Kaake Family Blog

My 13 year daughter took these today for me at the Nature Preserve.  I was very excited.  Enjoy!

I first want to apologize for not blogging in quite awhile. Life has gotten crazy and I had to take time for my family.  In the midst of all this crazy, I have even more so found out that God's ways are not my own.  Funny eigh? For years Matthew and I wanted babies, babies, babies.  With 3 living children and 4 (maybe 5) miscarriages, then moving into adrenal problems we decided we were done.  Did you notice I said "we"?  Funny that. Just a couple weeks ago (has it been that long already), my children left with my mother-in-law to go be with her for a whole week so my body could have a chance to rest.  At least that was MY plan. You seeing where this is going? The very first whole day the kids were gone, I went to the store to pick up a pregnancy test.  Not to see if I was pregnant but to confirm that the reason I was late was because I had been stressed.  This in my mind was to confirm I was indeed not pregnant so I could move on with my ...

Here I have compiled all my pregnancy pictures up to the current pictures I have for comparison. I will add more as they are taken. Less than 6 weeks till my due date! Yeah! 13 weeks 16 weeks 18 weeks 20 weeks 21 weeks 24 weeks 26 weeks 32 weeks 35 weeks 36 weeks and 6 days - almost 37 weeks!

I had my 16 week appointment today which also means in 1 month, I'll be half way there. Yeah!!! They found the heartbeat very quickly this time. Our little bean kicked the doppler 3 times within a minute which was oober cute. Our son did the exact same thing every time they tried to get his heart beat. lol. My uterus has not moved since the last appointment, which if you can remember I was measuring a month further along. It just grew really fast since this is my third. I have not gained one pound since my last month appointment which was nice. I had a little extra to lose but I'm guessing at my next appointment I'll have gained a couple pounds. I'll just keep eating and see what happens. lol. At this point our little bean is about the size of an avocado. How exciting is that? We love our avocado's :) Let's see, what else.....my iron levels were great which was nice. I was also told I can go off my progesterone supplements now. Being a lit...