Spencer Adventure2


Counting the days
July 23, 2008, 3:36 am
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So I got a lot to look forward to this year.  My first thing on my mind is counting the days for our next little one.  I can’t wait until our 20 weeks sono appointment.  That is when we will find out the sex of the baby.  Hopefully the baby cooperates and the sonographer can get a good look.  The doctor appointments have been very, very well.  It is a lot different this time.  This time we are not having to frequent Parkland hospital.  With Adam neither of us had insurance in the beginning, so we had to have doctor appointments at Parkland.  Insurance is great!  Not that Parkland is bad, but INSURANCE IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At the first sono appointment the baby was measuring 7.07 centimeters and the heart rate was around 160 bpm.  They also took blood from Christina and ran test with that and the measurements of the sono.  We got great news with the results saying there was a 1 in 10,000 chance of the baby having down syndrome.  The nurse did say that was great results and I feel the same.  Below you can see one of the sono pictures.  The baby is laying with head on the left and then body to the right.

The next countdown is vacation!  I am ready.  Ready to get away.  It will be nice to see another part of the US that I haven’t seen before.  We have a lot planned in a short amount of time, but we have a plan for were we are going and what we are seeing.  We tried to see the van that we would be renting and that didn’t go so well.  First Susan got lost for about 15 minutes at DFW airport trying to find the rental car area.  Once she finally found us, we went in, and nothing.  We couldn’t see it.  But we do know that they rent only Dodge Caravans and Dodge Grande Caravans, No Chevy Uplanders is good news.  Our issue is going to be space.  We found out that the only difference, is the Grand Caravan has a foot more space of storage in the rear.  So of course we really, really want the Grand Caravan.  The only problem is they can not guarantee which one we will get.  They are not in the business to GUARANTEE what we get, only that we will get one of the two.  Strap me to the hood I’m ready to go.

I can actually say that I will have seen the Atlantic and Pacific ocean.  The farthest south I have been is Padre Island and the farthest north I have been is a about an hour north of Green Bay to a little town called Oconto, Wisconsin. 

We have a plan for saving money for the upcoming vacation and it’s in writing so it’s more likely for us to stick to it.  We are planning a garage sale with the Samson’s and maybe we can may some bucks then to.  I don’t know that the date for that yet, it is undecided yet.

It’s late and time to join my sleeping wife so I can get my beauty sleep.


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