This week so far

Monday wasn't that eventful, just getting back into our schedules since Macey and I were in Houston the latter half of last week. She was great getting back into her normal bedtime and routine. As a parent, you always dread the adjustment because you expect the worst. Macey has been such a trooper and is in bed by 7:30 (so back to normal), which is about 2 hours earlier than when she was going to bed when we were visiting my family. She had too much going on to get to bed on time when she was there.

Yesterday evening was a little overwhelming. We were almost home, less than a mile from the house, and we came upon an accident that had just happened. There were people already stopped and helping. Sean pulled over and immediately jumped out of the car. It was a pretty bad accident. On one side of the street the ditch is really deep and steep. The car was in the ditch and appeared to have flipped into it. It was sitting right side up in the ditch though. There were 2 little girls that they had already pulled out of the car as we were stopping. They both looked like they were elementary school age or close to it. Both were bleeding from the face area. One of them looked like she had broken her nose and the other one was worse off. She had a severe laceration on her forehead and her eyes were already swollen. There was glass everywhere. I grabbed the wipes we had in Macey's bag and gave them to the women that were holding the girls. The one with the broken nose wiped her face and her bleeding had stopped. Another lady had to hold the other girl and hold the wipes to the laceration to put pressure on it. That little girl was terrified of having to see a doctor. She would calm down and then start yelling, "No doctors, no doctors." I held back the tears and stayed calm so that the little girls wouldn't get even more upset. The mom and dad (or what we assumed to be the mom and dad) were still in the car and much worse than either of the girls. Sean was really trying to open the doors of the car and just had super human strength. We weren't going to move either of the adults since they could have had back injuries that would've been made worse by moving. Sean just wanted to make the access to them easier. The driver was the mom. She was conscious and moving when we got there, but you could tell she was in a state of shock. Sean said that her legs were trapped in the car. The passenger was unconscious when we got there, but regained consciousness sometime before the paramedics arrived. He was probably the most injured in the accident. It didn't take long before the police, fire department, and ambulance arrived. We left as they were working to get the parents out of the car. Sean stopped by another neighborhood that was closer to the accident on his way out and everyone got out of the car. We hope and pray that everyone is recovering and doing well.

Our appointment this morning went well. My uterus is measuring at 35 cm (up from 34 last week), blood pressure is fine, heartbeats were in 140s (little boy) and 150s (little girl), and all else checked out perfect. Sean "told" on me for not following the instructions. Laura chimed in and said "Really, we ask everyone to only be working 4 hours a day at this point." Yeah, that would go over really well at work. Laura went over the ultrasound results from last week. Both babies are in the lower 40th percentile range and within 2% points of each other. So perfect. Laura said that the babies would really start to gain weight now, about 6 ounces a week.

I'm still struggling with some type of sinus issue. I think allergies have turned into something else now. Macey avoided catching the ugly stomach virus, but manage to fall and scrape her forehead and nose on Sunday. Her nose got it the worst. She looks like one of those dogs with a spot on its nose. I've taken a few pictures of her with her "spot" and I'll try to post them later.