2 YEARS CANCER FREE

Liam's doctor called this one of the biggest milestones to date in his recovery.  2 YEARS!!

I scheduled all the appointments I could into Thursday.

We started at the hospital at 7am for Liam's ultrasound.  He rocked it!  I am so proud of him, it usually involves me holding him down, but this time he climbed right up onto the table and layed down.

 

 

We went home for short time so I could drink my tasty glucose solution

 

Then we were off to my doctor's for bloodwork and an ultrasound

 

Next we went straight to the oncology clinic.  Liam got his blood taken like a champ.  Okay, there were a few tears, but what do you expect?

 

To celebrate we got to hang out with some Olympic swimmers.  Liam got a few autographed photographs and even held a gold medal.

 

 

 

After a quick lunch we were off to the cardiologist.  Liam has to have an echo done every year for the rest of his life, one side effect of chemo was thinning of the heart wall, so far there is no evidence of that!

 

It was a sucessful day of appointments... not sure I will ever schedule that many again in one day!













28 Weeks

 

 

Yup... thats my view this week. 

 

We get to see Baby Girl again tomorrow.  Unfortunately I also have to take the glucose test in the morning. YUCK!

 

So 3rd Trimester. 

 

 Terrible heart burn hasn't gone anywhere. 

 

My fingers are beginning to swell... but I refuse leave my rings off-- I took them off one night when I was pregnant with Liam, the cat got on my dresser when I was sleeping and my rings were lost for 6 months.  Not doing that again!

 

Baby should be about the size of a head of cabbage

 

My mood... it has been commented on by a coworker she thought it was crazy how calm I am pregnant... I guess she expected mood swings.  However I am beginning to feel way too emotional, I attribute this to 20 school days left this year- I cannot wait for this to be over!



Hoping we can finally start on the nursery soon (HINT HINT BRIAN).

Liam is getting excited.  On his way to bed last night, he walked by his old room and declared "That's where my baby sister's going to sleep"

What do you do?

I came across this challenge online this weekend; blog everyday in May.  I obviously am slightly late to the party, and not exactly planning on following along, but it had some fun topics.  Today's topic: If you couldn't answer with your job, how would you answer the question, 'what do you do'?

Well this week just happens to be teacher appreciation week, and one of my co-workers posted this on facebook this morning.  Yes, it does mention being a teacher, but also everything else that is required with the job description.

Baby Dreams

Pregnancy Dreams.
Supposed to be a normal part of pregnancy, but I never had them with Liam.  Last night was my first official pregnancy dream.

I dreamed I had the baby... And she was a BOY!  of course that's not the part that scares Brian, he is more afraid that I had the baby and its not time yet.  But my dream didn't have a time frame, no fear.

Thankfully I have another ultrasound coming up this week, so we will be able to make sure she is still a she.

Here is a quick picture of me I took last weekend (I'm still a week behind!  I will catch up... {maybe})
                                        

I am feeling good.  I have been sleeping more this week, not necessarily feeling any more tired, just falling asleep earlier than usual.

80 more days of being a human incubator!

26 weeks

Yes my family has made me well aware of this poor neglected blog.  But there are only 29 more days of school! So I will have sometime freed up... at least until the baby comes.

 

This picture was actually from last week, but you get the point... I am growing!

 

Here is a fun comparison

 

 

In other changes I am also missing some of my hair!  Yeah I kinda regret that, especially looking at this picture of me from 13 weeks, but its hair, it grows back.

 

I was actually pretty sick this week.  I think I caught something from one of my lovely students- several were out sick each day this past week, so I am sure something nasty went around our class.

 

I was trying to get in some daily walks until I got sick.  I think I had 3 last week.

 

Baby Girl is still kicking a lot, but not as hard as before.  We were able to watch my stomach move for a while, but not this week.  (this makes me sad)

 

I still have terrible heartburn, but I have some new medicine so its getting better (somedays anyway).

 





Growing Up

“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.” 
-John Irving

My baby is growing up.  He's a real person, full of personality (not always ones I would choose).  Over the weekend we moved him into a big bed.  It was time, he has done great.  He stays in bed all night, sleeps all night.  Its just sad for me :(

Chores

Our house is a constant mess.  As soon as I clean up some of Liam's toys he dumps them back out again.  We have been trying to teach Liam to clean up his own toys, but thats been a complete fail so far.  Liam will pick up one toy and find 5 more to get out.  Then pretty soon our house looks like this



Chairs flipped over, stream of toys from one room to the next...

We'll keep working on teaching him to pick up after himself, but in the meantime Liam's new chore is feeding the dog