Only 6 weeks to go !!

Here we are already....mid May and I'm 34 weeks pregnant.
Baby is due end of June and we are getting things ready for his or her arrival. My office is being converted into a baby's room. Geoff started to put the primer up and it was really strange watching him cover up the recently painted cranberry and summer squash walls that he so lovingly had painted for me to make my office a nicer place to be.
The new colour will be a light beige & white and the decor is natural wood with a Teddy Bear print border ! I can't wait to see it all done.

We have finally picked out a couple of names (boy and girl) but we'll announce the name when baby comes.
Things are going well health wise. We had concerns about my blood pressure, as I had pre-eclampsia 11 years ago with Lindsay....but so far so good. I feel very large and I'm getting quite uncomfortable especially at night. Still, it's a wonderful feeling to know there is a life growing inside me - a little baby made up of Geoff and I. The most important gift that God can give us. I think of how lucky I have been to have Lindsay as a daughter and am grateful for the opportunity to do it all over again.

It's scary sometimes to think of the sleepless nights, colic, terrible twos, countless fevers, colds and viruses, losing my independance.....can I handle all this again at 42 ???
Yes I can. With Geoff and Lindsay at my side, and the strength that God will give us...we can do this.

On another note....Toby is sick. . On Friday night he got into the bathroom garbage can. We found the contents all over the floor. By Saturday he started vomiting eveywhere, and stopped eating completely. We hoped that he'd gotten whatever he'd eaten, out of his system but by Monday he was just weak and dehydrated. I took him to the vet. They opened his mouth and found the end of a length of dental floss that he must have found and chewed up. They sedated him but were only able to remove a couple of inches (afraid that by tugging, it would tear his small intestine).
We brought him home with a tube of laxative, a syringe and soft cat food. I've been force feeding him 3 times a day and we hope that this will carry the floss through his system to pass naturally. If it doesn't work, he'll need surgery to remove it.

So far so good - his strength seems to be coming back and he is being very cooperative with the feedings. I'm sure he will be fine.

Well that's it from my end for now. I'll try to keep you posted over the next few weeks.

A special thank you to my dear friend Karen for checking in regularly and for her prayers and messages that are so appreciated !! Love ya Karen !!

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