38 weeks and 1 day = last doctor's appt.

I had my last appt today. The doctor said the heart beat was great and that everything else looked good. Basically I just have to hang in there until next Monday, unless things start to really pick up, contraction wise.
I think she's going to stay in there stubborn, just like her brother, until she is ripped out, ha. I must be a really good incubator!!

I will keep everyone posted on the next week and if anything changes!

A great pick-me-up for a Pregnant lady

Today I had a GREAT pick-me-up. I got some beautiful flowers from one of my good friends! It was a good surprise, a very sweet note on the card.... and seriously made my day! Thanks to Courtney and Nate for being so thoughtful!
Here is a picture of my kitchen window now: My favorite is the pink vase and the white lily in front with splashes of pink on it!!

Almost 38 weeks.....

I'm almost 38 weeks.. but I don't know that I'm going to do another picture this Sunday... we'll see. I just got my maternity pictures today in the mail... and I love them! I took a couple pictures of 2 of my favorites, minus the one I already put up with the blocks.

Ok, tried turning them about a billion times, and its not working.. for some reason when load into blogspot they turn, don't know why.. aren't like that are my hardrive. Anyways, you get the idea is turn your head as to what they look like.

Here's also 1 of the many projects I did this week: (well over last 2 weeks, it took awhile with all the sickness around my house.
Inspired by my sister, who loves potta dots!

Other than that.. Justin is doing better. Aydan is off and on.. seems better and then throws up again! gooo

But its 10 days until my c-section... and really hopes he's back to normal by the time the baby comes.

Please God, can everyone in my family be healthy when I have this baby?

So... it's happening all over again with everyone being sick... just one month later and right before I'm having a baby. THANKFULLY this time, I haven't gotten it yet! Fingers crossed because I really don't want to have to go into the hospital early to get an IV because I'm throwing up.
It started with Aydan on Monday. Grandma, Aydan, and I were supposed to go shopping on Monday but Aydan keeping throwing up anything, even juice! gooo. He was fine all evening, but again up in the middle of the night sick. He spent the day home with Grandma on Tuesday, not too bad of a day for him. But by Wednesday morning, Justin is now sick. : (
Aydan is better now, for the most part, still having trouble eating and not having gagging problems (which then would be maybe throwing up from that). And Justin is in recovery still, weak of course.
I wish both of my babies healthiness in the next week, so we are all ready when the baby comes!!

11 more days until the c-section!

Edit: Oh, did I mention Mowgly (the dog) is sick too. Took him to the vest today and he injuried his back somehow. He had to have 2 shots and get antibotics....  gezzzz.

37 weeks and 1 day

I'm 37 weeks and 1 day today... whewwww. I'm tired. Tired of carrying around this belly. And the pains are now fairly uncomfortable. I'm way more uncomfortable at this stage with Emma, than I was with Aydan. gooo.

Baby news: The lungs are now fully developed enough so that she could survive outside my womb. The baby weighs about 6 and 1/2 lbs and around 19 in. Braxton Hicks contractions will be much more frequent now.

14 days.... almost about to be 13 days until the c-section.

Underpants!

So.... I decided to bite the bullet yesterday and start Aydan in underpants. He has been using the potty for monthssssss now (with some breaks) but a bunch of people said just to put them in them and try it and they swear it works.
Thursday was his 1st day.. which was Grandma day. He had 2 accidents in the morning, dry for nap and then peed after nap. He was dry for me most of the evening, until the evening and then had 2 more accidents.. by then I was sooo tired, I just put him in his diaper.
Of course, dry through the night.. (which he almost always is).
Today.. he only had 1 accidents in the morning. Got wet during nap. And then good almost all night. I put a diaper on his because we were driving 30 min to out of town and then to dinner. He peed in diaper during dinner and he did it, looked up like a light bulb, and told me "oh ooo, I peed." Which is nice because he realized he did it and wasn't supposed to. Before he was only saying "oh oooo" to pooping in the diaper. Sooo maybe we're heading somewhere in the right direction.
Let's see how the next week goes!

Oh, and I must saw that he looks SO CUTE in his little underpants... Handy Manny and Thomas the Train!

In baby news:  I have 17 days until my c-section date!!!  My contractions are defintely much more and I have had a couple that felt more like labor pains.... so who knows how many more days it'll be. With my luck, I'll go into labor like 5 hours before my actually surgery, ha.

Valentine's Day- Date Night

We had our Valentine's Date night tonight. The grandparents watched Aydan and Justin took me to see Just Do It with Jen Aniston and Adam Sandler. It was funny and I had a good time. I had some feets or arms in my right rib cage, which was uncomfortable, but still had a good time. We then grabbed some quick fast food and ran into Walmart for a couple things and headed home early to pick up our lil man.
All in all, I had a great Valentine's Day and got some beautiful flowers from Justin and Aydan on Monday!!

I choose a chocolate heart because that's all Emma is craving now  : )

Enjoying the beautiful So. IL weather, oh and 36 weeks!

We got some nice weather here this weekend. It was around 40 on Saturday and 50 on Sunday, with the sun shinig.
Saturday: I got up early and drove over to St. Louis (not easy to do this large) to meet Justin, who had rode with a friend the night before for a Blues game. We went out to the Mills mall and I went to Carter's (of course) and exchange some stuff and bought many new needed items for the baby and Aydan. We then got back over to IL side and Justin drove me to 2 craft stores!! so I could get some stuff I had been needing for projects! yay! These are some errands I had been wanting to do before the baby came, but didn't know if I would have time, so Saturday was nice.
Sunday: We went to church. Then came home and went outside. Justin and I cleaned out our cars and washed them, Aydan got to play outside for a couple hours, which resulting in a niccce long nap.... cabin fever had def been setting in here. We also blew leaves out of garage, Justin cleaned his grill, and I trimmed my grasses in the flower areas outside. Wore-out now!! But def nice getting to be outside and getting some stuff done.

22 days until c-day!

 Couldn't remember if I posted my Emma letters once they got up.

 Aydan playing outside.

 Driving around in his car.

 He decided to get down and walk in the water from washing our cars.

 Wet, and going down the slide.

My 26 weeks picture.. hopefully my last picture  : )

Cooking mess-up

So, I caught an espisode of "Everyday Food" this past weekend (by accident) but it looked good and I decided I would try it. Got all the ingredients on Monday when I was in Mt Vernon for my Doc Appt. Was all excited to cook it tonight... but all did not go as planned. Got it all ready and then put it in the oven. As I'm pulling it out, I realize I didn't put the water in... and it has uncooked pasta and potatoes in it... so you can probably tell that they didn't cook : (
Dinner was RUINED! boo. I was just so distracted and forgot the water. Maybe next time I can try it again and get to actually taste it.
I tried.

Doctor's Appt- All good.

Had a great check up today. It was my 35 week appointment. Heart beat was nice, size, etc was good too. I'm not down to an appointment every week, yay.. because that means I'm close.. but boo because I have to drive over to Mt. Vernon every week for it.

4 weeks from today/28 days or less until we're going to meet our little girl!

Aydan watched a Pingu espisode tonight about Pingu getting a baby sister named Pinga. He really watched and I think he understood some of it. Going to show him it some more and continue to talk to him about having a baby sister.

35 weeks.

This was a long week... probably because we had a full week of school and no snow days, ha!
Weekly update: The baby is about the size of a honeydew melon... whatever that looks like. Most of basic physical development is done. She'll just spend the next weeks putting on weight (great huh). By the end of the week, should weigh around 6 pounds.

On my end, sleep is just not much fun. I'm tired, but still struggle through it. Between the going to the bathroom, getting up with Aydan, the crazy dreams, etc...  I forgot what its like to sleep a full night. Someday though.

Yesterday, I did get maternity pictures taken. I'm pretty excited about it. I had wanted to do it this go around, something for myself to look back at and remember. I bought Aydan with me, so I could get a picture of him kissing the belly/aka his baby sister. And she shot some other good ones. I already got a sneek peek at one I really like.

Aydan helped with the blocks ;)

Random Thursday

So, I have a few things I want to blog about but haven't taken pictures of, sooo today is just very Random!

*I have 32 days until my c-section date.
*Everytime I use the stairs, or do a lot of things that involve walking, but stomach contracts! gessshhh, let's see if this little one stays in until the 7th.
*I have finally started on Aydan's scrapbook of his first year.. got 1 pages done, but no the less, I have FINALLY started!
*The "Emma" letter are finally hung in her room, so the room is complete, just ready for her to get here.
*I have the baby bag packed and ready to go for the hospital, just need to pack mine now : )
*Everyone got a lot of snow this week, and we for once did not, yay!! We don't have to use any of our snow days at school this time. Plus I have about a billon things to get done in next month, before leave school for 2 months.
*Getting maternity pictures done on Saturday... with just me, Aydan, and my belly, hehe.. should be fun.