30 week belly pic...

Just a quick update...

We had our 30 week ultrasound today. Everything looks great, of what we could see of course. She is getting awfully big and is head down and spine down, so so cutesy pics today. BUT! We did find out how much she weighs. As of 4 weeks ago, she weighed 2 lbs 1 oz. Today she weighed in at a whopping 3 lbs 14 oz! Holy Guacamole!

I only gained 4 lbs last month and 2 of the were her! Whew! No wonder Ive been so pooped lately.

So we're now on a countdown! We have less than 10 weeks left. That's single week digits! Matt and I are so excited. I'm sure you can imagine. LOL

Clean bill of health!

So the trip to Seattle for Matt's clinic visit went great! After 3 weeks of IV meds and home health care, Matt is feeling pretty darn good! He has put some weight back on and his appetite is certainly back with a vengeance. Rivaling my own appetite (now 30 weeks pregnant by the way!).

So back to work he goes! YAY! Poor guy gets so bored hanging out at home, with his life revolving around medication doses. Cant say that I blame him.

All his doctors and nurses are a hoot! They really are the highlight to our visits there. Whats so funny, is the last couple of visits have been more based on me and the baby than they have been about Matt. LOL Matt likes the break and I just like talking about the pregnancy. :)

They want us to come back and see them when we go back up for a week with the Transplant team. At some point in the next month or two, Matt has a laundry list of testing to get done here locally, and then when those are done here, we have to go camp out up there for about 4 days to meet with all the different members of the team. The main transplant dr, the surgeon, the social worker, the dentist, etc... and of course, they all have different clinic days, so no doing it all on 1 days. Poo!

So we will either be back up to see the CF clinic in 2 or 3 months. Which will be either right before or right after baby. Holy Cow! I cant believe how close we're getting! Yikes! Everyone is soooo excited for us and to see her! I think they're probably about as excited as Matt and I! LOL We are so blessed to to have so many caring people in our lives. Sometimes I just have to take a moment and it just boggles the mind.

Of course Seattle weather was a bummer. We did do a little shopping at Gymboree. I told Matt to just swipe the card, and not to look or listen for the total. LOL He half listened to me. So he wasn't shocked, but he did decide that we should skip the other stores after that. He's so adorable. I must be the luckiest woman in the world. If not now, then definitely in the next 10 weeks...

Holy Guacamole!

I just realized, that I have been checking everyone else's blogs, and totally have been neglecting my own!

OOPS!

So quick update! Matt has been on IV antibiotics, doing home health care for the last 3 weeks. He's doing well and feeling better. Not as good as if he had gone in patient of course, but meh, those are the choices we have to make.

We're going back up to Seattle on Monday, for a follow up to make sure we killed most of the nasties. And shop at Babies R Us of course! LOL (Matt may or may not know that we're shopping yet)

We also have another ultrasound coming up this week. Last time She weighed 2 lbs 1 oz. My guess is this time she will be 3 lbs 4 oz. We'll see, but we are both getting pretty big!

I am so excited to get a peek at her again! Her nursery is almost all done, and Matt and I are getting so anxious so meet her! And of course, I have started a count down. 10 weeks! I am totally enjoying being pregnant, but I'm just so excited to see her! How does anyone stand the excitement?!

GREAT STRIDES was a success!

So today was the first official walk for GREAT STRIDES in the Tri Cities to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and it was awesome! Initially Richland was just a "pilot site" with a goal of $25,000 to raise, to actually become an "official site. This morning at the beginning of the event, we had a raised an impressive $15,000, but were still short of our goal by quite bit. But about half way through the event, we hit our mark and then some!

We met some fellow CF'ers and made some great connections. It was all very exciting and Matt and I really look forward to being even more involved next year! Apparently Team Gregory has made a real impression on the Committee members for our chapter, and they wanted to make sure we would be back next year with even more enthusiasm and passion for the cause.

How wonderful to have that kind of impact on the people in our community.

So I just want to say thank you again to all our team members and sponsors for doing such a fantastic job! I really hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as Matt and I did! You guys are amazing and we're so blessed to have such kind and giving people in our lives to take such an interest in something so important to us!

Below is a little snippit from the local news. If you pay attention, then you can see quite a few of our team members!

26 week ultrasound...

So we had another ultrasound this morning! 26 weeks, can you believe it? Just to follow up on the two little echogenic spots in her heart. Nothing to be worried about though. Just something to follow, which we are fine with, since that means more ultrasounds! LOL

So drum roll please.... She now weighs 2 lbs 1 oz!!! She has gained a whole pound in the last four weeks! And since we have another u/s sched for another four weeks, she will probably put on another pound! whew!

So everything looks good. She was head down and had her little face tucked away, so we didn't get to see to much of her face. From what it looked like today though, its looking more like my nose than Matt's now, but I really think its just cause she was all squished in the corner and with both her hands up by her face. But the sonographer still managed to snag a couple cuties. Maybe I'm partial. LOL

A week full of appointments!

To start our crazy week of appointments and activities, yesterday Matt had an appointment in Seattle at UW for a regular CF clinic visit. As it happens Matt has been feeling under the weather, so we were pretty sure it was time for a "clean out" as well.

"Clean outs" for those of you who aren't familiar, are usually about 2 weeks worth of IV and oral antibiotics and steroids to beef Matt up. It can be done either in the hospital or on Home Health Care, where he just hooks himself up to the med pump and what not. They're usually pretty comparable as far as health outcome, but Matt likes to do half and half. The hospital gets to cook and clean for him the first week, and then I get to the second! LOL But this time we opted for just Home Health Care, since the next week and a half are so jam packed with good times! LOL

So Monday was UW, Tuesday is Option Care and OB, Wednesday is U/S, Thursday and Friday we don't have anything "scheduled" but we'll see how that goes, Saturday I'm going to a cousin's baby shower (who happens to be due the same day we are!), Sunday is the CF walk, and Monday a Family Dr appt!

Whew! So we will be hopping all over town this week! We'll see how much energy we actually have for the walk this Sunday!

Hope to see you all there!