Doubling!

Beta was 1902 on Wednesday, so that more than doubled from 881 Monday.  And it was 3254 today, so not doubling within 48 hours anymore, but that's normal as the numbers get to be above 2000, so all is still well.

I am 5 weeks, as of yesterday, so our first u/s is scheduled for next Friday, 10/28, at 6 weeks.  Hopefully, we'll be able to see the heartbeat!  We've officially named this little bean E2 (Monkey was Little E).

In other news, I should add block, book, and duck to Monkey's ever-growing list of words...definitely exponential these days.  I also finally put together his photo book of his first year.  Back in April, I bought 2 $35 Groupons for Picaboo photo books, and while I did finish his birth story photo book, with all the u/s and belly pictures, and the story of IVF through labor and delivery, I was just procrastinating on his first year.  The expiration on the Groupon inspired me to finally finish it though, and I made the deadline with about 3 hours to spare last night, so not too shabby! His first year photo book has his monthly photos, then pictures from each month, along with a summary of major activities for the month.

I found that I liked doing these photo books more than hand writing in a traditional baby book.  I started one for Monkey, but I never finished it.  I just prefer to type and do things electronically.  As long as everything goes well with E2, I'd like to do this now along the way, now that I know I like this process, rather than procrastinating first because I didn't want to hand write in the book, and then because I had so many months to catch up on.  If I do it electronically along the way, it won't take as long.

I do like the Picaboo photo book software.  You download it onto your computer, and then you have a local version of the photo book--you don't have to be connected to the Internet in order to work on your book.

And no, neither Picaboo or Groupon are paying me for this blog post! Just sharing some helpful software I've found...now I'm excited to see the book in hard copy.  I was definitely pleased with the birth story book.