Swimming

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

E has been taking swim lessons for a couple weeks now and LOVES it. She loves putting her head under water and is learning how to swim with a life vest and a noodle. She can float on her back and her stomach, with her face under water, with ease. Every time I pick her up from school she asks if she has swim lessons today. We did just sign her up for the next session and a high level class. It does start over the Thanksgiving week so we might have to miss a class or two in order to spend time with family. I think she much rather spend the time with family then at the pool. She really does love sleeping over at other peoples houses.

We got a call from the doctor yesterday tell us when we were going to have our detailed sonogram, afternoon of December 1st. I'm really excited and hope that we'll be able to tell what the sex is. We have our doctors appointment 2 days after that so its going to be a fun packed week.

Another Appointment

Thursday, November 6, 2008

We had another visit to the doctor. Our appointment was at 11:45 and we were out of there by 11:55. The doctor came in and did his poking and pushing, we listened to the heartbeat, asked if we had any questions then was out the door. We get to see him again in 4 weeks and we get to have an appointment with a detailed ultrasound. Hopefully get to learn the sex of the baby before the middle of the month comes around. :) We are really excited. One more month to go then I can start buy cute little things. After the appointment yesterday S and I went walking around target and got caught up in the baby stuff. We decided we need one of those bouncer things that vibrate and have to things over head that light up and make sounds. Don't think that is the correct name for them.

We've decided not to buy a house right now. I don't think that I'm going to be working or at least not in the formal kind of job where I would have to leave my kid with someone else. I'm going to try to start babysitting kids. So since we're not going to have a big pay check from me we're going to stay in something small, not to small, that we can afford without me having to work out of the house. I'm going to be taking some classes to get CPR/First Aid certified and learn more about other things. I'm really excited and hope that everything works out for us this way, at least for a little bit. Keeping my figures crossed for right now.

Halloween

Monday, November 3, 2008

Last week was a crazy one. We had something going on everyday of the week. E just started swim lessons on Monday and Wednesdays. She can finally really put her head underwater without freaking out and is starting to use her arms when swimming. It's really exciting to see her do all these new things and not be scared. On Tuesday she still had gymnastics. She loves doing it and probably will continue for a while. On Thursday the Halloween fun started. E's teacher took them to a pumpkin patch that is located at a nearby church and everyone could wear their costumes. For over a year now she's wanted to be a ghost so we made her a ghost costume out of pink fabric that we had laying around. But on Thursday E decides not to be a ghost that day but wear the costume that I made for her last year. Not a big deal since it took me all night to make it last year and she only wore it out once, now she just plays dress up with it. But she wore it to the pumpkin patch and everything was fine. That night was the Fall Festive at her school and she wanted to be the pink ghost. This start as a problem since she couldn't eat with it on or really play so I ended up holding it most of the night. Friday they got to wear their costumes again and she decided to be the pink ghost. I don't think she had it on most of the day but at least she wore it. That night we went to this carnival thing that just a few blocks from our place and she wanted to go as the pink ghost. That was fine until we started trick or treating then she wanted to be the princess again. This wasn't such a big deal since we were going home anyway to pick up the camera and our car so we could go to a different part of town. So for this Halloween E had two different costumes. Thank goodness its over and I don't have to make another costume till next year. Just have to make sure it's something that she's going to wear.

Our second doctor's appointment is this Wednesday. Hopefully everything is great and everyone is fine and healthy. I'm a little scared and excited at the same time. At least I don't have to have my blood taken again.