Days -vs- Nights

I just got some GREAT news. With all of the new hires we have had recently, I get to move some of my night weekends to days. I only have to work 1 night weekend every 12 weekends! I am so excited I actually jumped up and down at work.

Interesting Observations

Interesting Observation #1:

Can you tell what is out of place in a refrigerator?

Yep you guessed it-The biohazard bag. Just so you know, I was instructed to do this it was not my idea!

Interesting Observation #2:

On Thursday as I was looking in the mirror, I noticed a little bump and for the first time I actually realized it was the baby. I have been noticing that my stomach isn't as flat as it was before, but I was looking for a baby lower than where my bump was. I thought that I was just gaining weight because I had been eating so much. Then I realized 5.5lbs of fat would not look like this :)

16 Weeks




Interesting Observation #3

I wonder what my dolphin will look like in 15 weeks? I promise this will be the first and last actual bare stomach picture that you will have to endure :)

Interesting Observation #4

There is just something magical about a heartbeat!

Little project.... big tool kit.

This week, Brian purchased a wireless mouse to go with his school computer. As he was trying to get it to work, I thought it looked incredibly humorous.

All of that work just to get batteries into the little mouse.

Baby

Here is an update, as I am sure everyone reading this already knows that a baby is on the way!

I had what should have been my first OB appt in the end of December. My blood work is all good and it is now on the books that have a blood type of A neg. Rhogam here I come! Maybe it will work out like it did for my Mom. 4 A neg babies and one A pos father, we definitely beat the odds there!

The baby's heartbeat was easy to find and was 168 at 12 weeks which is good. I don't know if that says anything about gender, but I have 2 sisters and a friend that are convinced it is a girl. Actually my friend, Anna, had a dream that she could see the baby through my stomach and that it is a girl! On the flip side, everyone that works in Microbiology has had a boy first. Apparantly this trend has held true for over 30 years. I wonder if I will break it? We will have to wait until July to find out!

Here is an ultrasound pic from my 7 week ultrasound. For those of you that don't know, there was some bleeding so I had 2 ultrasounds by week 10. Everything is fine though.

Brian was so excited that the baby was going to have a tail... I really had to break it to him that it goes away in the 8-9 week. In this photo you can also see the yolk sac on the bottom. That was a surprise to me, I hadn't read anything about that. I guess we are more like chickens than I thought!

I guess I will get my practice peeing in a cup as I will have to do it at every appt! Not very good at it now, but I guess practice makes perfect! :)

A Fun Weekend

Since I didn't have to work last weekend, Brian and I decided to make the most of the weekend. We had another whirlwind weekend.

Friday night we raked all of the leaves. Raking is officially done for the year! Now we have to haul the 20+ bags to the compost area.

Saturday I played in a volleyball tournament in Rochester. We didn't do that well, but we all had fun. That's what counts right?

We then drove to Springfield to see my Grandma, as she has been in and out of the hospital and is now in the nursing home for hopefully a short stint. Since it was too late on Saturday to see her, we saw her Sunday morning. Saturday night, since my sister was free, we went and saw her cute new house.

After Our visit with Grandma, we drove back to the cities to go to the zoo and dinner. It was a beautiful day and we saw my favorites the dolphins and sea horses and a new animal I have taken a liking to, the Red Panda.




On the way to the restaurant, we practically drove right by my sister Nicole's house so we called her and stopped in on her for a bit so Brian could see her house.

We then went to eat at Al Vento's, this cute little Italian place in South Minneapolis. I had beef tenderloin with a potato truffle puree and Brian had a pasta dish with duck. We then had dessert, even though we were both stuffed! I had my creme brule trio and Brian had gelato.

It was a full weekend full of touring new dwellings and driving! We loved every minute of it!

The end to a productive day off.

I really relished my day off today. I didn't have one appointment, phone call, or errand to run. I know what you all are thinking.... she didn't do anything except lie on the couch all day. I only watched one hour of television and that was when Brian was taking a nap on my lap :)

Here is what I accomplished:

1. Made an apple pie. I also LOVE to bake the leftover crust with cinnamon and sugar. It is almost better than the pie!










2. I did 5 loads of laundry. I still wonder how we accumulate so much laundry.

3. I cleaned the fridge and restocked it (i.e. went grocery shopping).


4. I filed 4 months of paperwork. I really need to do that right away and not let it pile up :)

5. I read a bit and knitted a bit.

6. I hung up our 4 Halloween decorations.
Now off to finish my day by............

folding clothes!

Bodily fluids and food... really?

I have to tell you about a pretty bone-headed thing a nurse did today. I was working in the blood bank and typically when a patient has special needs for their blood products, we have a nurse come down and get it as it is hard to replace if it gets lost in our pneumatic tube system.

So..... a nurse walks in to the blood bank with her soup, crackers, and fountain pop and says, "I'm here to pick up some blood."

My eyebrows raise as I look at her food. She sheepishly tries to hide it with her other hand.. which is holding her pop. I proceed to tell her, " You are absolutely not picking up blood with food". She then proceeds to question me and says "Really?"

Imagine the scene: I am standing there in scrubs, closed toed shoes, lab coat and gloves and she brings in soup, crackers and pop. Really? She is asking for Hepatitis!