Painful weekend

It has been an expensive day for us here in Austin. We dropped over $3000 today and have nothing to show for it!! We went to Sears in search of a washer and dryer for our new house, but ended up buying a king size mattress set instead. We decided to wait on the washer and dryer in hopes of a better sale around Thanksgiving but they were having a 50% mattresses sale that we couldn't pass up! We also signed our lease today and paid our security deposit and first month's rent. So, it was a painful day for us! We are pretty excited about moving into a bigger/better place.

Well, I am feeling huge and the measurements will attest to it. I went to the doctor's yesterday and my uterus measured 43 cm (I should have measured about 36 or 37)! This is 5 cm more than just last week!!! So, I went to get an ultrasound done to check the size of the baby. Yes, he looks fairly big and they guess he weighs about 8 lbs already. From the ultrasound they say that I am more like 39 weeks along instead of 36 or 37. There can be a lot of reasons for measuring big. Sometimes it is a big baby, or a lot of fluid or sometimes they find problems of some other kind. I probably have a combination of an excess amount of fluid and a big baby. It is the BIG BABY part that scares me. So, I am anxiously awaiting labor to start so I can get this butterball out!!


Elise is doing well. The above picture is her in the morning, posing with a little bed-head. We had a bit of a scary time earlier this week with Ellie. I had just taken her to the playground and we walked about the stairs together and I noticed that she was really whiney and was favoring her left hand. She wouldn't let me near it and cried whenever I touched it. So, it seemed like she broke it or something, but I had no idea how she did it!!! So, freaked out, I took her to the pediatrician who said she had "milk maid's elbow". Basically what it is is that she partially dislocated her forearm. She must of done it reaching for something. The doctor just turned her arm and it popped right back into place and she was instantly better. It was pretty scary for me though. I thought I had broken her. Plus, it was just another thing that was happening before all this other craziness.