I’ve realized through this blogging experience that I think in incomplete thoughts. Or maybe, I only type or say part of my thought, and then I seem to fill in the rest with “…”. Anyway, a lot has happened in the past couple weeks. Seems like forever since I have blogged.

When we last left Johnathan and Angie, they had found the heartbeat, and had posted it to the website. The rest of that story is this… (there I go again)

We ordered a monitor that let’s us listen to the heartbeat. It’s a fiesty little machine, and it loves to make a racket when you don’t have enough gel or use it wrong. But that’s beside the point. It came the Monday a week before Christmas, and Angie and I were both excited. So when we got home from work, we immediately hooked it up to try and listen. Now the machine is not hard to use, but it does say use a lot of gel, and Angie took that serious… lots-o-gel. But we tried and had no luck… and we kept trying… but no luck. That was even more frustrating, but at some point you start wondering: 1. Do I suck at this? 2. Is the doctors machine just better? 3. Is this machine broken? or 4. Is something wrong. As much as we knew everything was ok, and didn’t get too alarmed, that number 4 is sitting there in the back of your mind. But after about 30 minutes we gave up said we try again on Tuesday.

So, Tuesday rolls around, and we try again… this time, we try for about 20 minutes and no luck… getting even more frustrating (and honestly, tired of hearing the thing squelch every time you move it). But finally we hit gold!!!! whoosh, whoosh, whoosh… it was awesome, and so reassuring. That’s what got posted. We’ve listened once more since then, but try to keep it to once a week or so. We have another appointment coming in early January. I’m hoping that we will do an ultrasound that time.

Ok… lazy day… tired of typing… so the rest of the story will come later. Aw… come on… you know you like the suspense. If you are lucky, Angie will read this and post some more. :)