39 Weeks and Nursery Updates

How far along? 39 weeks and 1 day
Total weight gain/loss: +30 pounds. No weight gain this week?! That's miraculous.
Maternity clothes? Of course. And I definitely wore sweats to church Sunday night ;)
Sleep: Pretty good. Pretty much stay on my left side all night... I think it's just too hard to roll over and that's the most comfortable position.
Best moment this week: Getting the nursery done!
Movement: Yep.
Food cravings: Powdered donuts on Sunday. And I pretty much just want to eat chocolate all the time.
Food aversions: Chipotle
Gender: BOY!
Labor Signs: None
Belly Button in or out? Stretched into oblivion
What I miss: Sleeping on my belly, being comfortable, having clothes that fit, my wedding rings
What I am looking forward to: Having my baby
Milestones: The countdown is in the single digits! Just waiting now...

I think he's done cookin' ...don't you agree??

We finished up a couple more things in the nursery. Got the maternity pictures hung above the bookshelf. The black and white prints look really nice with the wall color, and the frames I got match the furniture.


The mobile came yesterday! I set it up and it's super cute. It matches the bedding. It has a music box in it and spins. I like it :)



Isn't it cute? The nursery feels complete now. Ya know... except the door... ;) Come on, baby!

Orion's Place

Orion's room is finished!! We painted Tuesday-Thursday, and arranged and decorated the nursery last night. I am SO excited and relieved to have it done. Well, actually, it's not done... there's no door. Haha! Anyway, here it is. I got the wall letters at Hobby Lobby- I love the font. I ordered the crib mobile but it hasn't arrived yet. I'll post more pictures when we get it :)

Sorry about the funky lighting in these pictures... I took some last night and some today and attempted to make everything look decent... this is the drawback of being underground!

The changing table, which came with the crib. I'm going to see if I can get two more baskets since there's room behind the diaper stacker. I think the changing table is really pretty.

The glider that I re-covered! If I had to do it again I would have chosen a more neutral fabric, but the hippos are very cute. I sewed loops onto the back of the quilt that came with the bedding so we could hang it on the wall (props to Nathan for all the measuring he did to make sure everything we hung on the walls was centered and level :).


There will eventually be a door where there is currently a hole on the far left. I think we're going to hang the maternity pictures that are sitting on the shelf on the wall... we were just too tired to do it last night! The plastic containers by the hamper will eventually be used for cloth diapering purposes, but right now they're homeless.

We really lucked out with all the matching wood. The only pieces that actually belong together are the crib and changing table, but most of the furniture in the room is exactly the same color. The swing will not be living in the nursery, but we had a sad empty corner that needed to be filled ;)

Since we don't have a closet in the nursery we have most of Orion's clothes in the dresser, but rigged up this shelf with a bar so we could hang some things up too! I love how it came out.


Guess who thinks it's his room... this is Charlie's new favorite place to sleep. Oh, kitty.

I'm so excited :)

38 Weeks, and Halloween!

On Halloween we walked to the little farmer's market across the street and got ourselves pumpkins for a dollar each! We both really like carving them :)

Nathan is a true pumpkin artiste. This year he carved Johnny Sweets, who is a chinchilla detective who loves cinnamon rolls.


I'm not quite that creative. I carved a creepy werewolf creature.


That night our church had its annual harvest festival, and it's a fun excuse to dress up. I painted faces for it, and Nathan tried his darndest to win us a cake in the cakewalk. Nathan, of course, was a Jedi. I was a pumpkin. You could say, The Great Pumpkin. Haha :) Don't know if you can tell, but I had leaves and twisty vines in my hair and drawn on my face.

Afterwords we went to Chipotle. Yes, I went to Chipotle. I didn't say I ATE it, but I went. Nathan got wind of a special deal where if you dress up like a Chipotle burrito on Halloween (or the 4th of July), you get a free burrito. How could we resist?! I gave mine to Grandma and got Wendy's for myself ;)

I love this picture!


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How far along? 38 weeks even
Total weight gain/loss: +30 pounds. Yay me ;)
Maternity clothes? Of course
Sleep: So-so.
Best moment this week: Getting pretty much everything else we needed and getting some awesome deals, Seeing major progress on the nursery (I can start painting Wednesday!).
Movement: Oh yes. He's out of room and letting me know it.
Food cravings: We're going to say chocolate, Coca Cola, and Frozen Cokes. And chocolate sugar wafers. Not that I don't crave most of those things when not pregnant.
Food aversions: Mexican food (especially Chipotle)
Gender: BOY!
Labor Signs: None
Belly Button in or out? Stretched into oblivion
What I miss: Sleeping on my belly, being comfortable, having clothes that fit, my wedding rings
What I am looking forward to: Having an outside baby, nursery getting finished
Milestones: I'm having a baby THIS MONTH.

A couple people told me I looked like I'd dropped this week, but I think I look exactly the same :P

Calling all shoppers!

Today only, Payless is having a 50% off sale. Text oprahshow to 242424 to get a code for 50% off your whole purchase, up to 15 items. There's also a printable coupon online. I needed new comfortable shoes for my new-found monster pregnancy feet and didn't want to spend a ton of money (because hopefully my feet won't stay this size!!), and with this deal I got a pair of shoes and a pair of boots for $18 total. Apparently there was also a separate sale on the boots and I ended up saving $27 from the normal price. Thought I'd share :)

Oh, I should also mention that I had my big Babies R Us shopping spree today! I was able to get everything I still needed off our registry and have $30 to spare on a gift card. AWESOME. I feel very thrifty too- not only did I use my 10% off registry completion coupon, but I had three 15% off coupons for the three most expensive items, and a $5 off coupon for my total. I think I saved 30-some dollars just from using coupons! Score! Next week BRU is running a "buy two Halo sleep sacks and get $10 off" sale, which is a GREAT deal, so I'll probably use the rest of the gift card money on those since I love them (used them when I nannied). Yay for deal hunting! And for gift cards :)

Progress!

This is what my nursery wall looked like when I left this morning...

And this is what it looks like now!

It's practically a real wall! I guess they need to do another layer of "mud," hang the door, finish the wiring, and hopefully put some kind of trim on, then we can get to painting! I think Monday was mentioned, so I don't know if that's the day it'll be finished or the next day they'll work on it. Whatever- I'm just really happy so see some major progress.

Nathan went to the doctor today after more than a week of coughing his lungs out, and was diagnosed with bronchitis. Hopefully the drugs they prescribed for him clear it up soon... he's very tired of feeling miserable.

I got to have a massage today (free with the classes we took at the hospital)! It was fabulous. I was so relaxed at the end that I felt like I was sleepwalking for the next hour. That was my first real massage... and now I want another.

Also had a doctor's appointment today. They didn't do an exam so I don't have any news there, but they did get the results from my Group B Strep test- negative! That's a good thing. Blood pressure and all that looked good, and my fundal height is still measuring exactly on track.

I'm looking forward to a big Babies R Us shopping trip within the next couple days- I've got a bunch of coupons to use for the rest of the things we need! Thank goodness for gift cards. Should be fun :)

I hope everyone is having a great week! Try to stay healthy!

37 Weeks

Orion is the size of a watermelon. Oh. Maybe that's why it looks like I swallowed one...

How far along? 37 weeks even
Total weight gain/loss: +29 lbs. Eep! Almost to 30!
Maternity clothes? Running out of maternity shirts that fit. Sigh.
Sleep: So-so. Nathan has been sick with a cough so I thought that was keeping me up, but he slept great last night and I didn't so I don't know what's up.
Best moment this week: Getting the hospital bag packed and ready to go. Also, people (at stores and such) have been super nice to me this week :)
Movement: He's still in there alright. Sometimes his low punches seriously hurt!
Food cravings: None.
Food aversions: Mexican food (especially Chipotle)
Gender: BOY!
Labor Signs: None (They did an exam Thursday. No progress so far.)
Belly Button in or out? Out/stretched into oblivion
What I miss: Sleeping on my back and belly (and rolling over without a ridiculous amount of exertion), not being sore, having clothes that fit, my wedding rings
What I am looking forward to: Having an outside baby, nursery getting finished (yes, still wall-less.....)
Milestones: FULL TERM. Holy cow. I can't believe it.
Also, my feet puffed up so much during church that I had to walk home barefoot. Joy.

**EDIT** After having trouble figuring out what to do about Orion's health care, I finally got it sorted out! Turns out my doctor can be his doctor too! All the financial quirks will even work out. And I don't even need to do any paperwork to sign him up- just call from the hospital after he's born. I feel very relieved :)

I can't believe how much I've grown in the past couple weeks! Pretty crazy.

36 Weeks

At my ultrasound yesterday the lady doing it decided to "play" and switch the machine over to 3D... it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen! I got to see Orion's face so clearly (oh my gosh is he cute), watch him yawn and smile and even "cry" (if a baby can cry in utero... picture above). Yeah, I definitely cried for this one. Look at these amazing pictures...


^sleepy baby. The stuff you see in front of his face in all these pictures is the umbilical cord, plus random body parts. His foot was right by his face during the ultrasound.


^smiling!

^This looks like a cry, but it was actually a yawn.


^Pretty sure he has his mama's nose (definitely, looking at the profile pics) and his papa's mouth.


^His nose is squashed up against something...


^This is a regular ultrasound photo, but I hope you can see what I saw. He was blowing bubbles!! I had no idea they could do that! So cool. ...and like I said, my nose.

Also, great news: the placenta issue is resolved! It's now far enough away from the cervix that they're not worried about having to do a C-Section. What a relief!! One less thing to worry about.

This somehow ended up being the cheapest ultrasound, but also the best. Huh. I think I just got extra nice doctors this time. If I'm going to have to have four ultrasounds, at least they ended on a good note!

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All day Saturday Nathan and I attended a childbirth preparation class at the hospital. It was SO good and helpful... I feel much more prepared and educated which makes me less nervous. And that's really nice :) I know I can never be REALLY prepared, but at least I have something to go on now! I also took a breastfeeding class last night (also super helpful) and we have a baby care class tonight and next Tuesday. Hurray! Oh, and along with this class package I get a massage!! Just waiting for the lady to call me back to schedule it.

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How far along? 36 Weeks, 1 Day
Total weight gain/loss: +27 lbs... no weight gain this week?!
Maternity clothes? Yep... some of my maternity shirts are now too short. Ha!
Sleep: Mostly good
Best moment this week: Seeing my baby in 3D, finding out the placenta is no longer low-lying
Movement: Crazy ninja baby! Ouch!
Food cravings: None.
Food aversions: Mexican food (especially Chipotle)
Gender: BOY!
Labor Signs: None... I think I'm getting a few random contractions though
Belly Button in or out? Out/stretched into oblivion
What I miss: Sleeping on my back and belly, not being sore, having clothes that fit
What I am looking forward to: Having an outside baby, nursery getting finished
Milestones: My placenta issues resolving, getting the childbirth preparation class under my belt (honestly makes me feel much better).