33 weeks!

Baby's now the size of a honeydew! Baby may grow up to a full inch this week alone, and the brain is developing rapidly. Pretty soon, Baby will be able to coordinate breathing with sucking and swallowing. Also, the bones are hardening, and the eyes will stay open when awake. The doctor said my baby weighs about 4 pounds now and when they measured my belly she said "Perfect" so I'm guessing I'm right on track. Baby is still moving a lot but I can tell it is crammed in there. I am sleeping ok as long as I stay on my left side with a pillow between my legs and a rolled up comforter against my back.

We went to our childbirth class today and will go back tomorrow for half a day. We enjoyed the class and am looking forwards to tomorrow. We practiced labor breathing, labor positions, birthing positions, and Joey got a lot of practice being my Coach. We got the giggles during relaxation breathing, I peed my pants a little and I know I was drooling on my pillow cause I was laughing so hard. LOL You know Joey, I finally had to tell him just not to talk because I couldn't stop laughing. But I think we got it down and Joey is gonna be a great coach during labor!

Baby's Window!

This evening Grammie and Poppy came over with the window valance!
Marilyn had been hard at work looking for just the right material and decor to match the room. I liked this fabric the best and she spruced it up with semiciricles to match the polka dots, colorful buttons, and some small abc's on the ribbions. It matches the room and just looks adorable! I think Baby will love it as much as we do!

Waco Baby Shower and Polka dots!

We had a wonderful shower given to me by my Aunts and cousins in Waco. It was so fun and everything was just perfect! We played the smelly diaper game (guess the chocolate candy bar), baby bingo, and we guessed how many candies were in the baby bottle. We received so many great gifts!! I have already looked through them about 3 times. We received a few homemade quilts that are beautiful, our highchair, the diaper trash thingy, onsies and little blankies, bath time toys and soaps, and many more great things that we really needed! One of my Aunts made us the diaper cake which is adorable! I've posted a few pics of the shower!

When Joey and I got home from Corsicana we hung the dots. So I've posted new pics of the nursery.

Maternity photos

Here's 2 photos I had done. First one I took at the baby fair at Memorial Hermann. The second one is from several maternity photos Joey took of me, this was one of my favs. I'll post more of these later...

30 weeks!

I can't believe I only have about 10 weeks left! I've read that my baby is about 15inches long now, and weighs about 3 pounds. A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds Baby, but that volume will decrease as the baby gets bigger and takes up more room in the uterus. The eyesight continues to develop, and even after Baby is born, it'll keep it's eyes closed for a good part of the day. When Baby does open them it will have 20/400 vision — which means baby can only make out objects a few inches from it's face. Baby's brain is starting to wrinkle and fold. This is due to the rapid growth of our little genius's brain cells. The bone marrow is completely in charge of red-blood-cell production now. Baby is starting to shed the lanugo—the downy hair that was covering the skin. Now that Baby is a little chubbier and better able to regulate the body temp, baby doesn't need the lanugo.
The baby moves all the time now, morning, noon, and night. Very active! I am getting out of breath more easily and some days are really tired again. Overall I feel fine, I just feel like my uterus is running out of room in there! I don't see how I can get any bigger, but I'm sure I will. I'm posting what the nursery looks like now. We plan to paint the dots soon and get those on the wall. It's all coming together!

Memorial Hermann Baby Fair!

Saturday morning we went to the Baby fair held at Memorial Hermann in the Woodlands. It was a lot of information and lots of fun. The very first thing was going into a presentation room where Joey got to model what it was like to be pregnant. It was great! He put on the suit that made him feel pregnant, even had an extra sandbag weight on his bladder, haha! He even had to pick up a laundry basket and pretend to do household chores while "pregnant". We went to a short breastfeeding seminar, spoke to a lady about car seat safety, talked with a doola, looked at some nice slings, I joined the La Leche leage in The Woodlands, was educated about baby sign language for hearing children, got a free 8X10 maternity portrait, and came home with a ton of handouts, coupons, a free onsie, and a free exercise dvd. Afterwards, Joey took some maternity pictures of me in the pretty flowered area out at Memorial Hermann. I will prob post them later on, once I send a few out in the mail to family members. I pretty much did nothing the rest of the day. Today I'm doing the same : )

Mom came!

My mom came and stayed last week with us. We had a lot of fun, I just wish I'd have been off work more than one day. She went with me to a few doctor's appointments and of course we went shopping on my day off. She washed my dishes, folded clothes, cooked yummy food (picture is of tasty taco salad she made), and even went with me to prenatal yoga! She is the best and I didn't want her to leave on Friday.
We saw Dr. Franklin, my cardiologist, on Wednesday. All good news and I will not need to see him until early next year sometime. Friday morning we saw Dr. Reed and it was a short visit, I'll go back in 2 weeks again. All is good there too, just waiting 10 more short weeks for baby to arrive!
We still need to work in the nursery, have the furniture in there but we haven't finished the polka dots or shelves. Marilyn is making me a window treatment to match the room, it is going to be super cute!