:) At least I'm a little (and that is VERY little) better at blogging than emailing! Well, kinda. I THINK about blogging... I just don't do it often. I don't even REMEMBER to email! :)
Anyway, as of last post, we were living in Monterey. Tim was almost done with classes. Ana had just turned a year; and I was a little over half way done with this pregnancy. NOW, things are different! :) As they should be!
Tim:
He graduated top of his language class!! YAY!! Even received the highest academic award for the entire graduating class! He is now completing his training at Goodfellow AFB, where his teachers are already watching him for his success. :) Thats our Tim!! I can't say much else about what is going on with the career aspect of him. I don't know much else! He is now on to the part of training and his job that he can't talk about, even with me. Its hard to ask questions about how his day has been without seeming like I'm prying for information. I'm not prying, by any means, but my questions are carefully worded, as are his answers. Oh well... this will just become a part of our everyday lives from here on out and we'll have to get used to it. I'm glad that he's following protocol and not telling even me; that way I don't have to worry about censoring myself in conversation with others! :)
Anastasia:
At Ana's 15 month appointment, she weighed in at about 18lbs 9oz and was 29 inches. This dropped her to 2% for weight and brought her UP to 20% for height! So SHE'S GROWING UP! Ana showed off for the doctor and had a "conversation" with her. The doctor is VERY pleased with her communication skills and places her at about a 24 month level! Gross motor skills are right where they need to be for a 15 month old, and her fine motor skills are advanced. The doctor also discovered a "whisper" in her heart. She was born with a murmur, and so the doctor seemed content when I didn't show outright panic when she told me. It just meant that we received a referral to a pediatric cardiologist.
Wow... was the cardiologist appointment an ordeal, or what?! Its routine to receive an EKG at an appointment. This procedure is completely painless!! Probes are stuck on the chest and torso and ankle and then a machine is turned on, and about a minute later its done. Ana LOOKED at the machine and wires and started screaming! She screamed and stomped her feet through the whole process of getting prepped and while the machine was on. She screamed through the weighing process, the stethoscope, the blood pressure monitor (which the nurse said she could use the reading from due to the screaming), etc. I felt sorry for the nurse and any other patient in the office. There is no way that people did NOT hear her and I'm sure if there were other new patients, that they were now TOTALLY freaked out! The doctor came in, and Ana was quiet. It was so weird! She let HIM listen to her heart! No freak outs or anything! He was pretty sure that her murmur is a Still's Murmur. A benign, innocent murmur that will come and go throughout her childhood and into early adulthood. He knew she had been born with a murmur due to her charts, but I asked if it was something that had just reappeared or if it were something that had been there and been missed. He was unable to tell for sure, but did say that if she acted the way she had with the nurse with the screaming, then it would have been very easy to miss! Ok... note to self, its most likely been there... she HATES doctors and regularly freaks out! He did order a echocardiogram to confirm the diagnosis, but said that IF she freaked out again, that he was SO confident in the diagnosis that she would not need to be sedated for a good echo, that she would just need one around the time she turned 2. So, to the echo, we went prepared with Veggie Tale dvds and her blankie and paci (which she had at the first appt) and Grandma to help distract her. She did extremely well for the echo!! The technician was able to get a good reading of everything she needed and assured us not to worry because she didn't see anything alarming but that the doctor would call us if he did. Well, its been a month with no call, so I'm assuming all is good with the Still's Murmur diagnosis! :)
Now, at almost 17 months old, Ana has earned the nickname of Snot Bucket. She is sassy, feisty, bossy, a climber, a runner, a squealer, a giggler, a cuddle-bug, and a really fun person to be around (most of the time). She is into ANYTHING and EVERYTHING and has a huge imagination!
Titus:
Titus is due in 8 days! He's big! And although the doctor and nurses say he moves a ton, I'm not convinced, because compared to Anastasia, he is super calm! Since Anastasia is a carbon copy of me, we're hoping that Tj takes after Daddy... if not, we're done! 3 of me is a lot! :) And Tim says thats not what he signed up for!! :)
Me:
I'm doing ok. Turned 28 yesterday. Its weird to think that 2 years from now I'll be 30! But a lot has happened in the last few years from graduating college, to getting married, to having Ana last year and about to give birth to another baby this year, that its weird to imagine all the changes that can happen in the next 2 years! It'll be exciting though, for sure! :)
Well.... expect another update soon! Hopefully Titus (Tj) doesn't hang out too long! I'm ready for him to be here!! :)
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