Saviero incontra la sua Nonna! (Xavier meets his Grandma)

After our last ultrasound, they found that my little boy has decided to take after his cousin and have slightly dialated kidneys which meant a 2nd ultrasound to verify that they were indeed dialated and find out from the doctor what the next step was.  Now, I knew that it wasn't cause for all out panic but the mother in me was still concerned of course.  Ricky wasn't able to switch his schedule around in time so my mom was kind enough (and jumping out of her skin excited :) to help us out!

I was glad that she could come because she's good at grilling doctor's and my prego brain can barely form logical questions most days!  But I knew having her along, we would get all of the details and information that we needed!  The moment after I got off the phone asking her, I just sat back and imagined her running around to all her co-workers telling them that she was gonna get to "meet" her grandson :) My mom has never lost that "kid at Christmas" excitement...and it's always fun to tell her stuff you know will get her flying around in a twitter lol!  You don't even have to be there to enjoy it, you can just see it!  (From what I hear, this was a dead-on scenario lol!)

Anyway, ultrasound day came and I was craving peanut m&m's as usual...bad combo when you're having an ultrasound for them to do measurements, but what can I say...I'm a slave to my cravings these days!  Well, Xavier was still sleeping when we got in there and so the girl starting poking around to get his measurements...he doesn't like this...at all...so he starts squirming and roaming around to find any space in my ever smaller uterus to hide...it was adorable :)  Nonna was estatic to see and feel him and watch my belly move... I was telling the tech how relieved I was that he's not a thumb-sucker so far and just like that the little scamp lifts his little fist up to his mouth with his thumb out and holds it there for a second.  There was a collective sharp intake as we all thought he was gonna stick it in his mouth but apparently he was being a smart aleck like his daddy already lol! Little stinker pot!

After the appointment, Nonna and Mommy were hungry so we got Chic-fil-a at the mall and walked around to all the stores with baby clothes!  It's so much fun to browse and imagine my little boy in the tiny jeans, hoodies, hats, sneakers, etc.  We oo'ed and ah'ed until we passed by a cookie shop...the little devil on the shoulder won out and we left with 1,000 calorie treats and huge smiles!  Amazingly we finished everything... I was really surprised by Nonna polishing off a 3 scoop ice cream cookie sundae!  Of course this left us both feeling like slugs so we ended up on my bed and napped...for I have no idea how long but by the time we woke up, Nonna had to head home before Nonno sent out the search committee :)

So the doc found that the baby's kidneys are indeed dilated which means I will have to go every 4 weeks to have them re-measured, but they won't make a final determination if there is an actual issue or not until 32 weeks.  Please say a prayer that everything develops the way it should and our little boy continues to be healthy and strong!

Finally, in other news, I'm getting huge...as per requests here is the 6 month or 24 weeks belly shot!