An Answer!

Update: It was decided that Patrick's gall bladder test may have been a fluke since he has been laying down in bed so much. They are not doing the surgery. He is feeling better and has been able to keep food down so he is headed home.

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I heard from my mom last night after I got in from work. They ran a test on Patrick yesterday to observe how his gall bladder was operating and discovered that it was not emptying. He should have surgery this morning to remove it. Hopefully, he'll be home by this afternoon or tomorrow morning. We are all so grateful for a simple fix!

25 weeks

Here's what 25 weeks looks like for me:


I am certainly finding that my stamina is diminishing. Tim and I went to Target yesterday and I came home and had to take a nap. Well, she'll be here soon enough and then the real challenge will begin.

In other news, my brother is still in the hospital. They decided to run some more tests on him while he is there. They don't want to release him until he can hold down some food. I realized today that my 6' 3" 20-year-old brother now weighs less than my 5' 3" pregnant self. He is becoming more frustrated with the process and who can blame him? In a week, he has been poked and examined more than some people have twice his age in their entire lives. He is tired of sitting around and not feeling well. I hope for his sake and my parents' sake that this will be over soon.

Update on Patrick

His tests for various diseases and disorders are all coming back negative so that is a good thing. The bad thing is they still don't have conclusive evidence of what has been ailing him. They hope that their treatment for a parasite will work and that is all it is. I talked to Patrick today and he sounded real well and was looking forward to some chicken broth. He has been stable now for a couple of days with a couple of bumps along the way. He has one more test tomorrow and then they may release him. I'll keep y'all posted if anything changes.

Where'd they go?!

Someone asked me the other day if I can still see my feet and I responded yes. Then I realized that I can only see them if I bent forward a little. This was an interesting realization for me. I knew I had gotten big but now I understand how big. Although, people keep telling me that I'm carrying the weight well which makes this pregnant lady feel a lot better.

Tim pointed out last night that we were nearing the third trimester. The third trimester begins with your 27th week which will be a week from Wednesday. Time has surely flown by! We are getting more excited, though, as the weeks go by. It is like waiting for Christmas morning when you were a kid. Except, of course, it is coming upon us a lot faster.

I'm still feeling well and steadily gaining weight, around 17 pounds total. The baby is quite feisty. She moves a lot which is very reassuring to me. Last night, Tim and I were sitting on the couch playing a card game and listening to music and I swear, she would start moving more when a song with a good beat came on the stereo. It was so odd. My little rock-n-roll baby!

Pray for Patrick

My youngest brother Patrick was admitted to the hospital Tuesday afternoon after vomiting for a week and undergoing numerous inconclusive tests during three visits to the emergency room. Patrick hasn't had hardly anything to eat for a week since his body immediately responds with nausea and vomiting. He went through this same thing last August and lost over twenty pounds but it went away so it was determined that it must have been just a bug. Since it has come back, it is now believe that it has to be something else. He underwent an endoscopy Tuesday afternoon that provided some evidence that it could be Celiacs disease which is entirely treatable but the result won't come back until tomorrow. They are also looking at Addison's disease which is also treatable. Ultimately, though, he is being tested for everything imaginable and the doctor's have sworn that he is not leaving the hospital until they have an answer. This has given us all hope. It took a lot of frustrating phone calls for my parents to get the doctors' attention and once they did, the response was swift. I will keep y'all posted.

The White Stuff

No, it isn't snow again! Mother Nature has now brought us Spring blooms. Spring is in full blossom here in Birmingham. We started noticing buds a few weeks ago and then we got lots of rain and now we look out our windows and see this:




I love this time of year!

Now, here is my overdue baby bump picture. I am now at 24 weeks. I am still feeling healthy. My breathing is getting harder and I've woken up the past couple of mornings with numbness in my right thigh which I am guessing is sciatica. Other than that, I'm waddling along just fine.


I took this one myself since Tim is still hard at work on the baby's nursery. He has spent a good portion of the day reversing the door into the bathroom. It seems like he has to go to work to get a break!

Oh! I just found out that I am having a baby shower the first weekend in May on Sunday afternoon. How fortunate is our baby that so many people wish to welcome her into this world!?

Lilac Whisper

Hello all! Tim just finished painting the baby's room and it is more perfect than I could have hoped for. We went to Home Depot last night and picked out the paint color, Lilac Whisper, and we came home and he prepped the room. He got up this morning and started painting and it is already done.



Before, the room was a nice pleasant neutral color which was really nice for a guest bedroom.

Here is Tim working on the trim.


Here is the final result! It is the perfect shade of purple! It is very soft and subtle yet bright and cheerful. I hope she likes it!

On a different yet interesting note, I got curious and looked up what the July birthstone is. It is a ruby. I found this to be quite the coincidence. You see right after my grandmother passed away a couple of years ago, my mother gave me a ring that my grandmother wanted me to have. There is a ruby in the center with an opal on the top and bottom. I've worn it everyday since. It gives me a lot of comfort to look down everyday and have a reminder of her constant presence.

I hope to post a new baby bump picture this weekend so stay tuned...