Random updates, cont'd

Oh boy. I'm turning into one of "those" bloggers - totally random, inconsistent posts that don't have any real through thread (although, honestly, I don't run into too many bloggers like that). I'd like to think that this is because of the 'busy-ness' of being pregnant. But really? Not all that busy. At least, with being pregnant. Or at least it feels that way now. I am under the gun a bit to get a proper registry done since invitations have now gone out for the first (of 3, sigh) showers which will take place on July 9.

But, I was busy being on vacation and having a birthday last week! More on that:

> Yep, I turned 41 last week (and Mr.Right turned 42 the day before me - we have back-to-back birthdays). So, I'll be 41 and 3+ months old when babygirl arrives (hopefully). Old, old, old. Of course, I don't feel 41. I feel somewhere around, oh, maybe, 35 or so. Weird. Would I want to be 35 again? No way! No Mr.Right at age 35. (There was a Mr. Rebound who broke my heart that year though). Anyhow, more importantly, birthday dinner was at a wonderful Italian place in Boston's North End. And I had saved up all my alcohol chits for a couple of weeks so I could have a glass of Prosecco!

> Long(ish), rambling, driving vacation last week. Started off at Mr.Right's 20th college Reunion the weekend of Memorial Day and then drove northwards for 3 days at a gorgeous inn on Cape Cod. The weather was absolutely perfect! Took the ferry out to Nantucket one day (had never been there before). From there, we hit a few historical sites (Plimoth Plantation; John Adams houses) south of Boston and shot on through to New Hampshire to spend one night in the town where Mr.Right went to boarding school. I had never been there and he had such fun showing me around his dorm and the classrooms and everything (it was the last day of classes). Then back to Boston for 4 nights' stay catching up with friends for dinner Friday night; dinner Saturday night; breakfast on Sunday and dinner on Sunday night! Phew!! A lot of catching up (mostly with Mr.Right's university and boarding school friends, but also one of my high school friends). And in the midst of that my birthday dinner as noted above. Lots of historical site-seeing. We're all boned up on our Revolutionary War history (oh yeah, and btw, Sarah Palin, Paul Revere road to Lexington after crossing the Charles River into Charlestown and getting a horse there -- he didn't ride around Boston ringing bells and warning the British. I don't care how you try to spin it....sigh.)

On the pregnancy front:

We had both another cervix/growth ultrasound today at the hospital's antenatal center and a regular monthly appointment with my OB's office. Cervix is as perfect as perfect gets (4.3 cm). Babygirl is measuring right on target - head a little large (yikes!). But she wasn't very cooperative this time in getting her picture taken. She was head down and turned toward the back and so no really good pictures of her were forthcoming. Fundal height measured 25 weeks at the OB's office. I'm up 11.5 pounds total and had gained 3 pounds since the last OB visit so they're predicting a 25-30 pound weight gain total (personally, I'm trying to stay on the 25 pound trend line if I can).

On a semi-related infertility front:

My sister went in for her breast biospy this morning. Remember her? We were all set to do donor eggs with my sister when I turned up pregnant (the old fashioned way). We were on a path to continuing on with retrieving eggs out of one cycle with my sister when she turned up with a calcification (hopefully, that's all it is) in one breast. Keeping all fingers crossed that there is no sign of any malignancy (she should hopefully have the pathology report back by next week some time). She still wants to do a cycle and so we're currently planning for July - if all is negative next week. I haven't heard from her this afternoon but I'm hoping everything went ok.

I went last night and stayed at their house so I could watch my younger nephew this morning while my BIL took my sister to the surgery this morning. My nephew had hand, foot and mouth virus this past weekend and they weren't sure if he'd be feeling well enough (mostly just sores in his mouth/throat at this point) to go to daycare this morning so I offered to go and stay with him at home. He seemed very lively, though, and we played all morning until I had to leave for my appointments this afternoon (and my BIL was able to come home while my sister was in surgery to get him and then go back and pick her up.)

If all looks ok, we'll schedule a consult with Dr.Dry and get underway with a cycle for her. It seems a little weird to be doing this with our baby seemingly, finger-crossing-ly, healthy at 24w3d but we know lightening doesn't strike the same place twice and there more than likely won't be a 'miracle' second baby with my eggs so we're taking my sister up on her continued generosity.

Anyhow, I hope to get back to more consistent reading, comment and posting now that I'm home for a while. Hope you are all well!