32 WEEKS! 8 weeks left to go!!!

Phew! Well where to start...If you looked at the Thanksgiving photo, I am sure you are saying to yourself, WHOA check out that belly....Yes that photo makes me look enormous. I put that photo up there because it was one of the few from Thanksgiving, but I would like to think that I am much more petite and adorable than that photo lets on.
Declan is busy growing and growing! I hope he is getting used to the higher protein, lower carb diet...There are days where it is really easy and days that I seriously can't stand it. Still checking my blood sugars at least four times a day. And the last few mornings I have been able to keep my fasting blood sugars under 90mg/dL. Which is a huge deal. I went back to see the Diabetic Counselor this week and she was really impressed by how deligent I had been and how "normal" my blood glucose levels were. However, the only thing that was a little off was my fasting blood glucose. Those levels are taken first thing in the morning after six to eight hours of not eating. Sometimes they can be a little high because in the middle of the night your body starts to panic because there is no energy coming in, that your liver releases glycogen into your blood stream in preparation for you to be hypoglycemic. Unfortunately that is what was happening to me. I found this out because I spent a night waking every few hours to take my blood sugar only to watch it dwindle down and spike back up by morning. Good thing is, it seems we have fixed the problem. I am still walking like crazy, even though I have more aches and pains now than I did a few weeks ago. And I am definitely much more tired. However, I would do anything to protect our baby and right now thats what I am doing, everytime I poke my finger, watch what I eat, go for a walk etc.
We got our Christmas tree up today! Thank you to Catherine and Michael for bringing us back a tree from their land up by their cabin. I can not begin to describe how thankful I am that someone took care of that part of the holidays for us! But our house this year will have less decorations than we normally do, because if you put them up...you have to take them down. And this year its a lot of work to get them up, so I know it will be more effort to get them down.
Much love to everyone!

Thanks to my mom and brother for taking our Christmas card photo this year! I included some of the out takes from our photo shoot so hopefully you get a good laugh out of them. I should say you must leave a comment on our blog in order to receive your Christmas card this year, because for some reason, none of our followers want to leave comments...or maybe because no one reads this blog!

Ramble already loves Declan, but he doesn't like to share the spotlight

Then it turns into yawning...

At this point he has had enough and our photo session was definitely over!