Happy Turkey Day!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Ours actually started last Sunday with a Sancken Thanksgiving in Saunemin and we spent Thanksgiving day at Travis' Aunt Jill and Uncle Brian's house. Talk about GOOD FOOD! The only bummer part is that I can't fit as much food as I want in my belly. :o( We also went to my parent's house for dinner so we were all VERY, VERY TIRED when we got home!

Baby news: I ended up in OB again Wednesday night. I was on day 7 of a headache! The Dr.'s office had to really convince me to go - I was really hoping they could tell me something else besides Tylenol that I could take, but they said that I needed to be evaluated. Well, it's a good thing I listened! Apparently I was dehydrated (despite having just finished my 7th bottle of water for the day on the way to the hospital!) and I was having contractions again as well. They gave me some Imitrex (migraine meds) for the headache and an AWESOME IV for the dehydration issue. It took multiple jabs with the needle to get the IV started - first she digging in the top of my left hand and couldn't get it threaded so then she switched to my right hand and it took two attempts to finally get it going. Those of you that know how much I HATE needles can be assured that even though I was pretending to be brave, inside I was a shaky, sweaty mess and I wanted to punch the nurse!! Since I was also having contraction again, the nurse checked me to see if I had started dilating and even though I haven't the baby has definitely dropped. She said the baby's head was RIGHT THERE and she had to literally reach around it to check for dilation. We were released a few hours later. I felt fine during Thanksgiving Day, but that night was a different story! First of all, my heartburn was AWFUL - probably the worst it's ever been. I finally went downstairs at around 1:00 am to see if I could sleep sitting up in the recliner, but things just quickly went downhill from there. I started vomiting and running a low-grade fever plus I have a super bad cough so that wasn't helping b/c every cough meant that I was pee'ing my pants (which I am SO tired of doing by the way!). The last time I looked at the clock was 4:10, but then I fell asleep on the couch, woke up and went back up to bed around 6:00. So far today the fever is gone and I'm not vomiting anymore, but the cough is still driving me nuts and I have ZERO energy. Every time I cough I feel as though I'm going to cough the baby right out. Oh - and I am definitely waddling which is cute too! :o) I did make it to Walmart to pick up the last few items I needed for the hospital bags - I have a feeling we won't make it to our due date so that's put a fire under my butt to get the bags ready.

As far as the daycare goes, I'm done till probably February or so. As yucky as I feel and as often as I'm having "issues", we decided it would be smart to go ahead and close down. No reason for me to be lifting little ones and on my feet all day at this point. It'll make things rough financially, but we need to be smart about this!

Now that December is just a couple of days away (hard to believe!) we've got a lot of busy days/nights coming up. We'll see just how many we make it to! Tomorrow is my cousin's boy's birthday party in Towanda and I think I'm going to try to get a bit of Christmas shopping done as well while I'm still somewhat mobile. Plus tomorrow night we have a little gathering in town for my sister-in-law's birthday - she's 23 today, so young!! :o) Monday is the Christmas dinner for Travis' work so we'll be heading to that, Lexi & I have hair appointments on Tuesday night, we have our final sonogram and next doctor's appointment Wednesday afternoon and the list goes on and on! I should have more time on my hands to keep this blog updated so keep checking back!

I hope everyone had a great Turkey Day!