35 Weeks Down, 5 To Go

I have been meaning to post a new updated belly shot for a while. It is getting much bigger as you can see. It is amazing to see the baby move from side to side, you can really tell how it is sitting in there now. He is always head down, and sometimes it feels like he is in the pelvis. I still am about 5 pounds down from where I was when I got pregnant. It's the strangest weight loss plan ever devised. And the glasses make me look so scholarly.

There's only one thing harder than being in your last few weeks of pregnancy.....

it's being in your last few weeks of pregnancy and being extremely sick! I haven't been this sick in a long time. I started feeling chest congestion on Monday, then Tuesday night it hit me like a ton of bricks! By Wednesday I had 103 temps and I ended up in the hospital. I had blood work and IV fluids and they monitored sprout. He, like always, was fine. I felt much better after the fever broke. My cough is so severe, it hurts my belly and ribs. The fever comes and goes, so I seem to go in cycles where I am sweaty and hot and then shivering and can't get warm enough. I am staying home from work until Monday, so hopefully all will be better by then. I have been keeping myself occupied with sleeping, reading and watching those terrible baby birth shows on The Learning Channel, which tend to scare me to death! You see all these terrible things that can happen and I really need to stop watching them. The nice thing is though, you see that 99 times out of 100, even when bad things happen, everything ends up fine. No more cakes by the way, I missed my last class wednesday due to being in the hospital.

New Cakes

Now, the colors are kind of a weird combo, but my Roses are pretty darn good for a first timer! Cake class was last night and it was what I had been waiting for, Roses. They are really hard to do. Just the base took 10 tries to get right. Gives me more respect for those little old ladies in the back of Safeway.... There is only one more night in this session, so only one more cake to do. I am not going to do the next session till after the baby comes. I am actually quite sick right now. I am not sure if it's pneumonia or bronchitis. I am going to call the OB tomorrow morning and see what I am supposed to do. Baby is doing well though, as long as I manage to not cough him out in one of these fits! Grandpa Mike came to see us on Saturday night and Sunday. We had a nice, albiet short visit. We went to a friends for dinner Saturday night before Mike got here, had a good time watching the South Carolina primaries roll in. We were all very pleased at the results. Solon (Jason's cousin) was commenting on it the next day on national TV so it was fun to think of what response he should give. Sunday Solon and Andrea and the kiddos came over to see Mike and torture the cats. I made breakfast and then Jason and I went to the hospital tour. The maternity suites are very nice. Big rooms and they have the kitchen set up so you can get snacks whenever you want. They have a rocker in each room and a uncomfortable fold out bed thing for Dads. I am looking forward to "D" Day, I am getting more and more sore and tired. I am just not cut out for the pregnancy thing. I love the baby thing, just not the creative process.

Lucy Fishing

I will post one of Lucy as well, since I recently posted a picture of Maggie. She does this weird fishing thing, and amazingly doesn't fall out of her cat tree. I have purchased her literally 200 dollars in cat toys and of course her favorite one is the $1.50 one from Walmart!

No more minimalism in this house!

We are now the owners of so much baby equipment I can't fathom that we could need anything else. I am posting the pictures of our swing and bouncer, these were from a very kind patient at work. I cleaned them well and they are so cute. We also have the matching baby gym, but I need to put it together to take a picture. I am also posting a picture of my 1st cake from my Wilton cake decorating class. I decided to take the class to keep me occupied for the next couple weeks. It was very fun, and yet very challenging. It says "Work Those Wrists" because at the time my wrists were so sore I could scream! I will be doing two cakes a week, so look forward to more pictures.

Maggie's New Chair

I got a baby bouncer from Solon and Andrea recently and I really liked it because it can lay flat or sit and has a mobile. So I carefully took it apart and washed it well and then put it back together. Immediately Maggie crawled in a decided that she loved it. I layed a blanket on it to control the cat hair accumulation. She has been in it all weekend, so Jason and I decided that this may be a piece of "Baby" equipment we may never be able to get rid of. She even likes the vibrating feature!! Both cats seem intrigued by all the changes around here. It will be interesting to see how they react to the real thing. Thankfully I have another bouncer, so Maggie won't feel offended by the baby taking "HER" spot.

Nesting.......

We are at 33 weeks and counting. Since we came home from vacation we have been very busy working, and as you can see, getting ready for the baby. So many of my patients from work have been SO generous. I have received so many sweet little outfits, a swing, bouncer, and baby gym. The swing, bouncer and baby gym are almost new, only used by one little baby who is 9 mo old now, so they are in great shape. We finally found a rocker that I liked the feel of so we brought that home, and I have been using it often. I am feeling OK, some days better than others. My blood sugar keeps dropping, so I have to eat frequent small meals. Working is really getting hard, so I am really looking forward to the next 5 weeks going fast! The kids are so heavy and they kick me often when I am drawing blood, or giving them shots. Who can blame them.... but it probably isn't good for sprout. We set up the crib this weekend, just for fun. The bedding is Hey Diddle Diddle from Laura Ashley (10bucks) and the crib is the Italian one I paid 20 dollars for long ago in Wisconsin. The crib is in our room for now, and the changing table is in the office/nursery. I got all my cloth diapers washed and ready to go. You have to wash them about 5 times to make sure they are really absorbent and fluffy. We received some gift cards for Christmas to Borders so we went to the bookstore the other day and bought "Where the Wild Things Are", "Harold and the Purple Crayon", "Dinosaur Roar" and a few others. I also bought a DK Truck book because if this kid is like all other boys on earth he will love all things truck like. Sprout is still very active and has started to kick back when tapped a few times, which is very endearing. I have one more ultrasound in 2 weeks so that will be fun to see once again how the baby is shaping up. I have been seeing some big newborns recently and I am feeling a little nervous considering how they get out! We have the hospital tour next Sunday so that will be good to check the place out before the big day. Hope everyone is doing great in 2008!