That's a fast little heartbeat...

Well, I had another visit with the midwife today. It went well, I'm healthy, peanut's healthy, what could be better. Well, except I need to eat more. Many small meals throughout the day. That's right, I need to eat more. Who would of thought, normally I'm eating too much. Hopefully this is a good sign that I won't gain more than 30 lbs pregnancy weight. It's not that I'm intentionally trying to starve myself, I just have a difficult time eating. Too much and I get nauseous and can't eat for several hours till it passes, by which time the only thing I usually want to eat is McDonald's cheeseburgers. The little ones, not the big ones with lots of mayo and subsequently, more fat. McDonald's cheeseburgers make my tummy happy. No, it's not all that I eat. We had fajitas the other night, and I made chicken pot pie almost from scratch. Problem is these meals come about 2 or 3 times a week. Just a few more weeks though and, hopefully, my appetite will be back and the nausea gone. Still haven't quite decided if I want to know the gender before birth. Leaning towards yes, but not sure.

In other news: My cousin Nettie is getting married!! Congratulations Nettie!!! To a fellow named Neil, who I knew in college up at UAF. I believe we had a few classes together, but at any rate at least I've seen him, even if it was before he met Nettie and vice versa. Should be exciting. If she gets married this summer (he, I need to email her congratulations!), and I will be going, I was hoping to head north anyway, I will be quite pregnant and travel will be somewhat interesting with the circumstances.

Another bonus of going north this summer, along with seeing all my family, will be the Net Loft. There in can be found many yarns that are not available here in Juneau... In other knitting news I have been working on a small project. It's close to being finished and then I will have a picture. Other projects are in the works, but alas I can't find the doohicky to download pictures from the camera. So instead, my kitties, Fuzzball (grey) and D.W. (black). They leave much animal "fiber" lying around the house.

BIG News

So, I got a letter from my Aunt K. today. In said letter she congratulated the hubby and I on our good news. "What news is that?" you ask. Well seeing as my Aunt thought I should share (sorry no underline), and that she would really like it if I would share more, that I would do just that.

On January 1st, after several days of feeling, well... strange, I took a little test. I got no results, didn't take it right. So several hours later, I took another one; the results were as follows:

While it's a little blurry, the results are pretty clear, it's a positive, an overwhelming positive it was too. The instructions say to wait 2 min for results, I got mine in 30 seconds, yet still waited the said 2 min just to be sure they didn't disappear. Well, they didn't and now I'm about 9 weeks along and everything seems to being going great. Except for the occasional bout of nausea that is. Had a visit with my doctor last week for a physical and we had extra time, so he says, "How about we do an ultrasound, just for fun, and see what we find. No extra charge." Hubby was with us, and we did and we got pictures (as seen on the hubby's website, scroll down) of a peanut and saw it's really rapid heartbeat. Very exciting and confirming my above test. It's not a great picture, but it's still a picture, you can see it here.

So, there's our big news. So far so good and I shall do my best to give updates, er... share about how things go. I'll leave you all with a picture of the hubby and I with our Christmas tree. In true Grandparent tradition, taken on Christmas day, sadly on automatic since we didn't have grandparents to do the honors.

PS. I made the skirt the week before, a quick project, it turned out great.