New Additions!

I'm happy to announce that in the past two weeks there have been two births to announce!

First Baby Lucia Kathleen Luschek was born on Thursday, May 15 at 8:40pm! She weighed 7lbs. 1 oz. and 20 inches long. Here she is, isn't she so cute!My cousin Kate had William Austin Floyd yesterday, Wednesday, June 4th at 7:43pm! He weighs 8lbs 6 oz and 19.75 inches long. He has brown hair and deep blue eyes. Kate's husband Andy got a little queasy when they started her IV, but after a walk and some food with the father in law, he was ready to go, as long as he was at Kate's head (cute!). Hopefully I'll have pictures of him to share soon.

20+ Weeks

We've made it half way, and plus some! Last week we had out 20 week appointment and everything was great. Vaughn and I invited our parents to come to see the first grandchild on the ultrasound. Everything looked good, it even moved around a little bit for us while we were taking a peek. Dr. Hanna covered up the screen when he looked at the area in question, since we still- well I- don't want to know, but Vaughn swears he saw a little something. He thinks it's a boy, so we watched the video of the ultrasound, and what he thought was "something" isn't really anything from what we could really tell. I mean, we have to ask Dr. Hanna what we are looking at half the time! So, baby looks healthy! It has really long legs and full bladder when we saw it. Our next appointment I do my glucose test, so I'm hoping that goes well! I'll continue on my thyroid medication until the end of the pregnancy and then will have test to see if it is a continued issue.

We still haven't done anything to the nursery. I have plenty of ideas, but haven't acted on one of them. I guess it'll come together eventually. Started to look for a Pieds Doctor and I think I found one, so we shall see! I finally look preggers, not longer do people look at me like "Has Erin gained a lot of weight since we saw her last?" The baby is moving more and more and I love every minute of it, so far! Play time is in the morning and then from 9-12 at night- hopefully that's night a sign for things to come once it's born. Vaughn has felt a little kick, he compared it to trying to feel your heart beat when it's going hard. We laughed for a while because everytime he placed his hand on the belly, it stopped moving. :)

Movement

Vaughn and I went to Aruba with his family last week and on the flight down there I finally felt a punch/kick! Ever since then baby Granger has been moving quite a bit. It really likes it when I eat something and sit still. Vaughn has yet to feel the baby move though. It always stops moving as soon as Vaughn comes to put his hand on my belly. haha it's already playing favorites. My belly has also grown a lot in the past two weeks. I've gone from beer gut to big baby bump. Time to take another picture and post.

May 9, 2008

At our last Dr.'s appointment (April 24) we got to see the baby again! It's amazing how much it has grown since last month. I also had to get more blood tests done to see if my Thyroid medication is doing what it was supposed to. So Vaughn and I figured since I'm getting blood drawn anyway we would test for downs as well. The blood work all came back positive! My medicine is doing it's job and my thyroid level is where is should be. I still have to take my one pill a day for it. The downs test came back great! There is a one in ten thousand chance that the baby will have downs, we were very relived. Right now we are at 18 weeks, it's flying by so quickly! We haven't done anything yet: no names picked out (we have a running list though), no crib purchasing, day care, etc. etc. Oh well, it'll get done evenutally, right?!

I've started feeling a little movement. Sometimes it is hard to tell between baby movement and then just regular stomach movement. :) Vaughn is still teaching the baby how to swim. We have to get a jump start because Emory is well on her way to becoming an Olympic swimmer herself! So maybe the baby is practicing the strokes vaughn taught it!

Belly Update

It's growing!!!

Swimming Lessons

Sunday morning Vaughn and I were laying in bed with Doc and we started a conversation about how the baby had the potential to hear us now. Well I had the idea that Vaughn should start teaching it how to swim while it's already floating around in "stuff." SO, Vaughn stuck his head right beside my belly and was teaching the baby how to do it's strokes and when it should breath and to what side! haha So, be on the look out, Baby Granger is going to be an Olympic Swimmer by the time it's finished cooking. :)

Update!

Things are going really great right now! I'm in the second trimester already, time is just flying by. Vaughn and I haven't really done much in regards to getting ready for baby, which is starting to freak me out a little bit. We have started looking into some schools and such to see our options, but haven't done much more than that. Haven't discussed names, nursery items, so when I say haven't done much, we really haven't done anything.... oh well, it'll all work out I guess! Two weekends ago I walk/ran the Cooper River Bridge Run, which was really neat. I had never done a big race like that and it felt great to complete it! My knees aren't what they used to be by any means, which reinforced the fact I should be walking and stretching more. Other than that, things are pretty normal right now, which is really nice. Our next appointment is next Thursday, the 24th, we get to see the baby again which we are really excited about. My stomach is getting bigger but not terribly noticable now, which I have a feeling will change here shortly. Anyway, that's it right now. I wish I had some pictures to post, need to get on that I guess! :)