9 weeks and a freezer full of food!

This is a rather silly photo of Max but Tony took it as I haven’t been feeling well. He is standing with our meat order. In those boxes are a lamb, half a pig, and half a cow. 

 Between that and the CSA our freezer is STUFFED. We couldn’t put more in there if we had to! In fact Tony had to remove our upper baskets just to get all of it in there. Tony says there is a method to his madness in there but pretty much everything is covered with meat. Ha ha!

Here I am today. I am calling myself at 34 7/8 inches today. So not a ton of growth on my part but the baby is certainly getting bigger being about 1 inch head to rear today. Legs don’t count as they are very hard to get to straighten out even when they are born! It is shocking to me that the baby is pretty much a miniature human at this point. Not that I expect them to be a dog or a cat, but all the organs are in place pretty much at this point. I almost feel like the NICU days when they talk about babies that are “feeders and growers”. Basically at this point the baby is just that only inside me. Their biggest task for the rest of the pregnancy is to grow and refine. 

Max had a great Christmas this year. Tony said it was so cool to see his reactions to things this year as he was really excited this year. With even jumping up and down on our bed when he found out it was Christmas. Personally I was just happy that my morning sickness wasn’t as bad on Christmas as it has been. However yesterday and today I am feeling awful so I guess it all worked out in the end.

I wasn’t able to go to Christmas eve services this year. This is the first year I have missed them since Emily’s birth, and since I became a christian (2002 – best homily ever! It was all in rhyme!). I hated missing them but I wasn’t feeling very well so it is was for the best. Tony and Max had a treat though. It snowed on the way there and back. What a great way to go to Christmas services!! Max I was told was confused by me not being at church as he normally bounces between Tony and I but he did fairly well considering.

Tony fixed a wonderful meal on Christmas without my help at all. I really am doing everything to not spend the next couple of weeks in the bathroom, though today I should be at the worst. Tony cooked a Turkey, buttermilk biscuits (from scratch), cranberry sauce (from scratch), mashed potatoes (from scratch), giblet gravy (from scratch) and green bean casserole (from scratch). I was very impressed.

Tomorrow I have a skin re-biopsy in the morning. I didn’t really plan for this to happen at 9 weeks gestation but if you remember, I was not very optimistic for Baby E making it this far (or even to transfer for that matter) so I will deal. I don’t want my oncologist to yell at me next month, so the bit of pain I go through tomorrow will be worth it! Monday is the next ultrasound and thankfully Tony will be able to come with Max and I. A week from today I will have my first peri appointment where I might scare him. I hope I don’t, but I am really wanting some more natural things done this time (assuming I get to term) so I am at least going to mention it with him at that point. I have a feeling I will not get all of my wish list, but if I get half I will be happy. I know he will tell me to go off of the raw milk (boo!!!!) but it is a small price to pay to keep a doctor happy. Ha ha!