MIA

I feel like I've been MIA with only my few posts here or there.  The truth is everything takes me a little longer these day since my energy level has dropped majorly.  Of course, I'm not complaining.  Two things I will not do during this pregnancy: complain or waddle. 

On a scale of 1-10 my nausea is a 1 or 2.  I have a friend who is so sick she ends up in the hospital has to be medicated.  So, see, no complaining here.  Mostly I'm tired and extra hungry.  I'm still working out but have gained 5 pounds already! Yikes.  I'm determined not to get plump.  We'll see.

I have decided on a doctor.  My friend and her husband have their own ob/gyn practice.  I will not being SEEING them (if you know what I mean), but will see the midwife and other two doctors in the office.

They deliver at a much smaller hospital than the one at which I delivered the first five so I'm looking forward to that.  My first appointment is Thursday.  Then next week I go back for a sonogram.

Did you know insurance only allows 2-3 people to be with you in the hospital room when you deliver now?  I had 5 with me when I delivered Iris.  I definitely want Emma and Iris with me this time.  I didn't ask if that eliminated kids.  And all this time, I've been picturing 5 kids coming in to see the baby when he/she is born.  There will be 8. 

On the adoption front...We sent our dossier and three care packages with the agency director to Ethiopia this past Friday.  I forgot to take pictures of the care packages.  We included a photo album with pictures of all of us, stickers, bandaids, crayons, pencil, a small notebook, hair bows and headbands, toothbrush and paste, lotion, and beef jerky (we don't eat it but we'll work on healthy eating when they get here).  I think that's it.

This weekend we get to go to a gathering with other families in the area who have or are adopting from Ethiopia.  Isn't that cool?  What a nice support system they have in place.

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I have so many posts I want to do on topics like chores, picky eaters, books I'm reading (ever so slowly), etc.  Hopefully I'll get to them soon.