Photo Shoot and a Little NEWS...

After three attempts (and sick people), we finally got our pictures taken. Crystal Garcia came to our house and took them...She is wonderful. It was FREEZING outside and drizzling rain. However, you know who (me), HAD to have family pictures OUTSIDE. I was a nice momma and changed his outfit from a shortsleeve/shorts VERY CUTE royal blue corduroy outfit to the red one that you will see in the following pictures. I would definitely recommend Crystal. She was very laid back and WONDERFUL with Trigger.
Here are a few of my favorites...









AND THE LITTLE BIT OF NEWS THAT TRIGGER IS DYING TO TELL YOU IS
That he's going to be a....

BIG BROTHER!
Here are a few more with Trigger's new shirt. Usually I'm not a fan of big brother/sister shirts until the baby is actually here...and he won't wear it again but while Crystal was here, I had to take the opportunity to get a picture of him in the shirt! And, at this point he was LOVIN Crystal so she got alot of shots with him in the shirt.
Oh yeah...and you will see THE red blankie in a few pictures...that would be because while Trigger was in the chair in the picture above, he flipped out of it and landed on his head...I would say I was so surprised because HE DOES SIT IN THE CHAIR ALL THE TIME (with someone watching) BUT I'm really NOT surprised...he apparently gets my clumsiness! which is going to drive his daddy CRAZY!!!! WELL...there you go...had to stop typing for a second because he had just flipped trying to get in a cardboard box and landed on his head...




As far as being pregnant, I have been very sick (mainly at night) and living on zofran...which is a MIRACLE drug! Like with Trigger, we had to go to Dr. London/Dr. Vandermolen in Shreveport. They monitored us every two weeks with ultrasounds until we reached 12 weeks. Last week we were released to go see Dr. Harper (the BEST OB in the WORLD)! We went to visit with him today. Our plan right now is to continue seeing Dr. Harper throughout the pregnancy but we will go to Shreveport to Dr. Briery at Willis Knighten South...with Trigger we went to Dr. Groome at LSU. Both doctors are MFM (Maternal Fetal Medicine) specialist. We had great care at LSU but the extended stay at the facility on bedrest and laboring on a gurney for two days was NOT the ideal setting! Soooo we will try this new doctor and if we don't like him, we will go back to LSU. In case you aren't familiar with our situation, I will try to summarize for you. I have two blood clotting diseases (AntiPhospholipid Antibody Disorder and MTHFR) PLUS I have high blood pressure. All of these individually can cause complications but combined can be really bad. The most common complications preeclampsia (but at an early stage), low amniotic fluid (which is what caused us to deliver at 34.5 weeks with Trigger), blood clots in the placenta, Intrauterine Growth Retardation...these are the ones that come to my head right now...of course our major fear (and a complication of the blood clotting disorders) is stillbirth! However, we are praying and asking you to pray along with us that my body and the baby can make it day by day! All we can do is be thankful for each and every day! I'm on the Heparin shots twice a day like I was last time. NOT FUN...if I were brave I would show you a picture of my bruises on my stomach...NOT pretty! This time they have added baby asprin to hopefully prevent what happened with Trigger. Anyway, we are VERY excited to have made it this far (13 weeks).
I am due on June 16th. However, we were warned like we were with Trigger that we could deliver as early as 30 weeks which would be the middle of April. At this point we are cautiously excited (if that makes sense)!
I will leave you with a family picture of TEAM WOODARD! :)