Keepin us on our toes

Today we had a bit of a scare. Elias decided to barely move for the last two days, which ended up with us in the hospital this afternoon. I noticed last night when I got into bed that he wasn't doing his usual practice of martial arts. (I had a busy day yesterday, but when I thought about it I realized that I hadn't felt him move really at all that day.) I told Cisco but we both decided we'd see what happened through the night and the next morning. Well, I didn't sleep hardly at all, waiting for this guy to move, which he finally did somewhere around 4 in the morning. However, his movements were very faint, not the usual swift quicks he's become so good at delivering.
All morning I waited and tried different things, waiting for movement. But again, very few and very faint movements, if anything. Around 2:00 I called my OB who told me to lay on my left side for an hour after having something to eat and drinking some cold juice. I was to count the number of movements in an hour and if it was under 6 to call her back. So I did just that, and after an hour he'd moved about a total of 3 times, with only 1 of those times being really noticeable. Now, usually this kid goes nuts when I drink anything cold and he ALWAYS does when I eat. So I was pretty concerned at this point. Plus, this whole arrhythmia thing has me a little more on edge nowadays, I think more because I have no idea what's going on...he has it, he doesn't, then he has it again....WHAT?!?
So, called the doctor, who then sent us to the hospital to be monitored. Well, wouldn't you know it, the SECOND (and I mean the very second) the nurse put the monitor on my stomach Elias starts kicking like CRAZY! I felt so stupid and the nurse just started laughing. My stomach was jumping all over the place and she just looks over and says, "Please tell me you feel that". Ummm, yes, I did.
We were there for about 45 minutes, all the while my little stinker was gettin out all the wiggles he'd been holding in for the past couple days! :) He hasn't stopped moving pretty much the rest of this evening, putting his mom's mind at ease.
Glad to be home, glad to still be pregnant, and glad that everything is ok! Our appointment with the perintologist changed to Wednesday afternoon, so now we're just waiting till then to (hopefully) find out more about the arrhythmia or whatever is going on. Thank you all for your prayers, we love you all!

Argh...

So I had my regular doctor appointment today and we were discussing what happened at the peri a couple weeks back. Just as she was getting the dopplar to listen to the heartbeat, she paused and said, "It's been known to happen that they won't hear it during the echocardiogram, but then they'll come back to my office and I'll hear it again." Sure enough, the second she found the heartbeat it skipped. And kept skipping.
I have my appointment with the peri in San Diego on March 3rd, which is next week, so that's good. I have to tell them that we heard it again and luckily Cisco was there this time to hear it too. I'm going to start making a list of questions for the peri, as last time I was so dazed I couldn't think of anything to ask. But since it looks like it hasn't gone away I want to know what exactly we're looking at.
Dr. Lebo (my OB) said that it's not a problem right now and that he's fine as long as he's in the womb. I guess the problem will be when I have him and he starts breathing on his own and his circulation switches over. Hence the need to give birth where they have a NICU, as he'd have to be in an incubator for a bit. So...we'll see. Hopefully we'll know more next week and little Elias will be more willing to turn around for the camera. :) And hopefully we won't have to keep going back and forth from "he has it, he doesn't have it..."
If anyone has any suggestions for what questions would be good to ask the peri, please, suggest away!! This definitely isn't one of my strong points...

Sick kids

We've had a week of sick kids and high fevers. I think I get spoiled with having really healthy kids cause it feels like ages since we've gone through more than a day or two of sickness. Josiah's doctor was even shocked when we went in cause it's been exactly a year since we've had to take him there! Yes! He ended up having pneumonia (poor guy) and the next day Daniel came down with what we thought was the same thing. However, his has just been a pretty high fever and absolutely no other symptoms (weird). While it's been nice to have a couple of much calmer boys around here, I'm getting some serious cabin fever! Not to mention the emotions...those definitely won't be missed! :)

Good news!

We had our doctor appointment today, and praise the Lord everything looked fine! The heartbeat sounded good and from what they could tell, the structure looked great too. I say "from what they could tell" because the little stinker was facing my back and would NOT turn around for anything! She had me on the table for over an hour and he never did turn fully around. :o) Sooo, we go back in a month just to make sure and hopefully he'll be a little more cooperative this time. His heartbeat sounded great though, definitely a big difference from my last appointment. I asked the doctor about that and he said that when the heart is growing and developing a lot of times it will contract and can come out sounding like an arrhythmia if you happen to be listening to it at that moment. So it may just be that we so happened to be listening at one of those moments. While I'm reassured little Elias is fine, I'm glad we have one more appointment just to be sure! Plus, it's just so great to see him in the ultrasound!
I'll have to find a way to scan photos on here, she got a great profile shot of him today. At one point he turned his face fully to the screen and when the technician commented on it, his arm shot in front of his face so we couldn't see him anymore. Apparently, he's a shy one! We also got to see his mouth opening and closing, it was seriously amazing. One more thing, while I've been wondering for the past few weeks at why I don't feel him move that much, now I know for sure. He's a mellow one! This guy is seriously chill...

Birthday Party!

So, a week later I finally am putting up pictures and videos from the boys' birthday party (sorry for the delay!). We had a blast but now I know why I don't do this EVERY year! Whew! I was exhausted the second it was over. Of course, being preggo could have something to do with that... It was worth it all though, the boys really enjoyed it. So here's Daniel getting all Peter Pan'd up, their super cute cake (courtesy of Albertson's), the boys friend Noah, and the boys' blowing their candles out.