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Baby News...

Yesterday we hit the 34 week marker! If need be, the baby could be delivered at any point now. We've been told that it's realistic to expect the baby no later than 38 weeks. Sooo if we can make it two or three more weeks, that'd be awesome for the baby. I'm of course ready for the baby to come. I am soooo excited! I can't wait to see my lil one for the first time. I'm not gonna lie, I'm nervous about actually having the baby. I think I'm more scared of having a c-section than going through a regular delivery. I don't want surgery and I don't want to stay in the hospital any longer than absolutely necessary. This week's fetal monitoring went well. Monday the baby was sleepy and didn't feel like doing jack squat, but today the baby was moving around a lot and having heart rate accelerations like they want to see. I'm still having tons of braxton hicks contractions. Monday they measured my amniotic fluid levels and it has dropped to 13 - still in the normal range, but getting on the lower end. As you can see, my belly is still growing and I think it looks like it grew a lot since last week. On Monday, the 24th, I go in for an in depth ultrasound where they'll do a "growth scan" aka check the baby's growth, do some blood flow studies of the intestines to see how they're doing, and hopefully give us a better idea of when we can expect the baby to be here. I need to know when I will have to stop working so I can try to tie up loose ends with customers and figure out who will handle my customers while I'm on leave.

"Making it OUR
place...."

On Monday I had the day off and began to paint our living room. I painted all the walls a light blue/green and tomorrow I'll finish it off by doing horizontal stripes in just a shade darker than the color it is now. You gotta love my belly hanging out the bottom of my shirt. How attractive. So hopefully I'll be able to finish the painting tomorrow. On Saturday, a guy in Sam's academy is coming to pick up our sectional for his apartment that he's moving into. Our new sofa, chair, and ottoman will be delivered on Monday. Woo Hoo!!! I'm so flippin excited. I haven't seen it yet, but I should get to see it on Sunday when they get everything out that's being delivered on Monday. Next on our list of home furnishings is a rug for the living room and then probably a TV console. Right now we're using a dresser that Kristin found on the curb when I moved here in September of last year. It's not a bad piece, but I'd like something that has better storage options. Dresser drawers aren't exactly made to store DVD players and videogame systems. We'll make do for now. If we continue to order stuff from Willis while I'm working here, we can get it for cost plus 15%...so it's quite the deal for how awesome the quality is. The rugs I've been looking at will cost us about $500 for an 8x11 and that's about what the TV console would cost too. After all that....we'd really like to get a TV. We have Kristin and Mark's old TV and it fulfills its purpose, but sometimes it just starts doing this high pitch ringing sound. It's unbearable. Lol.

Family Ties...

Last Sunday we celebrated Tyler's 10th bday...which was really on Saturday. We had wonderfully yummy cake that Kristin made. MMM!!! We gave Tyler the 4th Harry Potter book and he can't wait to start reading it. Seriously though...look at that cake. It was the funfetti with chocolate frosting. I'm about to start drooling just by looking at the picture. Oh man. I wonder what kind of cake we'll be having for Connor's bday. Muahahahah!

I'm getting pretty darn excited. Jac and Andy come this Saturday and get to stay til the day after Thanksgiving. I'll actually have 3 days off work completely while they're here...and that never happens. What's more? Jac will be able to come to my Monday doctor appointment. Super duper.

Well folks, I think that's about all I've got for now. I'll update again after Monday's big doctor appointment. If they put me on bed rest, Lord knows I'll have plenty of time to blog! :)