23 weeks!

I made it another week!

Just one more week to viability. yeah!!!!

This is my HUGE belly! You can see how it pulls my back. My poor, poor back. It screams from the painful knots at night and then I feel like screaming, but I don't have the lung capacity so I just whimper. I would cry, but I think it would hurt too much. It hurts to sit up and it hurts to lie down. I have dealt with painful muscles before after running marathons and this doesn't even compare. I WILL make it through!

I have been doing the Home Uterine Monitoring each day this week. A nurse came on Monday and set me all up. It monitors for contractions. I have to put this belt on twice a day that is hooked up to a computer monitor. After an hour of monitoring, I hook the computer up to a modem and then send the information to a nurse who calls with my update. I am allowed to have 7 contractions in the time I monitor and the most I have had is four. I have never even felt one! I don't even know what a contraction feels like since I had a c-section with Brooke. I have a lot of irritability in my uterus each time which are like mini contractions, but that is okay. I don't feel that either. I will have to continue to monitor for contractions from here on out. If I have more than seven I will have to get a pump that injects medication into my leg. I am just hoping to stay out of the hospital.

I have passed my husband up with my weight! Actually probably a few weeks ago since he only weighs 160. Poor Troy gets a workout trying to help me up from the couch or bed. He is very helpful and massages my knots each night. He will probably have to get his thumbs repaired after all of this from pushing on the knots so hard. If he eventually gets arthritis in his thumbs, you'll know why.

This is going to be a FABULOUS week! Monday my hair dresser is coming over to give me a haircut! Yeah! I am also going to get a pedicure at home this week because... I have my friend shower on Saturday! I am really looking forward to the shower and seeing everyone! I have the best friends and neighbors in the world and I feel so blessed they are hosting a shower for me.

The meals are still going GREAT! I just can't thank everyone enough who are bringing meals and signing up on the carecalendar. We LOVE it and it helps more than you can imagine. Thank you, thank you!!!!

Brooke getting ready to get her picture taken with real bunnies for Easter in the dress her Bubba got her.

Brooke and Troy changing the door on the laundry room so that it opens the opposite way. She is his little helper. Troy is getting so much done around the house! This weekend he is painting the hallway by the garage door and the laundry room. Brooke even helps him with the taping and she is pretty good at it.