Appointments and roller coasters

This has been a crazy week full of appointments and new disappointments, I mean discoveries.



Easter was great. Busy and full of travel, but very nice to be with family. Here are some pictures.

We traveled that day more than we spent at any one house. But Miss J had a blast opening up presents and eating...well so did we, we had two full dinners over about the course of 4 hours. Mmmm, glad we don't do that every day.

Tuesday we had a post-op appt for Miss J to followup on the tube surgery. Everything looks fabulous, and her hearing tests improved, even though the first time wasn't really bad, this time was even better. It is nice to have that done and over and am seeing a huge difference in her hearing, talking, repeating, yelling, rambling, and even in her runny nose. Not much of one lately and I think it is due to the fact that everything is draining so much better. Whew...hope that fiasco is over!

Following her appt I had my second Pre-natal visit. 11w2d. I thought it was going to be another boring visit with the nurse practitioner. Nope, got to get my lower half undressed for a chlamydia test (I had just had my normal pap done in January, so they didn't' have to do that), but it was about the same. Then they listened for the heartbeat. I don't remember them doing it that early with Miss J, but so much time has gone by. I really wasn't expecting to hear it anyway, just so my hopes didn't get up there...but I did. About 162 bpm. And wow Baby P2 was low. Like still down around my pelvic bone. I really thought he/she was higher, especially since I am getting a bit of a belly. Crazy. Oh, plus they weighed me. Based on their scale, I have only gained 1lb in a month. Uh, I don't think so...but I will take it. I think I was wearing lighter clothes this time since it was getting warmer out. And based on their calcs, I have only gained 3 lbs since January, which is actually the day before we conceived Baby P2. However, my scale (which I weigh first thing in the AM totally naked) shows 5lbs. Either way, I am on a healthy weight gain as of now.

Then Wednesday we had Miss J's 18 month well visit. She is almost 19 months, but they wanted to wait until after the ear surgery...which was fine. She is still sitting in the 50th percentile for weight and height, which is fine, she is short so it doesn't seem like she is skinny or small or anything. She's got her chub to her...definitely not undernourished!! Then, she got her shots. Ugh, I didn't expect that. But, OK. And I waived the HepA vaccine...I guess because I could and I hate the idea of pumping my little girl full of all these vaccines if they are not needed. I have requested that the MMR and chix pox vaccine get pushed off until she goes to school. Luckily her doc is OK with that. I believe in the vaccines, don't get me wrong, but if you can space them out and push them out until they are not developing their brains and systems so much...I am all for it. Maybe I am paranoid...but my gutt on that. Otherwise, healthy, happy girl.

Unfortunately, she woke up 3-times last night. This week she has been up around 4am each morning, because she lost her paci, and the night before it was 11pm and 3am. Last night, 11pm, 1:30, and 2:30. Ugh...I am tired. She has to be too. I finally put some vicks on her chest and turned on her humidifier, she had a pretty stuffy nose so I thought that should help. It did, for her. But took me another hour to fall back asleep. I am beat! Not sure why she is waking up so often. Usually that was a sign of an ear infection, but none of that so speak of. So maybe a cold...or just the darn losing the paci thing. We almost had her off the paci before her last ear infection which led to her surgery...but then with those two things, she really relied on the paci to calm her down. Now it is a habit again. Only at night though...she doesn't have it all day or anything...but only for nightime, and maybe if she gets fussy or tired. So after our trip to Vegas in a couple weeks, we are going to work on weaning her again.

In other news...DH's job is not going so well. Back in Nov/Dec he was told by his contractor that he would be needed full time this year and there were a bunch of jobs in the streamline and that DH needed to let him know what salary he needed to make (once his unemployment ran out). So all seemed to be going good until the past few weeks when it seemed like things were slowing down and there were not as many jobs on the horizon and there seemed like too many people working in a small space where everyone wasn't really needing to be there. So DH has been trying for 3-weeks to confront this guy (who is a friend who used to do work with DH's dad) and ask him what is going on. It would be nice to know if this opportunity is not going to pan out that DH should start looking for another job since is unemployment is now run out. But he keeps avoiding him. DH says, "hey D, I really need to talk"...."oh, yeah, not right now, I have to run here or do this." Then nothing. Next day, same thing. Now, not only does DH not have any idea if he will be working tomorrow or next week or not but he owes DH a couple thousand dollars back pay...needless to say DH is pissed and upset and scared. We are on the fence of what to do and what direction he should go. A few months ago, things looked very promising, now, not so much.

And DH feels like crap, and feels pathetic. He really doesn't want to go back to the car business, but that is where he will make the most $$ because of experience...however, the hours are going to stink. He is so used to having breakfast with Miss J and being home for dinner and being able to take off early if she has an appt or something. With another car job, he would not have that flexibility, plus probably have to work late and some Saturdays. Hmmm, but for the money, is it worth it. Oh, and not to mention the lying, cheating, and stealing he would have to do again with that job...tough one.

But what else could he do...back to square one.

So, please pray for us and DH and D (his avoiding boss) and for some light at the end of the tunnel...oh...and how about for having money for our next month bills!!

Oh, the roller coaster is taking off again!