One week from today

We will be hearing our sweet little's heart beating for the very first time. I am excited about this appointment. For some reason, I think this appointment makes it all seem surreal... besides the nausea, of course. ;) We went when I was 10 weeks to hear Tuff's heartbeat and they couldn't find it so we got to get an ultrasound and not only hear his heartbeat but see him too. They say it's pretty common to not be able to find the heartbeat with the doppler that early so I'm kind of hoping the same thing happens with this baby so we get to see him/her. I remember seeing Tuff for the first time. He looked like a little teddy bear in there. He was so sweet. Me and Jordan got out all of his ultrasound pictures the other day looking at them. Tuff was pretty interested in what we were looking at too. I can't believe he's gone from itty bitty teddy bear growing in my belly to a whopping 18 month old in such a short period of time. My heart is so full for him. I can't wait to have it full for 2. :) I'm starting to get more and more anxious about finding out the gender. I know this is normal for everyone but I'm practically on my toes.

I want to say we are on the road to recovery (over sickness) in our house but every time I say that, something else springs on us. So, I'm just going to say I'm starting to feel a little better. I'm still not 100% which is odd for me. Usually a day or 2 after being on the antibiotics I'm pretty much back to myself. I'm relieved the sinus pressure is gone because that's what made me so miserable but I'm still dealing with being stopped up. Also, I haven't been able to taste or smell ANYTHING for going on 3 days now. The first day this started I though "Ok, I can handle this because it will probably only last a day." Well boy was I wrong. Has anyone else experienced this for this amount of time? It is ANNOYING. Especially when you're really hungry and you finally get something to eat and then can't taste a single bite of it. Urrrggghhh. I'm praying it goes away soon. I'm going on 6 meals with no taste buds.

I'm just glad it's Friday. I know I say this every Friday but who isn't glad it's Friday when it's Friday, right? I've been struggling with headaches too and I'm hoping to get some relax time this weekend to completely get over the sickness and headaches and stopped up head. We do have a few things going on this weekend since my mom and dad are going out of town for the weekend and my sister has a retreat to attend on Saturday. Saturday night we will be keeping my little sister over night and we will be keeping this sweet face...

all weekend. Saturday morning until about 3 Saturday afternoon we will be keeping this sweet face....

I'm sure Tuff will be excited to have his cous over his house for the day. He really enjoys company at his house, especially when it's someone his own age. :) I'm sure Jordan and I will have our hands full for the day. I'm hoping it might warm up and be pretty so we can take them to lunch and maybe even the park. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Well I'm hoping to actually take some pictures this weekend since we actually kind of have plans... I should have some to post for ya'll come Monday. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

The Alford's