40 weeks

Well, our due date came and went without any signs of the baby. I would say I was surprised, but after having Emily be late there was no way that I could see him come anywhere close to my due date. I am so ready for him to get out. I didn't mind having Emily in for an extra week, but this time around he is just reeking havoc on my body. My back and hips have never hurt this bad before. It is a little bit of a double edged sword because my body wants him out, but my mind is saying no I don't want to go through labor and delivery again. Well, we will see where he is at tomorrow with my appointment and hopefully we can get things going.

39 weeks

Well, had another appointment today. We were hoping we would be dilated and effaced enough to have a little help in getting things going which would give us a baby hopefully in the next day or two. Unfortunately for us there was no progression from last week still 2cm, 50% and he is sitting at a -2. The midwife said that it looks like a possible Christmas baby or even a New Years baby. Looks like I will be doing a lot of  pelvic tilts and squats to get him to move down.

38 week appointment

I have some other posts that I need to post from Halloween and Thanksgiving, but I need to figure out how to shrink the size of my pictures. I was told that I have met my space allotment for pictures in this blog. So I am going to go back and shrink down pictures in past blog posts, and the ones waiting to be posted. If that is going to be too time consuming I might just create a new blog every time I run out of picture space. Each blogger can have up to 100 blogs which I don't think I will ever use all of them.

On to the fun stuff. Here is a little update of what has been going on with the baby:

We had an ultrasound to measure how big he is at this point, and he is currently approximately 7lbs 15 oz which if he goes full term he could possible gain up to 1 more pound, but the midwife said that he will probably be no bigger than Emily was when she was born 9lbs! That is a relief that he won't be any bigger.

She checked to see how dilated and thinned we are. We are currently 2 cm dilated and 50% effaced. She is thinking that he will probably be here sometime next week so keep your fingers crossed.

D & W Racing

In September Nathan and I went out to D & W Racing out in Rainier, WA. One of the guys that Nathan works with, Danny, owns the flat track. He invited us to come out and watch the last races of the season so we decided to go. It was fun, but boy was it noisy and super dusty. The crowd was really interesting to be around too. It was a lot of fun to go out and experience something new, but I don't know if I would go again. There are only so many times I could watch motorcycles and quads go around in circles.

I just realized...

I just realized that I did not post about Emily's Birthday this year! Her Birthday was back on June 18th. On her actual Birthday which was a Monday we had the Grandparents for cake and ice cream, and then the following Saturday we had her big Birthday party. We did a Mickey Mouse theme complete with Hot Dogs, and lots of polka dots! The day turned out really nice, but with the first trimester of this pregnancy I ran out of steam. We had the family over for lunch and Emily had a blast with all the attention and presents. Here are a few glimpses of the day:

Memorial Day

This Memorial Day weekend was a nice relaxing weekend. I was able to make soup for my in-laws. Suzanne has not been feeling well. It was nice to be able to do that for her. I used the recipe that I found here. It turned out so yummy! Nathan also made some homemade bread to go with it.

On Monday we went on a picnic with my parents to Wildwood Park. I was afraid that it was going to be packed. We drove past Bradley Lake Park and there was no place to park at all. When we got to Wildwood park we were one of the few cars in the parking lot. We had a nice picnic with pitas from pita pit, and Emily actually ate some of her lunch too! We had to sneak her past the toys or else it would have been a crying fest on our hands to go on the toys. We basically had the entire playground to ourselves, and Emily had a good time on the slides and throwing 'boats' or sticks into the stream and watching them float down. I will have to keep this park in mind for future reference. I like how there wasn't very many kids at the playground.

Pool Time

We spent quiet a bit of time in the pool this past summer. She especially loved to fill up her own pool, and would stand there holding the hose until the job was done. Emily had so much fun, and I have a feeling that she will love going swimming even more next year.