Update

Well Cash is doing great! He came home from the Dr. a little uncomfortable ( which was kinda good since we are suppose to restrict him). He is now back to his uncontrollable self and is so tired of not being able to play outside. We haven't seen any side effects that the Dr. warned us about. He goes back on Feb. 20 to check and see if the heart worms are gone. He is suppose to be restricted until then.....if we can stand it.
I am growing right along. I told my Dr. at the last appointment that I had grown a lot and she laughed at me and said " Just wait!" I am getting so excited about buying baby furniture and baby things - all I do is look at stuff online.
Some really exciting news:
We were laying in bed watching TV the other night and I had my hand on my stomach. She started to move and I thought that I felt her on the outside too. Well Cole put his hand on my stomach to see if he could feel. After about 20 minutes of trying - HE GOT TO FEEL HER MOVE. She was a wiggle worm that night. It seems kind of early for him to be able to feel her since I just felt her for the first time a couple weeks ago. But I don't know what else it could have been - it had to be her. ?? Well we were both excited.

more sonogram pic

Her pictures are just so cute that I had to add some more.

It's a GIRL!!!

Well we found out that we are having a baby girl. On the way to the Dr. we made our final guesses and I said a boy and Cole said a girl. We are so excited. She was moving around so much that they were having trouble getting pictures during the sonogram. I liked that she was moving so much because I have not been able to feel her yet!

Here are some pictures of her.

This is her profile. That little thing that is next to her forehead is her foot. We think that she is really cute!

This is her face and I am pretty sure that she is smiling.

Charm

Charm doesnt have heart worms. Now we just have to treat Cash. Poor Baby!

SAD :(

Well what a terrible day. We wake up this morning and Cash, our chocolate lab, has his tail between his legs. He is running around excited and eating fine but he wasn't wagging his tail. When we told him to sit he would sit real slowly. I have been worried about him all day at school. Then we were talking about the movie " Marley and Me" at school today so of course I have all these sad thoughts in my head. I was hoping that I would get home and his tail would be wagging. But it wasn't...

So I decided to take him to the vet and get it checked out. He needed his yearly shots anyways. The vet said that his tail is broken. He couldn't find an exact broken spot but he felt two possibilities. We have no idea how he broke it. Cole and Cash went hunting yesterday he might of done something to it then. The doctor said he could have wagged it too hard and hit something.

In this check up we decided to run the heart worm test and sadly it came back positive. I am so upset but the doctor said that with the shots it can be fixed. I called Katie to ask Archie ( Cash's hero) and he said that it will get rid of the heart worms. So now I feel a lot better.

Tomorrow I will be taking Charm, our mutt, to get her shots and pray that she does not have heart worms too.

18 weeks

Jan. 22 is the big day. We find out if it is a boy or girl. I can't wait and I do not care what it is. I want both eventually so it doesn't matter what comes first.

My clothes are too tight and I feel fat. I want to be showing so bad and I think that I am. Everyone at school says that I am not showing, until today. Today I got lots of comments about finally showing. I think that it was my outfit but I do know that my stomach is bigger than it has ever been. This is a picture of me at 18 weeks.

My students are starting to make up names for the baby. No one has come up with anything that I like. I wish that they would because we are having trouble too. Hopefully it is easier once we know what it is.

Change of plans

Well over Christmas we decided that the best idea is to NOT buy a house. We terminated our contract and are excited to not be stuck here. Hopefully we will be closer to family in a year or two.