What a mess!

Yesterday was our 2nd doctors appointment and it was interesting to say the least. First of all, since it was raining everyone and their brother was at my doctors office trying to park and get out of the rain. The normal 8 minute drive to the doctor turned into 45 minutes because of traffic, rain, and construction. When we finally made it to the parking garage we found that EVERY spot was taken but they kept letting cars into the garage anyway. It's a pretty scary thought to drive through a hospital parking garage and find NO vacancies. People go in, but they never come out!!! Lou finally had to drop me off at the front door while he went to scavenge for a parking spot. Once in the doctors office, we found that our doctor had forgotten meeting us. Lovely! She appeared to have no idea what to do with us. She asked us redundant questions and never even looked us in the eye. She told Lou a strange story about not really caring enough to learn the father's names. They were about to send us down to retake all the blood work again until we caught what they were trying to do and stopped them. She then hurried us along to the ultrasound machine that wasn't even ready for us and just stuck it in to look at my cervix. She could have cared less about looking at the baby. This picture was the only one she took and it is HORRIBLE! My cervix, on the bright side, looks ok for now. Lou and I were amazed, beyond amazed, at how horrible we were treated. They finally found my blood work results and all is god there. I'm immune to chickenpox, which I kind of figured out on my own since I didn't turn into a giant heaping pile of puss a month ago. Thank you Sherlock! **I'm reading back over my work and I'm amazed at just how bitter I'm sounding. I wasn't this way yesterday** Lou and I did have a laugh though because when the doctor was sticking me with the picture probe in my hoo-ha, the baby was getting pissed and swatting at it like a fly. We have another appointment of the 14th, and if we are still treated like crap we'll be searching for a new baby doc. We've attached the baby picture and I have detailed what is what on the picture for your viewing confusion.

Decision 08

Not that the race for the White House isn't front page news, but we have even bigger decisions to make this year! For starters, we have to get names picked out! We really only need to choose a girl's name, but if you ask Lou he'll say that since he's convinced we're having a boy why bother picking out a girl's name. With all bias aside, we actually did decide on a girl's name over the weekend. James Rena Lawrence. Yes, that is James. I had never considered James for a girl, but my hair stylist, Ción, mentioned that one of his clients was naming her little girl James after a European Super Model, and who doesn't want a Super Model in the family?! It made more sense when you consider that Lou's middle name is James and mine is Rena, well a slightly strange way of spelling Renee, bygones. At least I think it's pretty! I also came across an awesome baby bedding website where I found the perfect bedding!!!!! I found two that I totally adore. The first is a black, white, and camel bedding with all sorts of patterns and looks very European. As a matter of fact, it has a travel theme to it. This will be my absolute first pick if we have a girl. I also found a unisex set. This may come as a shock to some of you that I picked a set with frogs on it! At least they're cute frogs. This one also has a sorts of patterns and textures.

Since Ryan will be moving in in another few weeks we've also tackled the task of trying to sell some of our stuff to make room. We're trying to sell our workout equipment, our big corner desk, my old bedroom suite from my apartment, and we may even sell or donate our couches. I found another couch that I just adore and would prefer it over what we have. We spent the weekend painting, which is always a drag!!! Ryan was in and helped by taping while Lou plastered. I tried to Kilz a wall , but the fumes made me so light headed that I stayed to the couch after that. I think we decided to hire someone to finish the hallway since it is too much a pain in the butt to do ourselves.

We decided after much discussion to not go through with the purchase of the Carmel house. It was a beautiful house in a great location, but the more we thought about it the better our location is for us. We really have 4-5 years before we seriously need to make a move, so time is on our side.

We're getting exited about our appointment next week. I can't wait to see our little critter again! It feels like ages since we last saw it!!!

Been Awhile

It's been a few weeks since my last post and so much has happened. Where to begin? Oh, yes...how about this for starters...I'M SICK! It started last week with allergies and escalated to a full blown upper respiratory infection. I'm sitting here bed ridden and hopped up on a Z-Pack. I still feel like warmed over curdled milk in a jug that's been run over by a Semi carrying a load of downer cows to the slaughter house. Yuck, that's pretty graphic, but totally accurate. I went to the doctor yesterday when it became apparent that this wasn't going to clear up on it's own thanks to the great preggie immune system that I've got going on. Doesn't that seem backwards to you? I think that when you get pregnant your body should put up a defense system that even a Klingon warship couldn't get past. Speaking of downer immune systems, I guess there is nothing to worry about on the Chicken Pox front. I donated all that blood to science and I haven't heard a drop of info since. Well, I say I haven't heard anything but I have. The results from my first Pap Smear came back bad. Seems as if my Cervical Dysplasia has flared up again. When we go in for my next appointment my doctor will have to perform a colposcopy. I'm pretty confident that she won't take any biopsy's considering that we're already concerned that my cervix isn't thick enough as it is. She has to look at the depth of my cervix next time and it may have to be sewn shut. That sure does sound like a whole lotta fun!

As if all my medical woes weren't keeping us busy enough we're now contemplating a move. It seems that we contemplate a move every three to six months, but now that our family is about to double in size (baby and Ryan) we are seriously thinking of a three bedroom. We have had several people express a serious interest in renting our house. There is a rush of people moving inner loop because they're tired of paying the stupid price of gas to drive to work. We're still not really ready to make our way up tot he north side, so we did a little looking around down here for either a little house or another town home that is freestanding with a little yard. We found a small community in the quiet area of Rice Military, which is a block off of Memorial. The house sits behind the baseball field for St. Thomas High School. Can anyone say hells yeah! How many will be lining up outside our house to go watch Craig Biggio coach his St. Thomas baseball team! The house is really pretty. It's just over 2000 square feet with three bedrooms and a study area. The builder is Carmel Homes (www.carmelbuilderstx.com; look at Dickson Place at Jackson Hill), which is a division of MHI. Most of you remember that I worked for MHI for a few years, so we're hoping to get a good deal. All of the units are freestanding, which means they aren't attached to the houses next door, and they have little yards. By little I mean little, but manageable with two tiny dogs. We are just in the beginning stages, so we'll keep you posted on the house progress. We still have to finish painting our house along with a few odds and ends before we really delve into buying another house.
Oh yeah I almost forgot! Yesterday at the doctors office I got to hear the baby's heart beat!!! I sounds like a tiny train chuggin' along. It took nurse Nan a little while to find it and the whole time I was holding my breath in fear that she wouldn't find it, but she did! Lou was so upset that he missed it!! It was definitely the best part of the day, well that and the second I picked up my Z Pack!