Nesting to the nth degree

Week 37 Stats

My weight: Still 179 (yay!)

Baby Weight: 6 1/2 to 7lbs per midwife

We had a very productive midwife appointment yesterday. The midwife thinks the baby is around 6 1/2 to 7lbs right now. Not a huge baby, he will be about 8 to 8 1/2 lbs if we go to 40 weeks. Since the midwives use December 18th as my 40 weeks they will let me go until Christmas which may even mean a 9 to 9 1/2lb baby. I would prefer the baby be here between December 8th to 18th. I brought up the option of inducing prior to the 25th last night and she didn't say no :) Our next appointment is on December 8th, and if I am dialated at that appointment we are going to talk about different options to help labor come early. The baby is still "Way down" so I am hoping we don't need help with an early labor and he will do it all on his own.

On the homefront, we got a lot done this weekend. I say "we" meaning Matt. I did what I could, but ripping up carpet, tearing up baseboards, moving furniture, and then crawling around painting baseboards really wasn't up my alley. I helped by doing the sweeping and cleaning when he was done. We also picked out the tile and will have the tiler here next Monday. We are going to leave our current furniture in the house for the holiday weekend and then next week it will be out in the trash! It was amazing how much dust and dirt was underneath the carpet. I am so glad we took it out before the little one gets here. It will much healthier for us all.

Only a couple of days until Rachel and Max are here. We will be spending the weekend sightseeing, even going to a rodeo at the White Stallion Ranch on Saturday. It's supposed to be chilly here this weekend, at least chill for us. It will be nice to be able to cuddle in a sweatshirt and have a fire in our chimenea.

Can you believe we are down to 18 days!!!

We are ready

Week 36 Stats:

My Weight: 179

Weight Gain: 32 lbs.

Baby Weight: 6 lbs ( Holy cow!!!)

Baby length: 20 3/4 inches

Can you believe that we are going to have a baby in the next month??? I am so excited, I would even like it to be like 3 weeks, that would be perfect. December 6th would be a great birthday; if not, December 12th is going to be a full moon. Either way, I am so ready to have this baby here. I am huge, and getting bigger by the hour. I feel bad just posting pictures of me on here, but Matt won't take a picture with me. I've tried for weeks to get some pictures of us together, but he is just not into it. I wanted to get some professional maternity pictures but I'm running out of time for that too. Well, we are planning to have pictures of the baby for our Christmas cards, so we will have family pictures taken when the baby is still very little. Just don't hold your breath for the cards to arrive, they will most likely be sent after Christmas.

As you can see from the pictures above, we have the nursery ready. I still need to get some stuff on the walls, but the neccessities are there. My Mom's friend is going to pain a mural on the wall behind the rocking chair. It's going to be an oak tree from the Pooh books that goes from floor all the way onto the ceiling and branches on both walls. There will also be leaves blowing off the tree above the window. I also have some stick on decals to put along the walls and want to get some picture frames or something. I am not good at decorating so this is the best I can do for now. We also set the bassinet up in our room last week. It took some practice, but I can turn on the vibrate button, the music, light and rock the bassinet all with my feet. I know I will have to get out of bed for feedings, but being able to soothe the baby a little while still in bed will be nice. We had it in our room for a few days, but then I stubbed my toe so bad one morning I thought I broke it. After that the bassinet was moved into the nursery until the baby actually needs it.

We had two appointments with the midwives last week, our regular appt on Monday and our birth plan appointment yesterday. Both times we had a belly check the midwife would check for the position of the baby's head and both said, "Wow, it's way down there". I hoped that may mean I would deliver early, but she said it didn't mean early but that I would probably push less. That would be nice too!

Besides that our lives aren't too exciting. Matt works a lot and the dogs and I sleep a lot. We do have a busy weekend planned. The adoption for my cousin Logan was finalized today so I went to the ceremony and will be heading to Swensons for the traditional family party (Swenson's has an 8 scoop sundae that we used to share when we were kids). After that, we will head to Marana for Tyson's girlfriends daughter's birthday party. I haven't seen Tyson since his girlfriends son's birthday party in September, so that will be nice. We also have a party to go to tonight with Matt's softball team. I will just say poor Matt right now. The party is to watch the fight which starts at 8pm. Matt want's me to go, but I get tired really early which means I will be REALLY crabby. With no caffiene or booze to keep me awake, he may not like me very much by the end of the night :)

Well, time is flying by right now. 2 weeks until Thanksgiving when Matt's sister, Rachel, and her husband visit. 2 weeks or so after that and we should have a baby. Add another couple of weeks and it will be Christmas with both my Dad and Matt's parents here. I cannot believe how quickly time is going.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!!