Blue Paint and Bedrest Update

Blue Paint

My brother Brian finished finals early and offered to come to Omak for a few days and help out. He did a ton! He ripped up the old floor in the kitchen to prep it for Jeremy putting in tile this weekend, fed the animals, helped me paint the baby room.... BLUE!~ and even nailed himeself with 240V taking out an old baseboard heater, OUCH! Here are a few pictures of him painting.. i'll post more when the room is complete.



The pink color is the old color.. no our little boy isn't going to
have a pink and blue room :-) The Blue is the one on the wall
behind Brian.. A light "sky" blue. The plan is to paint accents
in the dark brown that the crib is... you'll have to wait and see what I mean later.... :-)



Duke doing his part in painting the baby room..
Chewing on his rawhide.. he couldn't stand being
outside of the room, so we finally let him in, all he
wanted was to be in the same room as us.. typical
Lab!!



and Bedrest Update

I went in last week for my ultrasound (the doctor wants them weekly to check changes in my cervical length) and also to do the glucose and iron check. I received a call Tuesday that my iron was low and my glucose was elevated... "GREAT" I thought! "now this?" So now i'm taking 325 mg of iron sulfate 3x a day and had to go back in today for the 3 hr glucose screening. It luckily came back normal. I also had another ultrasound today. All of the ultrasounds up until now showed my cervix at about 4.3. I knew something had changed when the ultrasound tech (who has no personality and barely talks), looked at me and said "when do you see your doctor next?" I asked what my length was and he said "it's definately changed, its 2.9, you aren't to leave this clinic until you have talked to your doctor"... talk about freaking me out! So I hung out (had to so they could poke me with needles 4 times) and eventually got in to talk to my doctor. She explained that it isn't too big of a deal at this point, that sometimes the cervical length will change from week to week, and that it isn't until I get below 2 that they start to get really concerned. She did put me back on strict bedrest until I could have another ultrasound done. So that is where I am at. She did still give me permission to go to Boise for Christmas though, so I actually decided to stretch it and get approval for 2 weeks there. Other than the long drive, I am more comfortable being there for bedrest because I'll be 5 min from a level 3 NICU and Labor and Delivery facility and because i'll be away from my daily responsibilities that made me overdo it in the first place. Christmas will mark about 29 weeks, so i'll be really close to being out of the "scary 20s".