Week 27_Are you there kid?

So this week has been very hectic which explains why we are so late on the blogging. Work has been killing both Spencer and myself as we prepare to go on our Babymoon....which starts tomorrow! Hooray! St. Simon's Island here we come!

This week's update though is that we had a tiny scare with Baby Shell. On Wednesday I started to get very nauseous again and was having trouble keeping food in my stomach. I hadn't felt this bad in awhile. Then on Thursday the nausea continued and I realized that it had been about 2 days since I felt Baby Shell kick. I wasn't sleeping because I was feeling so ill so I went home early from work on Thursday and spoke with our doctor. Turns out that Baby Shell had rotated with his head at the top of my uterus and his feet towards my back. His head was pushing hard against my uterus and pushing against my stomach...which pushed against any food in there. Her solution was to drink a sugary, caffeinated beverage (which was music to my ears) in order to turn him around! It's been so long since I've had a real Coke! Well, before I could drink my Coke, my darling husband came home and began speaking to my tummy. Our son now knows his voice so as Spencer talked to him he began to rotate towards his voice and began kicking again. It was was amazing to see him kick through my tummy for the first time in a few days! At this point I assumed he had completely rotated back forward and I was fine again, but since my doctor had approved that sugary, caffeinated Coke I was certainly still going to take advantage of it! And turns out, I still love Coke. Since the baby is still growing, I am having to get used to feeling a bit nauseous again. Oh well, I guess he's worth it!

Tonight we celebrated Spencer's 35th birthday and his last birthday before he becomes a daddy. He got a video camera to take videos of Baby Shell (and probably lots of random things as he learns to use it) and he got a TV to put in the nursery (so that he will be more likely to get up in the middle of the night to help out!). He's gotten presents last week from me, this afternoon from my parents, tonight from his family, and will get more on Monday (his actual birthday) from me and another one next weekend from my parents again! What a spoiled, but very loved guy! I don't care how old he gets, Spencer loooves opening wrapped presents! It's very cute to watch. I just hope he doesn't get too used to this; Baby Shell is going to take over soon!

Hopefully our next posts will include more pictures of the amazing nursery and Baby Shell's first trip to St. Simon's (well, kinda). Maybe I'll even ask Spencer to write it so that it will be more entertaining and less informative. Oh I can't wait to hear what our son thinks of this blog when he's old enough to read it!