28 Weeks

We officially hit 28 weeks on Thursday (but we forgot to take a picture). I went to the doctor on Tuesday and I supposedly had only gained 1lb?! Although I think the real culprit was that my prior appt. was RIGHT after eating pizza for dinner, so I just weighed in higher in the previous appt. I'm up to 16 lbs total from my scale. :) Baby's heartbeat was loud and strong - I LOVE hearing that sound! On to the bad news though, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes this time (after getting my arm poked 4 times in 3 hours last week), so I'm off to talk to a dietician and a nurse educator on how i can improve my diet and how i'll have to monitor my blood-sugar levels every day with a monitor. I'm a bit bummed and almost insulted at this diagnosis. I know it just happens during pregnancy to some women, but I'm the one that eats veggies every lunch and dinner and fruit all the time. I pay attention to food labels. People at work have joked that my system just isn't used to sugar, so when I took the test, it was a shock to my system. Whatever the reason, the news did make me a bit emotional for a few hours.

Mother's Day weekend was like every other weekend...busy! Friday night Dave put up Ethan's new shades and a little car shelf in his new room. The room is definitely coming together and we're still aiming for Memorial Day weekend for his first sleep in there. Saturday we did swim classes and took Ethan to Elmo Live. Sunday Dave unfortunately went into work for 5 hours, but Ethan and I hung out and made cookies (not for me to eat, of course) and played. When Dave got home we spent time outside to enjoy the weather and after dinner we made Ethan's big boy bed with his car sheets and put his room in order. The only thing missing is a dresser to make it fully functional for him.

I have to mention, I'm so proud of Ethan with his swim classes these days. He is great at paddling his arms and kicking his feet. His paddling motion is more like when you sing the song, "The Wheels on the Bus", but he gets the point, that's for sure. We also go to the shallow end of the pool towards of the end of his class and all the kids get little rings that we practice putting under water and having them grab them. He's gotten as far as putting his mouth under to reach for the ring, which I think is just great. I try to keep him interested by teasing him with the ring while I put it under water. This weekend, he actually said he was okay with going under water.

Here are some Elmo pictures to enoy...