Sick and Miserable

Those two words pretty much sum me up right now. I started getting sick on Saturday, just a little coughing, thought maybe I was getting a sinus infection. Well by Sunday I had a sore throat, was hacking like an 85 year old who has smoked their entire life, and was aching all over. Then Sunday afternoon I spiked a fever of 102.3...FUN!! Anyway, I called the Dr today and went in. I have are you ready SWINE FLU!!!! The Dr also sent me for a chest xray just to make sure I don't have pneumonia, because my cough sounds NASTY!!! They went ahead and started me on tamiflu, along with Robitussin DM, Sudafed PE, and Mucinex. We will possibly be adding an antibiotic tomorrow depending on the chest xray results. Needless to say, I spent the whole day( with the exception of the trip to the Dr and Pharmacy on the couch)... I just pray that the kids don't get it. I am going to call the pediatrician in the am and see if she wants to start them both on tamiflu...

More Ultrasound Photos of Reese!!

Here are a few more ultrasound photos of Reese.

The infamous "girl shot".. The three lines is the giveaway and the fact that nothing is sticking out between the legs..

Blown up version of "girl" shot

Front view

This was at the end when Reese turned her back to us...LOL.. I guess she was tired of being bothered.

We Are Having a....

The "alien look-a-like" pose

Today was our "BIG" ultrasound. I was so eager to find out the gender of our new little one. At first we were not going to find out, but then Ran decided that "for decorating purposes" we needed to know...LOL... I had already decided that regardless of gender, Karli and the new baby would be sharing a room. I mean the baby will be in the room with us for at least 3 months if not longer. Karli was in here for 6, but then again she was tiny when she arrived.

I have been CONVINCED that this was another boy since the beginning. Why? because my symptoms were nothing like what I had with Karli, they were more like what I had with Korey. Also I found this great site called babybpm.com where you can put in the babies gestational age and heartrate and it guesses the gender based on normal heartrates at that gestational age, all the old wives tales said boy, and I am carrying this baby totally different. Only one thing said girl and that was the Chinese gender predictor.

Well the baby looked perfect on the ultrasound, measuring 8 inches long head to foot, and weighing in at 11oz which is exactly what it should be weighing at this time. The heart, brain, gi tract, spine and everything looked GREAT... We were so excited. Then came the moment of truth. When the tech tried to look the baby promptly crossed its legs. After a few minutes of coercing with the u/s wand(much to the discomfort of my full bladder) the baby opened up its legs and guess what..

We are having another GIRL!!!!

Needless to say I was shocked. I think Ran was surprised as well, just because of the difference between this pregnancy and the last one. We are both very excited. Korey is excited even though he really wanted a brother.

So I officially introduce you to Harper "Reese" Jones!!!