2nd trimester

Last week I officially entered my second trimester - whoot whoot! And while they say that I should start feeling more energy and less effects of things, that has yet to happen. If anything, I've entered a new phase where everything I eat has a horrible effect on my stomach. It's like I ate 3 dozen atomic hot wings, without the joy of eating the hot wings. I wish it was just heartburn, but it's more like stomach and whole body distress. Not cool at all.

We have our big ultrasound set for March 1st and hopefully baby 2.0 will cooperate. We do plan to reveal the baby's gender this time (assuming s/he cooperates), and then we can finally start thinking about names. Well, I've been doing plenty of thinking - Dave thus far has just been doing plenty of vetoing! We have some girl names we agree upon, but boys names are much, much harder. But until we know the gender for sure, Dave won't talk about names, he'll just veto everything I send his way.

Otherwise things are good here - not much else new. Same story, different day - rinse and repeat. We are anticipating some out of town guests in February which will be a nice change, and of course we are looking forward to the superbowl!! Otherwise, bring on spring!

Snow day!

Cori has been adjusting well to the new house, but day care has been a much harder adjustment. She goes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - "School" as we call it to help her feel like a big girl. The first 2 weeks of January were rough - there were lots of tears at drop off (full out sobbing when I did the drop offs, which immediately resulted in Dave taking over that task). She isn't allowed a binky at school either, which we didn't know and were kind of taken by surprise. But we're rolling with it. Cori isn't eating much there at all - she is such a picky eater - but she is doing excellent at potty training and staying try throughout the day. It will be time for big girl underwear before we know it!

This week we rounded a bend in that no more tears at drop off, and Cori saying she is looking forward to going to school. The one thing she does love is Wednesday "Gym bus" days - she does 30 minutes of tumbling on the gym bus each week and loves it! Dance classes and such look to be in our future!


Sleep has been better (knock on wood) through Cori is getting her second year molars. She is drooling a ton and chapped because of it, and she's also starting to bite through her binkys and what ever else goes in her mouth.


These are some shots from a recent snow fall where Dave took Cori sleding in our back yard. I'm so glad Dave has the energy I don't these days! Cori loves being outside no matter what the weather - I can't say the same!



Perspective of the back yard - lots of room to sled!

Introducing.....

Meet Baby Sprague 2.0 !

Wednesday's first trimester ultrasound went well. Sprague 2.0 is growing well and the gestational sac size resolved itself thankfully. The risk for Downs Syndrome (based on the blood work and measurements) is extremely low and we were able to see some major organs, 4 limbs, the baby's brain and a well formed placenta and umbilical cord.

Baby's heart rate was 156 bpm - a little slower than Cori's was all the time (I believe she was always in the 160s / 170s). It is too soon to tell the baby's gender, but we invite you to place your guess in the poll over to the left. For what it's worth, the pregnancies have been very similar in cravings, sickness, etc except I am more tired. Maybe having a toddler and a new house has something to do with that.....

Dusting off the keyboard

Happy new year! I'm managed to muster enough energy to dust off the keyboard and make an entry. My intentions have been plentiful but it's been really hectic round these parts. And in the quiet moments, I have chosen to rest instead of keep things up to date. (And who needs clean floors or laundry either?!)

Cause for exhaustion....I think everyone who reads this now knows that we're expecting an addition to our family this July. As you can see below, Cori is excited too!

We "came out" at Christmas as only our parents and siblings and a few friends had known. At this point I'm 11 weeks and while feeling fine physically, I seriously have no energy. Zero. Zip. Nada. We're cautiously excited at this point - when I was released from my specialist, the last ultrasound (at 7 weeks) showed a strong heart beat and baby growing on track, but the gestational sac that surrounds the baby was measuring behind more than they'd like to see / was normal. Nothing can be done so it's a wait and see game. I have an ultrasound on Tuesday for my 1st trimester genetic screening and we're hoping everything is "normal" then.

I owe posts and lots of pictures on Christmas (which was wonderful!) and our trip to Atlanta over Thanksgiving (wonderful too!). And Cori started her new daycare which I'd like to write about. I'm hoping I'll get to it this weekend. But that may be a stretch; right now I'm staring down the Christmas decorations that are throughout our dining room. The house may be de-Christmased, but it's all still waiting to be put away. I swear if I had the time, the first thing I'd do with my genetics degree is figure out how to clone myself and it would be like Multiplicity around here! But right now, I think I am going to nap with Cori.