Hello baby Allred. This weekend was my baby shower, thrown for me by my cousin Michelle. There were probably about 20 guests plus a few drop ins. It made me feel so loved that people would come to say hi or just drop off a gift even if they didn't have time to stay- to me it said, "You matter to me". The love and generosity of my friends and family makes me feel much more prepared for baby Matthew's arrival in February.
Hello to a busy week. I have various appointments on three different days this week, starting with a consult at the oral surgeon. I have a rotten tooth that is infected and the situation compounded by my one wisdom tooth pressing on it, so the dentist referred me to the oral surgeon to have both pulled. Then tomorrow I have a prenatal appointment with my OB/GYN. This appointment will set off the scheduling of appointments every two weeks. Thankfully, Eldon's new office, if our information is correct, is a mere five minutes from the doctor's office. My third appointment this week is on Wednesday at Howard Community College. My friend, Mara, is doing a sonography program at the college and their unit this semester was on obstetrics. She needed a model for her final- someone who is currently pregnant. I am flattered she asked and excited to get the extra ultrasound free of charge. The college has a 3D ultrasound machine, something my doctor's doesn't have. I went and got an ultrasound at the college back at week 18 of my pregnancy and got the 3D pictures then - the baby looked more like an alien at that point. Now, at 31 weeks, he should look much more like a baby and like what he will look like when he is born.
And finally, a big hello to keyboard malfunction. Writing this post has been torture because after typing every few letters, the cursor has been jumping around. I will be typing halfway back up the page or worst of all, it will highlight whole paragraphs and my typing will erase all I have written. Thank goodness for the undo button that restores what was erased. I checked in Microsoft Word, to see if maybe Blogger was the issue, but had the problem there, too. I'll have my computer engineer husband take a look later- probably after he finishes up the work for his two master's classes that end this week. Until then, typing remains nightmarish. (Hmm, maybe it was my hands hitting the track pad as I typed. Weird.)
