Bed rest update

Dondi went back to the doctor today to complete her 24-hour test and to get the second of the two steroid shots that should help Matthew's development speed along. Her blood pressure was still high, but not as bad as Thursday, or even Monday.

The doctor wasn't there for the appointment, but her main nurse was. While the nurse couldn't say for sure, she said generally she would expect the doctor is trying to get her to 37 weeks of pregnancy before inducing labor. For the next three weeks, it's a lot of hurry up and wait. :)

Pregnancy Update

Well, we're back on the fun road of bed rest, doctor's visits and a lot of uncertainty.

• Last Thursday, Dondi went to the doctor for her regular bi-weekly checkup. Her blood pressure spiked, but wasn't too high, so she was told to rest for the weekend and come back on Monday.
• This morning, we went back for the check. Her blood pressure was still high, but she wasn't showing any other symptoms of toxemia, so the doctor elected to let her do a 24-hour series of tests as an outpatient. She also did a blood test, and received the first of several steroid shots that should help Matthew's development speed up, should we need to induce labor early. We start week 34 (of 40) of the pregnancy tomorrow, and Jordan was born just short of 36 weeks, so we'll see how all this works out.

We'll post more as we learn more. As always, your prayers are appreciated.

Driving for bluebonnets

Yesterday, we drove a total of 129 miles between our house, Glen Rose and back. This morning, 15 miles or so from our house, I spotted 3 miles of almost a solid carpet of bluebonnets.

Oh well. Doing my part to use as much oil as we can before it goes up in price some more. :)

Bluebonnets?

It's apparently still too early to have any real full bluebonnet pictures. We drove west to Fort Worth, south on U.S. 377 to Granbury, south on Texas 144 to Glen Rose, southwest to Dinosaur Valley State Park, then north on U.S. 67 to Cleburne, and north on Texas 174 to Burleson without seeing a really good patch of bluebonnets where we could take a picture. (We did see a patch east of Glen Rose near Rainbow that would have worked, but there was no safe place to pull over and snap pictures).

So, please settle for Jordan sitting in a fossilized footprint of a dinosaur.

Birthdays

This is our Spring run of birthdays: Emo's (Grandma's) March 31, Aunt Cris April 4 and Dad April 6. So it's been a fun week.

Friday night, the Hayhursts all went to Pappasito's in North Arlington for dinner for the birthdays. Dad got a J.C. Penney gift card and cash for his birthday. Saturday was Olive Garden with the Jordans where I got an iTunes gift card (it's mine, all mine!) and clothes galore. Dondi and Jordan also gave me my presents yesterday: the Leopard operating system for our Mac (love it) and a balloon bouquet (love it, too)

And today, Dad's actual birthday, we're thinking about heading out to find some bluebonnets south of the metromess. Hopefully it will go better than last year's bluebonnet picture.

I gave Jordan a buzz cut this week. You can see the results below. He handled it pretty well, considering Dad had no idea what he was doing. :)