Official Announcement

I am officially announcing that Young baby number 4 is scheduled to arrive on November 4th. I have been hesitant to say much...until today. Todd and I lost two babies before Gabriel was born, so we pretty much spend the first trimester holding our breath.

At my 12 week appointment (where I was only 11 weeks) they couldn't hear a heartbeat, and that made us a little nervous. I went back today (I am officially 14 weeks 1 day) and the doctor still couldn't find a heartbeat. He wasn't worried, but we were. He sent me in for a sono "just to make sure", and Todd was afraid to bring the kids in for that in case the news was bad. But thanks be to God, the baby looks perfect... with a little heart beating 153 times per minute.

I wish I had a scanner so I could scan the sonogram pictures in, but I don't. I go back in 4 weeks for another sonogram, and we will NOT be finding out the baby's sex. But maybe by then I will have devised a way to upload the pictures. They will also do another blood draw to check my anti-Kell level which may determine how often I need to see the perinatal specialist. I think I'll write more about Kell and anti-Kell sometime soon.

We told the little ones today (once we knew everything was okay) and they are VERY EXCITED! It is so precious to listen to them talking about their new baby. Jacob is probably the most excited of all, which is funny to me. Who would have thought a 10 year old boy would be so excited about a baby?

An Oral Report

This is Jacob's first attempt at an oral report. It is sideways because I always forget and turn the camera on it's side to shoot video... I haven't done any critiquing yet, because I'm feeling lazy. Feel free to leave a comment and do my job for me :) I will say that I'm not thrilled with his closing, but we haven't worked a lot on that yet. And he needs to learn how to look up, but that may be harder for him because of his vision problems.