16 week picture and the heart beat

Well, we had another midwife appointment today and we got to hear the heart beat again. It is amazing and this time we caught it on video (thanks Kelly).
Link to Video
Everything appears to be going just fine. The heart beat was approx 140 bpm (approx as it wasn't actually counted) and everything else seems to be where it should be according to Lesley. Hopefully we will get our ultrasound this month, but if we don't we are looking at April 13 or 16th. At least we have a date one way or another.

Nothing else is really happening at this point. I will keep everyone informed if something happens.

Rambling from Kara

I went to aquasize class today. It is the third time that I have gone and I am really enjoying it. The only thing that I do not like is that I end up doing the same thing for quite a period of time while the others are doing ab work. It sucks being the only one doing something different, although the reason is the best reason in the world. It is a good work out and I plan on doing this as long as they are offering the course.

We have another mid-wife appointment on Thursday. Hopefully we will get to tape the heartbeat this time. Maybe we will also get an approx. date for the ultrasound appointment. I can't wait.

In other news, it has snowed a lot here in Smith over the last couple of days. Kelly has been out and shovelling the driveway and the paths. Gracie seems to be doing ok. She doesn't seem to accept the fact that she is on restrictive activity for the next few weeks. She wants to play like nothing is wrong. Kelly is flying a lot right now, which is good for the mileage and the time. He is loving every minute of it I am sure.

I have joined the Relay for Life (a Canadian Cancer Society fundraiser) again this year. I am hoping that it is full of fun like last year. I stayed up all night (had a panicked husband for a few hours - I almost had my hair shaved off if they had raised enough money) and spent time with friends. It was a good time. Should anyone be interested in sponsoring me you can go to the Canadian Cancer website (www.cancer.ca), click on Alberta/NWT, Relay for Life 2007, Get Involved, Make a pledge, pledge a participant (first and last name) and put my name in it (Kara-lea Tuftin). If you have problems give me a call and I will walk you through it on the phone.

Anyways, I should start getting ready for bed. It has been a long day and I need some sleep (didn't sleep well last night). Hopefully all is going well for everyone.

Update

Well, I guess I should update everyone with what is happening with our world right now.

Kelly and I have decided not to get Gracie the surgery. It was a very hard decision but with the little one coming, it is the only decision that really makes sense. It would have cost us a lot of money, and quite frankly with me going on maternity leave in 5 months it wouldn't make a lot of sense to spend our money that way, when we should be saving and paying our debt down. Don't get me wrong, I love Gracie, but we need to think of the whole picture which didn't include very good odds of working out the way we want it to. So the plan now is to keep her quiet for the next 6 weeks, and hopefully this will help heal it better. We have her on a new form of Glucosamine so this may help her as well.

Other than that, nothing much is happening right now. I was going to go to Calgary (for Gracie's surgery), but with that cancelled now, I am going to go to work instead. I am hoping that we will get to go down south at some point before May. It would be nice to see everyone.

Right now I am sitting on the couch with Gracie and we are watching American Idol. I went home from work early today because I wasn't feeling well. I am hoping that this is just a 24 hour bug, I really do not want to be sick again. I finally got out of the 1st trimester and I was thinking I was done with all of that. Anyways, enough complaining. That's all that is new right now. Catch you all later.