Samantha's first blog

pamelamyers | August 30, 2009

The wonderful people at my job threw me a shower on Friday, August 28.  They had me fooled….sort of.  I kind of had a feeling they were going to have it that day. We had a meeting scheduled and I thought it was a cover, and my boss Tracy was coming down allegedly for the meeting (she usually works from home and calls in for the meetings).  So, I was all prepared that my shower could very well be that day.  We all trudged down to the conference room and the sneaks actually started the meeting!  They blathered on about work stuff for 15 minutes before the doors opened and the rest of the firm came marching in, along with Mark, which was a HUGE surprise, since he has been telling me non-stop how much work he has to do that he barely made it to my ultrasound appointment without difficulty.  Someone opened the door to the adjoining conference room, and there was all the food and the cake.  I have to admit, I was thrown my them starting the meeting…and by my friend Amber last week giving me a really hard time about possibly stopping work that day and not working next week.  She was so adament that I had to work, that I started thinking my shower was the next week.  So all of you work pals who are reading this…you did have me fooled.  I went back and forth so many times in my mind about when I thought the shower was going to be that it technically was a surprise.

Anyway, I got a lot of adorable clothes for Sam (who will be the BEST dresssed little girl around) and a ridiculously generous amount of money in gift cards.  We won’t have to spend a dime for a while by the time I get through them all.

Here is a picture of my cake:

And of me and Mark, although it’s a little blurry…

Thank you everyone!

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pamelamyers | August 30, 2009

Today I had my last ultrasound, and thus, our last pictures of Sam before she is born.  It was exciting, as always, but also sad because I knew we were going to catch our last glimpse of our little girl for a while.  But on to the more important things….she is great!  As always, she is looking wonderful.  All of her measurements were perfect for a 36 week old, her heart rate was strong, and we could see her breathing, which was really cool.  Dr. Gerson said that at her 32 week ultrasound she was a perfect 32 week old, and now she is a perfect 36 week old, so that’s important because it shows sustained, consistent growth.  This ultrasound took a while — I had who I think was a resident come in and do the first scan (he had a bit of a hard time, but I guess that’s why they are there – to learn), then the sonographer came in, THEN Dr. Gerson came in.  So we had a long time to peek at Samanatha.  Despite the multiple people looking at her, they all had the same consensus — that she is about 6 pounds 1 ounce now.  So Dr. Bailey was pretty darn close!

Here is the latest candid of our little girl.  She is sucking her thumb!  Which is a vast improvement over the original position she was in when they tried to take a photo and her foot was in front of her face ; )

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