33 Weeks

One more week down! I had a Doctor's appointment today, which was the same old same old. I got weighed, blood pressure taken, talked to the doctor, listened to my baby's heartbeat, and scheduled an appointment for two weeks from now. Pretty boring, but thats a good thing right? I got back to the gym this week! I had taken 2 weeks off while I was working and had my classes to work on. It would be so easy to just convince myself that I don't need to go. BUT I need to go so that I am not completely out of shape when the baby is born and can "bounce back", because it's that simple I'm sure... What I'm really looking forward to is my first baby shower this Sunday! I'm excited to see everyone and start feeling like i'm not totally unprepared for when the baby comes. If you know my mom, this won't surprise you, she comes up with a new idea every day. I just let her go with it, I'll show up and she can tell me what to do haha.

Other than that...Pat and I have narrowed our list of names down to 3. I'm going to list them on here for everyone to see. You can let me know what you think, be honest. (remember, her middle name is Carolyn. I think they all blend nicely with Carolyn, but I could be wrong haha).

1.) Aida
2.) Leni
3.) Charlie

Who will she look like?

I'm really getting anxious to see what my baby is going to look like...and I have a pictures of both Pat and I from in the hospital. So, I thought I would post them side by side and see what everyone thinks :). All I know is that she is going to have blue eyes and she'll definitley have a 5-head haha!

31 weeks and 5 days

Two more days until I'm 8 months along...and I don't know how anybody else feels when they're pregnant, but I never thought that day would come haha. I had a doctor's appointment last week, and it was pretty routine. The only things I really found out was that the doctor thinks the baby is head down and now I start going to see him every two weeks. I think that going every two weeks will make the next two months fly by! I only have one more week of work left...and I feel like I just started, and really I did just start. Oh well. I did finally get all of my registering finished, thank god. It only took me about a month haha. I have my first shower in two weeks, so I'm looking forward seeing everyone for that. Dani is throwing me one at the end of the month in Marquette for some friends. I'm excited to have something to do in my near future...haha it gets a little boring being pregnant :).

Thats all I have to update on for now, but here are some "almost" 8 months pictures.






Lily has been missing in the past few photo shoots...so we had to include her this time.

The "nursery"...my mom added on to the curtain :)

Frustrating

I've had a frustrating couple of days. I decided to end my procrastinating last Saturday and headed to Walmart to register. Keep in mind that my mom and I already went there probably a month ago and they told us that their scanner was broken and that we could register online. I didn't want to register online so I waited. So...I go there and ask about registering and the woman tells me that they had their second scanner stolen and they wouldn't be replacing it until they move into their new supercenter location in July!!! UGH. So then I went to Kmart and they handed me a piece of lined paper to register with....I was like, ummmmm really??????? So I took it home and typed it up on excel so it would be nice and neat haha. I also went home and tried registering online for Walmart and got frustrated so I'm going to go to Marquette, againnn, to register at Walmart. This is all kind of silly to get frustrated about, but I'm pregnant so I get to be irrational :).

Onto the next subject...I will be 31 weeks tomorrow and I have a doctor's appointment. I will have to update tomorrow night and I'll take some pictures of my 31 week belly. I've been feeling good, a little more tired and slower moving, but I suppose thats expected. Wish me luck tomorrow and I will let you know how it goes!

29 weeks and 5 days

It's been awhile hey. I've been really busy for a change haha. I got back from Calgary two Sundays ago and I started work that next Monday, the 11th. I'm working in a first grade classroom as para-professional. I'm pretty much an assistant for the teacher...and do all the dirty work like bring them for bathroom breaks, to lunch, and out to recess. Thank god I wasn't doing this in the winter! I work Monday-Friday from8am-4...and surprisingly it goes by really fast :). I had a long first week though, it was my last week of class for the semester and I of course had procrastinated a bit...so I had to work my butt off, and then on Friday after my mom got off work at 5, we headed to Marquette for my friend, Krysta's, baby shower. She is due a little less than a month after me and we have known eachother for about 5 or 6 years. So...we woke up early the next morning so that we could make it to Target at 9 because I had to register for my baby shower, which I had procrastinated on, and buy Krysta her baby shower gift. Then I went to the shower, and we were on our way back to the Soo by 2! Needless to say, my mom and I both took a nap when we got home haha.



Target was also successful for one other thing...I bought the baby her crib bedding!! I had seen it the last time I was in Target and was stalking it online for a few weeks. So I knew it was exactly what I wanted. My mom bought a pack of matching recieving blankets and covered the rocking chair that we have and made a little curtain to match. Her and Dani are the crafty ones of the family...and I let them take over because they do a great job and I wouldn't haha. The rocking chair and curtain look really good and complete the whole "nursery"...which is my room too haha. Here are some pictures of the crib and bedding and some belly pictures because it's been awhile.



The beautiful curtain my mom made


An inside view. Chicketies, and the bumper looks like polka dots, but they're little flowers

My mom covered the custions with recieving blankets! She also made the ruffles.

Krysta and I at her Baby Shower

Its sticking out there more and more

my poor poor belly button

one more side-view

the baby's beautiful crib and rocking chair

Moving Belly

So I was lying in Pat's bed after I took a shower...and it always seems that the baby moves a lot after I take a shower or bath. So I decided to try to get a video of it. The beginning is a bit boring, but I started to "rile" her up by pushing on my belly and by the end my whole belly is moving :). She's sassy apparently haha. Other than my moving belly, I am now 7 months (28 week). yay. Only 3 months left. I don't feel very prepared, but my mother is more on the ball than me, and ordered my crib while I've been gone. She does nice things like that for me...like putting the crib together and having it all set up for when I come home :). Anybody who has lived with me has probably seen the dresser I attempted to put together myself, It was ugly and took me all day to figure out. So it's a good thing if someone takes over the crib, because it'll have much more precious cargo than my clothing.

27 Week Appointment

Pat arrived in town last Monday :)!! Just in time for my 27 week doctor's appointment. I had my gestational diabetes test and another rhogam shot. So it was a long appointment, and nice to have someone with me haha. Pat also had a chance to meet Doctor Mackie...so that was nice too. Everything went great and I have another 4 weeks to wait for my next appointment.

After the appointment, Pat and I headed to Marquette. We stayed the night at Dani's house and then took off for Calgary in the morning. We split our trip up into 3 days, thank god because the first day I was sick and the drive was torture. We are here now though :). We had dinner at Carolyn's for Leslie's birthday (for those of you who don't know, Leslie is Pat's brother, Ryan's girlfriend). Then we headed over to the local pub, Denim's...and of course I left early because I'm a bum, but everyone else is still over there having fun ;). Next time I come to Calgary I will have a Kokanee haha. I will take some pictures during my trip and post them later.