An Update

I don't get around to e-mail much lately, as you all have noticed. By the time I get the time, I don't often have the energy, or some other combination of things like that. But here's the latest at the Thacker home.

Rob's Tests

Rob took his big big test last Wednesday. It's his qualifying exam that if he doesn't pass with a 70% or better we get kicked out of grad school. He should know in a matter of days what he got on the test. He is very confident about it and is pretty sure he passed. So the stress looming over our family for the 3 weeks before that test is now gone and life is good. Rob is again funny and relaxed, and we like him that way. He took another test Monday for the class he's taking and surprised himself (he didn't have much studying time cause he was worn out from the qualifying exam, and he doesn't like the subject either) by setting the curve. Go Rob.

Ultrasound

Wed. the 25th I went to the doctor for the first time and found out that we are NOT having twins. This is the best news I've had in a while. :) One at a time is fine with me. As far as the doctor could tell, the baby has no birth defects (they can't tell for sure on Downs, though he's pretty sure the baby doesn't have it, and they can't tell on the heart cause it's too little right now)--no spinabifida (however you spell that), the brain is normal, organs he could see are normal--and the due date is right on schedule. I forget which was the first day of my last period and put down Oct. 20th, which put my due date at July 27th. The ultrasound put it at July 29th. Oops, it just means I put down the wrong date. I knew it was either the 20th or 22nd. Obviously it was the 22nd. I'm debating telling the doc, though. He said we could keep it the 27th and it doesn't matter much, so I'm okay with that.

Rob Turns 27

Rob's birthday was the day after, the 26th. Rob is 27 now and that seems weird to me, but I like that he's mature. :) He went to school like normal and we had R & C and T T, a good friend, over for dinner. We feasted unlike normal and it was great. T stayed until 10 pm chatting with us. T is one of the only people on the face of the earth who can make Rob laugh. It was fun. Then Rob slept in Friday and didn't go in to school and did work at home instead. Life is good. ... I got Rob a pan for his b-day. Doesn't that sound like the most non-romantic, lame gift you can think of? But he was excited. It's a little bitty pan to fry his eggs in in the morning. We also rented movies to watch for his b-day cause Rob is a movie junkie.

Rob's folks are coming in tonight and taking us out to dinner at a restaraunt of Rob's choosing. I don't know where we'll go. We were going to make dinner for them, but thought them taking us out was better. :) We'll feed them dinner tomorrow instead.

Pregnancy

I am feeling pretty good in terms of pregnancy stuff. I am tired all the time, but otherwise feel really good. I was sick this past weekend and gave my kids to whomever would watch them cause I was just knocked out with this cold. I feel much better, though, and have no real complaints. There are worse things than being tired all the time.

Company

Life is good and we stay busy, even though I thought I'd be ready for breaks. Come to find out about myself, though, that if we don't have company scheduled for like a week, I start inviting people over. A curse from Mom and Dad, I think: liking to have people over for dinner. How boring to just have Rob and I and the kids! We probably eat more meals with other people than by ourselves. Over this next week and a little bit, I'm inviting over 2 couples that have had us over to their house more than we've had them over to ours. This is not okay with me. We will not be the family that doesn't reciprocate. I remember (as a kid in my parents' household) having a ton of people over to eat at our house, whole families of sometimes 10 or more people. And I remember being invited to ONE person's house to reciprocate. I have since decided this is not cool with me and have made it a rule that if someone invites us over, we WILL invite them over. My little pet peeve. We're never offended when others don't reciprocate, but we won't be the guilty party. :)

That's life. Sorry it's been so long. I was thinking about sending pics of the ultrasound, but you can't see a lot anyway. No gender stuff or anything. ... The doc does have this "4D ultrasound" technology that's pretty cool. It interprets the ultrasound images into a 3D picture of what you're looking at. Pretty rad. But I will be sending, as soon as I get around to it, a picture that Miciah colored. It's beautiful. I think I'm going to scrapbook it, it's that neat. I'll take a picture of it and send it along hopefully before the year is over. :)

Tamra