Good news, lots of upcoming dates and I am exhausted

The appointment this morning went great. My RE doctor did my ultrasound and he said everything looked “perfect”….yay! Perfect is a great thing to hear when it comes to your little tiny baby. Its heart was beating 179 beats per minute, looks like we are back to a little girl! When the doctor was trying to measure this everyone (me and him) have to be really still. I have never heard of this before and I guess he was just trying to be really accurate so he told me to stop breathing. Yes, stop breathing. I thought maybe this was some kind of joke but he asked twice. The first time he said stop breathing for just a second. He must not have a good sense of time because it was more like 10 seconds. Then he asked again. It was strange but you do whatever you have to I guess. If he had told me to stand on my head I would have done it. You start to trust these people with your life, maybe because they gave us life.
I get to stop all my medication on December 19th and will have my last appointment with my RE doctor on December 22nd. We finally have a due date, it is June 17th. I am measuring right at 8 weeks. Based on things I have read the baby is now the size of a raspberry. Wow, how can something as small as a raspberry make you feel so tired and sick. It is truly amazing.
Since Karlis has been home today we have been running around 100 mph. Since he is home once every week or two we have to fit tons of things in when he is here. We have done more cleaning, grocery shopping, yard work, laundry, etc. than I thought imaginable in one day. As I lay here writing this, he is still going strong sweeping all the floors, washing clothes and making me this awesome Latvian dessert with boiled strawberries, cool whip and almond slivers. What a good husband. I on the other hand am done for the night. The bed is calling my name. I didn’t sleep well at all last night. I finally fell asleep around 11:00 and then woke up after being asleep for about thirty minutes. I was anxious for Karlis to be home. It always makes me nervous when he travels that late at night. When I woke up last night I HAD to have blueberry muffins. So that’s what I did, I started cooking muffins at midnight. Well that was a first. The bad thing was I had been addicted to the cheap 99 cent frozen pizza the week before, the same pizza I can no longer stand. Some of the cheese had fallen to the bottom of the oven so my muffins smelt like pizza burning. It totally ruined my appetite. So Karlis had a good surprise when he finally got home at 1:00, hot freshly baked muffins. He thought I had lost it. Oh yeah, that is another thing we did today, clean the oven.
So things are well. We can rest easy and enjoy being pregnant for another couple of weeks. I will still see my doctor for blood work and ultrasounds every other week until he releases me on December 22nd. That will be a day of excitement because we made it but I will hate to leave all the staff we have come to know there. The one-on-one care is awesome.
Thank you all for your kinds words, thought and prayers. We could not have done this without you!