I made it

Rob flies in tonight, so I have made it. I missed him a lot, but I got a lot of needed rest. I spent Saturday with my friend Bethany and talked to mom a lot on the phone, so I wasn't a complete hermit. I had a doctors appointment on Friday. The office was packed, so it was my fastest visit yet. It was the first time the doctor has just talked to be about things in the examining room. Usually he has us go and talk in his office, but he was too busy Friday I guess. Anyway, he said things were still going well. My blood pressure is fine and Thomas is still growing. Though now I don't think there is much room left for him to grow. It is becoming pretty painful for me when he moves around or I sit for too long.
I'm working on finding the right place to watch Thomas after I go back to work. Pray that we make the right decision. I'm torn between having him in a licensed daycare that has to follow certain rules or having him with a stay at home mom and I know would hold him when he cries and potentially give him more attention. It is a really tough choice to make.

All alone

Tonight will be my first night of four nights without Rob. Well, he has been gone before, but this time he is in the mountains in Colorado. That means he won't be able to talk to me. He is there for a youth pastor's retreat. I have wanted him to go on this retreat the past few years, but it didn't work out until this year. It should be a really good time for him and what he needs right now.
As life normally does, we had a few curve balls thrown at us last night. Rob's car decided that it wanted to start spraying oil whenever to was running. We didn't find this out until 5 last night when it was too late to get it fixed before he didn't at 4 this morning to go to the airport. So I got to get up early and take Rob to the airport. I didn't mind sending the extra time with him, but I'm extra exhausted right now. I was going to plan my lessons for maternity leave, though that can wait until tomorrow. Now I'll just get things ready for tomorrow and go to bed.
On an entirely different note. I had a girl in class ask me today to see my belly. I turned sideways so she could see how big it was. She said, "No, like lift up your shirt." I refused saying it was not appropriate to show the class my belly. Most of the class didn't see why, but I was just imagining all the parent phone classes I would get tomorrow asking why I showed my belly to the class.

Internet at home

After a long wait and three different companies, we finally have internet at home. Now I hope to be able to put pictures up more frequently. Tomorrow will be exactly two months from my due date. Things seem to be going by so quickly. Last night Rob and I helped with a camp out for the elementary kids at the church. Well, I only helped for a few hours and went home to get some sleep. Rob stayed up most of the night with the high school and middle school kids he had come and help. While I was serving food a lady asked me if I was the youth pastor's wife. I said yes. She then said, "So you have like five kids, right?" I started laughing and explained that we were on the way to number one and didn't plan on having five, but our friends that volunteer with youth have five kids. I told Rob that since we get mistaken for this couple (it has happened before) that we should just go ahead and have five kids. :)

The room is gettting full

Rob's parents made it up hear on Wednesday night. Rob took them around Terre Haute on Thursday while I was at work. When I got home we went out, and they ordered us the crib and dresser for the baby's room. They also got everything we needed for the bed and changing table. Dorman also wanted to make sure that the baby had a bath tub, so we now we won't have to have Dasha lick the baby clean. :) It was a fast visit, but it was nice to be able to see them and have them start to spoil Thomas before he even gets here.

It is a BOY!!

At the sonogram on Friday we got to see our little baby. Since I'm further along than when most people have their first sonogram it was harder to see the face because there wasn't as much room for him to move around. This also made it harder to find out if it was a boy or girl. He finally moved his legs apart so we could find out. The doctor said everything looked healthy and that he was a little bigger than a 29 weeks, but they are keeping my due date at November 21st. I shouldn't go much later than that though.
We didn't get very good pictures from the sonogram. There were some good ones, but somehow they didn't get put on the CD we have of it. Rob said it looks like a lava lamp more than a baby in half the pictures we have. They did do the 4-D sonogram it try and have us see the face. Again it was hard to do without much room for the baby to move, but it was kind of cool it see.
Here is a picture Dad took of me last Monday standing in our living room. I'm 28 weeks at the time of the picture.