Life

Life has been so hectic & crazy. I had my physical on the 23rd & I asked to hear the baby on Doppler. She wasn't able to find/hear baby so she was kind enough to get the ultrasound. My doctor has a crappy old one so all you literally see is movement. She wasn't trained on ultrasounds so she couldn't tell me if it was a heart beating or the baby moving. Movement is movement & it gave me a little peace of mind. I had my regular appt on the 30th & she found baby on Doppler. Unfortunately loud doctor walked in seconds after finding baby & I was distracted. She only kept the Doppler on for maybe 10-15 seconds total, including the interrupting doctor. I heard my baby love though, a healthy heartbeat. It was the first time I felt like I could breathe & relax this pregnancy. I heard his/her actual heartbeat. I have no idea what the number was though. Right when I was going to ask she was pulling it away. The visit with the doctor was 2 minutes tops. This is that, up your meds, any questions? Nope, next appt & gender scan in a few weeks. Goodbye. Um, ok. So, yeah, our gender is coming up shortly, I'll be 18 weeks. I'm tempted to do gender reveal photos before hand so I make the cards as soon as we find out & can get them sent on their way asap. I'd obviously have to do boy & girl photos so they'd be ready. I'm sure, as with my luck, the better photos will be the wrong gender. Maybe photoshop will be my friend & I could change the color if necessary. Haha. Or just do white glitter so I can add whatever color needs. Not sure how well that'd work.

I am amazed all the time by Katie. She is so smart & so curious, annoyingly so at times. Don't take that wrong, I love her with all my heart, it's just sometimes she's a lot to handle. She seems to know if you're frazzled & does everything she can to make you more frazzled. Sometimes I really wish we lived closer to family so I could get a break every now & then. Also, I'd love her to get more family time, it kills me knowing our families are missing out on so much of her life. The joy of military life I suppose. Katie's personality is so big. She is so silly & lovey. Lately she'll just walk up to you & snuggle for a few seconds. She'll rub her face against your belly or chest & say "I love you, awww", it reminds me of a cat. She sometimes will randomly kiss you and she's pretty good of giving you kiss if you ask. Unless she's mad at you, then she won't. :( She's got my attitude & I think her daddy's personality. I can't believe our baby girl is almost 2.5. Where is the time going?! January 7th will be 3 years since we found out we were expecting her/a baby. Though I knew instantly we were having a girl, I just knew.

We're wading into the new home/moving water. We signed papers for our home on post on Dec 31st & moved all baby items to the new home on Friday(2nd). We have 3 more weekends to move our stuff, the 24th is our BIG move day(all the big/heavy stuff). The last week of the month we'll spending cleaning & painting this (current) home. I am incredibly stressed with the move & kind of in general. We have so much to do, it's crazy. I want to do it all but also just ignore it all. Haha. It'll get done, hopefully sooner rather than later though. :)  The more we do early, the less stress there will be the end of the month.

Well I guess that's about it. Have a beautiful day.