The one thing that has come to mind all week is that our ultrasound is tomorrow. I'm so excited and can hardly wait. I've noticed the baby becoming very active in the past week with lots of jabs. It kept me awake for a little while the other night because it was so active. It's been fun feeling that little life inside me wiggling around. I had really missed that after having Jillian. I've been feeling good. Everything is stretching out again. My cesarean incision hasn't been achy but the round ligaments are lengthening, which makes it hard to hold Jillian's hands half way bent over while she walks. Yes!! She's walking!!
Jillian cruises along if she's holding our hands or pushing her little car around the house. She loves walking! She gets a look on her face like she is on a mission and very determined. The most steps she's taken at once without holding anything is 13, two nights ago. The gate is going up at the stairs as she has become an expert at crawling up them. The crawling, scooting down them will take some time as right now she just turns around and starts heading down them without getting her footing. She has good balance, just needs to get her confidence up a bit and she'll be running. I'm happy she's walking because that means I won't have to carry her everywhere with the expanding belly, but I'm also sad because that means she's growing up. While walking down the stairs last week I didn't see one of the cats on the step and I stepped right on him and nearly fell while holding Jillian. It scared us all but I caught myself by bracing against the sides of the stairwell. My back muscles were cramped up for a few days afterwards but got through it just fine.
Jillian went through a phase where she was hitting our faces and swiping her food across her highchair tray. She has stopped hitting but continues the food swiping occasionally. With some good advice, we figured out how to redirect her actions and saw almost an immediate result. She is continuing to struggle with ear infections. We are getting over #4 in 3 months. The timeline is 6 within 6 months so she is well on the way to getting tubes, especially coming into cooler weather seasons. She was on one antibiotic that wasn't helping at all, only giving her unpleasant side effects but we didn't know it until she ran a fever of 102 and vomitted. When we took her back to the doc last week they switched her to a previous antibiotic and it seems to be helping for now. I caught something last week also and had a sore throat for the week and ran a fever for a day. Last night my throat became very sore again so hopefully it's nothing.
Garrett's work seems to be getting busier while mine is slowing down. It's normal for mine to start slowing this time of year but it is really slow and looks like it will be that way for a few months. Good for you, because I may have more time to post on the blog! Garrett's busy with his Stryker project and now they are talking about making his wind turbine setup bigger. That will be quite the job. He continues to work hard on the garage. I'm not sure of the last thing I mentioned about that but he has all of the insulation up, walls and ceiling, and is starting to install the drywall. In two days we was able to get the east wall and corners completed. It's really looking nice. We have a friend coming out to the house possibly tomorrow evening to give us (well, Garrett) tips on putting up the siding. We really need it up soon due to weather. Once it's done he continue work on the inside.
That's about all I have at the moment. Happy Autumn!
