Sick as a DOG!

Sorry to be a lame member of the blogging community. I have been SO SICK. At 11 weeks, I had a serious increase in my nausea along with a serious increase in the amount of vomiting! I really couldn't keep food down. I never took any anti-nausea medications with Luke, and I was frankly worried to try them, but I really was beyond the point of functioning. With a toddler, it is not a good deal to be in bed all day. I tried some phenergan, which just put me to sleep and didn't seem to stop the nausea, really. I threw up twice while on that medicine for one day. I called the doctor back and he tried me on some Zofran. It is helping a lot. I feel 90% better. I feel human. I just wiped the countertops in the kitchen and went through a stack of paper clutter. That is the stuff of daily life that escapes you when you are vomiting a lot of the time and nauseated the rest. I am 12 weeks now, so I will be doing some "test runs" without the medicine to see when my nausea goes away. I think it was 14 weeks with Luke. I seem to be running into lots of moms this week who remind me that THEIR nausea lasted until 18 weeks. Thanks for all that encouragement!

So. . .Luke is doing great. He is learning new words all the time. By far, his favorite word is kitty. He says it all the time. He wants to pet Simon and Molly, our cats, and he loves to lay his head on them and give them a love. He says "Si" for Simon and "Ma" for Molly. He knows which books contain kitties, and he loves to point them out.

Michael's Dad and Stepmother have been visiting us from South Carolina, and they have had fun with Luke. They were also a big help when I was bedridden. . .Sorry about that!

This picture is from the 4th of July parade in our neighborhood. I never got around to posting it until now!