13 weeks!

We're at the tail end of the 1st trimester - 2nd trimester starts on Friday!!!  Baby is the size of a peach this week :)

I have definitely been feeling better lately - have some energy back, which is nice.  Julie spilled the beans to someone at church on Sunday - I am actually very surprised she kept the secret for so long!

Yesterday, we had a sad day in our house.  We had to put our cat Gino down.  He had a urinary track blockage, so same thing we went through with Smokey 5 years ago.  Because Gino is already a senior cat, we decided we didn't want to put him (or ourselves) through all that stress again.  It was awful when we went through it with Smokey - for weeks, we didn't know if he was going to make it and we had to monitor him very closely.  I was a wreck for weeks.

So, the vet basically told us we had to decide what we wanted to do within a couple of hours since Gino was in obvious pain and distress.  Either we spend the $1,500 to have the blockage cleared (although there is no guarantee that it will work long-term) or we put him down.  So, we talked about it and decided it was time to put him down.  If we was younger, we may have decided to have the procedure, but Gino was already near the end of his days.  So, we decided to put him down.  It was really hard.  Intellectually, I know we did the right thing, but it was hard emotionally.  I had a very teary day.  And now poor Smokey doesn't know what to think.  He keeps wandering around the house looking for his friend.