Abby, Zoë and Enzo

We got Melanie for our lab technician, which is who we were hoping to get.  Even though she did measurements and everything last time, she still took a few minutes to check out the baby since Nonna was with us today.  She told us that we're going to have to bring him in to see her after I have him so she can meet the little guy she's been 'seeing' so often.  My cervix measured pretty much the same as last time, 3.5 , so all is looking good still.  My next ultrasound in two weeks will be the last one.

I also had to go to the lab to drink a glucose drink and then come back an hour later to get blood drawn.  One vial along with the glucose drink was to check for gestational diabetes and the other was to check my iron levels.  I should know the results on Monday.

We went out to the Olive Garden tonight for dinner, Nonna had brought gift cards along, much to the delight of Abby and Zoë.  At the end of the meal Zoë wanted to introduce herself to the waitress, so then Abby did as well and then they told her how old they were and guessed her age (luckily she was young and not offended).

After dinner Nonna and Daddy stopped into Shaw's and Nonna picked up special treats.  She got two little single serve containers of store brand 'dippin dots' for the girls and then klondike bars as well.

Zoë and Abby are just making the news left and right lately.  We've had a bunch of people telling us that they saw the girls in the paper, but we hadn't yet seen it.  The picture is from the day we were in Market Square with Grandma Cindy and Papa Norm.  Chris was waiting outside the jewelery store, where I was trying to get my watch back put on, with Abby and Zoë and the photographer - yes the same one from the reading kick off day, who is the same one from the snow picture during winter - stopped and asked Chris if he could photo Abby and Zoë.  Chris agreed and told the man that he's gotten the girls a few times and then proceeded to refresh the man's memory.  Sure enough Abby and Zoë got a big picture in the Portsmouth Herald... both the weekday and weekend editions.  On the weekend edition they were on page three.  A mom from swim class gave us the paper this morning, then at the ultrasound our technician had clipped the picture out for us (yes, we have quite the relationship with her after seeing her so many times) and then our neighbor Barbara gave us the whole weekend paper with the photo.

- photo will be posted soon