We're PREGNANT!

Yep, you read that correctly. We are expecting baby #2! We are feeling a lot of different emotions right now, excited, nervous, nervous, excited. We are very thankful for the little miracle though.

We had our first appointment today and the baby looks really good, it is measuring the size of a Kidney Bean! We are due the first week of October, October 6th to be exact. In general I have been feeling pretty good, I have the usual tired, no appetite but hungry and a little nauseous. Thank God they make medication for the nausea! It's very hard to work customer service when you feel at any moment you may just puke all over the place! Sorry to be so graphic, but that's what I have felt like! :) Lucky for everyone it hasn't happened yet. :)

Next appointment is in a month, we'll have another ultrasound and a Down's Syndrome screening.

Carter's Surgery

Yesterday was Carter's surgery to get tubes put in his ears to help drain the fluid built up behind the ear drum. He has had about 6 ear infections in the past 6 months and sometimes that was in both ears. The most effective treatment to help prevent this from happening again and from disabling his hearing his to get tubes. So we checked into the hospital at 7 am, we got taken to the back waiting area where they took all Carter's stats and we changed him into his little hospital gown. While we waited, we met the Anesthesiologist and Nurse that were going to help in his surgery. The Anesthesiologist explained that the general anesthesia they use for this procedure is a gas. They didn't have to use any sort of I.V., which was awesome. They were all very nice people and made us feel very comfortable about the procedure. (This is one reason why I absolutely love Sky Ridge Hospital. We have always had great experiences there and everyone that helps us is so nice.) At about 8:40 am the Doctor came into our little waiting room and gave us an overview of what was going to happen next. Before we knew it, the Nurse came in a swiped up Carter and took him away. He was pretty calm and didn't cry. We went back to the front waiting room and patiently waited with my Mom, Nana. It was about 30 minutes and the Anesthesiologist and Doctor came out to tell us that everything had gone great. The Doctor said there was a lot of fluid and gunk behind his ear drum that they sucked out, so it was definitely a good thing we did the procedure. He took me back with him to be with Carter when he woke up. When I got back there he was crying, but mostly because he was disoriented from waking up from the anesthesia. After about 10 minutes of getting him to calm down Ryan came back and we were able to feed him a bottle. We were in recovery for about 40 minutes while Carter slowly woke up. After that we were discharged and headed straight home. He was sleepy for most of the day, but we tried to keep him on his normal schedule as much as possible. For the most part he was his normal crazy baby self. Crawling around, eating well, taking naps, it was like it never even happened.

We go back at the end of the month for his follow up. I think they will also do a hearing test too. I am glad we went through with everything and hope it helps my little man. :) We can already tell that he is more aware of noises around him. I can only imagine that he feels so much better without his world sounding like it is under water.