21 days and counting.

We get to deliver Sean by c-section on June 19th. He weighed 5 pounds 10 ounces at my last doctors visit. I'm so ready. My car seat/stroller was delivered yesterday. Now they will let us leave the hospital. We had to custom order his crib bedding because of the round crib. It should be ready in 2 weeks. We did not have enough going on in our lives, so we scheduled surgery on both of Aric's feet last Wednesday. It was much more difficult than we thought and the anesthesia made him sick. His pain was more than we remembered the last time he had the procedure done on the left foot. He is over the worst of the pain now, but still uses my wheel chair to get around the house during the day. It's a toss up on which one of us looks more pathetic at the moment. The day before the surgery we had to put Tux to sleep. I was to upset to handle going to the vet's office. Thank God Aric's cousin Shannon volunteered to do it and we took her up on it. We are now pet free and it feels strange. Needless to say, Krystal has been a bit emotionally unpredictable. She's had a lot of things to deal with for someone so young. She is still very excited about meeting her brother and talks to him every day. I am ready to be no pregnant any more, but have three long weeks to wait.

On Friday we all went to the doctor. the sonogram estimated that Sean weighs 4-9 now. He refused to let us get a good look at his face. The previous sonogram we got a picture of his face with his eyes open. It was very cute. Aric went to the doctor after my appointment and we are going to try to schedule foot surgery before my c-section on June 19th. Exercising really hurts his foot and we want to try to help him get better before he has to carry more weight. Krystal decided that she wanted to get her ears pierced. We took her Friday evening. She did great, I cried like a baby because she jumped. I had to use the pregnant emotional card to cover my tears when she asked why I was crying. The truth is I tried to leave the store and would have cried anyway. She's my baby and we just passed another milestone. She says her ears are "piered" now. We have had one minor mishap when one came out on Saturday and we had to push it back through with some difficulty. I actually helped then. I'm good in a crisis, just not voluntary pain. We had pictures taken Saturday as a family. My friend who is an excellent photographer came to our house. We did lots of fun poses that I would never have done in public. I think we got some really neat belly shots. I cannot wait to see the one where I am wrapped in red satin fabric. Needless to say.. those will not be posted here. But I will post some of the less exposing pictures when I get them back in a couple months. I hope everyone is doing well and avoiding flying pigs. Ta ta for now.

Tamara