Sofia is doing really well. In September she started her 2nd year of preschool. She seems to really like it and we're pleased with how she's doing too. She also had a good cardiology check up in August. Good echo, good exam. She is continuing to do very well. It just amazes me how completely she has rebounded since last summer, which was a rollercoaster with her post-operative course after her May 2012 surgery. We are very thankful that she is happy and healthy. She won't go back to cardiology until December. She is doing well on Coumadin, but it has required pretty frequent blood draws due to unsteady INR results. I think part of it is that she's growing. Just in the past few weeks she seems to be eating so much more and growing. Taller and bigger. She will be 5 in December!
Adelaide is going great too. It also seems like she's growing very quickly too. She turned 3 last week and she is an inquisitive, funny, smart girl. She learned to ride her bike without training wheels this summer at age 2 1/2, probably just to try to keep up with her big sister. She will start preschool in the "young 3s" class in January and she is very excited about that.
Oliver and I are doing well too. In exciting news, I'm pregnant with our third and due in April! We are looking forward to this new baby coming in the Spring. I've had a good pregnancy so far. Luckily, never getting morning sickness, I just fought exhaustion off in that first trimester. That has passed for the most part. Emily is also pregnant, so it will be fun and interesting to add 2 more cousins into this mix of crazy girls! Neither of us is finding out what we're having, so that will be a fun surprise. It will also be nice to share maternity leave. I'm 18 weeks, so I'll be having my detailed ultrasound the week of Thanksgiving and my fetal echo the following week. I've haven't focused too much on them, but like any parent with a child with heath issues, there is no being naive when it comes to what could happen. I did have the Panorama screening in my first trimester. There are new, non-invasive blood tests that test fetal DNA for chromosomal abnormalities. I had good results with that. It wouldn't detect any heart related problems, but I will have the fetal echo for to check out the baby's heart in detail. The girls are very interested in the baby and seem to be excited about having another sibling, although I'm not sure they know what that means yet. I'm not sure I know what it means yet to have 3!
With the additional of another child and Sofia starting kindergarten next year and wanting to be in a better school district, we decided to list our house for sale at the beginning of September. We were lucky that it sold in a month and we're now in the process of closing. We have NOT found a new house yet, so we're planning to move into a rental until we are able to find a house that we bot love. I've given us a deadline of the end of March since the baby is due in mid-April. The buying and selling has kind of been a stressful process and one that I don't want to do anytime soon again, especially pregnant. Hoping I look back on this in a few months and it's a distant memory! We are really hoping to be all packed up and settled in a couple weeks in a new place in time for Thanksgiving. Then it will be Sofia's birthday and Christmas. So much happening :) But all good things and we're happy.
And now for a few pictures. they're in no particular order and it's not easily letting me rearrange them
With my brother Chris's help, we made 2 of these beds for the girls! I just love the way they turned out. That's for another post, I think
Went to a fundraiser this summer. Sofia's surgeon, Dr. Stewart and me
Adelaide's birthday (she asked for a bathtub full of ice cream for her birthday, which is an idea from a book we read. Uncle Rob delivered and she love it!)
3 years old!
Sofia and cousin Camryn
I also redid a rocking chair this summer. This was my mom's from when she had us babies
Our third heart walk
Sofia's first day of preschool this year
Halloween
Uncle Rob taking girls for tractor rides
And Oliver and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary in August!
