Friday was an interesting day- and didn’t go as expected (as if anything does these days!). Stratton was so good for the most part. We picked him up at Jarrod’s mom and dad’s house around 9ish and he was ready to go! He was ready to go to see the baby! He told us that “the baby isn’t ready to come out”. We had bought him the Muppets movie, just in case he wasn’t wanting to leave but he was surprisingly happy. And once he saw the new movie he could care less where he was or who was around! He just wanted to watch it!!
We had to wait about 15 minutes at the Dr. office, and luckily I had remembered to bring the ipad! So it wasn’t bad at all! Stratton played some games and was great. We got into our room and Stratton was really quiet. The staff is so great and talked to him directly- which is always nice. The nurse we had today was really chatty and tried to get S to talk to her, but he wasn’t giving it! She got my stats and everything looked good. I was actually down a pound! I don’t know how that is possible with everything I am eating!!
When Dr. Smith came in and tried to get the ultra sound machine working- just like last time, she couldn’t get the printer to print! So they took us in the big U/S room where there was a big screen tv that displays the monitor larger than what is on that little screen! I was excited! It was good for Stratton, too. It was much easer for him to see. Well the tech worked and worked and jiggled and pushed, but she couldn’t get the little stinker to move where she could see what the gender was! He actually had his legs like he was sitting indian style! The Dr and the tech were both leaning towards a boy, but they said don’t get anything monogrammed yet, as they weren’t 100% positive! Ugh!! The tech said that she saw something’s that were suspiciously pointing towards a boy, but it’s hard to tell whether it was a boy part or just part of the cord! So, now we have to wait another 5 weeks before my next appointment to be sure! I knew it was a possibility, but was still disappointed! It’s going to be a long 5 weeks!
Here are the videos of the ultrasound. And since the baby looks kinda like an alien right now, it’s a little scary! But it’s neat that they put the entire thing on a dvd to take home. Especially since Stratton has carried around the hard copy pictures and messed them up! You can see when the tech is jiggling and pushing around trying to get him to move around! The last video has more of his face and the 4d part.
After my appointment we went to Loca Luna for lunch. Stratton fell asleep in the car on the way so I carried him in and he slept through most of lunch! He did wake up in time to sample some cheese dip and tomato dip (as he refers to salsa) and he ate some of Jarrod’s fish and fries. Healthy lunch, I know. It was so good! I love that place!! After lunch we stopped by Gene Lockwood’s and Stratton got a new pair of Toms. Then we headed to the zoo! The weather was awesome, so I was really looking forward to it. But things changed when we got up close to the zoo. There were cars parked everywhere! It was crazy! There were about 100 people standing in line to get tickets and no where to park! We decided to try and come back another time- as it would have been frustrating for Stratton since he wouldn’t be able to see anything and also there were so many people I’m not sure we could have used the stroller and S is too heavy to carry him around the whole time, and we sure weren’t letting him walk on his own!! He was so MAD!! So we took him to Learning Express Toy Store and he got to pick out a new toy and then we got yogurt! Not the same, but it helped a little. We ran by Fort Thompson before heading home. We thought about stopping in Searcy, but S was taking such a good nap we kept on going. He woke up about Cash, so he got a pretty good nap! We rested at home for a bit then decided we didn’t want to cook so we went to Fat City for supper.
It was a long day, and was a little disappointing. But I’m glad we took Stratton. He has been talking about seeing the baby and how they put jelly on my tummy! We will probably take him next time, which is April 27th- 5 days before we leave for the beach! So at least we’ll hopefully know before we go on vacation! He also took the pictures to church and showed his class pictures of his “baby brother”- which is usually what he says when referring to the baby. Every once in awhile he’ll say sister, but more often it’s brother. Maybe he knows something we don’t? Haha!
1 comment:
Kate always referred to the baby as 'baby brother' even before we found out Ian was a boy! Who knows!! Those videos are so cool. That was definitely a highlight of pregnancy-seeing the little person growing inside of you!! So cool. And you weren't kidding about an active baby! Be still kid! :)
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