26 Weeks and A Rough Monday

Here I am at 26 weeks pregnant with Elizabeth Johannah!

I'm starting to feel uncomfortable, particularly at night when I sleep. She's moving around a lot more, and her tiny body is pushing me around from the inside.

A lot of people emailed and have asked if I am "still getting sick." The answer is yes. I get sick pretty much every day, but it's mostly isolated to night time. I really cannot eat anything after 5:00pm, because anything I eat is coming back up. It's a pain, and it's really not fun. But the good news is that I'm so used to it, it doesn't upset me nearly as much as it did previously. :)

I'm trying to get a minimum of 8 hours of sleep every night....but it doesn't always happen. Especially when I'm so uncomfortable that I simply cannot sleep. Also, Robert has taken to patting my tummy in the middle of the night to try to feel the baby moving - that's getting annoying, lol. It's loving, but at the same time, it wakes me up, and sometimes keeps me up for hours. I need my rest!

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to go to a baby shower for my BFF, Jenny. :) She and her little daughter Brooke got so much really neat stuff! I'm so happy that so many people came together to bless them with everything that they did! It was a lot of fun, and it made me realize how quickly this season of life (pregnancy) actually passes. For Jenny, I made a Winnie the Pooh pillow, and had a strip of leftover fabric, so I made her a custom burp cloth, too. :) I also had picked up matching hats for Brooke & Ellie Jo a few months ago, as well as an adorable Winnie the Pooh hoodie. My mom gets another huge shout out here, as those clothing items came from the thrift store, and - as with all of Ellie's clothing and fabric items - she washed and sanitized them in her super awesome washing machine with baby laundry soap, then ironed and folded them :) Robert and I also got Brooke a Winnie the Pooh light-up "dreamy stars soother." Jenny was so grateful for everything, and that made me SO happy! I was nervous about the particular fabric we chose for the pillow/ burp cloth, since I'd texted her a picture of 3 different options, and she was unavailable so Robert chose it - but thankfully, he nailed her taste for fabric right on! That was Jenny's favorite, too! YAY! What a super fun way to spend Saturday afternoon.

I'm finding that I don't have a lot of energy in the evenings, so I tend to try to do activities sitting down a lot - even at H&R Block. Most of the time I read on my Kindle, work on my baby registries or work on Bible Study stuff there. When I'm home, I do sewing projects (yes, more pictures are coming soon!), pay bills/ update our financial spreadsheet, or sit quietly on our bed and fold clothes while I watch my shows on DVD. I'm cherishing these moments that are quiet and sometimes lonely, because the reality is that Elizabeth will be here SO soon (about 3 1/2 months!), and our family of two will soon be three. We won't have much quiet or alone time anymore, at least for a little while. We're totally okay with that - but we're still enjoying the time we have left as a 2-person household. : )

Today was pretty rough for me, as our family dog, Sarge, went into the vet last Friday to have a sore in his ear looked at - and our family received the news that the sore was really a pre-cancerous or cancerous tumor. :( They scheduled the surgery for first thing this morning, and my mom took him up there. I texted her and asked how he did, and he said he was one sad boy, crying and standing up to put his paws on her shoulders (this is how Sarge gives hugs). I think he knew something was up last night, because I was visiting my parents after work and snuggling with the dog on the couch after Bryce & Robert arrived for dessert, and every time I tried to get up, he would just snuggle harder. He even went so far as to put both front paws all the way over my legs and his head on my shoulder, and then whimper! Poor baby! My mom had to finally move him a little bit so I could get up - he was not happy to see sissy go home. Today when he comes home, he will have to have a cone on his head for about a week. We will not have the results of the tumor biopsy for about a week, either.

This is a picture of Sarge and me that my mom took a couple of weeks ago. He's been crying for me to come snuggle him when I go visit so that he can love on Ellie Jo! It's adorable. He loves listening to her little heartbeat. In fact, this picture was taken after he'd been snuggling with his ear pressed firmly to my tummy for about 2 hours!

It's so sad to think that our sweet Sarge might have cancer, and my family and I would welcome your prayers for him!

Anyway, that is my 26-week update. Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for more :)