Over the last month....

Sorry it has been awhile! While I've been gone a few events have unfolded. The bestest thing was my Mommie can to visit! It seems so long ago now, but she was here from April 28 to May 5th. We had a wonderful visit. We gardened and walked Sisterpoo and relaxed. It was gorgeous weather for most of the time she was here. The only hiccup was on Thursday when she was here, that would be 4/30 I guess we were gardening and it was warm and sunny. I bent down to dig some dirt and when I stood back up I got a really poudning sudden headache. I thought maybe I was just dehydrated and kept on going until we were done. When we came back inside I downed a whole gatorade and we ate lunch, but my head was getting worse. We kind of relaxed a little after lunch and I started to get really nauseous and proceeded to upchuck all my lunch and gatoradge. Fortunately that morning I had called the doctor because I was having some persistant pain in my lower abdoment, particularly when I was walking about. They wanted to make sure it was contractions or something else. The appointment was about 45 minutes away. At the doctors they weighed me, I was still at 134, so in the last 2 weeks since my last appt I hadn't gained any weight. They hooked me up to the fetal heart monitor that they put you on when you are in labor. It monitors your uterus and the baby's heart rate to make sure he's not in distress. I was attached to that for about 20 minutes and Mommie got to hear the baby's heart beat a whole lot. You could also hear when he was moving around, which is more then what I could feel. Everything was fine with my uterus, no contractions and my cervix was still long and closed. We got a ultrasound pic that I let Mommie keep for a momento. It turns out that I had vaginosis of some kind which was contributing to the pain in my abdomen. It is also all the uterine ligaments stretching and pulling. Since I'm "slight" as she put it that will happen. I also need to make sure that I'm peeing as soon as I feel the need because that is where my infection came from. She also said I had a yeast infection. So I got some antibiotics and yeast medicine and got to feeling better. As far as puking and the headache, they attributed that to "a bug" that was going around. I felt better after a while and had tiny bouts of nauseau over the next couple days. I discovered that RoRo got really sick that weekend with probably the same thing. I did linger for awhile before going away.

It was so wonderful to see my Mommie. I miss her so much, and all my family and friends that aren't here with me now.

I celebrated my first Mother's Day! Man-Meat got me white and blue roses because the baby is a boy. So clever. He got me a really nice card too. He's so great!!

May12th was our 4 year anniversary. I got more flowers at work! A huge bouqet of lilies. All my flowers are still alive too. The lilies are starting to go, but some of them still look good and my roses at home are doing ok. For dinner Man-Meat cooked me filet mignon and lobster on the grill. I whipped up some garlic rolls and steamer clams. We had artichoke too. We were so stuffed!! I didn't even eat any of my steak! The steamers were probably the best part. The lobster was very tasty, but we both realized if we are going to spend moolah on seafood we are going to get king crab. The texture is nicer and the meat is more flavorful then lobster. I've been craving streamers every since!

On May 10th we went to watch our friends J&J baptize their baby girl. It was very special because Man-Meat and I are the godparents. She was adorable. The day before I babysat her all day. She was such a good little girl. She got a little fussy with gas but nothing I couldn't handle. She was very scheduled, eat, sleep, change, play. Very happy and content. I can only hope Gummi will be that good!

On Sat May 16th Man-Meat, John Boy, and Mr. Robot went brown bear hunting up in St. James Bay/Boat Harbor. They went out at about noon. The weather was clear and sunny, but there was a breeze and they had to go across Lynn Canal to get there. I was a tad worried about them coming back across with the wind kicking up. At about 6:00 Mr. Robot called from the mouth of the bay and said they had shot a bear, about a 7 footer. John Boy and Man-Meat skinned it out in about an hour, but by now the wind is really going and the sun is going down. It gets dark at about 9 now. They called when they were headed out and I figured they'd be home in about an hour and a half. About half and hour goes by and Man-Meat calls, and they've bearly made it anywhere the weather is so bad. He didn't say it at the time, but the seas were about 6-8 feet, huge rollers. They kept having to stop and take breaks because there were taking such a beating. At this time they were just coming up on Lincoln Island. A half hour goes by again and they are now coming up on North Shelter, even less progress was made then the first hour! Another half hour and now it is getting to be 8:30 and dark is definitely upon them. They've decided to pull into Amalga Harbor instead of trying to get to Auke Bay (a virtual impossiblity at this point) and I have to go pick them up in John Boy's truck leaving right away. Meanwhile, all this day and evening I was "babysitting" T-Rex because she just had some endometriosis spots burned off of her uterus the day before. She was completely unable to sit up on her own. Fortunately, Ashton had arrived so I was able to leave to go get the boys. I had just made myself a taco for dinner, and threw a wistful side glance at it as I walked out the door. It took about half and hour to get to Amagla. It was a beautful evening on land, the sunset was amazing. I saw a deer on the side of the road too and prayed for it to stay there because I didn't want to wreck John Boy's truck! The boys were already there when I got to Amalga and I bounded down to the boat to check out the bear. I jumped in and stood on the deck looking around and didn't see it anywhere. When I turned around there it was at my feet, I had jumped over it! The head was enormous!! I took pictures as John Boy proudly heaved it out of the boat and carried it up the dock. He was covered in blood and the carcass really stunk, but it was amazing. Man-Meat has bear fever now! It is going to cost around $1500 to get the hide made into a rug and get the skull prepped and sealed. The hide itself is brown with a blonde ruff.

I had a Dr appt yesterday 5/20 for my 25 weeks. My tummy measures about 23cm from my belly button to somewhere down below. I now weigh 139!! I gained 5 lbs in the last two and half weeks! But I'm still right on schedule and average. That puts the total at 12 lbs gained to far. I have to post some tummy pics asap! There is a huge difference between when Mommie was visiting and now. I can tell Gummi's been having a growth spurt because I am hungry all the time. I'm still reaching for healthy snacks though, fruit, yogurt, wheat thins. I don't go crazy. When the doctor had the doppler on my tummy to hear his heart beat he kept kicking right where the sensor want was. You could see my tummy jump up when he did it. He's getting stronger, I can really feel him thrashing about in there now. Sometimes it feels like he's trying to kick his way out. It reminds me of Family Guy when Stewie is born and he has a map and compass to escape from Lois's womb. The doc also gave me the go ahead to go out of the boat if I want to which is awesome because now I can go fishing!!! The best part about my appointment is.......she also gave me the go ahead to go to Colorado for THE FISH AND CHIPS UNION!!! She's going to have me come in right before just to make sure, but she saw no reason I couldn't go! YEA!!!!!! Next appointment I have to do the gluocose test again for diabetes (rabies ha ha) on June 18th. Time is suddenly moving fast again!!! He'll be here in no time!!

I'll try to get some tummy pics posted really soon I promise.