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Here's my first pages! Thanks to EllieLash.com for the Love Actually freebies.
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"I told you, I'm NOT Jonah!"
He likes to use the placenta as a pillow, and constantly has his knees up in his face.
Several times, he grabbed his toes and umbilical cord with his hand.
He seemed to favor moving his left arm, but that might just be due to the fact that his left side more visible than his right.
and, he definitely is still a boy :)
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the head is on the right, the butt is on the left, and the little white thing in between is an arm.
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It snowed y'all! At our house in Waco! On Easter!
I wish we could have seen it. Living in CA is great and all, but there's little change in seasons.
Today is rainy. It is a nice change, but I'm sure the fence guy will have to delay fixing the fence until it is nicer. Our fence blew over during a strong gust of wind about a month ago. Get this - the insurance adjuster actually told jason that if it happens again, jason should go out and "lean on it" Hah! maybe if we owned instead of rented, insurance fraud would sound more apetizing. As we aren't responsible for the deductable however, I don't really care.
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Sanjaya should sing in spanish every week from now on.
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I've read a few more books last month, but reading isn't the most pleasant thing to do when nauseous, so it's been slow going.
I finished Mercy by Jodi Piccoult in Italy, and started re-reading Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Farber.
Also, i'm trying to get thru Roanoke which is about the mystery behind the colony that settled in Roanoke, VA in the 1700's then promptly vanished in less than 3 years. It is very well written, but very textbook-ish.
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Jason started a new quarter a few weeks ago, and is golfing frequently. I'm hoping to start again maybe next week. I've been so tired, that the idea of walking that far sounds dreadful. I need to persuade Jason to rent a cart.
His score is improving though, and I'm so proud!
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Back to the grind - I'll see if I can scan in the ultrasound pic and post later today!
Expected due date - nov 7.
Now on to all the real excitement. I'm sick. 5000 miles away from home, and I can't go back till friday.
I stupidly decided to go on a business trip to milan to host some training for my work project. The decision was made before the morning sickness and before the exhaustion, and before the emotional highs and lows that took me completely off guard.
Of course - I felt fine 2 weeks ago! No puking - eating every few hours, felt like I could run a marathon! Who'd of thought it could change overnight? Other than the gazillions of pregnancy information I read online.
Anyways, now here I am in bed, unable to work for 7 days, after spending 3 hours in the hospital last night with a nice old lady trying to tell me in italian that my iv bag was empty. Io parlo un po l'italiano lady. UN PO!
I did get an ultrasound, and was able to see the heartbeat! Also, the hotel was so properly freaked out, that they noticed I haven't left the room or ordered any food today, so they sent Alessandro to bring me some saffron risotto. (Alessandro drove me to the hospital yesterday)
With any luck, the pukefest will be over shortly, due to the highly welcomed drugs. (There was a short encore just before the risotto, but I had just downed a bunch of water, so it was to be expected.)
2 more days of sleep and eat, then a 20 hour flight, then home and back to normal.
The really sad thing is that i've been in italy since sunday afternoon (sunday am, US time), and I'm still sleeping normal US hours. Well, if you don't count all the naps. Although it is partly my fault, as I forgot that it is a 9 hour time difference, not a 7 hour time difference.
Off to bathe and sleep, and maybe have some gummy bears.
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