Christmas Tree!

We decided to put our tree up yesterday. We sent Ashton to grammies house. We worried about how grumpy he was going to be. He only slept 7 hours the night before! We were also worried about all the breakables which I didn't set out or put on the tree this year. We thought the surprise would be better and it so was worth seeing him surprised!! This first photo is of the snowglobe we got him last year. He loved it last year and it seems he still does!

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!

I had a good time with family and friends yesterday! However, because of the gestational diabetes, I didn't get to eat all that I wanted! I remember last year being so happy because I was going through the holidays not pregnant! LOL Anything for baby though, maybe I will have a feast in May! LOL

16 week Belly photo!

Well, here my big belly is! 16 weeks 1 day!

Don't mind the stretch marks. Those are from Ashton!

The next 2 are for comparison. This is me pregnant with Ashton at 16 weeks. There is a big difference!!

It is getting cold!!!!!!!!!!!

Last weekend Carl cleaned out my car and Ashton wanted to go out with him! It was so cold so I bundled him up as you can see!

Are we really ready!?

Yesterday, we think Ashton had an upset stomach, he was in such a bad mood! He was surely showing his temper etc.... It was really trying for both Carl and I! We both had gotten up early yesterday and it was to say the least tiring!!!!!!! Carl said to me "Are we ready to do this over again?" I immediately said "NO we are to old for this!" I had to take the little bugger out in the car to get him to go to sleep last night!

It was just a bad day and now today I can't sleep in either! Well, my sister takes him for the day so maybe I can get a nap in! He did have diarrhea. It broke his bottom out so bad!!!!!!

NT Scan Positive!

Well got the call from the Dr. today. The results weren't as good as I had hoped for but not as bad as I was expecting! The results are that the scan for trisiomy (sp?) is a definite negative while the results for the down syndrome are are positive. All this test does is give you your risk factor for the syndrome. If you go just by my age (36) I have a 1-193 chance of having a down syndrome baby. The test reveals 1-225 chance of the syndrome. The Dr would like to do an amnio but Carl and I have decided not to get it. There is a risk factor of 2% for a miscarry. How guilty would we feel if we lost this baby because of the amnio just to find out if the baby has it or not and the baby turned out to be completely normal. Also I would have to stop the lovenox for one night and well that scares me too. We will wait to see what the U/S reveals at 18 weeks if there are any markers of downs and then if there are we may opt then but for now, we are OK with our chances. God blessed us with this child for some reason.

Halloween Pictures!

This is a little blurry but he kept moving everytime I tried to take his picture!!!


This is my sister Dina trying to hold him still for a photo!


He was getting candy from my sister! Can't you see he loves candy already!


In this photo even though you can't see his face, you can at least see his costume. He was a scarecrow. I had people tell me he looked like Robin Hood!




Carl took Ashton to a Pumpkin Patch place last weekend. He had lots of fun! That is where the rest of the photos were taken at.