Sorry I haven’t posted in the past few days. Alethea came down with an awful cold late Saturday night and as a result, things around here haven’t been running as smoothly as I would like. Over the course of the last day or so, the cold has moved down into Alethea’s chest, which isn’t really a good thing, but it does have the humorous upside that when she laughs, she sounds like an old chain smoking lady cackling away. It’s pretty funny.
As I’m sure none of you want a blow-by-blow of how the past few runny nose days have gone, I’ll simply give you the non-boogery highlights:
1) Now that I’m done stenciling the focal wall in Alethea’s big girl room, I’ve turned my attention to the remaining projects in the room. I was able to get some shopping done over the weekend and picked up some supplies and also a beaded curtain for the window. When I handed Alethea the curtain still in the box she said, “Oooh!”, but when I took it out of box and held it up she said, “Oooh! OOOOOOH!” I’ll take that as an 18 month old’s seal of approval.
Alethea was excited about her curtain, even when it was still in the box!
2) I finally found a bookcase on Craigslist that I think will be perfect for her room. I’m supposed to pick it up tomorrow evening. Crossing my fingers that it doesn’t get sold out from under me.
I want this bookcase!
3) Tomorrow I have my 32 week pregnancy check-up. This is also the third time this pregnancy that I am taking the 1 hour glucose tolerance test. I passed the test when I was pregnant with Alethea, but then she was 10lbs at birth, so they are convinced I had undiagnosed gestational diabetes with my first pregnancy and are determined to make sure I’m diagnosed if I have it this time. So far this pregnancy, I passed my first test well, the second one at 28 weeks was ‘on the high side of normal’, so they are having me do a third.
Sigh…
In my head I know it’s all for the best, but I don’t really like having blood drawn and I really HATE the stuff they make you drink beforehand. If you’ve never had the test, just imagine guzzling 10 ounces of undiluted McDonald’s orange drink concentrate. Yuck!
I think Alethea is going to be up from her nap soon, so I’d better run, but stay tuned and I’ll let you know how everything turns out.
I thought they thought she was just big because she was so overdue…
I hate that test too. A lot. I failed my 1 hour with Berean by 1 point. I then had to do my 3 hour right after Christmas- which was way worse. Especially since they said I had to pass 2 of the 4 draws to pass but they made me continue until the end EVEN though I passed the first 2 draws (and went on to pass all 4 of them)…that just doesn’t seem right. They couldn’t believe that I had failed my 1 hour because my 3 hour (which is by far the more definitive test) numbers were so low. I think I failed my 1 hour because I had eaten like 20 saltine crackers right before I went to the appt.
I wouldn’t recommend that.
Of course, you do want to know if you have it…it is just so gross…
good luck!
Every time they make me take the test, I think about reminding them that I was 2.5 weeks overdue with Alethea, but I don’t think it would make much difference, so I keep my mouth shut.
I am glad though that they agreed to let me do the one hour again instead of making me do the three hour (which is what they first suggested). I’m wondering if my last test was a little high because I had orange juice for breakfast right before I drank the glucose stuff and headed out the door for my appointment. Tomorrow morning, no OJ for me!