Friday, June 27, 2008

34 weeks

So here's our quick update for the week. We are 34 weeks today, we had another ultrasound to check his size and my cervix. Baby P is measuring 5 lbs and 6 ounces. The tech said we should have a baby in the low 7's. My cervix looks good, so I think that we are good until August. Which is great news, seeing as we still have a million things to do. Shawn and I are both procrastinators. I've had to step up a little in that department to keep our lives together, but when it comes to preparation for baby we are kind of lacking in that. We just signed up for our birthing classes that start a week from Monday and end 4 days before my due date! Every night I go to bed I just pray "God just push him back up in there if he starts to slip down".

Here's a quick picture from the ultrasound. I don't have a scanner so I had to do it the ghetto way and take a picture of the picture. But hopefully you'll get to see how freaking adorable he is! In this particular picture he's pursing his lips :-)

Thursday, June 26, 2008

New Pregger Pictures

New pregger pictures. 33 weeks and 6 days. I would write an update along with them, but there's a baby sitting like in my ribs and it's rather uncomfortable. But we have an ultrasound tomorrow to determine his size and other stuff so after that (providing he's not in my ribs) I'll post an update.



Tuesday, June 17, 2008




32 weeks!


We are now getting very close to Baby Day and we still have a million things to buy! We made our first big purchase the other day, a Graco Pack n Play for the living room. We we're going to get a crib but couldn't find one I liked (and yes I have changed my mind since I posted pictures of Nursery stuff way back when). So now we have this cool vibrating musical bassinet pack n play just sitting in the living room looking oh so lonely and waiting for an occupant. This past Friday was Shawn's 7th birthday so we took him to the Maryland Science Center which he loved. They had a huge dinosaur exhibit that we spent most of the time in and then went and saw this really cool Sea Monster 3D movie. Later that night we took him to see Kung Fu Panda as well, and it is a must see! It was really hilarious! (Other good movies seen this weekend: First Sunday (funny as hell!) and The Other Boleyn Girl) For Shawns birthday we got him a bike and soccer goal thing and a pool. The pool was a small $30 thing from Walmart but I think it was the best $30 we ever spent! He stayed in the pool ALL DAY Saturday and Sunday and did not want to get out. Shawn and I bought lounge chairs and laid out over the weekend which was nice. Sunday afternoon and night however I started having contractions, and at my scheduled appointment yesterday I mentioned it to my Doctor and she checked me and surprise, surprise, I'm 1 centimeter dilated already and Baby P is measuring at 34 weeks. So she said that I could be further along then we thought (but I doubt that since I'm positive of all the dates you need to give to come up with your due date) but she put me on moderate bed rest for the next 2 weeks. So we either have 6 weeks left or 8 weeks. I'm really hoping it's 8 because I need ALLLLLL the time I can get!

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Pictures

Uncle Tim and Shawn on roller coaster

Zack, Gabi, and Shawn





Uncle Paul, TT, Zack, Gabi and Shawn









Sierra and Shawn (as Beethoven, courtesy of Sierra)










Tons of other pictures on my myspace page...

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

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I feel like it's been ages since I've posted last. We got back from our road trip to Minnesota memorial day and we had a really great time. I'm not what you'd call a well versed traveler so I drove through (and got pulled over, thank you Ohio police officer for not giving me a ticket) a lot of states I never thought I'd visit. But I have to say to all you Minnesota residents you all are pretty lucky. I really, really, really loved Minnesota. So much so that a lot of Shawn's cousins were trying to (seriously) convince us to move there. And all though I would love to I'm not sure how I would handle the winter. We went to the Mall of America amusement park and I was so jealous watching all the kids riding the coasters. I wanted to get on soooo badly. But the park was great and all the kids had fun, especially Shawn. The whole weekend Shawn was just like on air with all the kids to play with and things to do. He really loved it and wanted to know if we could go back Thursday. LOL.

The trip up and back was not as bad as I expected it to be. Little Shawn handled it the best, I on the other hand got leg cramps, headaches, heart burn, nauseous all on the 2nd day up and back. Awful, not fun, but worth it. Gas prices are of course CRAZY. $4.37 in some parts of Indiana.

Little Baby P is doing great! We just had our 30 week appointment. I'm flying high because I've only gained 17 lbs and in 2 weeks I've lost a pound. Shawn wants to keep feeding me, but my Doctor says as long as Baby is growing everything is good. Baby P is kicking like a mad man! So much so it's starting to hurt. I'm not sleeping much at night which sucks, and my house doesn't always stay as perfect as I want it to. I feel really bad, but some days I'm just so exhausted or nauseous that I can't do much. I forgot what my feet look like, I can't get up off the couch or roll over in the bed without Shawn heaving me over! But I'll stop complaining, we're getting closer and we are very, very, excited! One thing I do like about being pregnant is swimsuit shopping. I have always loathed swimsuit shopping because I never could wear the cute triangle bikinis like the other girls because of the two "girls" sitting on my chest, and even when they shrunk (all though they are certainly starting to come back) there was the other body issues. But now being pregnant I have moments where I really love my body (especially when the Doctor says I've lost a pound or haven't gained anything) so I really embraced the whole bathing suit shopping thing and was able to find a cute (not-totally) maternity looking swimsuit.

Anyway, it's 11 PM here, Obama has the nom (like duh), Hilary is finally gone, yeah! (I know, I know, take my girl card away) and I'm tired and need an orange.

I have tons of pictures from the trip, I'll try to post them later this week.