Gettin' Crafty

Well Nate is at convention this weekend so I will miss having another belly pic taken, but that's ok. Today there are 49 days left until my due date...I'm getting closer!

Last night I stayed up making hanging letters for Caden's nursery. I've wanted some for a while but the ones I like as so expensive and I found a way to be creative with my own.

I've been getting quite a bit of pain in my hips lately, I know it's all for a reason, but man it's hard to walk around now! Also my belly itches like crazy...I've been trying to be good by ignoring it lol.

Counting Down the Days

Less than 8 weeks to go - yay! While I'm impatient for Caden to get here, I can't help feeling a little nervous about the upcoming birth. I'm trying to keep myself busy by getting the nursery in order. My bassinet arrives this week hopefully, and all I need now are a few little things here and there to be all set. It really is amazing how blessed we are to have most of our items taken care of, when I look around at all the stuff I still feel shocked. This week I hope to finish all the thank you cards. I'm so bad at it.

This past week or so has been tougher, the skin on my belly is starting to hurt and itch...and, dare I say it...I have gotten a couple of faint stretch marks under my belly button *shudder*. The belly band I have seems to help a lot with support, so thank you Jen for lending it to me!

Tomorrow I have another OB appointment, and I will be getting my blood drawn to check on the status of my anemia. I've been taking extra iron so hopefully the results will be better. We also are going to our second to last childbirth class...last week we went on the hospital tour which was pretty awesome.

Well, not much else to say except here is the 32 week belly pic...I skipped a week - whoops!

Measuring BIG!

We just got back from our ultrasound appointment...and Caden is measuring a whole 3 weeks bigger and over a pound larger than a regular 30 week baby...agh! He is in the top percentile for his height too, the doctor isn't even sure I will make it to 40 weeks with this big fella! Not that I mind, but I really wasn't expecting him to be that big lol! I knew there was a reason I was getting sooo uncomfortable and have been feeling like I can't breathe. I need to get a belly sling :)

Here is a pic of his cute face!

So much for the 10 comments a day I receive about how tiny my belly is!

10 weeks left!

I am now 30 weeks pregnant! I can't believe that I'm almost there!





On Monday I had the most amazing baby shower, thank you so much to everyone who gave us things for Caden, you have no idea how blessed we are to have such good people in our lives! Here are a few pics (courtesy of Nicky - thank you!) of the shower.

Me overwhelmingly excited about all of the presents lol!

Soon I will start posting pics of how the nursery is coming along, it is looking sooo cute! And tomorrow is our final ultrasound...so I will be posting pics from that too!

Sick Day

Poor Nate. At about 6 O'clock this morning I awoke to the pleasant sound of him throwing up in the bathroom. It looks like he has the flu! So he had to miss out on church today...as well as all his responsibilities there. But like I told him earlier, there is nothing he could do about that, it's totally beyond his control. After some dayquil and some hot soup he seems to be feeling a little better...I just hope it's only a 24 hour thing.


I, on the other hand, went to church this morning...however I left early after spending about 20 minutes on a chair in the womens' bathroom fighting my third dizziness episode. The room was spinning and I could see lots of colors in front of my eyes. This is the second time it's happened when I've been standing and singing...is it because I don't get enough oxygen? When it subsided a little I drove home before the service was over to take care of my poor sick husband. What a day! Hopefully all will be well tomorrow for the baby shower!


The one cool thing that happened today was walking out of my apartment this morning and into a woman holding a newborn baby. Turns out she lives in my complex and just had a baby girl just over a week ago! I had no idea she was pregnant or that she had a baby, and she also had no idea about my pregnancy either! I've been secretly worrying about having a child living in this building...there have been no babies here for years, and I didn't know how annoying it would get to the 7 other units. But now Caden has a playmate so we are not alone!


Here is a belly pic from yesterday at 29 weeks. Caden's is moving so much, but now it's in a stranger way...like a bump moving across my belly...it's the craziest sensation!

I hope to see everyone tomorrow at the shower!