Week 38, day 5 (almost 39 weeks)

Baby boy at 38 weeks!

Had another follow up visit with the OB today. The doctor said to me that my belly is all baby and my internal organ s are way squished.  I am at 1-2cm dilated and 80% effaced.  So the big prediction is that the boy is expected in the next week.   My due date is next Friday (Oct 10) so that is to be expected.  

This past Sunday I had a decent period of time of discomfort with lower back aching and contractions.  Thinking that is when the boy starting plotting his escape and dropped down.  Since he has now dropped I have an even smaller bladder and woke up every 1 to 2 hours to use the bathroom.

Now we just wait until he decides he is ready to come. 

Nesting at 37 weeks

My husband has accused me of nesting... just because I have swept and deep cleaned carpets, washed a bunch of our sons clothes,and prepped freezer meals... hehe  With just under 3 weeks until our due date I would say I am allowed!!

I have a couple small projects for his papa to help me with to finish getting his room ready.  Hopefully we can get those done before he arrives, but if not it isn't anything that can't wait.  Also need to drag his daddy out to the store to pick out a poster to frame and hang in his room.  That way I can see what colors to paint for his name letters.

This past Saturday the huge kids resale that happens twice a year around here was on.  I was happy to have found all of these clothes for our baby boy.  Big sister Jillian also got some new clothes.  She had fun picking out some new dresses of course.

Kids resale finds :)

I also have some awesome friends who have loaned me clothes to borrow for our son.  So with my garage sale finds and those clothes he has a closet and dresser full of clothes ready for him to wear.  I spent quite a bit of time on Saturday washing and sorting boy clothes.  I am getting much more used to this.  The first time I bought any boy clothes just felt odd after over 4 years of girly only items!

Clean and organized clothes for baby boy.

Week 35 Day 5 (almost 36 weeks)

Had a check up today for baby boy.  He is head down as they want him to be at this point.  I was assuming as much based on were I get kicked all the time!!  They were able to double confirm his position by finding his heart below my belly button.  His heart beat was nice and loud when directly over it and came in at 140 beats per minute.  

They also did a check for dilation and thinning.  At this point we are at 1 cm dilated, but not thinned out yet.  The doctor advised this is perfectly fine for this time in the pregnancy.  Also due to these findings he didn't expect the baby to be born any time soon (well relatively speaking)..  We have just over 4 weeks until his due date!

Last night I experienced the worst Charley horse I think I have ever had! I am glad that I haven't had many of those and really hope it doesn't happen again!  I was trying to stretch out my leg and the muscle spasm was so strong it was forcing my toe pointed if I tried to straighten mt leg.  After physically holding up my toes and finally getting to my feet to stretch it out good it subsided.  Of course after that I had trouble going back to sleep as I was afraid it would return if I let my foot go un flexed.  I finally took some Tylenol and put an ice pack on my calf muscle and got a little more sleep.  Man my leg is tender today.  I'm trying hard not to limp too much!

Almost 34 weeks

Had a checkup today for Baby boy.  No kicking the doctor today like he did last time.  Everything looks good and his heartbeat was nice and strong :).  We go back again in 2 weeks for another checkup and then we will start going weekly.  His arrival is sneaking up on us now!

Big sister Jillian is very excited to meet her baby brother. She gives my belly plenty of hugs and kisses. Such a sweet girl!  A couple nights ago she was snuggling up against my belly and her brother "kicked" her three times. The next night she wanted to snuggle up again and was hoping he would kick her again. 

Dance Class

Big girl ready for her first Tap Dance Class in her new "stylish" dance outfit!

 

Jillian had her first tap dance class Wednesday (8-13-14).  We had gotten her shoes just before vacation and she has been wanting to try them out.  She was very excited to go to her class last night.

After a very slight hesitation she went right into the dance room with her new dance teachers.  She listened well as far as I could tell from watching and was trying to do all the dance moves.

They had them pretending to be Sheriff's or cow girls so each child was given a pretend cowboy/girl hat to wear.  They galloped across the floor chasing cows as I was told later by Jillian.  They had given them each a spot to stand on a little no-stick place mat looking thing.  (good plan tap shoes are slick!)  As they did what I would call cross the floor moves the girls each went back to their spots instead of all the way across the floor.   I have no idea if this is what they were supposed to do or not, but it sure was cute to watch.

Lining up for her first class

Dancing around waiting for class to start.  She liked spinning on the slick tap shoes.

When we got home Jillian had to show daddy some of her new dance moves!  She did expect me to remember what all they had done.  Good thing I was watching so I could help her out on that one.

I think she was a little sad when class was over because she was having so much fun.  She will be happy to go back again next week :).

Pre K

Monday August 11 Jillian's papa took her in for "orientation" for pre K.  She was a bit shy for him that day, but did stay in the classroom when he ran some papers down to the office.  She has one of the same teachers as last year and then one new teacher.

Wednesday August 13 was Jillian's first day of Pre-K.  Daddy reported that she went in confident and he left as she went to find her name at her seat.  She has a new place to hang her book bag this year vs. last year.  As daddy tells her because you are a bigger girl.  This made her smile :).

When I picked her up she was a happy girl :). I even took her picture by a sign the school had out.  Of course it is best she couldn't read it since it said first day of Preschool!  She would correct you and say that she is in PreK!!

I asked what she learned and she just told me how to write her name.  She already knew how to spell it, but is still working on using upper and lower case letters correctly.  She also reported that she had time to run in the gym.

After her first day.

Vacation 2014

Crooked Lake Delton, MI - the view from the backyard of the rental. Our retreat for a week.

Countdown to Vacation Calendar - she loved crossing off the days

First Time fishing - she had fun and stuck with it for quite a while

Fishing with Grandpa - she caught 4 little fish!

We had fun checking out the local library where they had a chalk table you could draw on and two library cats!

She loved "driving" the boat.  She would randomly stop us to look at stuff in the water.

Swimming time, there was lots of swimming!  Our little fish loves to play in the water!

Attempts to make sand castles didn't work out to well the sand was too wet.

At the Kalamzaoo Nature Center - she enjoyed checking out the indoor rainforest and the few exhibits they had in the main building.

Nature trail walk - it was 0.6 miles long and she did make it, but just barely.  She was hot and tired by the time we finished.  But of course still had plenty of energy for swimming back at the house ;).

Plenty of relaxing time.  Grandpa and Jillian playing on respective size ipads.