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Surprise!

I had my ultrasound a week ago today. The experience was actually a huge disappointment for me. I didn't have the girl that I had the last two times and I found out that she only works Tuesdays and Thursdays. The u/s tech I had was older and very by the book. For the first 40 minutes she wouldn't let me look at the screen and didn't say a word while she did the measurements so I just laid there in silence, staring at the ceiling while Chris watched at times and would fall asleep at other times. For the last 10 minutes she showed us a few things and explained what they were and then she gave us a strip of pictures and that was it. The pictures aren't as clear as they were with Aubrey's and Jensen's ultrasounds. I think it's because with the first two my bladder was full the entire time. This time the tech had me pee everything out after the first few minutes of the u/s. Maybe that makes a difference?

Today I had my doctor's appointment. I found out that everything from the ultrasound came back normal. The baby is perfect! That was such a relief to me because after the u/s was over Chris asked me if I felt like something was wrong. I guess he had gotten the feeling that something was wrong because during the u/s there was a point where the tech kept going back to the same thing and re-measuring and putting up side-by-side pictures of the same thing. After Chris told me that I started to stress a little bit so to hear that everything came up normal... well, I was so happy to hear it. I could have found out the gender today as well, but I didn't. I'm still torn so as long as I'm torn I'm not going to find out. Chris now wants to find out! I guess we'll see.

On a side note, this afternoon my mom volunteered to watch the kids while I ran into Lethbridge to run a few errands. I decided to take Aubrey along so that we could have a "mommy/daughter date." It's not very often that we get to do things, just the two of us. In Lethbridge we ordered her birthday cake, ran to Chapters to buy a birthday gift for my dad, played at the Henderson playground, ate at A&W, and grabbed some things from Wal-mart before we came home. It was actually a very enjoyable afternoon together. She acted really great most of the time and I managed to stay calm when she started to get a little sassy and irrational. Overall, I'm so glad we did it.

This evening, after the kids were in bed I got to go for a walk with my friend Amanda. We used to go fairly regularly before it got too cold. I've missed that and I'm a little sad that I won't be around this summer to go walking with Amanda regularly. We're exercising while having great conversation. It's great.

So it was a fantastic day! I'm so thankful for that.