Boy Or Girl??

So, I'm dying to find out if we are having a boy or a girl, but I figure I'd ask what all your predictions are. I'll list out some of my symptoms and things that might help you guess what we will have.

All Day Sickness- I've been sick pretty much all day long. It's finally starting to go away, but sometimes still creeps up on me. Luckily, I've only thrown up a handful of times.

Smells- Lately smells have been getting to me. Some of which have triggered those handful of unpleasant throw ups I've encountered.

Cravings- So far I haven't had too many cravings. Slurpee's were a big help in cutting down on my sickness, so I've had several of those lately.

Moodiness- Right when we found out I was prego, I was having mood swings galore! But I haven't really had them. I'm just exhausted all the time now.

Heartbeat- Our baby's heart beat is very strong and fast

My family history- My family has all boys and one girl. My dads family had all girls and one boy. My moms family had two boys and two girls. On my dad's side I have all boy cousins except 4 girl cousins. On my moms side- I'm not too sure, mixed.

Koelliker family history- Justus' family has all boys and one girl. His dads family has 5 girls and 2 boys. His moms family had primarily girls and a few boys (I'm not sure on exact numbers for the Cromars). Justus' cousins are mixed, but seem to be primarily boys (but there are a lot of them!).

HAPPY GUESSING!

ER VISIT

Well, on Friday we had a scare. I was on my lunch watching Justus' teams play in the Sparta tournament when I wasn't feeling well and my stomach started hurting. I figured I was hungry so I got some food and a drink and waited for the pain to go away. Well, it didn't. It got worse and worse during the game. So, after it was over I told Justus we needed to go to the ER because I was in a lot of pain (and of coarse I started crying because of the pain and I was scared). So we went to Alta View's ER. After waiting for 30 minutes to get checked in, we finally got back to a room. I was in the most pain at this point, and it would get worse at times and then die down a little; my fear, I was having a miscarriage and my pain was contractions. I'm still crying over the pain and me being scared. Finally after waiting over an hour, probably 90 minutes, a nurse finally comes in (pain time- 2 hours+). She doesn't do much, just has me do a urine sample and sends me back to my room. After sitting in there for a few minutes, they move me to another "room." After waiting for probably another 30 minutes we finally see the doctor. By this time my pain is starting to slowly die down. He does some basic exams of my heart beat, stomach pressure and all that jazz. Then he says we'll do an ultra sound to make sure baby is okay. So, after several more minutes he does that and the baby is fine. Whew! Huge relief! I'm still in some pain, but I'm not bawling anymore and its really dying down. Of coarse...right when the doctor walks in I'm starting to feel fine right? So they determine that I should do more tests (blood work, another ultra sound and a pelvic exam) just to make sure all is well. After all that, and several more hours of being there and lots of waiting. I'm finally discharged and given antibiotics to fight what they think might be a "slight infection." Key word "MIGHT." After lots of freaking out, stressing and crying everything is fine. We were able to see the baby on another ultra sound and see the heartbeat again. Everything is fine, but what a scare we had.

News!!!!

Well...have you noticed my new widget on my blog???????

Who's excited?!!! We are!!!

Justus and I are pleased to announce we are going to be parents! Our due date is March 2, 2010. Crazy! We are so excited. After 2 years of trying we are pleased to announce we finally did it!!

We had our first appointment yesterday and once I find my camera cord I'll post pictures of all the wonderful new things that have happened to us lately.

So, not only are we going to be first time aunt and uncle in about a months time, we are excited that we'll be able to have a cousin for our new nephew to play with!

We obviously don't know the sex yet, but we are ecstatic!!

I'M SO EXCTIED!!!

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE COMES OUT TONIGHT, I AM SO GOING TO THE MIDNIGHT SHOWING!! ME, JUSTUS, GILBERT, MCKINNON, AND JONNY (MY BROTHER) ARE ALL BRAVING THE MIDNIGHT CROWD TO SEE THE MOVIE TOGETHER! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!

Just an update

Well, I haven't blogged for a while. I can't find my camera cord to download pictures of anything yet. We are still trying to unpack and get all moved into our house. Once its ready I'll hopefully post pictures. I'm having a baby shower for Joyce on Saturday, so I have to have the house presentable for all the relatives. So hopefully I'll have pictures soon.

As far as my knee goes I do have to have surgery. I have a torn ACL and I think a lot of meniscus damage so they'll go in and fix it all. I haven't scheduled my surgery but I can have it whenever I want after I get my range of motion back. I have to be able to bend it and straighten it. I can't quite straighten it all the way and can't bend it as far back as I used to be able to. So I'm still working on that. I'm still limping a little bit and my leg gets tired if I walk/stand on it for too long.

I've had to take leave at Naartjie until I can get more strength back in my leg, hopefully I'll be back there in August. I've also had to retire for now from coed soccer, and other sports. I was hoping to get to play tennis this summer with Justus but I can't play now : (

Well...I'll keep you all updated and hopefully post pictures within the week.

I did what to my knee?

So, if you've read my prior post you'll know that I injured my knee playing soccer over the weekend. Well, today I went to the doctor and got my diagnosis.

I TORE MY ACL!!

I am in shock. I'm not in a lot of pain so I figured I partially tore or just strained something. Guess not. I'll be following up with the physical therapist next week and we will hopefully have my surgery date scheduled. I'll keep you updated.

Crutches please!!

So, I'm sure you're all dying to see pictures of our house, well we don't have any yet because we are still trying to unpack! I never realized how much stuff we have!! So pictures will be coming soon, hopefully later this week. Oh, and if you haven't sent me your address do so soon so I can send out invitations to our house warming party!!

Now...onto the crutches. So, Saturday was a pretty typical Saturday for me. Working at Naartjie in the morning, then a couple coed indoor soccer games. Well, we won our first game and then we had our second game. And thats where disaster struck. There was less than 5 minutes left in the game and we were winning. I was sprinting back to defend since no one else was. I got to the girl with the ball, she was trying to fake me out. I went to pivot in the direction she was going and my left foot just stayed there. My left knee popped out of place and then back in. Was a great feeling! NOT! I stood there for a second and then dropped to the ground and started shreeking in pain. I was starting to hyperventilate a little. Good thing Justus and my brother are on the team and were there to calm me down before I went into shock. I couldn't move my leg really. They carried me off the field and I put it up to start icing it. I had stopped crying at this point by the way. Well, we ended up tying the game since the people who will actually defend were either injured or on the bench because they subbed out earlier. Well, my knee is about double its normal size right now. The swelling hasn't gotten much better and I've been hobbling around most of the weekend. I've been using crutches whenever possible because when I drag my leg or try to limp I get tired and sore really fast. I have an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon on Wednesday, they said since my knee is still really swollen they wouldn't be able to do anything. So I'll let you all know what the damage is.