I have been a little behind in my wedding posts, so I wanted to post a couple images from the three weddings I’ll be posting on soon.
This past weekend Jody and I went to Kenora to a friend’s cottage, it was a wonderful weekend away and a fabulous way to celebrate my birthday!! 
And now this week I’m headed home to see my family in Michigan for a long-planned little reunion, I’m leaving on Tuesday morning, and on Thursday both Jody and my brother and his family arrive. It will be the first time we’ve all been together and the first time my brother and my husband will meet – yes, for real, they haven’t met yet! I’m so looking forward to it!!! And we’ll all also be celebrating my grandparents’ 90th birthdays together! My uncle, aunt and cousins from Chicago are driving over for a day as well, and I hear from a little birdy that there will be a small little family baby shower for us – yay!!
I had planned to bring my laptop along to Michigan with me, and although I knew I wouldn’t have much time, I figured I could do some work in the evenings, at least at the beginning of the week. Then on Monday it appeared that my laptop’s hard drive died. We can’t be certain until we take it to visit the Apple store, but it’s not turning on or doing much of anything. So frustrating!!! I do most of my work on my iMac (and have multiple backups of course!), but of course I can’t take the iMac with me!
So anyway, this will be a bit of a hodge-podge post, and will have the sneak peeks and also a couple personal updates!
First an update on my James! As many of you know, and as I talked about at the beginning of my last post, little James had a blockage in his urethra two weeks ago and spent 24 hours in the emergency vet. It happened three years ago as well so I knew really early on that 1) something was wrong, and 2) it was probably this. So we caught it extremely early but my poor little guy was in pain when he finally did try to go pee and couldn’t, and he jumped out of his litter box and started wailing, I can’t forget it, it was so awful. Anyway, it took him a good 5 days to get back to normal and start seeming like himself again, and I was so worried the whole time both that he would block again and also just that he didn’t feel well – he’s my baby, I want him to be happy and healthy and having him other than that was so so so awful! James and Emma had a vet appointment last week, as both a follow-up for James, and just a general checkup. James needs to lose 2 pounds, and they want him on a special diet. Unfortunately he and Emma both hate the prescription food, even when I mix in their old Fancy Feast (and honestly, after a couple hours the food smells really bad so I can see why they don’t like it). So I’ll give it a little longer and then look for something else. No more dry food either, and I mix water in with their wet food to give them extra hydration. Yesterday, when we came home from Kenora, James seemed like he was mad at me – probably for going away, but also for not giving him tasty food! It was awful, he was avoiding me! Today he’s been more cuddly so I feel a little better. I’m trying to find a good balance though, between health and taste, because I want him to be healthy and don’t want this to happen again, but he also loves his food and I hate taking away any joy he had with eating. So bottom line is I don’t know yet exactly what I’ll do there. I may end up ditching the prescription stuff and just feeding them high protein wet foods only. We’ll see.
Here are photos of James and Emma at their vet appointment last week! James was first really curious and explored the room and counters and then hid under a chair but was still looking all around so cutely and curiously. And little Emma was not happy at all and cocooned her little self into her blanket and was barely peeking out, she was so adorable and pitiful!
I wanted to share a few photos from this past weekend in Kenora as well! All these (and all above photos as well) were taken with my iPhone, I’m soooo loving that and the fun apps for personal and fun photos!!
It was a wonderful and beautiful visit! I’d really love to explore the whole area much more, too! Anyway, one more personal thing and then I’ll get to sneak peek photos! So I’m sure some people have noticed that I’ve slacked in my weekly pregnancy updates. Yes, I’ve been bad. I’m now in Week 27 so almost to the third trimester, which seems so crazy cause 1) I feel so good, and 2) it seems like there’s still so much time left (which really there’s almost three whole months left, so it’s not like it’s right around the corner!)! So this obviously isn’t a weekly update, but I’ll do a mini update, and I promise next week, during Week 28, I’ll get back on track with my regular weekly posts!
Week 27
My belly has gotten nice and round and perfect over the past 3-4 weeks! I love it, I feel like it’s so pretty and perfect!! I finally look really pregnant but it’s not yet too big that it’s causing any problems. I do now get uncomfortable when I’m leaning over while sitting up or when I’m bending down, and I can’t just bend down and pet our babies for long anymore, I need to actually sit on the floor. My hips have started to get sore while I’m sleeping now, too, cause I can only sleep in two positions – on one side and then on the other side. Sometimes I put a pillow between my legs, it doesn’t really help with the hip soreness but feels good. My feet and ankles are still regularly swelling and looking gross! I feel the baby move many times a day, still not any super strong kicks (probably cause of the anterior placenta) but I can see my belly move a little during some of them, which is so cool and weird at the same time! I read that this week, the amniotic fluid reduces by half so I’ll be able to feel more movements and also see and/or feel individual body parts more – and I think this may have already started cause this morning when I woke up, it felt like there was a foot or elbow sticking out in one place! Oh, one thing I’ve noticed is that sometimes when I’m sitting up straight, like when I’m driving, it feels like the uterus (or really the baby in the uterus) is being pushed up under my ribs on one or the other side and it’s quite uncomfortable, I definitely feel better when I’m reclined a little more. Hmmm, anything else? Other than that I feel good, my weight gain is supposedly perfect, I’m still not having any strong cravings, and (knock on wood) everything is going well! Oh – two weeks ago I had the amazing experience of seeing our baby in 3D! A friend of mine is training to become an ultrasound tech and needed guinea pigs, and I was so happy to volunteer both to help her and to see our baby again! It was so cool, and I loved hearing them tell me that everything looked healthy and normal! The 3D was surreal – it was so amazing and cool and I can’t stop looking at the photos, and yet it’s also a little weird cause the baby looks like a little old man and not so much like a baby, so of course it worries me a tiny bit and I’ll be so happy when it comes out and (hopefully!) looks like a wonderful little baby!
So here are a couple photos from Week 25, and a couple photos from the ultrasound, and then a photo from this past weekend of me during Week 27!
Okay and now for a few sneak peeks! When I get back next Monday, I’ll be working on getting the posts up for all three of these wonderful weddings!!
by Rebecca Whitney
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