out" but after not finding it in the vicinty, I finally gave up looking, got another one (thinking I was losing my mind) and went to work.

So this explains where my missing pantyliner went. HA!

I haven't laughed this much or this hard or cried while laughing in months. I hope Baby GG enjoyed it (hey, that could be a nick name, GG for Gardner Girl).