10-18-08

We had a dr appt today and Dr Thorne made us a date for getting induced!! We are cheking in Sat morning at 7:30 - which is better than the 6am we had to be there last time!

So, anyway, for the past week all i've been telling myself is that I just needed to make it through till the shower and then i'd be ok with whatever happened. Since God is trying to gear us up for 2 kids, I think he was showing me this weekend a glimpse of what is to come. Chris got home Friday afternoon with a bad head cold he'd had all week in S. Dakota. Then we all go to bed and abby wakes me up at 2am with what i can hear on the monitor is choking - it was vomit - all over. So, we all get up, change everything in site, watch an episode of MMCH to see if it's going to happen again, and the by 3am lay down with her, only to not sleep because she is having a very fitful sleep, then getting back up and throwing up again. After the initial empting of the contents of her stomach, the rest was just all the drainage from her cold she's had all week, so i didn't think she had a stomach virus. Anyway, when we got up on Sat I had officially slept for 3 hours TOTAL - which, if you know me, is about 10 less than i need in a night. So, my inlaws come down for the baby shower - very sweet of them to support us and the shower was very nice - and then we hang out for a while, abby crashes, curt, brandy and cj head home, then clint and sarah go over to callaway with us to take 37 week pictures. Here are some of them, i think they turned out well. thanks sarah and abby says she wants to go back to the ocean!

On a final note, sat night was even worse because abby started running a fever, then woke up vomiting again at 3 am, stayed up 3 hours, then slept for a while. she was really acting sick this time and was spiking 104 degree temps, so we took her to pediatrics after hours where we found out she has a raging ear infection. no stomach bug, no strep. all in all i think we got off pretty lucky. The funny thing was that before we left for PAO, i looked at chris and said "we haven't slept, eaten or showered today. we look REALLY rough and we feel even rougher, but as bad as this is, I know it's going to get so much worse in a week and that makes me want to cry". Anyway, we laughed because as chris says, "the only thing we have left is humor". we are glad abby is on her way to being 100% and that we'll see libby in 5 days!!