April 23, 2017

 I’m really trying to catch up on our blog posts and I feel like I’m falling even further behind! I haven’t really kept any notes on our adventures and pretty much rely on the photos to jog my memory about our weeks. I do, however, remember this morning when we were all home and awake at the same time before Kevin and I each headed in to work. We hadn’t had a chance to be together to do crack open the confetti Easter eggs. Griffin was pretty excited at 7:15 in the morning to head outside and have colorful confetti blowing everywhere. He enjoyed cracking them over Lily and Brutus, and over my belly as you can see.  Lily continues to recover well. We are still taking her out on her leash (only) and she and Brutus remain separated by her playpen walls. They do get in to periodic spats of playfulness where they basically bite at each others faces and bark and growl at each other. And Finn continues to enjoy spending time in there with Lily.  On Friday I had my first weekly Non-stress test where they put a two monitors on my belly (one for contractions (pink band) and one for the baby’s heart beat (blue band) and in the printout below the top is the baby’s heart rate and the bottom monitors contractions). I had felt him moving around all morning but it always makes me a bit nervous while they try to find the heartbeat on the monitor and then secure the monitor in the correct place so it continues to track the heart rate. After a few minutes the nurse was able to get it right (she was new and nervous I could tell!). It took about 30-40 minutes but everything looked great so I’m all done until next week. On Friday Griffin also had a follow up hearing test. Earlier this spring he had a speech and hearing screening at pre-school and he didn’t pass in his right ear.  Kevin was able to take him to this appointment since i was at my appointment in the morning and had to get to work after that. We are very thankful that he passed the tests just fine. They had him hooked up to some equipment and when he would hear the sound he would have to throw a toy into the bucket. He rather enjoyed it I think, according to Kevin! Afterwards Daddy and Finn went on a shopping trip to Dick’s to get Finn some cleats for his football games.  First thing in the morning Griffin always comes to our room and hops right up into our bed and just snuggles. He is the best cuddler and I love to watch Griffin and Kevin together.  Here are a few others from this week: Z is the letter of the week so Finn made a Z for Zoo and the animals behind it. Also our Rising Sun Redbud out front is leafing out and looking pretty! And a couple from the park and the zoo.  Finn’s flag football games are a hoot to watch. There are 4 coaches and they are all actively helping the kids learn the entire game. It is tiring for Kevin, for sure, but he is enjoying it. And Finn loves that his daddy is one of his coaches.

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