Update time!
We are 15 days from Oliver's due date, but we think he is coming sooner.
Today was my 38 week dr's appt, and I am progressing nicely, still. He is still at -2 station, I have dilated a little bit more to 1.5 centimeters now, but the big, exciting news is I am now 50% effaced! SO EXCITING!
My doctor thinks Oliver will come on his own, no problem, no later than his estimated due date. Andrew and I are thinking sometime next week.
We'll see what happens. He is considered full term, so statistically/medically, he should be fine & healthy to be be born anytime.
That's all for now. (Its weird to think that the next post I might make could very well be an "Oliver is here!" type announcement!)
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
3 weeks away from Oliver's due date!
I haven't updated in a while, and thought I'd give a quick update.
Today is 3 weeks from his estimated due date.
I had a dr's appt on Monday (for my 36 wk appt, even though I was 36 w 3 d.) where they checked me for progress for the first time. I was 1 cm. dialated, no effacement, and -3 station. They tested me for Group B Strep, and I found out today the test was negative. Yay!
Today, I had another dr's appt for my 37 week-er. Everything is the same except he dropped another cm. to now be at -2 station. Hooray, Oliver! Good job! I also got a sonogram because my fundal ht. measurement on Monday was the same as it had been 2 wks and 3 days prior, and generally, its supposed to keep growing as a good indicator that the baby is growing, etc. Anyway, the sonogram showed all is well. The measurement probably did not change since he is dropping down into my pelvis more. They estimated his weight today from the sono. at 6 lbs 7 oz, putting him in the 40th percentile. (I'm not putting too much stock into their guess on his size, though, because they can be a couple pounds off either direction.) He is very definately still a boy. He is head down and face down, just like hes supposed to be! Go Oliver! Hes such a good boy, doing what hes supposed to do. Hehe. Amniotic fluid is great at 10 cm (whatever that means). All I know is that is apparantly great, and they would be worried if it was less than 5 cm. We could see his little diaphragm moving rhythmically, and the sonographer said he was practicing his breathing movements for outside the womb. So amazing how God has created babies to practice the actions of breathing while still in the womb when they don't actually breathe, just to prepare them to survive in the open air. Amazing. His HB was good. I can't even remember what it was. Hmm. Basically, everything looked good! The sonographer said he was down really low (yay for droppage!) and that my belly was "all baby" which didn't make me feel too shabby. Haha. I was given some pictures - three of his face and one of his boy parts. I can't see anything on two of the three face pictures, but in the last face picture I think he looks just like Andrew. :) It is so bizarre. He looks like he has a really tall forehead, too, just like Andrew. hehe. He kept his little hand up by his face the whole time.
Baby shower was last Saturday, given by the ladies of Tchula Presbyterian Church. It was lovely.
My parents were here last week, into this week for about 5 days or so. That was a good time. Mom and I got pedicures. Yay! Especially since I can't reach to paint my own toes.
We have most everything ready for baby Oliver to get here. We have tied up most loose ends, I think.
We have packed for the hospital, and everything is sitting by the front door. We will just have to grab the last minute items that can't be packed at this point.
It is surreal to think that we're really going to have a real live baby here within a few weeks or so! I just can't believe it. I am trying to enjoy this time, these last few days where it is just Andrew and me, and enjoy my sleep and such. But I am also very excited to meet this baby face to face. I guess that is normal.
People keep asking me if I feel miserable. I guess that is standard feeling for most women in the last weeks. Honestly, I have hit bumps and still deal with things like crazy heartburn, discomfort in general, extreme overheating, trouble sleeping or getting comfy, swelling/pain in my feet, etc, but I still maintain that I do not feel miserable. I'm trying to take all the aches and pains in stride. I just kind of expect not to feel super great. I have my days/moments, but I would not call it misery. And I am enjoying getting to have Oliver all to myself so close to me for these last few days. I know I will miss it in a way, even though it will be glorious to have him outside!
I'm spending the night at Buddy and Frenchie's tonight. Every time I/we come to Jackson, there is so much to get done. Its kind of amazing. Today I went to the dr's appt, went to Borders to buy a baby book, ate lunch, went to 4 stores to get baby socks (trying out a few pair from each place to see which ones stay on the best), and did another errand before landing here at the Grahams. Tomorrow, I need to go to Target, get my haircut, and go to Walmart and Kroger for several things on the way out of town to head back home. It was just too much to do in one day for me. I'm glad I split the trip into two days.
When I said goodbye to Andrew this morning, he said, "Try not to come back with a baby." Haha. I told Frenchie what he said, and she caught something I didn't at the time: I'm still coming back with a baby either way! Lol. Just not the way he meant it.
Ta ta for now. I am tired. I wore myself out walking around Jackson all day. It was stinkin' hot, too. 80 something. For a pregnant woman that =s something like 110 degrees (or more). For real.
Today is 3 weeks from his estimated due date.
I had a dr's appt on Monday (for my 36 wk appt, even though I was 36 w 3 d.) where they checked me for progress for the first time. I was 1 cm. dialated, no effacement, and -3 station. They tested me for Group B Strep, and I found out today the test was negative. Yay!
Today, I had another dr's appt for my 37 week-er. Everything is the same except he dropped another cm. to now be at -2 station. Hooray, Oliver! Good job! I also got a sonogram because my fundal ht. measurement on Monday was the same as it had been 2 wks and 3 days prior, and generally, its supposed to keep growing as a good indicator that the baby is growing, etc. Anyway, the sonogram showed all is well. The measurement probably did not change since he is dropping down into my pelvis more. They estimated his weight today from the sono. at 6 lbs 7 oz, putting him in the 40th percentile. (I'm not putting too much stock into their guess on his size, though, because they can be a couple pounds off either direction.) He is very definately still a boy. He is head down and face down, just like hes supposed to be! Go Oliver! Hes such a good boy, doing what hes supposed to do. Hehe. Amniotic fluid is great at 10 cm (whatever that means). All I know is that is apparantly great, and they would be worried if it was less than 5 cm. We could see his little diaphragm moving rhythmically, and the sonographer said he was practicing his breathing movements for outside the womb. So amazing how God has created babies to practice the actions of breathing while still in the womb when they don't actually breathe, just to prepare them to survive in the open air. Amazing. His HB was good. I can't even remember what it was. Hmm. Basically, everything looked good! The sonographer said he was down really low (yay for droppage!) and that my belly was "all baby" which didn't make me feel too shabby. Haha. I was given some pictures - three of his face and one of his boy parts. I can't see anything on two of the three face pictures, but in the last face picture I think he looks just like Andrew. :) It is so bizarre. He looks like he has a really tall forehead, too, just like Andrew. hehe. He kept his little hand up by his face the whole time.
Baby shower was last Saturday, given by the ladies of Tchula Presbyterian Church. It was lovely.
My parents were here last week, into this week for about 5 days or so. That was a good time. Mom and I got pedicures. Yay! Especially since I can't reach to paint my own toes.
We have most everything ready for baby Oliver to get here. We have tied up most loose ends, I think.
We have packed for the hospital, and everything is sitting by the front door. We will just have to grab the last minute items that can't be packed at this point.
It is surreal to think that we're really going to have a real live baby here within a few weeks or so! I just can't believe it. I am trying to enjoy this time, these last few days where it is just Andrew and me, and enjoy my sleep and such. But I am also very excited to meet this baby face to face. I guess that is normal.
People keep asking me if I feel miserable. I guess that is standard feeling for most women in the last weeks. Honestly, I have hit bumps and still deal with things like crazy heartburn, discomfort in general, extreme overheating, trouble sleeping or getting comfy, swelling/pain in my feet, etc, but I still maintain that I do not feel miserable. I'm trying to take all the aches and pains in stride. I just kind of expect not to feel super great. I have my days/moments, but I would not call it misery. And I am enjoying getting to have Oliver all to myself so close to me for these last few days. I know I will miss it in a way, even though it will be glorious to have him outside!
I'm spending the night at Buddy and Frenchie's tonight. Every time I/we come to Jackson, there is so much to get done. Its kind of amazing. Today I went to the dr's appt, went to Borders to buy a baby book, ate lunch, went to 4 stores to get baby socks (trying out a few pair from each place to see which ones stay on the best), and did another errand before landing here at the Grahams. Tomorrow, I need to go to Target, get my haircut, and go to Walmart and Kroger for several things on the way out of town to head back home. It was just too much to do in one day for me. I'm glad I split the trip into two days.
When I said goodbye to Andrew this morning, he said, "Try not to come back with a baby." Haha. I told Frenchie what he said, and she caught something I didn't at the time: I'm still coming back with a baby either way! Lol. Just not the way he meant it.
Ta ta for now. I am tired. I wore myself out walking around Jackson all day. It was stinkin' hot, too. 80 something. For a pregnant woman that =s something like 110 degrees (or more). For real.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Pack N Play adventures and Bruce
Mom bought us the Pack N Play and the Monitor we registered for. She paid for them over the phone and we were able to pick them up at the Babies R Us here. Thanks, Mom!
Here are pics of that adventure:
Andrew making his "I refuse to smile for a picture" face:
It really was quite the adventure. Andrew decided to start putting this together last night after we got home from being in Jackson for 2 days. It took longer than I expected. Graco included ridiculous, non-helpful directions (that don’t even deserve the right to be called 'directions'…unless you consider “put the metal rod in the pack n play” adequate directions. ...Excuse me…there are several metal rods, and where exactly in the pack n play is this supposed to go???????) So that was fun/funny/frustrating. We finally got done at 12:30 and called it a night. I say “we” but all I did was lay in bed and watch Andrew put it together and take pictures with my feet propped up (as you can see here)
because I overdid the walking/probably salt intake, too on Thursday and Friday, and therefore had bad feet swelling. :) I guess I was growing Oliver, too, so I helped a lot. Haha. Just not with the Pack N Play.
As you see it now, we have the bassinet feature set up. Whenever we want to use it as a regular play yard for him to play in, we can just move the mattress/bottom to the very floor of the pack n play. Pretty neat, huh?
You can see the blue sheets we ordered for the pack n play mattress from www.cloudsandstars.com in the pics, too. We have the PNP in our bedroom because we plan to use that as his bed (with the PNP bassinet feature) for the first little while.
now for some non-baby-related pictures…
Here are some pics of Buddy and Bruce (10 months old) playing together. Buddy plays with him and lets him get all wild like no one else. Bruce loves playing with Buddy. These were taken, I think on Thursday at Buddy and Frenchie’s. We were in Jackson a lot this week (Mon, Tues, Thurs & Friday) for baby-related classes/appts, etc, so we spent the night at their house Mon. and Thurs. nights. And we spent large chunks of our days at their house during the week in between appointments, too. They are so good for us. For those of you who don’t know, these are the people that let me live with them for 4.5 months as soon as I moved to Jackson from KC before Andrew and I got married. They are our adopted parents, and their home is our home away from home. So lovely. I don’t know what we’d do without them.
Here are pics of that adventure:
Andrew making his "I refuse to smile for a picture" face:
It really was quite the adventure. Andrew decided to start putting this together last night after we got home from being in Jackson for 2 days. It took longer than I expected. Graco included ridiculous, non-helpful directions (that don’t even deserve the right to be called 'directions'…unless you consider “put the metal rod in the pack n play” adequate directions. ...Excuse me…there are several metal rods, and where exactly in the pack n play is this supposed to go???????) So that was fun/funny/frustrating. We finally got done at 12:30 and called it a night. I say “we” but all I did was lay in bed and watch Andrew put it together and take pictures with my feet propped up (as you can see here)
because I overdid the walking/probably salt intake, too on Thursday and Friday, and therefore had bad feet swelling. :) I guess I was growing Oliver, too, so I helped a lot. Haha. Just not with the Pack N Play.
As you see it now, we have the bassinet feature set up. Whenever we want to use it as a regular play yard for him to play in, we can just move the mattress/bottom to the very floor of the pack n play. Pretty neat, huh?
You can see the blue sheets we ordered for the pack n play mattress from www.cloudsandstars.com in the pics, too. We have the PNP in our bedroom because we plan to use that as his bed (with the PNP bassinet feature) for the first little while.
now for some non-baby-related pictures…
Here are some pics of Buddy and Bruce (10 months old) playing together. Buddy plays with him and lets him get all wild like no one else. Bruce loves playing with Buddy. These were taken, I think on Thursday at Buddy and Frenchie’s. We were in Jackson a lot this week (Mon, Tues, Thurs & Friday) for baby-related classes/appts, etc, so we spent the night at their house Mon. and Thurs. nights. And we spent large chunks of our days at their house during the week in between appointments, too. They are so good for us. For those of you who don’t know, these are the people that let me live with them for 4.5 months as soon as I moved to Jackson from KC before Andrew and I got married. They are our adopted parents, and their home is our home away from home. So lovely. I don’t know what we’d do without them.
Baby Clothes: 35 pieces for under $22 including tax
I will try to make this snappy since I keep starting a new blog update and then don't have time to finish it but just save it instead and then still don't have time to post all the pics/give all of the info I want to give...so the blog post keeps getting longer and longer but never gets posted.
So I'm skipping some stuff (for now or maybe forever) that occurred well before this just to get this post up.
Went to my normal go-to consignment shop this week to look for good bargains on baby clothes. Walked out with a footed sleeper and a LAURA ASHLEY top/footed bottom set in new to Excellent Used Condition (hereafter referred to as "EUC" for simplicity)for just over 5 bucks including tax. Not bad.
As I was walking out of the store, I noticed a Goodwill in the same strip that I'd never noticed before. I decided to take a chance and go on in. I am SO glad I did. I ended up digging through baby clothes for an hour-hour and a half. There were two shopping carts crammed full and overflowing and two huge bins about the size of two shopping carts each, crammed full and overflowing. Each individual piece of clothing was 50 cents each. I walked out of there with 32 pieces, most of which look like they've never even been washed, and the others are in EUC. Brands including Carter's, Gerber's, Tommy H., Gap, Talbots and more. I was SO excited!
Here are my treasures from that day(all are Goodwill finds unless otherwise noted)(and you really need to zoom in on some of these to catch to adorable detail!):
size newborn:
(look at the little puppy dog feet! ah!) (one thing still has the tag on it!) (the last item is from the Winnie the Pooh collection.)
Some much needed sleeper gowns, size 0-3 months, all with the optional fold-over handsies:
more 0-3 months clothes:
(the yellow sleeper is from the consignment shop...i think its brand new without tags)
more 0-3 months stuff:
(I don't know what "size" the cap is.) (I'll be able to use the pants with some of the many onesies we already have.) (The romper is by a brand called "Tea" from San Fran. (had never heard of it before) and I checked and it retails for $23 new. Yay!)
3 month items:
(Laura Ashley outfit in EUC on the left from the consignment shop.)
3 month stuff:
(I love both of these with all the wording. TOO adorable!!!!)
3 month footed sleepers:
(I don't know why the picture rotated like this. Sometimes blogger glitches and does this, and I'm not starting over again.)
(I showed the backside of the yellow one because it is so adorable!)
3-6 month onesies:
6 month clothes:
Two 6-9 month onesies and a 6-month romper:
Needless to say, I am done buying clothes for Oliver at least for a while unless we determine we need to fill in with a few particular things when the time comes.
As you can probably tell, one company’s “3 months” might be the equivalent measurements of another company’s “6 months”…and we don’t know how he will grow…so basically, we’ll have to wait and see when he can actually wear these things.
So I'm skipping some stuff (for now or maybe forever) that occurred well before this just to get this post up.
Went to my normal go-to consignment shop this week to look for good bargains on baby clothes. Walked out with a footed sleeper and a LAURA ASHLEY top/footed bottom set in new to Excellent Used Condition (hereafter referred to as "EUC" for simplicity)for just over 5 bucks including tax. Not bad.
As I was walking out of the store, I noticed a Goodwill in the same strip that I'd never noticed before. I decided to take a chance and go on in. I am SO glad I did. I ended up digging through baby clothes for an hour-hour and a half. There were two shopping carts crammed full and overflowing and two huge bins about the size of two shopping carts each, crammed full and overflowing. Each individual piece of clothing was 50 cents each. I walked out of there with 32 pieces, most of which look like they've never even been washed, and the others are in EUC. Brands including Carter's, Gerber's, Tommy H., Gap, Talbots and more. I was SO excited!
Here are my treasures from that day(all are Goodwill finds unless otherwise noted)(and you really need to zoom in on some of these to catch to adorable detail!):
size newborn:
(look at the little puppy dog feet! ah!) (one thing still has the tag on it!) (the last item is from the Winnie the Pooh collection.)
Some much needed sleeper gowns, size 0-3 months, all with the optional fold-over handsies:
more 0-3 months clothes:
(the yellow sleeper is from the consignment shop...i think its brand new without tags)
more 0-3 months stuff:
(I don't know what "size" the cap is.) (I'll be able to use the pants with some of the many onesies we already have.) (The romper is by a brand called "Tea" from San Fran. (had never heard of it before) and I checked and it retails for $23 new. Yay!)
3 month items:
(Laura Ashley outfit in EUC on the left from the consignment shop.)
3 month stuff:
(I love both of these with all the wording. TOO adorable!!!!)
3 month footed sleepers:
(I don't know why the picture rotated like this. Sometimes blogger glitches and does this, and I'm not starting over again.)
(I showed the backside of the yellow one because it is so adorable!)
3-6 month onesies:
6 month clothes:
Two 6-9 month onesies and a 6-month romper:
Needless to say, I am done buying clothes for Oliver at least for a while unless we determine we need to fill in with a few particular things when the time comes.
As you can probably tell, one company’s “3 months” might be the equivalent measurements of another company’s “6 months”…and we don’t know how he will grow…so basically, we’ll have to wait and see when he can actually wear these things.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
No pictures because pictures =s way more time to blog. Even though I've taken a lot.
I haven't updated in a while, mostly because the things I want to update about involve posting pictures here, too, and I just don't have the time/energy (or feel like I do, rather) to get into all that. Seriously, making a lengthy blog post and including pictures can take a couple of hours. Not kidding. So I've been putting it off. But I'll give short versions of the highlights with no pictures...at least for now.
Stroller and infant carseat came today (this is no fun without pictures). I am WAY too excited about it. Andrew set it all up and wheeled it in to the computer room today. He taught me how to work the whole system tonight, which was really fun. I think its really cute that he read all about it and figured everything out. This was something I chose sight (in real life) unseen, yet, I did a TON of research regarding it and ended up really really happy with my choice, now that I've seen it (because its here) in person. Or at least I'm happy with it now, sans testing it out with a baby. :) HOORAY! I would like to throw out a HUGE THANK YOU to Oliver's "Amah" (that is her grandma name) Berry...that is...one of his handful of "adopted" grandmothers. (Can I tell you how much I love the fact that we get to "adopt" parents and grandparents who love us and take care of us? Or maybe rather they've adopted us....or...both...I love it.) Joan Berry is a dear dear friend to Andrew and me that we know from our church we were at in Jackson. She is very good to us and already to little Oliver. We love her dearly. Anyway, she wanted to buy his infant car seat, but ended up providing enough for us to pay for part of the stroller too, so we just went ahead and ordered the whole travel system (stroller and car seat sold together) online. Yay!
We decided to go ahead and buy the crib mattress, ourselves, too, since its not something we could put on our registry, anyway. That came, i think, last week. That was fun, too. (Also no fun without me posting the pictures.) SO thats in the crib now, but without the sheet on it yet because I realized we don't have a mattress pad yet (one thing we are keeping on the registry, at least for now. No, we're not buying everything ourselves right off the bat. :) )
Another highlight, I bought a few diapers off off diapers.com because I got a really good deal (with a promotion) on them, and those came last week (I think), too. Loads of fun. They are so tiny! EEP! (Also, no fun without me posting pictures.) I bought one box of newborn and one box of size one diapers. That is a start. EDIT: We planned on getting a Sam's club membership to keep us in diapers for the rest of the diaper buying, because I thought it was the cheapest, until I realized it is actually cheaper on diapers.com because there is no TAX! /end EDIT.
The Butterfields gave us their old changing pad and their old changing pad cover, so I was able to take the changing pad off the registry. Yay for that, and thanks to the Butterfields!
Buddy and Frenchie (or Papa Bud (I have to double check that this is his grandpa name...why can't I remember for sure???) and G-G) gave us a basket of baby goodies the other week. :) Some too cute onesies and a couple blankets and a couple bibs and some extra towels we can use for various baby messes. :) And the Baby Signlanguage book, which I am WAY excited about!!!! (For those of you going, "what???" No, we aren't planning on our baby being deaf, but you'd be amazed at how much babies can communicate through simple signs way way way before they start talking. It is pretty amazing to witness, if you've never seen it before, and I love it. I have only a little experience with it from a little girl I nannied for, but I am a believer because of it.) (Again, so not exciting without the pics. There are cute ones of Andrew looking at the baby clothes. :) )Thank you Buddy and Frenchie!
Moving on, I got some more clothes on the cheap from the consignment shop again the other week. Just a few things, but so cute. (Insert pictures here that I have no time to upload.)
Morgan sent us lots of goodies. A sleepy wrap (LOVE IT!) and a couple of really great preparation books for labor/birth/nursing and some lotion. (I also have pictures of these...which you of course not getting to see.) Thank you Morgan, Caleb and baby Emma!
The ring sling I ordered a while back came a few weeks or so ago. Its really really lovely, and you'll see pictures of it later.
Those are the main highlights. Other than the fact that I had a weird day last week where my feet were super duper swollen and it was a little scary, but everything is fine.
There you have my 40 minute (or so) version of the highlights instead of 2 hr long story version with pictures.
Another dr's appt this Friday. Just doin the normal stuff. Do you believe (its after midnight now, so I can count this way) we have 8 weeks and 1 day to go until his due date? AHHH! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! WE HAVE SO MUCH TO DO! Hes going to be here before we know it and I'm going to look back on this post and these times and not be able to believe there was a day when he wasn't born!
Overall, feeling good, looking decent and enjoying myself. Needing extra rest and sleep (which I have during the whole pregnancy) and can't be on my feet too long at a time or its really painful. But enjoying life!
Please pray that Oliver turns head down, facing my back soon! Hes got a couple more weeks or so to safely do so, but I'm getting a little antsy that he is still laying transverse in my belly. I don't want him to be so comfortable laying this way that he doesn't turn down, because that would = a C section.
Over and out!
Stroller and infant carseat came today (this is no fun without pictures). I am WAY too excited about it. Andrew set it all up and wheeled it in to the computer room today. He taught me how to work the whole system tonight, which was really fun. I think its really cute that he read all about it and figured everything out. This was something I chose sight (in real life) unseen, yet, I did a TON of research regarding it and ended up really really happy with my choice, now that I've seen it (because its here) in person. Or at least I'm happy with it now, sans testing it out with a baby. :) HOORAY! I would like to throw out a HUGE THANK YOU to Oliver's "Amah" (that is her grandma name) Berry...that is...one of his handful of "adopted" grandmothers. (Can I tell you how much I love the fact that we get to "adopt" parents and grandparents who love us and take care of us? Or maybe rather they've adopted us....or...both...I love it.) Joan Berry is a dear dear friend to Andrew and me that we know from our church we were at in Jackson. She is very good to us and already to little Oliver. We love her dearly. Anyway, she wanted to buy his infant car seat, but ended up providing enough for us to pay for part of the stroller too, so we just went ahead and ordered the whole travel system (stroller and car seat sold together) online. Yay!
We decided to go ahead and buy the crib mattress, ourselves, too, since its not something we could put on our registry, anyway. That came, i think, last week. That was fun, too. (Also no fun without me posting the pictures.) SO thats in the crib now, but without the sheet on it yet because I realized we don't have a mattress pad yet (one thing we are keeping on the registry, at least for now. No, we're not buying everything ourselves right off the bat. :) )
Another highlight, I bought a few diapers off off diapers.com because I got a really good deal (with a promotion) on them, and those came last week (I think), too. Loads of fun. They are so tiny! EEP! (Also, no fun without me posting pictures.) I bought one box of newborn and one box of size one diapers. That is a start. EDIT: We planned on getting a Sam's club membership to keep us in diapers for the rest of the diaper buying, because I thought it was the cheapest, until I realized it is actually cheaper on diapers.com because there is no TAX! /end EDIT.
The Butterfields gave us their old changing pad and their old changing pad cover, so I was able to take the changing pad off the registry. Yay for that, and thanks to the Butterfields!
Buddy and Frenchie (or Papa Bud (I have to double check that this is his grandpa name...why can't I remember for sure???) and G-G) gave us a basket of baby goodies the other week. :) Some too cute onesies and a couple blankets and a couple bibs and some extra towels we can use for various baby messes. :) And the Baby Signlanguage book, which I am WAY excited about!!!! (For those of you going, "what???" No, we aren't planning on our baby being deaf, but you'd be amazed at how much babies can communicate through simple signs way way way before they start talking. It is pretty amazing to witness, if you've never seen it before, and I love it. I have only a little experience with it from a little girl I nannied for, but I am a believer because of it.) (Again, so not exciting without the pics. There are cute ones of Andrew looking at the baby clothes. :) )Thank you Buddy and Frenchie!
Moving on, I got some more clothes on the cheap from the consignment shop again the other week. Just a few things, but so cute. (Insert pictures here that I have no time to upload.)
Morgan sent us lots of goodies. A sleepy wrap (LOVE IT!) and a couple of really great preparation books for labor/birth/nursing and some lotion. (I also have pictures of these...which you of course not getting to see.) Thank you Morgan, Caleb and baby Emma!
The ring sling I ordered a while back came a few weeks or so ago. Its really really lovely, and you'll see pictures of it later.
Those are the main highlights. Other than the fact that I had a weird day last week where my feet were super duper swollen and it was a little scary, but everything is fine.
There you have my 40 minute (or so) version of the highlights instead of 2 hr long story version with pictures.
Another dr's appt this Friday. Just doin the normal stuff. Do you believe (its after midnight now, so I can count this way) we have 8 weeks and 1 day to go until his due date? AHHH! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! WE HAVE SO MUCH TO DO! Hes going to be here before we know it and I'm going to look back on this post and these times and not be able to believe there was a day when he wasn't born!
Overall, feeling good, looking decent and enjoying myself. Needing extra rest and sleep (which I have during the whole pregnancy) and can't be on my feet too long at a time or its really painful. But enjoying life!
Please pray that Oliver turns head down, facing my back soon! Hes got a couple more weeks or so to safely do so, but I'm getting a little antsy that he is still laying transverse in my belly. I don't want him to be so comfortable laying this way that he doesn't turn down, because that would = a C section.
Over and out!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Cribs, Dressers and Furniture Rearranging
(As always, you can click on any of the pictures so view them larger.)
So the crib and dresser (that mom and dad Barnes bought us) came into Babies R Us. Andrew borrowed Robert Hutton's truck today and drove it to Jackson to pick them up! Then the Hutton men came over and helped unload the furniture and move furniture around. We couldn't have done it without them (truly). I took a lot of pictures. A LOT.
Here was the "baby's room" as of last night, before anything was moved out. Note: we are continuing to keep my desk/computer in the baby's room. So it will be a combo. baby's room/my desk space. I only took pictures of the part of the room that would be changing (so not of my computer desk, etc.)
All of the furniture pieces you see there are now in the spare bedroom on the other end of the house.
We had to try to figure out how we were going to fit the new furniture (new crib and new dresser) and different furniture (smaller bed and matching chest from the other end of the house) to all fit into the baby's room. So last night, I measured everything (or found out the measurements for the new furniture) and made to-scale paper cut outs of the part of the room that would be affected by the move. (Let me just clarify, they were approximately to-scale...because 1" on paper equaled 19.625" in real life...so when I made the cut-outs, I obviously had to just get close to exact measurements...there was no way I could measure an exact 2.03 inches, for example.) I did this because, I simply can not visualize things without having something concrete to actually see if it will work. I also did this because, Andrew was convinced we wouldn't have enough room in here for a full-sized bed, and I really wanted to keep a real bed in this room. So I had to prove my point and make it look good on paper. :) Andrew just came in here while I'm blogging and wanted me to tell you that he was very proud of me for making to-scale drawings/cut outs. Ha. So here are my cut outs. The pink paper represents only the part of the room affected by the move, but the room is actually bigger than this, but I didn't worry about that part of the room for the cut-out purposes. You will see the full-sized bed I wanted to end up in here, the baby crib, the new dresser that matches the crib, and an antique tall chest of drawers that was in another bed room. Oh, I will say, the window parts were not at all to scale, I just stuck them on the drawing to keep my bearings straight. And yes, I actually measured where the closet (which has accordion doors) started from the wall, and how far the door sticks out when it is in a half-fold. :) I had to make sure any furniture we put over there wouldn't be in the closet door's way.
Today, before the Huttons came over to help us unload the new furniture and move around existing furniture, Andrew and I somehow managed to get a good part of the moving process done, just the two of us (mainly him). This included swapping two beds (the queen into the spare bedroom and the full into the baby's room) throughout the house, getting them (mostly) put back together, moving the tall antique chest into the baby's room, scooting existing pieces of furniture around, unloading all furniture drawers, cleaning off all lamps and things from the tops of to-be-moved furniture and doing preliminary cleaning of furniture/sweeping of floors where furniture had long been. It definitely helped to have this done before the Huttons came.
So, back to the new furniture. Here are some pictures of it in the back of the Hutton's truck with the Hutton men and Andrew getting ready to unload it. So excited! The dresser came fully assembled (just had to put the legs on it) and the crib was completely disassembled. The boxes weighed 130 and 140 pounds!
Robert Sr. and Seth with the crib (I'm not sure how they got suckered into carrying this instead of Andrew...hehe...I feel kinda bad!)
Andrew & Robert Jr. then Robert Sr. bringing in the dresser. (Robert Jr. just had major surgery on his shoulder about a month or so ago. How/why was he picking this up, I have no clue? Robert Sr. realizes this 3/4 of the way in and takes over. Robert Jr, "But, I wasn't using that arm to lift!")
The guys getting existing furniture out of Oliver's room, carrying it into the spare bedroom on the other end of the house.
Watch the doorway!!!!!
Watch the overhead lights!!!!!!
Watch the doorway, again!!!!! (Andrew's face cracks me up here.)
Amazingly, we had more room than anticipated and fit an extra piece of furniture into Oliver's room! We put the matching antique dressing table where we had originally planned to put the tall antique dresser and ended up putting the tall antique dresser on the other side of the bed (where there is blank space in my to-scale drawing.) :)
Andrew and Robert Sr. moving more furniture out of baby's room & into the spare bedroom. Love Andrew's face!
Bye guys! Thanks for your help! (The baby crib box just stayed in the living room since it wasn't assembled and all the parts had to come out, anyway.)
Andrew starting the assembly of the baby crib. ...Totally not amused that I'm STILL taking pictures. LOL.
All done!
Now for Mama and Oliver (28 wks & 5 days) next to his crib! (You can see the dust ruffle (freshly starched and ironed) in this one!) Only 79 more days (give or take) and he can be in the crib!!!
Beautiful crib! Now all we need is the mattress (which we don't have yet) and then we can put on one of those super cute crib sheets I blogged about before!
Beautiful combo dresser! Thanks again Chris and Debra!
After all of that, I completely forgot to get a final picture of the room. HA! Oh well. I have no doubt there will be plenty more pictures of the room as more stuff comes together!
"DENA......ugggggggh....no more pictures...please!"
"But I have to show how big the crib box was!"
Then we dragged the cardboard/packing stuff outside and had a bonfire.
The end.
So the crib and dresser (that mom and dad Barnes bought us) came into Babies R Us. Andrew borrowed Robert Hutton's truck today and drove it to Jackson to pick them up! Then the Hutton men came over and helped unload the furniture and move furniture around. We couldn't have done it without them (truly). I took a lot of pictures. A LOT.
Here was the "baby's room" as of last night, before anything was moved out. Note: we are continuing to keep my desk/computer in the baby's room. So it will be a combo. baby's room/my desk space. I only took pictures of the part of the room that would be changing (so not of my computer desk, etc.)
All of the furniture pieces you see there are now in the spare bedroom on the other end of the house.
We had to try to figure out how we were going to fit the new furniture (new crib and new dresser) and different furniture (smaller bed and matching chest from the other end of the house) to all fit into the baby's room. So last night, I measured everything (or found out the measurements for the new furniture) and made to-scale paper cut outs of the part of the room that would be affected by the move. (Let me just clarify, they were approximately to-scale...because 1" on paper equaled 19.625" in real life...so when I made the cut-outs, I obviously had to just get close to exact measurements...there was no way I could measure an exact 2.03 inches, for example.) I did this because, I simply can not visualize things without having something concrete to actually see if it will work. I also did this because, Andrew was convinced we wouldn't have enough room in here for a full-sized bed, and I really wanted to keep a real bed in this room. So I had to prove my point and make it look good on paper. :) Andrew just came in here while I'm blogging and wanted me to tell you that he was very proud of me for making to-scale drawings/cut outs. Ha. So here are my cut outs. The pink paper represents only the part of the room affected by the move, but the room is actually bigger than this, but I didn't worry about that part of the room for the cut-out purposes. You will see the full-sized bed I wanted to end up in here, the baby crib, the new dresser that matches the crib, and an antique tall chest of drawers that was in another bed room. Oh, I will say, the window parts were not at all to scale, I just stuck them on the drawing to keep my bearings straight. And yes, I actually measured where the closet (which has accordion doors) started from the wall, and how far the door sticks out when it is in a half-fold. :) I had to make sure any furniture we put over there wouldn't be in the closet door's way.
Today, before the Huttons came over to help us unload the new furniture and move around existing furniture, Andrew and I somehow managed to get a good part of the moving process done, just the two of us (mainly him). This included swapping two beds (the queen into the spare bedroom and the full into the baby's room) throughout the house, getting them (mostly) put back together, moving the tall antique chest into the baby's room, scooting existing pieces of furniture around, unloading all furniture drawers, cleaning off all lamps and things from the tops of to-be-moved furniture and doing preliminary cleaning of furniture/sweeping of floors where furniture had long been. It definitely helped to have this done before the Huttons came.
So, back to the new furniture. Here are some pictures of it in the back of the Hutton's truck with the Hutton men and Andrew getting ready to unload it. So excited! The dresser came fully assembled (just had to put the legs on it) and the crib was completely disassembled. The boxes weighed 130 and 140 pounds!
Robert Sr. and Seth with the crib (I'm not sure how they got suckered into carrying this instead of Andrew...hehe...I feel kinda bad!)
Andrew & Robert Jr. then Robert Sr. bringing in the dresser. (Robert Jr. just had major surgery on his shoulder about a month or so ago. How/why was he picking this up, I have no clue? Robert Sr. realizes this 3/4 of the way in and takes over. Robert Jr, "But, I wasn't using that arm to lift!")
The guys getting existing furniture out of Oliver's room, carrying it into the spare bedroom on the other end of the house.
Watch the doorway!!!!!
Watch the overhead lights!!!!!!
Watch the doorway, again!!!!! (Andrew's face cracks me up here.)
Amazingly, we had more room than anticipated and fit an extra piece of furniture into Oliver's room! We put the matching antique dressing table where we had originally planned to put the tall antique dresser and ended up putting the tall antique dresser on the other side of the bed (where there is blank space in my to-scale drawing.) :)
Andrew and Robert Sr. moving more furniture out of baby's room & into the spare bedroom. Love Andrew's face!
Bye guys! Thanks for your help! (The baby crib box just stayed in the living room since it wasn't assembled and all the parts had to come out, anyway.)
Andrew starting the assembly of the baby crib. ...Totally not amused that I'm STILL taking pictures. LOL.
All done!
Now for Mama and Oliver (28 wks & 5 days) next to his crib! (You can see the dust ruffle (freshly starched and ironed) in this one!) Only 79 more days (give or take) and he can be in the crib!!!
Beautiful crib! Now all we need is the mattress (which we don't have yet) and then we can put on one of those super cute crib sheets I blogged about before!
Beautiful combo dresser! Thanks again Chris and Debra!
After all of that, I completely forgot to get a final picture of the room. HA! Oh well. I have no doubt there will be plenty more pictures of the room as more stuff comes together!
"DENA......ugggggggh....no more pictures...please!"
"But I have to show how big the crib box was!"
Then we dragged the cardboard/packing stuff outside and had a bonfire.
The end.
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