05.31.09

One day before June! I'm due in June! Oliver was so cute tonight - we have a "Cars" calendar in his room, and each month has a picture of one of the characters. June's character is the Sheriff. For months, he would ask when the baby is coming, and we would reply "when the Sheriff is on the calendar." Well, tonight we flipped the page over to get ready for June 1, and there was the Sheriff!! The look on his face and the realization that the month with the Sheriff on it was actually here was priceless! He was so excited putting two and two together, and just looked at me with the biggest eyes saying "The baby's coming soon!" Yes, honey, he is! Hopefully. :)

I am 37 weeks pregnant and feeling good. I'm going through all I should be going through. I'm feeling everything - I feel big, I feel pressure, I have back pain, I have daily contractions, I have all those things. But I think having gone through it once before makes it much easier the second time. I know this stage doesn't last forever. I know a few more weeks is best for baby and I'm okay waiting those weeks out. I am also lucky that I have an amazing husband who will rub my back and my feet whenever I ask him to! :) I am a lucky girl - I know!!! Also, having the house done and the carpet in has done more for my anxiety than I even imagined. I am enjoying my house - my newly arranged bedroom - the baby's room - all of it. I love it! And it really does make the waiting easier.

Because posts are always better with pictures ... here's one after our *very* long day today. We are becoming members at our church (after almost 4 years! haha) and thus had another "class" today at 9 am. I had to go a little earlier to arrange my music for playing today. So we got there about 9, had the class, did church at 10:30, had the Sunday School picnic after, end-of-year games after that and then our Small Group decided to meet as well, after all of that. We got home around 4 pm. It was a LONG day. And this picture is what happened literally 15 minutes after getting home! Ollie is still holding on for dear life to the water gun he won at the games. I let them sleep for 45 minutes before getting them up, but it was pretty cute.

Also...some favorite Ollie quotes from the week!! Enjoy. :)

Ollie: "What's wrong, Daddy?"

Daddy: "Oh, Daddy just said something dumb and now Mommy's mad at him." :)

Ollie: "Oh, great. Now I have to get a new Daddy."

During small group, we received word that one of the 3 year olds decided to take off her clothes and go running around outside. Ollie comes flying in the room with the biggest eyes, "MOM! MOM! You've gotta come see Abby!!"

Oliver has been carrying around a picture of his Grammy and Grampy Sell. He knows Grampy Sell is in heaven with Jesus, and during this particular day was telling anybody and everybody who would listen. Our neighbor came over to chat.

Ollie: "Do you know my Grampy Sell is in heaven?"

N: "Oh, okay!"

Ollie: "That's where you go when you die. You look like you're gonna die."

Putting Ollie to bed:

Mommy: "Good night Ollie. I love you. Can I have a hug?"

Ollie: "No. Superman doesn't do hugs."

05.22.09

One month! It's been one month since I have posted and it has been one LONG month! But so much positive has happened - most notably we got our carpet!! Our original install date was April 6th, but after a few reschedules the carpet finally went in Wednesday, 6 long weeks later. We have been living with horrible foamy/dirty/dusty subfloors for that time and the sheer joy that was felt when we didn't have to "wipe off" our feet before getting into bed for the night was overwhelming! Jeremy and I both felt like giddy grade school kids and just wanted to SIT on the carpet. Not to mention - now the baby has a room!! Let's talk baby!....

I'm 35w5d today and feeling every one of those weeks! I'm going through all of the things that I should with one month left but doing well. I like to rest/sleep lots still, though. :) I had an appointment today with my first internal check and as expected (history repeating itself) I am *not* dialated! Imagine that! hehe Baby is now head down and low, but measuring a tad on the small side. This has been going on for a few appointments, but has continued. My uterus should be measuring about 36 cm, and was measuring only 33 cm. So I was sent for ultrasound and baby is simply...a little small! Everything looked great - good amniotic fluid, baby just a tad small! (That's okay with me. :) They are estimating him at 4 lbs. 15 oz. right now - and he can gain a pound a week, though that's not likely. But we're looking at probably 7-8 pounds. I am going to be seen weekly now until the end! I can't believe it's almost here.

Here's the latest picture - sorry for the self portrait but I actually have the house to myself tonight and the self-timer on the camera wasn't working quite right. I'm also loading one from when Oliver was 36 weeks for comparison. Kinda hard to compare but you can see it's a bit smaller, but also much lower!!

I'm also attaching some pictures of the remodel project. You can see the progression of everything and we're just so excited to be nearly done! All that's left is putting up the new doors, which shouldn't take long at all.

I hope you are all well and enjoying the beginning of summer. Even with lower temps, I'll take the sunshine any day!!