Baby Shark.

Yesterday I had a my regular monthly doctors appt.  First the nurse came in and checked for the baby's heartbeat with the Doppler.  But she couldn't find it (same thing happened at my last appt.)  So when Dr. Kathie came in she check for the heart rate and couldn't find it either.  We did hear a bloop bloop sound from the baby swimming away from the doppler ;-).  My baby is a great hider.  So they set up an ultrasound at the hospital.  It would have been sooo much easier if they had a little machine in the building.   So I now I have to find stuff to do for 3 1/2 hrs before I go to the hospital.  Luckily I had already planned on going to Costco so that ate up a lot of time with shopping and then lunch.  We then went to go visit Shawna at Fed Ex and bug her until it was time to go to the hospital.  

I'm soo glad Jonah was in a great mood while we had to wait at the hospital.  He had a lot of fun playing and watching people.  So we finally go in for the ultrasound.  Adam was there because he was taking his lunch brake.  It sure is handy that he works at the hospital.  For the ultrasound I thought they were just going to find the baby and check the heartbeat and that would be it.  But she took measurements of the baby and the heart and checked the heart rate (I think it was 157) and who knows what else.  When Jonah saw the baby on the screen he said "Shark".  So there you have it from the best expert around we are having a shark.  

when the ultra sound was over and I was sitting up I looked at the screen and there were the measurements and to my surprise they were showing the baby at about 15 1/2 weeks.  Which is where my original due date would have put them.  So I was pretty excited to find out I was right and that the other ultra sound may have been off.  So I am going to start going by my original due date of June 26th.  Instead of the July 3 due date that I got from the first ultra sound.  

Christmas

We had a really good Christmas.  I'm soo glad my family was able to make it up to my house.  The only place they got stuck was in my driveway.   In fact we still need chains to get out of our driveway.  Jonah had a really good Christmas, he now has some new favorite toys.  Especially the train and dinosaur books he got from his auntie Shawnananana.  I thought I would share a video of my favorite present.  

Sledding

I think Jonah has found a new favorite outdoor activity.  With all the snow we've been haveing we decided to pull out Adam's snow boards that we've been hauling around forever.   I don't think they've been used in the whole time we've been married.  But we've finally found a use for them.  

Bobbing for Apples

Jonah really liked bobbing for apples at the halloween festival at church on Saturday

Painting Pumpkins

Last night Jonah and I had a lot of fun painting pumpkins.  I got a big pumpkin and a little pumpkin out and asked Jonah which one he wanted to paint.  He chose the small one.  And when he was done painting his pumpkin he helped me paint mine.  Tonight we are going to carve our other pumpkin since daddy got the day off work to go trick or treating.

Project 38

Testing testing....  Last night Jonah and I visited the lab like we usually do when we are in town.  But this time I had Adam draw my blood to run some tests.  I love being able to get free lab work done.  It's all about who you know he he.   I think this is the first time he's drawn my blood that I didn't bruise.  In his defense he doesn't draw blood very often he just runs the tests.  After Adam drew my blood Jonah and I left.  I had to go to a meeting at church.  I made some yummy oatmeal craisen cookies for refreshments.  In case anyone is wondering about the recipe, because I know I would be here it is:  http://www.quakeroatmeal.com/qo_quakerKitchen/recipes/recipe.cfm?recipeID=461&RecipeName=Famous_Oatmeal_Cookies&toReturn=L3FvX3F1YWtlcktpdGNoZW4vcmVjaXBlcy9TZWFyY2hSZXN1bHRzLmNmbT9TZWFyY2hUeXBlPWtleXdvcmQmYW1wO0tleXdvcmRzPSZhbXA7Y2F0ZWdvcnlJRExpc3RfMT02JmFtcDtjYXRlZ29yeWlkbGlzdF8yPSZhbXA7U3RhcnRSb3c9MjY=

After my meeting we went back to the hospital because I was very curious as to what my test results were (well I was actually just curious about one test result).  I just couldn't wait the 20 min it takes to get home.  Jonah was happy because he loves going to visit daddy at work.  We get to the lab and Adam gives me my results.  He starts out telling me that my cholesterol is good it's 178 and my HDL was 46 he goes on to tell me my glucose was a little high it was 109 but that doesn't really mean anything, because this wasn't a fasting blood test. I had baked potato salad before coming to the lab so I wasn't suprised.  Well at this point I'm getting really frustrated and just want to find out the results of the one test I was interested in.  So I make Adam tell me where my results were so I could look myself.  When I looked I was sooo excited my HCG was 38.8. In case anyone doesn't know what HCG is: The hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (better known as hCG) is produced during pregnancy.  Meaning I am just barely pregnant and due sometime late June.  

The pumpkin patch

Man I've really been falling behind on this blog stuff.  On Saturday we went to the pumpkin patch.  I was all my friend Shannon's fault she was the one that put the idea in my head.  It just hadn't clicked yet that it was October and Halloween was coming up.   It even got me starting to think of a Halloween costume for Jonah.  He is going to be the scariest thing I could think of a bee.  Anyway we went to the pumpkin patch and Jonah had a great time running around and checking everything out.  There were horses and rabbits to look at. We got to feed the chickens and we wandered around looking at pumpkins.  Jonah's favorite part of the day was throwing rocks in the water.  He's such a boy!

My boys watching pumpkins fly through the air

He makes such a cute snow white