Thursday, October 30, 2008

Had my 3D sono today

Little snot. She kept her face covered nearly the entire time; either with her hand or pressed backwards into my uterus. We poked and prodded at her for nearly an hour, lol. We got a couple of good shots; then, at the very end, we caught a smile! It was so cute, I'll post the video link so you can see.

Here are a couple of pics for her; I kinda think she's going to look a lot like Kathryn (Kathryn and Jonathan have different colorings, and they have different noses and different shaped heads, even though they both look like daddy)








Saturday, October 25, 2008

I realize I've been MIA...

Sorry about that. I don't suppose there are too many people who check up on me, but I hate to feel like I've deserted any of my friends ;). Sometimes, when I get down, and things are rough for me, I don't want to talk to anybody, "myself" included. I just would rather be a hermit, bundle up in my house, and not go anywhere or do anything. I've pretty much been doing that the last month or so.

Still feeling really good with the pregnancy; I'm starting to hurt in the pelvic area, I'm guessing this is my ligaments stretching. I need to do more exercise, but I get so down, I don't do anything. We are still having some troubles around the house, financially, still trying to work all that out.

I've got a couple of projects going on right now; hoping to post pics soon. On one of the cloth diapering forums I'm on, I've signed up for several "swaps" where I swap an item for an item. Well, in my case, I don't really have anything to swap, except my knitting talent. So, mama's send me their yarn, I knit it up into the pants for them, and send it back. In payment of this service, I've gotten several diapers, several wipes, a couple of shirts, some environmentally safe laundry detergent, and some other stuff. Its pretty cool, actually ;)

As part of this forum, and others, I've been made aware of things that I hadn't really been exposed to previously; like the no-vaxing issue. I'm seriously considering not vaxing my child; at first, I wanted to be selective/delayed, since there are so many more vaccines now than there were when we were kids; and I can tell you right now, I had already made the decision prior to this that my daughter was NOT getting the Gardasil, we do NOT do the Flu vax here, and I kick myself on a daily basis for allowing my children to be given the chicken pox vax. For these reasons, and several others, I'm thinking we're going the no-vax route. I have plenty of time to make my decision, since I already know I'm not doing it for the first year anyway, and I can gather more evidence to support my decision.

We may have found a church. We have never been "church going people" but we have always looked for that sort of fellowship or whatever you want to call it that you get from going. Well, the kids have played soccer with this church for 3 years; we've gone to their fall festival for that, if not more than that, and they did basketball last year, and will do it again this year. We know so many people there already, and it seemed like it was just time to try it out. This weekend will only be our third time going, but so far, I think we are all enjoying it. Kathryn and Jon most especially, it seems.

I'm ready for the GD election to be OVER! I know who I'm voting for, I'm sure you know who your voting for; my life experience has taught me it does no good to argue with someone who has their mind made up already, so what's the point? It just gets nastier and nastier, and if I think about it long enough, I stress out over certain aspects of a certain candidate who keeps getting compared to a certain beloved president who didn't last very long. So, 1 more week. And, ironically enough, our voting station appears to be "our" church, lol.