Nursery and Belly

So by popular demand-I have more pictures to add. Apparently sometimes people think I get too long-winded and need to post more photos. So enjoy!

Rob has taken the last 2 days of work off to work on Baby Grayson's room. It is coming along really well! I wasn't able to get a picture before the first part of the paint was up. But you can get the gist of what it was like before.

Rob took down all the crown molding and the rail in the middle of the wall.After he took the molding down-it looks as if this room had been a nursery before. It was painted blue up top and yellow down below.

Here's the man himself-hard at work

Then just in case you wanted to see what Rob thinks Grayson looks like now...then you can see the big smiley face on the wall that Rob painted.The next step is to put crown molding back up and then some bead board/wains coat. Have no idea if I'm calling it by the right name-but it is going to be way cute when it's all done.

And now-for Aunt Sara-here is an up to date belly photo. I took it this morning before heading out to work. Here I'm a little over 6 months (24 1/2 weeks) pregnant. I feel seriously huge!

On a side note-Rob and I our celebrating our 1-year anniversary on Monday! I can't believe it's already been a year-so much has changed and it's just flown by! Wow!
While I've been writing this post-it's been storming out pretty bad. Addy is kind of a scaredy cat-and when you aren't paying attention to Tubs-he gets to be a whiny baby. Here is a picture of Addy trying to hid next to the wall.

And then Addy beating up her baby brother for being to whinyEnjoy the rest of your week!

The Final Results

Spoke with the cardiologist yesterday afternoon-and he said that all of my tests came back completely fine. He said that it seems that I have a regular elevated heart rate-and that he sees this quite a bit in pregnant women. He said that if it gets to be too out of control for me he can put me on some medication that can help with the racing heart-but that it won't bother Grayson. So that's all good news for us!

So now my next task is to find a home for a cute pregnant dog that I found at work...any takers???

Update

First off-thank you for all of your well wishes and concerns-things are getting lots better. Just returned from the cardiologist. I currently look like a robot with a heart monitor hooked up to me. I have to wear this for 24 hours-at exactly 10:30 AM on Saturday-I'll be able to take it off. Now who can say that they've been able to take off a heart monitor in a port-a-potty at the KU game?!?!?!

The dr. said that he thought everything looked good-and what I have been experiencing is pretty common in pregnant people. When he listened to my heart-he did hear a gallop of some sort. There was a fancy name for it-we just couldn't remember. So I'm going in on Monday morning to have an ultrasound done on my heart to check for an enlarged heart-or any leaky valves. But he thinks that I should be good. And he released me to return on Monday-but to take it easy.

One thing that did kind of irk me--the tech was entering in all of my information into the computer (height, weight, etc.). So on the computer-there was a WARNING--Patient is considered to be overweight-umm...thanks-just what I wanted to see right now. But she assured me that everyone is considered overweight in that program-unless you're 95 pounds. I guess the BMI doesn't take into account pregnant women...

While we were gone-apparently Tubs and Addy--but mostly Tubs-had some time on his hands. Look what he did to the couch...He threw all the cushions around to make himself a nice comfy bed.

Then just a few pictures of them looking so cute. In a few months-this blog will be filled with pictures of Baby Grayson-so I figured Tubs and Addy could have their lime light right now. Here's Tubs with a martini olive on his head.

And Addison looking nice and pretty at the old lake house...

Now we're just waiting for Donna and LeRoy to come! I'll make sure and post an update after the ultrasound on Monday. Have a great weekend.

Stressful Week for the Swindle's

So this week has been quite a bit stressful for us here at the Swindle household.
It all started this past Monday. I woke up feeling kind of weird-with some cramps-and some rapid heart movements. I thought that it would pass-but after about 6 hours of it-I decided to call the nurse line in Dr. Piquard's office. She told me to start measuring my heart rate and if it was over 100 beats per minute for over 3o mins then to call her back. And I needed to keep an eye on the cramps because they were really contractions. Checked my pulse-and it was way over 100 for about 45 mins. Called the nurse back-she told me to go to the ER. Of course I freaked out.

Was able to get a hold of Rob-he had been in surgeries all day-so I wasn't sure if I was going to get him. We went to Shawnee Mission Medical Center-and they admitted me to the ER. I was there for about 7 hours. They took lots of blood-everything came back negative-no diabetes, no anemia. But the problem was-when I would go from a laying, sitting, standing position-my heart rate would jump up at least 30 beats. I was given 2 IV bags. Nothing was coming back positive-so the dr. suggested that I get a CAT Scan the next day on my chest to make sure I didn't have a blood clot in my lungs. I was able to finally leave-and we did one last walk down the hall. Sitting I was at 95-by the time I was done walking down the hall-I was at 121. So I had to just go home and rest.

Called Dr. Piquard on Tuesday-she said that I HAD to get the CAT Scan completed-so back to the hospital we went. Got another IV in my arm-by now I was getting to be a champ at getting all these needles! Luckily-the scan didn't show a blood clot-which is great because I really wasn't wanting to spend the rest of my pregnancy in the hospital. So back home I came-and laid on the couch. Rob was really not allowing me to do anything.

Went to see Dr. Piquard today-my heart was still beating pretty hard at times-and getting out of breath. Spoke with Dr. P-she thinks that I just ran myself too much and was very dehydrated. She is sending me for a cardiovascular consult on Friday morning-and a possible halter monitor to check my heart for 24 hours. She also checked Grayson's heartbeat-it was a really strong 160. She told me that I have to stay home from work for the rest of the week-and if the consult comes back ok-then I'm able to go back on Monday.

So needless to say-it hasn't been that great of a week for us. Rob has done a fantastic job with keeping me calm all week. He amazes me on a regular basis.
Donna and LeRoy are coming this weekend-so I'm going to really try and rest-and then be ready this weekend. I'll post more when I know. Happy Wednesday!

First Picture

So I finally was able to figure out how to make the scanner work-here are Grayson's first few pictures announcing he's a boy. He's so handsome! I think he's going to take after the Sullivan side-with no chin...guess we'll have to wait and see!