Hope everyone had a great long weekend and July 4th. We were so busy this weekend, but it was a lot of fun. We went to see a van on Saturday, but unfortunately they wanted too much and wouldn't drop the price any at all. Then we came home and played outside for a bit, and Jackson had a nice long nap, we went out for a nice dinner. Sunday, we played outside a lot, even though it was SO hot, then went to my parents for a cookout and some games. Yesterday we went to the zoo with my mil, and came home and cooked out and did a few fireworks. Jackson actually enjoyed them this year, so I was surprised. Next year we might go to the festival where they do the big fireworks and have a parade.

Congrats Pamela, and Linda too! I'm in the two week wait, so we'll see, but I am not getting my hopes up yet. I doubt we'll get pregnant in the first month of trying, though I might luck out. We shall see.

I'm glad Olivia and Jackson liked the fireworks!  Ours sucked.  I haven't been to any here before, so I wasn't sure which ones to go to.  Well, I clearly picked the wrong ones.  They were really far away and I didn't know how to get closer because I'd never been to that lake before.  Sophie wasn't even paying attention and it was starting to rain so we left.  I guess the ones over the capital are much nicer.  We'll try those next year.

Saturday Sophie refused a nap and fell asleep in the car while I was bringing dh to work.  She slept from 5-7:30pm little stinker.  I tried so hard to wake her up.  She went to bed at 10.  Then Sunday she didn't take a nap at all!  And that's the day we went to the fireworks so she was up until 10:30 with no nap.  Then on the 4th we went to a parade.  I am shocked at how RUDE parents and other kids are!  Parents yelling at their kids to grab the candy.  Sophie would see a piece and another kid (or parent) would snatch it away.  They were like animals.  So we left before that was over too because we couldn't see anything.  Then we went to a bbq at dh's friends' house.  That was aweful too!  I got hit in the head with a volley ball, dh caught a frisbee inches from smashing into my face, Sophie got a black eye. We left saying Sophie had to take a nap (she didn't nap though).  It was NOT a good weekend!

I bought myself a Nikon D3100 for my birthday!  It was sooo expensive, but have been wanting a nice slr camera.  Now we can take professional looking photos ourselves.  Dh is pretty good with photoshop.  It's been about 12 years since my photography class, so I need  to brush up a little on aperture and f-stop and all that good stuff before my pictures will be any good.  But I've always had a pretty good eye for framing a photo.  I got a nice zoom lens too.  I'm so excited to try it out after work today!

Gina, the OB clinic saw me at 9 weeks with Sophie.  Half way through my pregnancy I switched to the midwife clinic.  I know that's where I want to go again.  I don't know why they see people so late.  I'm going to call back tomorrow and see if I can talk to someone different.  I am NOT waiting 12 weeks to start pre-natal care! At my first appt last time I had my firsty U/S.  I don't know if they do that at the midwife clinic.  But I know you can see the heartbeat at 8 or 9 weeks, so I'm going to push for that.  Last time I was freaked out that they didn't want to do a bloodtest right away to confirm it, but now I'm not too worried.  ELISAs (pts) are pretty accurate.

Is your bleeding red or brown?  I had some brown spotting and cramping right around the time my period was supposed to come.  Praying for you and your little baby!

Pamela, I hope everything's OK. I remember I had cramping on and off during the first trimester. I know that early on it felt like I was going to get AF anytime. I hope everything's OK, let us know as soon as you find out what's going on. I'm sorry your weekend sucked so much. I agree, parents can be SO rude. When we were at the zoo, they had a new tiger exhibit, and people were crammed in to see during one of the training times, where they got the tiger really close to the glass. I was holding Jackson and waiting my turn, but people just kept shoving in front of me and pushing me out of the way. I'm thinking "really?? Do you not see I'm holding a baby here?" Finally I got sick of it, and as politely as I could, made my way up to the glass so we could see too.

Megan, that's sucks about all the clothing sizes. I completely understand, Jackson wears anything from a 24 month to a 3T, depending. The only thing he can still wear that's 18 months is a few Carter's pjs and if he was wearing some Carter's jeans, just because they are so big in the waist, but tend to be a little too short in the length. I think some stores should have baby dressing rooms, or the clothes should all have the length and weight on the tags.

Gina, did you just have to do the 1 hour glucose or the 3 hour? I remember having to do both since my blood sugar was high normal, near borderline. I really hope the next go round I can get by with just the 1 hour. I'm starting to think showers for the second baby are becoming the new trend. I know a lot of people who have been having them. I can't even imagine what I would possibly need from a shower since we kept everything from Jack, so unless it is a girl, the only thing we'll have to buy are diapers. Our old house is like that for the fireworks. It's about a block or so away from a big park where they set off a really cool display the weekend before the 4th. We could go out to the backyard and watch, and were close enough we could still hear some of the boom.

I was really surprised that Jackson liked the fireworks my dh set off, even though they were all pretty small, like the fountains and stuff, but the last couple were bigger and louder. I'm ready for everyone to be out of fireworks already though. We only set a few off on the 4th, but I hate how everyone around us has been setting them off for at least a week, and they will continue for another week or so. It's really obnoxious trying to get Jackson to sleep with all the shrill noises and booms. We've been using a sound machine as well as his normal loud fan, and that helps but my dogs are hating going outside!