A baby update! Finally...

I apologize for the lack of baby info as of lately, as you can tell things have been quite crazy in our neck of the woods! But we are starting to get settled in and regain a normal routine! Though I do have to say it has been nice having the whole house thing going on to "distract" me from the last weeks of pregnancy. As many pregnant woman do in their last weeks, I have been getting the questions about if I am ready to be done or uncomfortable, ect. And Praise God, I can honestly say that I am not really uncomfortable at all, except if I sit or stand for long periods of time (but that has been the case throughout my whole pregnancy). Last week I was having some problems with swelling in my ankles but I think that just came as a result of trying to do too much with all the house stuff, so I have now had to learn to take breaks from time to time to put my feet up. That has since subsided, so that is wonderful! I have had a bit of heart burn and I am getting run down by the end of the day, but I am still sleeping well at night. So all in all I will def take this over my initial 20 weeks! And as for getting excited to meet our little guy, of course that is def the case, but we still have a bunch of things to get done around the house before he comes. So I am game for him staying in until his due date! Plus I have a baby shower that I am helping throw for my sister in law, Steph, this weekend, and then another one to attend for her the week after. So there are still so many things to do! But like I said, not that I'm not looking forward to meeting our little one, because I def am!

My last couple of midwife appts have gone really great! I am on weekly visits now so I am thinking about just setting up a tent in the waiting room! Last week she said that she thought he was about 6 pounds (which I know is just a guess, so I'm not set on that) which would put him between 7.5 and 8 pounds at birth. That's about what my guess was of how big he would be (because I am clearly an expert!) just because that's about what Mike and I both were when we were born. But only God knows and I will obviously take whatever I get! :-) This week I had the group b strep test (or whatever) thingy done (fun!) so she also checked me just to see where I was at. She said that he is most def head down, I am dilated to 2, 50% effaced, and that he has dropped (which I could tell happened about a week ago as my sudden urges to go to the bathroom frequently def has increase!). She said for a first time mom my body is in a surprisingly great place and since I have been having braxton hicks frequently (but not too frequent) my body seems like it knows what to do! So with all that she said that of course there is still no telling when he will come (which I also read in my Bradley Method book) but when the time does come she thinks things will go well, which of course I was expecting to be the case! :-) She put it this way, "when I check some ladies it's like they are going to need a stick of dynamite to get anything through there, but that is def not the case with you!" LOL! Very nice to know!

Our little guy still is nameless (other than Ducky, Ray Ray, Mac & Cheese, Yo Buddy Bemis, you fill in the blank), i think it will end up being a game time decision as the conversations are normally the same everytime it comes up.
Mike: "Have you thought anymore about names?"
Me: "Not really. Have you?"
Mike: "Not really."
Me: "Ok."
LOL! :-) I think we previously talked it to the point of exhaustion, maybe these last couple weeks will put some fuel in our fire to talk about it more.

Our little guy's room is well underway which is really exciting! We have painted the walls, put in a ceiling fan, customized the closet. My mom has so generously taken all of the baby clothes home to wash and fold for us! (She LOVES to do laundry, so of course doing laundry for her grandbaby is more than a pleasure!) Which helps us out a ton so then we can work on other things! My dad is also making a changing table (which can later be switched into a dresser) for us, I can't wait to see the finished product (or any product of it at all, hint hint ;-p just kidding! I suppose its hard for him to work on it while we have him slaving away on our house!)

The theme of our nursery has pretty much completely changed and I love it! We were going to go with a sports theme (of course) but after recieving this ridiculously adorable gift from Brodie (& Joe, Carrie, & Carlie)

I was feeling a bit torn! And then I found this fabric for curtains

and I knew it was meant to be! The colors that we wanted to go with for the nursery were blue, orange, and brown so when I found this fabric I was SO excited (as I had gone on a fabric hunt a few weeks ago and came up totally empty handed and frustrated, but then my awesome friend Annette told me about Crafty Planet and that's where I came up with perfect find)! It's super cute and fits perfect with our new elephant chair and with our color scheme!  Hopefully I will have completed pictures of the nursery here soon!

Also on the topic of babies, we are SO excited to have another niece or nephew on the way! As I have mentioned my brother and sister in law (Darek & Steph) are also expecting our first little nephew in July but then when Joe, Carrie, & Carlie flew through Carlie shared the news with us that she is going to be big sister! It was absolutely adorable hearing the news from Carlie too! We are SO SO excited for them and to have more little ones running around for our little guy to play with! It is crazy to think that more than likely the next time we see them that we will both have new additions to our family! Such a fun time!