Walnut, Take Two

I had another OB appointment yesterday. Lorne stayed home with Sawyer this time. I had another sonogram and everything looks pretty good. I also didn't gain any weight, yeah me! The baby is 3 cm long and my book says it's the size of a walnut at ten weeks. She said that we're sticking with March 17th as the due date. She did discover that I have a 4 cm fibroid. Apparently the extra hormones that come about with pregnancy probably contributed to its growth. She also said that she had one with her last child and everything was fine. Her doctor even did a sonogram at her six week follow-up and couldn't find it anymore. She will monitor it with sonogram throughout my pregnancy. I'm looking on the bright side; I will get to see this baby in-vitro even more than Sawyer. She said that chances are it will just stretch out and not be a problem. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but I'm really starting to freak out. I made the mistake of getting on a fibroid message board yesterday. I had no idea the problems these little boogers can cause when it comes to conception and sometimes pregnancy. I love the words sometimes and almost. They sometimes cause problems and they are almost always benign tumors. I'm just keeping everything crossed that all will be fine and that my pregnancy will continue without incident. I was really hoping and praying for another textbook pregnancy, minus the Pitocin-induced craziness at the delivery, of course!

Here are some pictures from the sonogram. We've ordered a scanner so my twenty-week sono pics should be much clearer.


Here's our little walnut!


You can almost see the arm sticking out. It looks like it's sticking out its' tongue.


Here's a close-up of the head.

Sawyer, our Walnut 1.0, is getting bigger and bigger all the time. He tried Mac 'n cheese for the first time last week and LOVED it! I was hesitating in giving it to him because it's so fattening, but toddlers need fat, so away we went. The problem is keeping Mommy out of it! Man, that stuff is evil!

He's walking more and more. He has also learned how to stand himself up from a sitting position so that's fun to watch. He is getting braver and braver everyday.

He is playing with his Learning Puppy whom Lorne has affectionately named Leonard, for reasons unknown. Anyway, Sawyer has learned to press the various body parts so that they sing to him, clap at him, and ask him for a hug. He responds by laying his head on Leonard. He has started doing it to us too and it is the most precious thing in the world! He also gives us "kisses" by leaning his forehead toward us so that we can kiss it.


He's giving Leonard a "hug," Sawyer-style.


Can he get any more precious?

Sawyer is Fourteen Months Old!

I know that it has taken me a while to post Sawyer's fourteen-month pictures, but I have a good excuse...I'M PREGNANT! We went to the doctor Monday and saw the heartbeat. I am due on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day. It is a very exciting time for us. Sawyer will be twenty-one months old when the baby is born. We think that it will be good to have our kids that close in age. I can't say that I'm looking forward to no longer sleeping eight hours each night, but this time I know that the lack of sleep is only temporary. I will know this time around that things will get better.

I took a home test on July 17th so we kept it to ourselves for three weeks. The worst part was in that three weeks I had breakfast with Laura and Andrew, lunch with Kristy, dinner with Courtney, Laura, and Logan, saw Denise practically every day with swim lessons, had she and Jeremy and Sophia over for dinner, and Larry and Velma came to visit. I just knew that one of us would slip but it never happened. It was hard for me to suffer in silence since the nausea is pretty bad this time but I managed okay.

I haven't blogged in forever because I am so tired. I have been taking two naps a day right along with Sawyer. I usually feel better when I've gotten lots of sleep. I turn off all of the ringers on the phones and get some rest. The bad thing is that I think Sawyer will be dropping his morning nap soon, but I should be feeling better by then so I think that it will be okay.

I'm posting lots of pictures of him since it has been so long:


I wish that I'd found an "I'm About to Be the Big Brother" T-shirt.


He seems to take better pictures when I ditch the bear.


He was too intrigued with sitting in the recliner to think about the bear I think.

Sawyer is doing so many neat things these days. He can point to his nose when we ask him. He also can bring me the cow from his farm set when I ask him. His signing is improving too. He knows the sign for eat, milk, light, more, Rosie, water (he's still slapping himself on the side of the head for that one), cheese, and car. There are other signs that we do that I can tell that he recognizes, but those are the ones he is doing.


He's doing the sign for eat.


The sign for Rosie, or dog, is to pant, but he does Lamaze-type breathing instead. It is the cutest thing ever!

Our Waterbaby Sawyer

Sawyer finished his swimming lessons in grand style. His favorite part was jumping in from the side of the pool. He never got the hang of it while standing, but I would sit him on the side, grab him, and dunk him under and he loved it! That was pretty crazy considering that he hated floating on his back and stomach and most of the other skills he learned over the nine day period.

Lorne and I took him to our neighborhood pool last weekend and we had so much fun! It was funny to watch he and Lorne in the water together. I had been so careful with him during the lessons, only putting him underwater when the instructor told us, and holding him very tightly. Lorne was playing around with him so differently from what I did, but Sawyer still had a blast! We stayed for about thirty minutes. Right before we left I was sitting on the side of the pool and throwing Sawyer to Lorne in the water. He couldn't stop laughing!

Here are some pictures that Laura took during swimming lessons:


Sawyer was too interested in something in the water to look at the camera.


Laura was pretty far away with the camera, so I don't think the kids knew where to look.