Diabetes

I passed! Huzzah! No diabetes for me! Finally something has gone right with this pregnancy. All I had to do was not eat for like 6 hours, guzzle a bottle of lemon-lime syrup (way worse than the orange soda stuff), get my fingers pricked 4 times, and not throw up. And I did do all of those things. To celebrate when I got home I ate 3 bowls of 3 different kinds of cereal and took a 3 hour nap. Not a bad day. Nate and my brothers just went to play soccer, so I guess I'll try and get some stuff done around the house now. Later-

25.5 weeks

I saw Dr Porter today, but there's not much to report. I gained a little more weight, but not as much as last month (thank goodness!). I think I'm up a total of 15 pounds now. That part is taking a little getting used to. Dr Porter had me take the "sugar test" since I had the time, and I failed. The sugar test is a glucose screening test. From what the lab nurse told me, which wasn't much, all this means is that I get to come back on Saturday and take the 3 hour sugar test (as opposed to the 1 hour version I failed). So Saturday will be a fun day because I have to fast (which makes me sick) and then guzzle down twice as much orange soda as I did today (which makes me sick) and then check in and have my finger poked every hour for 3 hours (which doesn't make me sick but which will be annoying). I hope I pass this one, because methinks it will be bad news to fail twice. Dr Porter didn't tell me anything, but my trusty interweb says that about 15 to 23 percent of the time women test with blood sugar levels that are too high (like me) and have to take the 3 hour test to see if they really do have gestational diabetes. The good news is that most people don't have it and this is probably a false positive (I hope). I guess I'll have more info on that later this week.

Li'l Cleatus is around 13.5 inches long and weighs about a pound and a half (says the interweb). His weight is roughly that of an average rutabaga, for those of you who know your veggies. He's still pretty active, and I think he likes to dance. That's the only way I can think of to describe the random movements I feel from day to day.

That's all for now. I'll let you know if I pass my next test or not on Saturday. Bye!

Some Pictures

Here are some pictures of our unfinished house (some of you have already seen it, some have not), and some pictures from the Great Easter Egg Hunt of 2008. Okay, the Easter pictures are more along the lines all the funtivities we did today. I'm sure Caleb will have plenty more to post later. 

My eggs say Cleatus, Supra, Egg, and I Heart Nate...

This is Nate's happy Easter face. He's holding Li'l Cleatus's presents.

The kids sorting through their 12 pounds of candy...


Scott giving Rachel a hand...




Okay, here are the pictures of the house, starting with our bedroom. 

And here's the kitchen...

This would be Nate running on the treadmill we're babysitting for Lenna and Scott...

And here's the living room...

That's all. Oh wait. I have a couple more fun pictures of Nate. Here you go...

He's wearing the dragon we got from Ikea for Li'l Cleatus's room. We're planning on decorating with like safari/jungle animals, but how could Nate's son NOT have a dragon? 

In this picture Nate's wearing his best shirt. It says, "Your mom goes to college." 

And though I might regret this later, here's a picture of me today trying on a pair of maternity pants that I will never, ever, put on again. Ever. (Yeah, my shirt is tucked in. I think it helps add to the overall effect.) Yikes!

My next doctor's appointment is on Tuesday, so I guess I'll have another update then. That's all for now!

Good Times

So, I went to California this weekend with my mom, brother, and sister. We went down for my cousin's wedding, to see some of Seth's mission friends, and to go to Disneyland. It was a short trip, but we had a lot of fun. Seth and Heather went on their favorite rides while my mom and I went shopping with her friend Pauline. Thanks to my fake cousin Amy we got a sweet discount on most of our purchases, and we even got to go to the special employees only "Company D" store. That was pretty awesome. The store is a little ways away from Disneyland in the warehouse district of Anaheim. Everything in the store was at least 50% off of regular price. The items weren't seconds or ruined or anything--just overstocks from the other stores. I got some cute clothes and things for Li'l Cleatus, and my sister got a child's Peter Pan costume that fits her.

My cousin's wedding reception was a little weird, but it was nice to see my aunts and uncles on my mom's side of the family. We don't get to see them very often, so we appreciate it when we do. And seeing some of the families Seth met on his mission was fun. It was nice to see that people liked him and missed him. We took the missionaries in Barstow out to lunch on Saturday and enjoyed visiting with them. They seem so young. They looked about 12, but they seem to be doing good work out there. I don't know the story behind it, but now all missionaries in that mission have to have someone back them out any time they reverse out of anywhere. Seth helped them out after lunch so they could both stay in the car. (Seth mentioned that it took him a while to get used to the fact that he didn't have to back my mom out of the driveway and that he was just standing behind the car for no reason.)

Anyway, everything was great and wonderful, except for the fact that my right leg is still numb and that made sitting in a car for 10 hours straight and walking around Disneyland until midnight a little uncomfortable. I guess I'm just going to have to get used to it for the next few months. It varies between feeling like nothing's there to feeling cold to feeling like it's on fire. Good times. I think it's way too early in my pregnancy to have things like this going on, and I've tried telling that to the baby, but he doesn't seem to care.