up, up and away!

he did it! jacob finally figured out that walking is a fun thing and he is up and going. i don't know if this is good or bad. on one hand, i don't have to use nearly as much spray and wash to his knees on his pants, on the other hand, this big fat pregnant momma has a hard time trying to keep up with him. he is to the point where he'll walk to you and walk away and around us, but if you're trying to chase him, he drops to his knees and walks away on his knees, because he's much faster that way. i haven't gotten a good video of him yet on my camera, but when i do i'll put it on the blog for all to see. we're pretty proud of him! uncle robert anad aunt laura thought he'd be walking at christmas because he was so close, but he is his father's child and he was quite stubborn! we know he wouldn't get that from his mother!
on the pregnant momma note, i had a little bit of fun this week... on monday i was quite sick and vomitting much of the day and then it calmed down a little, but i ended up vomitting most of the nigth as well and slept on the bathroom floor in front of the toilet. on tuesday i decided i'd bettercall the dr., so i did so first thing in the morning. they finally called me back at about 12:00 and told me to come in at 1:15. so i went in and when i got there they knew i wasn't well and i already told them i was dehydrated, i could tell. so after talking with the dr. for about 2 minutes she told me i had two options... one, get admitted into the hospital and spend at least a day there under observation and on an iv. two, get an iv in the dr.'s office and then if i felt and looked better after that she would let me go home and she would trust me to come back in if i vomitted again. so, i chose to do the dr.'s office and 3 hours later i was on my way home. they pumped me full of iv fluid and also a nausea medicine and sent me on my way. because i was so dehydrated it took the nurses that were adminstering the iv about 35 minutes to tap into a vein. they couldn't get me to bleed in 3 of the 4 holes they put into me and one of them they actually retapped into and finally got a little blood and found the vein. i am now feeling much better than monday and even a little better than tuesday. each day seems to bring it's challenges, but God is getting me through. i also found out tuesday that i have a urinary tract infection because of all of this, and i am now on medicine for that too. God is good! i'm sur ei will be back to "normal" soon and will forget about it all... nah!