Unpacking the Heart

So, I have so much to write this week.... I'm going to back up to last weeks gender reveal.  I know I posted it about it, but there was so much I didn't say.  lol  At our dr. appt. the doctor told us that we should look into the book "Raising Difficult Children".  I'm not sure how I feel about that statement and I am sure not ready to doom my child to that fate yet.  It isn't his fault that the cord was in the way.  lol.  I am in shock about it being a boy, although now that I have had a week to let it settle I am getting really excited.  I mean, can we say sweater vests?  Bow ties?  LOVE.  We go back to that dr. in (now 3 weeks) to repeat the anatomy scan to check the heart and I guess to confirm gender.  (I've been shopping...I hope it is really a boy! lol) Last Saturday I accompanied the EHS bands to Kings Island.  We performed as part of "Music in the Parks" and spent the rest of the day in the park.  I TOTALL...

BOY!  Words cannot express my feelings tonight.  I am in complete shock and so excited. I thought for sure it was a girl.  Wednesday morning we arrived at the drs office and I was nervous but I had Diet coke that morning and I knew what to expect.  They called us back and the tech asked if we wanted to know the gender, I told her that I wanted Matthew to know, but that I did not want to know.  So, they checked baby out, looked at the brain, heart, kidneys, and all that fun stuff.  The baby was curled in a ball, so they were unable to see the septum of the heart.  She tried for a while to see that, then decided to move on to gender.  I closed my eyes and she went searching.  She looked, and looked, and shook my belly, and shook my belly....nothing.  The baby was curled up in a ball and the cord was in a very inconvenient location. I walked around jumped around...and the dr. came in and tried to see the septum and the gender.  ...

This past week has been a really busy one around the Kimmons' household.  We have begun the purging/packing process which is always overwhelming, but we also "attempted" a yard sale today...which got rained out.  Of course a few minutes after we closed it down, the sun came out and the birds sang.  Really?  We will try again another weekend.  You would think that this being our fourth move we wouldn't have so much stuff to purge, but sheesh.  Where does it all come from? - and we had a baby. On Monday I had a visit with my DE.  I was her first appointment of the day, 8am.  Well, she didn't bother to come into work until 8:45.  What?!?!  While I was waiting for her to grace me with her presence her assistant was talking to another patient on the phone who had called in saying that she was running late.  The assistant told her she would have to call back and reschedule her appointment.  Really?! I bet if the DE came to work on ...

This week has been crazy.  Matthew went to Orlando for the Exponential conference.  Elliott and I didn't go this year because I knew that my sweet girl would not have any interest in sitting through any sessions and lets be honest, I'm pregnant and it is hot.  lol.  So he was gone from Monday and was supposed to get home on Thursday but didn't make it until Friday.  So I did the single mom thing all week along with babysitting.  All that would have been fine, but my blood glucose (BG) is still running low, which is killing me.  Being tired from being pregnant is hard enough, but when your body is in constant recovery from low BG it is even harder to function. Yesterday I could hardly move because of my back.  I think baby is growing and shifting and my body is having a hard time keeping up.  I remember feeling this way with Elliott, but it was MUCH later in the pregnancy.  Although, I haven't had the terrible round ligament pain....I a...