Back to Blogging...

When I was pregnant with the twins I started a blog that chronicled my pregnancy with them.  After they were born I (not surprisingly) was too busy to blog. Now that we have #3 on the way, it's about time to get back to blogging I think. :)  So, to get everyone caught up....

We are still living in Las Vegas.  We've been here since September 2009.  This is a new record for us in living in one place as we seemed to move every 12-18 months before this.  Vitaly loves his job though, so as long as the company is located here...we will be too.

The kids are getting soooo big! Katerina is finally in 24 month clothes for the most part and Nikolai is in 24mo/2T size.  I'm not sure how tall they are, we'll find out at their 2 year well check in June.  Nikolai love trains, letters and numbers.  He knows all the letters of the alphabet and can count to 15.  He is a very lovey boy and gives hugs and kisses a lot.  Katerina loves to color and climb on things, she is our little engineer and likes to figure things out.  She loves to have "Piggy Tails" in her hair and is starting to like her dolls and carrying purses more.  She's not a big hugger right now, but she loves to snuggle to mommy and daddy.  They both like to wear hats finally too.  Their favorite show is Word World on PBS.  They get so excited when they see the opening for it that they throw their arms in the air and squeal really loud!  They have a couple of other PBS shows they tolerate and also will watch Mickey Mouse once and a while, but don't get nearly as excited. Nikolai talks a lot and Katerina is finally starting to talk more as well.  Her words are not as clear yet, but I can tell what she means. :-)  They will be two in June...where did the time go.

As I mentioned, baby #3 is on the way!  My EDD so far is 11-10-11. This pregnancy has been a little different than my last, and not just because it's only one baby this time. :-)  Most of you know we struggled to get pregnant with the twins and it took us almost 3 years and lots of fertility treatments.  This time around, my body cooperated and we got pregnant right away on our own.  I had my first appointment at around 8 1/2 weeks and we determined that it was indeed just one baby...I made the nurse practitioner look all around to be sure no one was hiding.  I have had lots of nausea and had troubles eating meals up until Tuesday when I asked my doctor for something for the nausea.  Ever since then I have had almost zero nausea...yay!!!  I've been a little more tired than usual of course, but overall everything has been going pretty well.  Here are the pictures from our ultrasound two days ago.

The top left is a shot of the baby looking straight ahead (head is on the left side), kind of an alien baby shot. :-) Top right is the arm mostly.  Bottom left is face, torso and arm.  Bottom right is a profile shot.  We got to hear the heartbeat for the first time (153 bpm) at the appointment which helped me breath a sigh of relief. The ultrasound tech told us she would guess the gender since it's too early, but her guess was only 60% towards one gender, so we'll have to wait for the next ultrasound to find out if I need to keep pink or blue stuff. :-) Hopefully we will start taking belly shots soon as I'm starting to show a little bit finally.

We'll be traveling to Iowa in June for the kids and our birthdays and so Vitaly can go fishing for a week in Canada with my dad again.  Hopefully if those of you who are from Iowa are around we can get together.  We'll be going to the park a lot if the weather cooperates and hope to be able to visit a lot of people.  We'll be in town for just over two weeks this time! I can't wait!!!!