Family Visits

After an awesome 5 days or so with all of our parents in town, Matt and I were bummed towards the end of the week to see them go.  Back to reality- no more visitors, and lots of work days ahead.  We had so much fun eating meals with our parents, catching up, enjoying one another, and even having a meal where both sides got together.  Baby Parker made out like a bandit with both his Grandma Preis and Nona in town --he will be one well-dressed and loved little boy with so many special people in his life.  It takes a lot to cheer me up when my mama leaves, though!

One of the curses of pregnancy is forgetfulness...which when added to my absent-mindedness, can be pretty inconvenient.  In the case of online shopping, however, it can be beautiful...like getting a present in the mail you didn't know was coming!  Today, my cheapo $15 fetal stethoscope came...I felt like it was a gift, even though I only ordered it last weekend!  

After about 10 minutes of not being able to even find my own heart beat with it, I was close to giving up.  Maybe it was too early, I wasn't using it correctly, or it was just too cheap to ever work.  Just as I was putting it back into the box, Matt started playing with it...first on himself, then on the dog (crazy fast heart beat and weird tongue licks), then on the cat (purrr).  We both started to get used to how it worked.  I finally found my own heart beat, and what that sounded like muffled in my stomach.  I decided to try on my belly one more time....and was shocked to find Baby Boy's heart beat!  Ahh!

Matt and I both got to hear our little guy's heart beating strong, and even though we will hear it tomorrow at my OB appointment, nothing can take away how special it is to know a little person is there!  It also helps to know that I can hear him whenever I want, instead of once a month!  

I still miss my family, but at least I can have my little boy close by safe and sound.