A good excuse

Sorry for my absence from blogging. I have a good enough excuse though. I'm pregnant, we found out just after the new year and we're very happy about it. I'm just sick! It's actually better than my other four pregnancies (the throwing up aspect) though I feel plenty sick still. What has thrown us for a loop is I ended up in the hospital for 4 nights w/ blood clots in my leg. This is a problem that I had in my pregnancy w/ Cooper, but didn't have w/ Ella and Seth using a preventative blood thinner. Unfortunately, this time for some reason the medicine didn't prevent them from forming. It wasn't quite as painful as my experience w/ Cooper, since I was aware of the symptoms and caught them earlier, but it was still plenty scary. The threat is that the clots could break off and travel to your lungs, causing real problems. We were blessed to not have that happen and I think my leg is healing and I am on a much higher dose of the blood thinner for the remainder of the pregnancy to hopefully keep any more from forming. As to why I have this problem, they did over a thousand dollars in blood work and genetic testing to see if there was any other reason besides pregnancy (I've never had the problem not pregnant) and so far everything has come back negative. That makes me very grateful, since this is our last baby I hopefully won't deal w/ this again. Anyway, if this was boring to you, hopefully you just skimmed over it, but at least the details and the event are recorded for our families journaling purposes. I hope that my kids and grandchildren never have this problem.

The baby is due September 11th. What a day I know, but I usually have my babies 1-2 weeks early, so I guess it won't matter. I'm about 12 weeks along now. I look forward to feeling better soon. I've really been useless. Taking a shower makes me so nauseated, weird hah? I've picked up a bad habit of watching much more t.v. and playing a game called virus buster on John's Nintendo DS. I hold the family record for a high score of 868. It helps to take my mind off of feeling sick. I'm so excited and look forward to American Idol each week, I haven't missed an episode yet, it's sad I know. Mark has taken such good care of us and our ward was nice enough to bring dinners for a while. We're slowly getting back into the swing of things and the house will recover one day I'm hoping. For now just the bare essentials (like blogging, right?) are getting done. Ella wants a girl baby and since it's our last we think that it would be great for her to have a sister also. We know how sweet baby boys are so that would be nice too, we are just praying for healthy!

The kids are doing well in school and Mark is in training at work for a new department, so he's happy about that. Ella is learning to read and it's fun to see her progress. The boys are still in piano and John's Oliver rehearsals have started. Next week he has practice M-F, it's a crazy schedule since the play isn't until April. He seems to enjoy it though. Thankfully, Cooper isn't in a sport right now. Seth is really talking these days, in complete sentences even! He's a cutie and has been my little buddy while I've been sick. Sorry, no pictures of anything to post.

Anyway, Sethy's b-day is next week, so we'll have to post some pictures and blog again then, but for now just an update.