Just waiting for YOU!!

I have lots of pictures to post!
My mom took some outside for us of our hands like hearts over my belly.

Dad's hand

Mom and Dad's hands


The 3 of us in the front yard

38 weeks... can I get any bigger!??!

So we have 9 days left.
Everyone is getting anxious and excited...I can tell by the number of phone calls I receive from family and friends on a daily basis. Don't worry I'm not complaining, it's nice to know Im not the only one anxious for D day :)
Had my appointment today...no news, the baby's heart beat was 144 for like the 3rd month in a row...I wonder if she really takes it or just makes it the same as last time, I'm sure she takes it.
I'm still only 1.5cm dialated
gained a pound and a half, we are up to 16.5lb total
She did say that she could feel the baby so it must be pretty low!!
I asked her how long over due she would make me go and she laughed and said we could discuss induction dates at my next visit which is Nov. 4th, election day, and 2 days before my due date. I'm going to request to be induced on Friday the 7th and hope to have the baby on the 8th because that was my original guess as to when the baby would be born. :)
But now that I have a plan, I'm sure the baby will do something different lol.
My house is clean, car is packed....(windows aren't in...maybe this sat??)
we are ready .... just waiting on YOU.

2 weeks to go!!

Ugh!!
I'm so ready to be done anticipating this BIG day.
I've taken all the classes. Have all the clothes washed, organized and put away. Car seat is installed. The new windows are in (not in out house yet). Ean found a single insurance plan for the babe. I have most loose ends tied up at work. Mine and baby's bags are packed...Ean is on his own lol.
But I really need to work 3 days in NOV. So I hope I don't go until after 5pm on Nov. 5Th.

I had my baby shower this weekend, it was so much fun to have all my family and friends around. I seriously have everything that I think I need :)

Went to the OB yesterday
I'm 1.5cm dilated and 75% effaced.
Gained 15lb total so far
Baby's heart beat was `144 again.

Last night we had our breast feeding class which I think was pretty helpful. But if I get engorgement, mastitis, or bloody nipples...the buck stops there. That looks way to painful.
While I was at the class I had some wicked braxton hicks contractions, I was in the hospital so wasn't so worried but they really hurt in my lower back, once I walked around then went away. But I had them again today at work for a while and in the car. Much stronger then before, but not the real deal. I guess my body is just doing some practicing.

well thats all I got for now!
Ill be posting some pics from the baby shower later..stay tuned...

Making progress

I went to the Dr. again yesterday and this time I was dilated 1cm!
I thought I might be because I have been having braxton hicks contractions about 10-20a day and they hurt in my back, but nothing that is timeable so I know its not labor.
They are worse at the end of the day from about 3pm to 7pm and every time I bend over.
My next apt. is Tuesday where they will check me again. The Dr. actually said Ill see you Tuesday if you're still around.....
So I guess that means I literally could go any day now, I hate not knowing when its going to happen. I feel like a ticking time bomb with out the timer lol.
This could be a really long 20 days....or less. But they say you can walk around for weekes 1-3cm dilated and have fake contractions...so who knows!!

The baby shower is this weekend!! Im really excited to see all my friends and family :)

25 days to go!!

happy early halloween!!!

4 more weeks!!

I had my last 2 week check up on Tuesday. Now its weekly.
I have gained a total of 13lbs have several more stretch marks since my last post, my BP is good I'm NOT dilated but I have thinning out or about 20% effaced. Baby's heart beat was 144 and he/she is head down.
So in other words all is good and I have time to wait. Which I'm feeling indifferent about these days, Im so ready/anxious to see the baby and know what it is and meet the little guy who has been living in my body for 9 months.
I'm anxious about all the changes Ean and I are about to go through, the pain I'm about to endure, the sleeplessness and I just want to rip the band-aid off and get it over with.
The other side of me doesn't want to go yet because I want to enjoy a few more naps, uninterrupted episodes of greys anatomy and a peaceful dinner date with ean.
But all and all I'm ready!
especially ready to lay...not sleep ;) on my stomach!

Yesterday my awesome co-workers threw a surprise shower for me at work!
It was so nice because the participants got to be involved. I feel like I have 80 grandmas and grandpas sometimes because they are all so interested in my pregnancy and ask me several questions everyday, which can get old but I know its something that is exciting to them and they get to feel like a part of my big "even" too. Not to mention all the great advice and stories they have, on average most of them had 3-6 children!!! And gobbs of grandchildren :)
we played games and they won prizes, we had cake, and I got some awesome gifts including a monitor, a wide variety of clothes, and a literal booger sucker! It has a chamber like end that you stick in the baby's nose with a tube hooked to it then you put the end of the tube in your mouth and literally suck the boogers out!!
Don't worry it has a filter to catch the boogies so you don't have to eat them lol.

Ill will be posting a 36 week pic in a day or so that I think you all will enjoy ;)

:( bummer

it happened.....
I
GOT
STRETCH
MARKS
:/
they are UGLY, currently they hurt and itch and I'm pretty sure you can't get rid of them.
Im way to young to have to ware a one piece swimming suit on my next tropical vacation...
Not to mention all the tubing and boating I have planed for next summer since I couldn't do it this summer.

I knew this was going to happen. I only have a month left and they just couldn't hold off.

oh well, such is life.
and yes I know I will have a beautiful baby inspite of it all, but Im still bitter :)

its football saturday!!!

GO HAWKS

GO BIG RED......or CARL BIG RED
hehehe that was funny for thoes who live in NE and know what Im talking about!