Gender Reveal, Quarantine, and Easter

The first thing I want to talk about is baby Hamilton #4! On April 6th I had my 20 week ultrasound to check on baby Ham. It was exciting and reassuring to see that little baby kicking around. All things look good as far as the baby goes. Growing and developing well. Baby Ham was measuring about a week ahead. Which is pretty normal for me at this point.

I went into the ultrasound thinking that this baby was going to be a girl but I'm usually wrong. And yup, I was wrong! It's a BOY! It blows my mind to think that we will have three boys. When did we suddenly become a house of boys!? Poor Mckenzie really wanted a sister. But she's been a trooper and seems to be happy. I told her we'll just have to do a lot of mommy daughter stuff.

I bought each kid a new stuffed animal and wrapped a Hershey's bar. I colored in the "he" part of hersHEy to show that it was a boy. I think Mckenzie took the news fairly well because she was holding a new toy and had chocolate in her mouth.

Cutest profile pic.

Starting around the week we were in CA, March 14th, the whole world went crazy and the coronavirus took over. The coronavirus, or covid 19, is a virus that started in China and has now entered the US. It can make you sort of sick to super sick and needing a ventilator. The symptoms range tremendously. In order for it to not spread too much everything has been shut down. You're suppose to stay home and not go anywhere unless absolutely necessary. Grocery stores are still open but you need to get there early if you need things that normally run out easily, such as milk and eggs.

Channing has been out of school since his track break started back on March 6th. They've now started having the kids do a packet of school work each week to try and keep them on track. Mckenzie's preschool is also cancelled.

We've been keeping to ourselves and staying at home. Our normal day consists of waking up late, like 8:30am, eating breakfast, getting ready for the day, doing some school work, doing crafts or something, lunch, playtime, quiet time, more playtime or school work, dinner, walks, tv, and bedtime.

Justin has been working from home for a few weeks now. He's staying very busy with his St Alphonsus job. We're glad that he still has all his work hours. Many people have been furloughed or asked to work less hours.

I think the hardest part about all of this is the unknown of when life will go back to normal. I think we're handling the isolation fairly well but it is hard to have nothing on the calendar. We can't even go to the park or the library.

After getting home from CA I called my OB's office to tell them that I've been super fatigued, short of breath, and my heart has been racing. I was told it was just normal pregnancy symptoms and to let them know if my HR got about 140 frequently. I called a few days later to update them on my symptoms that weren't improving. Then they asked me to go to St Al's urgent care to get screened for covid 19 and to tell them about my symptoms to get checked out. Turns out they can't do anything about my symptoms unless I go to the ER. And since I was short of breath and had traveled to CA I got tested for covid 19. They stick a long q-tip so freaking far into your nose it basically touched your brain. So painful! Then they told me to quarantine for 14 days or until I got my results back. I was pretty ticked about the whole process and still not having answers about my current symptoms. Luckily my results came back negative within 4 days (which was really quick) and I was able to still go to my OB and ultrasound appt.

Mckenzie showing off a flower she found in my bathroom drawer. She loves sneaking down stairs at night when she's suppose to be asleep.

Mckenzie got new glasses.

Cici sent us wooden eggs to paint for Easter.

Easter this year was spent with just our family. Justin made bunny pancakes, we had church at home, the kids played with the toys from their Easter basket, and we did an egg hunt.