Caedon went with me on Good Friday to my OB appointment. I am now 28 weeks pregnant. Just routine measurements and blood pressure check along with my gestational diabetes screening. For the glucose test you have to drink concentrated juice and then come back in an hour for a blood draw. Good news - I passed! Caedon was such a good boy at the appointment, just sitting in a chair quietly watching what was going on.
Later on that day, Caedon and I went grocery shopping. On two different occasions at the store, someone asked Caedon, "How are you?!?" His answer? "Mommy doctor, blood pressure and drink juice." (referring to my appointment 8 hours earlier) Yes, the people were confused. Not your typical answer to the question, 'How are you?' When Chase got home I told him to ask Caedon the same question, and he got the same results!
I will now start going to see Dr. Severidt every two weeks instead of every four. We will also start doing non-stress tests at every visit. You can read about what that is here: http://www.americanpregnancy.org/prenataltesting/non-stresstest.html. Briefly, they just monitor the baby's heart rate by strapping a monitor around my waist for about 20 minutes. They are usually not done in a typical pregnancy, but since we lost Sydney they are just taking extra precautions. I actually did a couple of these when I was pregnant with Caedon since I was on bed-rest after having contractions and a positive fetal-fibronectin test at 28 weeks.
Chase takes his final set of boards on April 19th. It is a 9 hour computer test at a testing location here in Des Moines. He does not seemed stressed at all about them. Should that worry me? Typical Chase, I suppose! Also interesting news that I found out after his Honduras trip - a month or so before his arrival at the hospital, gang members climbed the hospital fence with automatic guns and forced some visiting missionary doctors to perform surgery on their fellow gang member. WHAT!?! Seriously....so glad he is back home! He brought back some coffee (we don't drink coffee?), vanilla extract, lots of soccer jerseys (including one for Caedon), and some home decorations for me.
We played outside a lot with Caedon today. He seems to be getting a lot faster, he was even pretty speedy in his new sandals he got for Easter this morning (he got some rain boots and Puma shoes, too). He rode a long time on his Strider bike and sat down on it for a lot of that time. Progress!
Yesterday there was an Easter Egg hunt that Caedon qutie enjoyed. He picked up a couple eggs and put them in his basket, and then one of them broke open. Before that, I don't think he knew that there was candy inside. He then had to be convinced after each newly found egg to look for more instead of eating the candy from his most recent find. There he also got a whistle, which he is actually pretty good at blowing. Loudly. Chase and I hid a lot of eggs here in our living room today and he did a great job taking his time and looking for them. My parents actually got to see him search for the eggs via Skype. Kinda cool!
We seem to be backtracking on the potty training. Caedon knows how to go and when he is going, but he refuses to go sit on the potty. It always takes a bribe (candy, donut, painting, etc.) and sometimes those won't even work. I guess we will just continue taking things step by step and try to not stress about it (me not Chase).
On a good day, the boy can also spell three words from memory: No, Stop, and Caedon. He also loves to point out question marks and exclamation points (which he used to call upside-down I's, but Chase has straightened him out on that!).
Caedon is using more phrases as well, like "Are you coming?" "Yesterday he said, "Sara, I need the computer. Sara, I need the computer! SARA, I NEED COMPUTER!" I guess I wasn't moving fast enough for him. Or maybe I didn't want to respond to the non-Mommy name-calling. :) Also, most everything is, "I need." I need candy, I need phone, I need juice.
Here's to hoping for a non-stressful work week (last week was horrible!). I have my doubts about this week as well, but what can you do!
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