18w2d

well i had another OB appointment today. things look good with the baby (only one more week until the big u/s!!), but they took some more blood today to test my thyroid. they're testing it because of the palpitations i've been having. if it was just palpitations she wouldn't be real worried, but since i'm having shortness of breath when i get them she wants me to get checked out. if the tests come back normal, i'm making an appointment with my GP to see what he thinks the next steps should be. here's hoping it's my thyroid and not a heart condition.

it has been super hot here lately. it's warm outside but nice when there's a breeze, but it's like a freaking oven in our place. our central air system is 30+ years old and doesn't do a great job so we hardly ever put it on so i try to be outside as much as i can. i'm so incredibly glad they finally opened our community pool b/c i've been down there nearly every night since then. if i'm inside i tend to feel sick from the heat so i always have a wet hand towel on my neck. if the AC doesn't crap out on us before then we'll be replacing our furnace and the central air at the end of the summer when the prices come down.

our memorial day was great! my SIL had her annual party and it was nice to get together and play in the sprinklers with all the kids and have good food. we had one hell of a storm, but it only lasted for about 20 minutes and after that it cooled off quite nicely outside. wish i had pictures of all the muddy kids!

as far as summer plans go matt and i will be making a trip sometime this month or next to iowa to visit matt and lori. lori is giving me her maternity clothes since they are done having kids and since we are similar in size so i want to go and get those since i'm finally starting to grow out of my normal pants. they are also very generously giving us some baby stuff which i'm so incredibly grateful for. we'll probably go there on a friday and leave sometime saturday. then we'll drive to matt's cousin's house that is about an hour away from matt and lori and stay there until sunday. i am also planning on staying with mark and jessica at some point this summer for about a week. i can't wait for that b/c we always have so much fun when we get together! and then there is the trip to jacksonville. if dad ever gets off work i'm going down there for a week and he and i are going to go through the house and get rid of stuff and pack stuff up for later use by myself or my siblings. we probably won't get too many rooms done, but i at least want to get the downstairs looking better. dad says it'll have to happen in june if it happens so we'll see if that pans out. other than that we don't have much planned for the summer. we are HOPING to fly out west sometime early next year to see mike and rae and their little one. and while we're there we'll visit steve who is in phoenix and all of matt's relatives in vegas. i'm keeping my fingers crossed that we'll have the $$$ for that.

becky