5-7weeks

The last two weeks have been pretty hectic so I hadn't been able to blog...although there wasn't much to say I guess either!

After my birthday, and day off, I spent the rest of the week furiously trying to work through the massive amount of things that needed to be done before I left on vacation. I'll be honest, I didn't get to a few things. Mainly because my computer crapped out halfway through my day on Friday. Awesome. Guess what? Its still not working a full week , plus, later even more awesome for me on Monday! Guess who won't be catching up anytime soon? Guess who else was told to limit stress and won't be giving a damn about it? Uh yeah, me.

Last weekend came at the perfect time, just before I had a mental breakdown, LOL. Saturday kicked off the weekend with the Jason Aldean/FGL concert with some coworkers and my friend Jen and her friends. We had tickets to the pre-concert tailgating event where they had dunk tank, airbrush tattoos, hamburgers and hot dogs and the coolest thing....life sized beer pong. We didn't get a chance to play beer pong because the same people kept hogging the board. Boo to them. The concert was fun but there were a lot of people and at one point my friend/coworker got lost and I had to take my friend Jen's husband to help to push through the crowd and find her. We did finally but what a fiasco! The music was great though and its always so nice to be sitting out on the lawn on a nice summer night listening to some country music :)

Sunday morning came on fast and I had to get up at the butt crack of dawn to catch a flight to see my parents. Jim dropped me off at the airport and so began my day long of traveling. I had an hour to wait for the first flight.... then an hour 15min flight ....an hour layover....and another hour 15 min. flight. Stupid Delta...I'm going Southwest or someone else that has direct flights next time that was insane. Luckily this time the weather was nice and there weren't troubles like last year.

My first day in town we didn't really do much since I got in late and its almost a 2 hour drive from Nashville to my parents house. Monday we went to Gatlinburg and walked around and did some shopping. The moonshine stores are unbelievable. I cant wait until next year when I can go back and take a few jugs home with me :)  Tuesday we went to Chattanooga which I really liked it there! We unfortunately missed the train I wanted to take so we decided to take a boat tour instead on the "Southern Belle" however, we didn't realize there was a timechange and were an hour late LOL. Instead we went up to Lookout Mountain and took in some scenic views and tidbits of Civil War history. I think Jim would really like it there....I've put it on the list of places to revisit. Wednesday my parents rented a pontoon boat and we spent the afternoon on the lake just chillin!

Pretty soon it was Thursday and I had to head back home. Sad. I left my parents house at 930am and got home in Chicago around 7pm. I was so tired but so hungry I made Jim stop for tacos at a place by where we used to live since it was on the way home. They sounded good but LO wasn't very happy with my meal choice. When I got home, I had a nice surprise waiting for me. Jim put together the crib!!!  We bought that crib for Jack just days before we left on our cruise and Jim was to paint the nursery and put it together when we returned....obviously that didn't happen. Since December its been in pieces leaning against the wall. It looks so nice all put together it made me cry....is this really happening, is this baby coming home?



Friday, yesterday, we had our second u/s at 6w5d. A little later than normal since I was gone but still ok. Baby still looking good and measuring on schedule. His/her hb is 105 which is just where they want it to be! After the u/s I met with their NP and she was surprised they had taken me off the Estrace and told me she would bet they'd have me back on it that day when my labs came back. Well, labs came back and my e2 went from 505 down to 100. Uhhhh, not good. I waited, and waited and waited and no call nor update on my portal so I'm thinking....am I not going back on Estrace? I couldn't sleep thinking about my e2 levels so first thing this morning I called the RE's office and sho nuff.... in the notes but never made it onto my portal so had I not called I'd be spending a week in blissful ignorance while my e2 kept dropping. Thank God I have some sense about me when it comes to this kind of stuff. So anywho...back on the Estrace   :/

Yesterday evening, Jim left for HIS vacation. I only got about 24 hours to spend with him and he's away until next weekend. He went with his dad, brother and brother's friend to Canada to go fishing so probably no cell signals so not only is this the longest now we've ever gone without seeing each other but its also the longest we'll go without speaking to each other in nearly 6 years! I'm a little discombobulated today :(  Although, I did make good use of my first day alone. I researched healthy eating meal plans and ordered some groceries on Peapod (I don't have anyone to carry in the food!) , put together a gift for a bridal shower tomorrow, and cleaned the house. Speaking of which.... I don't know how much longer I can clean clean the house. It took me twice as long because I was so tired and I'm exhausted now. I feel this is justification for a house cleaner....My neighbor said she'd do it. FX Jim says yes, LOL

That's all for now....just chugging along and 7 weeks tomorrow. Next appt. is Friday and that will be my last RE appt. before being turned over to the OB and becoming a "normal" pregnant woman. I put quotes around that because I'm so far from a normal pregnant woman at this point!!

I'm having issues putting pictures in this post so I may come back later and edit.