Good day!

Today was a really good day.

This morning, the alarm went off and Tyler shut it off and promptly fell back asleep.  I'm convinced we both would have slept for a long time if it weren't for our noisy upstairs neighbor.  For once, his being an annoying stompy person came in handy for us.  I felt Tyler getting out of bed as Stompy Heal Walker's alarm was going off upstairs.  It always goes off at 7 am and he never shuts it off.  It's annoying 99.9999% of the time, except for today, when it helped get Tyler out of bed and to work on time.

I remained in bed for a little while and was joined by Kitten who laid down on Baby J.  Baby didn't really appreciate it because there was a lot of movement and kicks to Kitten.

I got out of bed and enjoyed my morning granola as I read my devotional book.  Then I surfed the web, looking for pictures of Madison's 1st birthday but they weren't on there yet.  I spent the morning playing with Kitten, watching my belly shake as Baby J danced around, and I did the dishes.  There weren't that many dishes so it didn't take too long.

Tyler came home for lunch and we enjoyed some time together.  I had to a gestational diabetes screening test to do so Tyler brought the gross drink home for me to drink.  It wasn't as gross as I had heard that it would be, but it wasn't a pleasant experience.  I had to drink 296 mL of a drink that had 50 g of sugar in it in 5 minutes.  It wasn't bad to start with.  it tasted like that mcdonalds juice that they always served at elementary school functions.  But after a while, it started to make me cringe.  There was so much sugar in there that it felt like my teeth were going to fall out.  It had almost a gritty quality to it.  I managed to get it all down and then I felt it coursing through my veins.  My heart started beating much faster and I just wanted to go for a run.

I went with Tyler to work to get my blood drawn.  While I was there, Tyler's co-worker gave us a gift.  It is a camo pair of pants and a sweater.  It is so cute.  My blood was normal so I don't have diabetes and that is really awesome.  There really wasn't a concern that I did have it but it's nice to know that I didn't develop it.

I spent the afternoon playing DDR on an easy level, cross stitching and I started to make dinner at around 3 pm.  I started early because it needed to be in the oven for almost an hour and I wanted to just be able to pop it in the oven when Tyler came home and it would be ready for 5.  And just because I started early, we didn't end up eating it.  I got a text from Tyler right at the time I was finishing up the dish that it was Carl's birthday today and we were invited over for dinner.  So now we have a meal all ready to go for tomorrow.

When Tyler came home, we watched some news and then headed out to Jan and Carl's house for a birthday meal and celebration.  It was a really great time, where we got to get out of the house and hang out with some fun people.  We had a meal of fancy mac and cheese with a cake for dessert.  Afterwards we just sat around the table and enjoyed the conversation.  We got a ride home because there is a storm coming through and was raining and very windy.

We are now home and getting ready for bed.  Tyler doesn't want to sleep through his alarm again tomorrow morning.

Baby J was moving all day long and it was so great.  I loved it and I can't wait to meet this tiny baby!
Sonja