So big!

Everyone around these parts is getting SO BIG!

First, my 34+ week belly is about to require it's own zip code, it's so big. I'm exhausted and cranky and hot! I've been doing a terrible job with updates because I'm just so darn tired.

But so many awesome things have happened this summer! Big Man was promoted to Lieutenant, and his hours changed to 3-11pm, so he's home for the night, and not exhausted all the time. We need a few hours of child care a day, but our super-star sitter, Miss Ruth, is a lifesaver. The kids go to her house for a few hours of fun every day and she feeds them an early dinner so that when tired mommy picks them up after work, I don't have to come home and cook.

Dani is talking nonstop. The kid is amazingly creative, telling stories all the time, pretending to be characters and just is tons of fun. She is already telling me that when Tommy comes, she is going to feed him and hold him and burp him. She keeps asking when we can unzip my belly to get him.

Tori is still our little handful. I thought Dani was a silly, happy baby, but Tori is exponentially more so. She's always smiling and laughing, and getting in to something. If you turn your back, she will have swiped something off a shelf, or will be in the cat's water bowl or just doing something she shouldn't be--and she laughs like heck when caught. When she swipes the phone, or remote or something she shouldn't have, and you notice she shrieks with glee and sprints away as fast as she can.

She makes tons of animal noises, and says a few little words, like hi, daddy, mommy, kitty and a handful of others. But she understands a ton and can follow commands, when she wants to. She also reacts with a fiery, screamy rage when you stop her from doing something she wants to do, often sitting on her butt and screaming bloody murder. I'm sure my neighbors appreciate that.

Fortunately for her, she's really cute. It's her saving grace lots of days. They keep us entertained, and I can only imagine the trouble they get into when Tommy gets here!

9 months.

Where does the time go?

Busy week.

Dani's 9 month doctor visit was yesterday. Big Man took her (again) because she always has to get shots. I just don't want to see it!

Anyway, she's 27 1/2 inches long and 17 pounds 9 ounces.

Scrubbie cat still outweighs her!

No pics tonight because it's late and I'm on the old laptop. (sorry Dad.)

A New Beginning

So much has happened.

When they did the D&C, they did an amnio. Results said that the baby was genetically normal and female. All signs point to fibroid as the culprit. Slight chance that the "genetically normal and female" tissue could have come from me, though, so we can't be 100% certain.

Met with the doc for the pre-op ultrasound. Fibroid is 12.5x14x9. By my calculations, that is bigger than a softball, more like a cantelope (or is it honeydew that is the smaller one?)

Fibroid is so big that I have to have some preliminary bloodwork to look for an enzyme which might indicate malignancy. Signed consent forms today so if, when they cut me open, it looks like cancer, they can remove all my girl parts. Long shot that it would be that, but better than any lottery-- 1 in 100. So we were sobered by that fact today. And that they won't know until they cut me open.

On a lighter note, today was my last day at the law firm. Will hunker down locally, spend the holidays, join a firm a few blocks from my house, and hope to get through this with my sanity.

So, our household income will drop by about 30%; I will be layed up for a while. Yet, we are going to host a rocking holiday party on 12/29, money be damned!!!

And, I am going to buy a new Christmas tree with my time off--in our big house with tall ceilings, the tree imported from hubby's bachelor days looks so small and sad. Remember the Charlie Brown Christmas tree???

Meanwhile, my oldest buds from college just had babies, and I can't wait to meet them!

Check out the book "Baby's First Tattoo". I buy it for every mom to be. A hilarious, modern, babu book that will never be filled out but will entertain the parents a lot.

2008 has to be an improvement.

Looking forward to my new life. Keeping my fingers crossed that babies are in my future. Thankful each day for my husband who is my rock.