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Adrian is coming home!!! He will be home in less than one week! On the 22ND of this month (that is 5 days from today if your not counting!) he will be getting off a plane in Salt Lake City! We will get to have him here for 26 days so that is going to be awesome!!! I will have to wait until about 9pm on the 22ND for him to get off that plane but anticipation sometimes makes things even better! It will be like waiting for Christmas morning only I know what Santa is bringing for me!!

While Adrian is here we will be having a thanksgiving meal. He won't be here for the actual day of Thanksgiving and since we won't see him for at least a year after this visit since he will be stationed in Germany I thought we should have this meal together early. the actual day of thanksgiving is close to the baby deliver also and I was not sure that I would be up to making a big meal at that point even if Adrian's visit would have allowed him to be here for it. I am also super excited because not only will Adrian be here but we will also have mom here for it and Andrew, Marni and the kids are going to come out and join us!! Who needs a specific day to celebrate being together as a family?!?!

Ashley got a hair cut! I will have to get a picture taken and post it when I get a picture of my baby bump in a couple of days so everyone can see. I like the haircut on her, she made a good choice. I have only one rule when it comes to the hair styles that the kids choose, I have to be able to see eyes, nose, and mouth. No hair in the face. I suggested that Ashley have the bangs cut a little bit shorter in the future since they are already falling into her eyes at the length they are now. I don't think that she was happy with my suggestion but the way I see it, her hair grows fast enough that she will be getting her bangs cut every week if she doesn't!
She seems to like her job thus far and her boss told her to tell me thank you for teaching her how to organize and clean up so well, her first day by herself and she left everything perfect. I wonder what they did to get her to do it perfect, it would be nice to have it that way here!! I do worry about the grades in school though, as I have said before, the grades are more important than her having a job at this point. I wish that she would have waited until closer to the end of the year or summer to get a job, she could have been able to see what her classes were going to be like by waiting and know how difficult they would be for her. She has Algebra 2 this year as well as Chemistry and those are the one's that she is finding herself already struggling with. Those classes come easy to some and not so much for others, she is the not so much right now. I have suggested that she do the tutorials for the extra help but she has not really taken me up on suggestions so much. If the grades fall and she is not doing the tutorials to get the help she has been told that she will not be allowed to keep the job. I would hate to make her quit the job that can maybe help her come out of her shell and not be so shy with those that she doesn't know but I also can't stand by and watch her fail in her school work. She agreed to the rules when she went looking for a job so she is aware of what would happen if she doesn't stay focused on her school work!

I went to my non stress test this past Thursday and was expecting the normal thing to happen of being attached to monitors for about 45 minutes and having my ultrasound then going home. This was not at all the case! I got attached to the monitors for about 10 minutes and then the radiology department was ready for me. I went down and the fluids were measured and then I went back to the OB department to finish being attached to the monitors. About an hour later one of the nurses came in asking me if I was feeling contractions. I was not feeling them but since there was apparently a lot of them they wanted me to stay longer and they were calling Dr. Nolte. Who wouldn't be worried at this point? About 20 minutes after that another nurse (she was training so knew nothing) came in and asked me for a urine sample. She only was doing what she was told so she didn't know what it was for. After giving them the sample I was once again put on the monitors. The nurse that had came in asking me about the contractions came back in about 30 minutes later and said that they were testing me for bladder infection because that can cause the contractions. Who knew?!? I was complaining to mom about off and on pains that I was feeling in my belly that I was taking as a soar muscle feeling and that is what was actually the contractions! After being left on the monitors for a very long time a knock on the door happened and in walked Dr. Nolte. Who wouldn't be a little nervous to see the actual Dr. walk into the room after all that was being said?!? He said that baby looks good and fluid levels are wonderful! I was also told that I did have a bladder infection so I was given a prescription for it. While he was there I asked him what the guesstimated weight was for Rebecca since he said that she was barely to small when I had the measurements done 3 weeks earlier on her. Her weight based on the measurements was just over 3 pounds and the average should be around 5. I am hoping that in the last month that I am entering into now, she will gain some or maybe they are just wrong! Oh and the placenta is still in the way so a c-section is almost the guarantee of what the delivery will be. The positive thing about that is that no one else in the family has had one, so I get to be the first for giving birth that way!! Only one person will be allowed in the room for the c-section but I was told that mom will be allowed at the door and will have a good view of the delivery so she will see as much that way as she would being in the room! That is better than her not getting to see her born at all!

That is all that is new with the Rushing family for now!!