The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...

Good
The other night (Monday) I was partaking in my evening activities of listening to Alexander before I go to sleep. It's like clock-work. Every night around 9:45pm, he starts to become active and move around. It's alot easier to feel it (& hear it) when I'm lying down so I try to make sure I'm ready for bed before 10pm so I can listen in. He started to move around a bit earlier than he usually does, so I was content to lie there and listen. I have been listening for about 15 minutes when all of a sudden ... I heard it. Alexander got into a position that he was comfortable in and I was able to hear his heartbeat! It was so freakin' exciting!! Now I've heard it several times at the doctors office (6 times, but who's counting) but the fact that I was able to hear it at home was such a sweet feeling. For some reason, it was a nice bonding moment, because it was almost as if he knew I wanted to hear it. I called Dan up to listen and he put the headphones on. He listened and asked if it was my heartbeat. I hope not, otherwise, that's a very low placed heart I have. It was so nice to be able to hear it!
I listened again last night and although he was a moving-fiend, I wasn't able to find the heartbeat. I did hear something that resembled a heartbeat but I'm not sure if those were hiccups or not. It certainly wasn't as pronounced as it was Monday night. So now, that's my nightly goal, to see if I can find/hear Alexander's heartbeat.

The other good thing is that I've order the items for Alexander's nursery - it was originally scheduled to arrive on Friday. WHOO! They called and said it will be delayed a few days due to one of the valances being defective. So now the hope is Monday or Tuesday of next week. I'm going to go assume anything though.

Bad
The leg cramps are back in full force. Last night was the third night in a row where I have been woken up by leg cramps. It has only been my left calf so far and let's hope it stays that way. It's amazing that of all the pregnant women I've known in my life, I only knew about leg cramps since July when Anthony & Maria were up visiting and she had a pretty painful one. Sunday's was horrible, Monday's not so much, and last night would have been okay except for one small item. My hand & arm had fallen asleep and had pins & needles so I was having a hard time using my hand to rub out the cramp. I started to laugh at the irony because here I was at 4am trying to rub out a painful leg cramp that wakes you out of the dead sleep and I can't even move my arm to help out! I ended up waking Dan up with my laughing & moving, and I think he thought I was crying rather than laughing because he kept asking me what he could do. I finally got the cramp out and laid back down. And we laughed over the irony and I think he was able to fall right back asleep. Lucky man! I on the other hand kept trying to get comfortable. Oh well... Alexander will make it all worth it.

Ugly
There is no ugly because, well, our child will be so damn cute!