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I had my appt. yesterday and all is well. Baby boy Yousef is growing as he is supposed to. His hearbeat is great! I gained another 3 pounds in 2 weeks....gosh, I had better let up on all those Little Debbie Snacks and fudge! :) But it's all so yummy. So nothing fun and exciting happened. Another appt. in 2 weeks!
Oh man!! Hana has 3 bottom teeth coming in at the same time and she's so moody.....it's driving me insane. She's normally not a cranky girl, but for the past couple of days when she's not getting what she wants, she cries and goes and sits in the floor. Hopefully it's just the teeth and not a sign of things to come in the future!!!!
Today Thaer started his class for his Six Sigma Blackbelt...so it's a good day for him. We are all so very proud of him!! It's extremely hard to be chosen for these classes. I was so excited, that I went to Target yesterday and got him a new notebook and highlighters!! hehehe..
As for me, I'm exhausted. I think I have like 54 days left til my due date! Last night I got about 4 hours of broken sleep because Hana kept waking with her mouth hurting. I've been attempting to really clean the kitchen (like scrubbing down all the appliances) and it took its toll on my back...I think I pulled something! I also hurt my knee a few days ago, don't know how it happened, but everytime I bend it a sharp pain radiates....So it makes it hard for when I put Hana to sleep because I sit in the floor indian style with her and rock her.....picture me trying to get up out of the floor with a sleeping baby and no hands to help myself up! It's kind of like a camel trying to stand up!!!!!
Tomorrow I have my 32 1/2 week OB appt. I will update about baby boy when I get done there!!!
I have great news...we found out yesterday that Thaer is one of very few people to start a Six Sigma Blackbelt class. What this means is that he goes to this class for 4 weeks...well it's in 1 week increments and once he has completed it he will have a prestigious certification almost as if he had gotten a second degree!!! This is awesome news for our family and it means that he will at least have his job guaranteed through the next round of cuts soon to come. But it is an extremely hard class, almost like College AP Statistics. Gosh, glad it's him and not me!! Statistics was a really hard course for me. But we are so excited and so proud of him!!!!
We went on Saturday the 14th to have some pictures taken since we hadn't had any "professionally" taken before. Hana loved having her picture taken.
I've been trying for so long to get this blog started as for we have family and friends all over the country and it just seems like an easier way to keep in touch with everyone. So for the very first one I'll just get out a little history on our growing family:
Thaer and I were married on 1/9/2007. We got pregnant with Hana in May of 2007 and she arrived in our lives, 9 days late on 2/17/2008. Low and behold we got pregnant with this little guy in August of 2008, which was a HUGE shock! His due date is 5/18/2009. My little munchkins will be a whole 15 months apart.
Hana is a joy. She's so funny and is growing so quickly and learning so much. She's got 10 teeth now, well 2 of her molars are currently pushing their way through. She has been walking very well for about a month now and is LOVING it! At her 1 year checkup she weighed in at 20 pounds and 13 oz and is 30.5 inches long...which yes, she is a tall and skinny one!
Thaer has been doing well. Just a busy bee at work. They've been having a lot of layoffs, so he is receiving all the work of the guys that lost their jobs. Then he comes home and helps me out. What a guy! He will be having a neurostimulator put in his back at the end of this month for pain. The pain comes from 3 broken vertebrae in his back from his seizure last July. He also has to have shoulder surgery from the same accident, but we have yet to schedule that. But other than that, he's great.
I am doing pretty well also. Just staying tired. For the past few weeks I've been "teaching" Hana how to sleep on her own. For the past year, she'd wake up whenever and we would rush into her room, pick her up and rock her back to sleep. But since we've got a new one coming and for our own sanity, we decided that it was time....and she's been doing wonderfully. From the first night she took to it really well. Now since then though, she's been having teeth come in, so of course on those days she doesn't sleep as well, but still better than her waking up 9 times a night. Now if only I could learn how to sleep. :) And being a stay at home mom is awesome. I get to see all of her milestones and watch her change. I absolutely love it and wouldn't trade it for the world.
I can't wait until this little man gets here and to see how Hana and he will get along. It's going to be fun, hard work, but fun.
Well, I will finally end my very first post!! Look often, there will be plenty more to come!
Hana enjoying her spaghetti!! YUMMY!!! 
