Almost There

No new baby pictures today, as I think his face is too hard to get a good look at now...that and my doctor had a very packed schedule plus a patient in labor the day I went for my last appointment, so maybe he just didn't want to take the time :)  But everything is fine with the baby, I have now been going for weekly appointments, and my due date is 2 weeks from today.  I go for my 39 week appointment this coming Friday (a few days short of 39 weeks) and I think my doctor isn't expecting me to make it much past that, since Juliana was born at 39 weeks and 1 day.  And according to Kyle, there's only 2 more blackout dates that he can't be born on...this Saturday because of a big athletic fundraiser, and then Monday because he's speaking in chapel...  Personally I hope he's born early because our pediatrician leaves for a conference in the United States on my due date.  I think the only thing we're still unsure about is what our insurance company will cover...and its looking pretty bad.  In August our new insurance company told us that they cover 80% of hospital bills, but only 70% at the hospital where I will deliver.  However we were ecstatic that they would cover 70%.  Then a week and a half ago we found out that we had to get a bunch of papers from the hospital before they would cover anything, and then it would take 7-10 days for them to pre-approve my birth.  We managed to get the papers in 1 afternoon (a big miracle) and because it was so close to my due date they pre-approved it in a couple days (another big miracle).  But after reading the fine print, it looks like they MIGHT cover 50%.  Or if you read it a different way, they might cover more like 30%.  But either way we might not know until we're actually at the hospital.  And it's kind of open so that we're not even sure if we might have to pay all of it outright and then get reimbursed for a some of it later on.  So for now we've notified our credit card company that there might be a large charge made sometime in the next couple weeks from Honduras and are praying for an even bigger miracle in the meantime.

We have been working hard to get the house ready and I think we're nearly there.  The big sister was having a bit of a hard time at first, especially when we took her changing table/dresser and gave her a regular dresser (she likes to climb the changing table) and when I took the pink cover off the infant car seat and put a blue one on instead (when I was done she got into it, cried, and said "I NEEEEED IT!") After that I was kind of dreading taking away her crib, especially since we were moving her to a regular twin size bed.  But this summer we bought her some super cute bedding as a surprise (I had let her pick it out earlier in the spring and then waited till it was on sale this summer to buy it) and for a couple weeks kept talking about how she was going to get a special big sister bed and asking her if she was ready for it.  She was pretty sure she was ready and when a maintenance man from school finally brought it she was so excited.  She looks pretty tiny in it, and thankfully hasn't fallen out of it...though I line the floor with pillows and check on her a few times every night.

She's so proud of her new bed

Posing after she asked me to take a picture of her with her pony :)

Drawing pictures for mommy

Last Tuesday Juliana came home from a friends house feeling fine, but within 2 hours had a fever of 102.  The next morning we took her to this clinic that is a part of our insurance plan, where we pay $5 and it will cover Urgent Care, doctor's visit, lab work, prescriptions from the pharmacy, etc...  After a VERY stressful morning of trying to get Juliana to go potty in a cup in the clinic's bathroom (Kyle's sure she has some weird phobia), we finally went to the grocery store to buy a bowl for her to go in and then took her to McDonald's to bribe her with a hamburger.  We then went back to the clinic and waited for the results from that test and a blood test...then back to the doctor in Urgent Care...to find out she had a throat infection.  They gave us antibiotics, assured us that we couldn't get it from her, and sent us on our way.  Well apparently the doctor was wrong because I've had a sore throat and fever since Saturday.  I've talked to 2 doctors...one who told me to go on antibiotics immediately and get the infection taken care of before the baby is born, the other who said to wait it out and see if it might be a virus first and then if it doesn't go away then start antibiotics.  So at this point I haven't started the antibiotics and feel miserable, but don't really know who's advice to go with.  

There's been so many things going on around here...the biggest of all is that we bought a different car even though our old car is still not working...but I'll see if I can get Kyle to write about that sometime in the next day or 2 :)