Picture: Baby Spangler

One of the things we have had to do is to go and meet with a high risk doctor, just to keep track of a small concern (nothing to worry about). What's amazing about these visits is that we get a 3D sonogram, I know this is not something most people get and we feel really lucky to have this.  This is a picture of our boy from a few weeks ago (facing right, this is his face):

We think he's beautiful! 

As we were getting ready to go from this appointment, the doctor chuckled and told us how much the baby weighed. We said "isn't that a lot?" And he replied, "Oh yeah, he's a big boy." This along with the child birth classes have sufficiently caused me to be a little horrified about the actual birthing process. But I have been reassured many times that it is all worth it, and I have no doubt that is true.  

Give me Ice

I'm sorry it's been so long since I last posted it has been a long couple of weeks, I've been traveling.  The bigger I get the harder travel is, so the last few weeks have been both exhausting and a little painful.  Baby boy is getting so big my organs are getting squished, and the good news from the doctor is that I just have to deal with it. Fantastic.

I've hit the 30 week mark! Which means only 10 short weeks before we get to meet this little guy who we are so curious about! He is kicking up a storm and healthy and growing, so we are happy.

It seems to me that normal pregnant woman have cravings.  I haven't had any of those weird cravings you hear about but I do want one thing constantly: ice. Anything with ice is good; ice cream, milkshakes, slushies, cups of ice to chew, popsicles, drinks full of ice, etc. What's weird about this is I usually hate ice. I don't like it in my drinks (waters them down), I've never been able to chew ice (hurts my teeth), slushies give me brain freeze...so this is definitely a new development. And it's not because I'm hot - I'm still cold all the time, but I want ice, and I want it bad.

Slushies specifically are gold to me right now. I know for a fact I could down gallons of slushie every day if it was available to me and until a few weeks ago I wasn't too picky about the kind. But then Brett introduced me to the Wild Berry Lemonade slushie from Speedway gas stations. Three glorious days in a row I had 44 ounce Wild Berry Lemonade (WBL) slushies, it was wonderful. Then we got home from our trip and discovered that for whatever reason (I'm convinced it's a personal vendetta of some kind), the Mahoning Valley Speedways don't believe in Wild Berry Lemonade slushies.

In a desperate attempt to feed my addiction, since then I have tried many types of slushies from many places. There a few that are ok - but they in no way compare to the glory of Wild Berry Lemonade.  Sigh*

Now I wait for the day about once a week when my wonderful husband picks me up a WBL slushie on his way home from ball testing because there is a place out that way that has them, and I am ever so grateful for this amazing man.

Here is a picture of my belly as well as an almost finished WBL slushie - that was a good day: