One Year Anniversary

Today is mine and Phillip's one year anniversary. Happy Anniversary sweetie! We have had a wonderful year together and we never would have thought that we would be awaiting the arrival of a precious little boy a year ago today. Today is also my daddy's b-day. Happy b-day daddy! December is a full month in our family. With our anniversary both mom and dads birthdays, my grandparents anniversary, and several other family members birthdays. Now we are more than likely adding one more birthday to the month of December. December will always be a busy month for our family but it just makes the holidays that much more fun.

Yesterday afternoon was pretty uneventful once I got my room all decorated for Christmas. Last night I did have to call dad and have him bring me and mom some supper. They had given me 2 things of turkey soup that smelled really bad along with a turkey sandwich for supper. They had also brought half of a turkey sandwich for my evening snack. That was just too much turkey for me so I called and begged dad to stop by cracker barrel to get me some good food. He did and I was so glad, the food was very good from there. After supper Allison came to stay with me for the night. The nurse came in and hooked me up to the monitors after mom and dad had left. Our precious little one did really well last night on the monitor so I didn't have to stay hooked up long at all. After I was unhooked it was about 10 and I was already getting a little sleepy. I really try hard to stay up until midnight each night to take my ambien. I have found if I take it before midnight the nurses have to wake me up twice during the night to take my blood pressure and therefore I do not get a good nights sleep. If I wait until midnight then I just have to be woken up once during the night. Since we were so tired we decided that we would color pictures until midnight. We finally finished up both of our pictures right at midnight which worked out very well. Also, last night after receiving my blood pressure medication my blood pressure was down a lot which was a very positive thing. The protein in my urine has also been down the last few days which is a good thing.

This morning we woke up a little after 8. My blood sugar levels were down but they have still started giving both the short and long acting insulin in the morning. My blood pressures were good this morning too. I had also lost more weight this morning. I was down another 3 or 3.5 pounds. That means I have now only gained a total of 6.5 pounds. The doctors do not seemed concerned so neither am I. After breakfast they did hook me up to monitor me but the computer was acting up. I had to stay on the monitor this morning for about an hour. Between the computer glitches and the little one moving all around I had to hold the monitor on so that we could get good readings. Right before they started the monitoring my doctor came by. She is happy with how my blood pressures are looking and is sending me for a growth ultrasound. They were going to try to get it in today but the high risk ob office which does the ultrasounds is already booked so they are doing it Wednesday. This actually works out better for me since Allison had to leave this morning for therapy on her foot and Phillip is working. Phillip was worried he would miss out on the ultrasound but now since it will be Wednesday he will get to get here for that. Hopefully he will look good on the ultrasound and we will be able to find out a more tentative date for delivery. The nurses here are all hoping to get me delivered the week of Christmas so that we could possibly leave the hospital on Christmas Eve. The doctors haven't said anything yet about this to me but as long as he is healthy and is ready to come out that would make me very happy to be home for Christmas.

Well, that is about all for now. My preacher did come by already this morning and my dads mom will be here in a little while to sit with me today. Phillip is coming tonight to bring me a special anniversary dinner and Allison will be back tonight to stay with me. Again thank you all for the prayers and please keep them coming. We love you all!