New Baby!

She's Here! 8 lbs 4 ozs! Can you imagine if I had gone 9 more days! She would have been over 9lbs! She is only 20.5 inches so she is short and chubby! I LOVE it! She's so cute. Sophy is doing well. She loves "her baby", but she doesn't like that she can't hold mommy. I am doing very well. I expect to go home on thursday so if you come see me you can find out her name!

Last weekly update before baby!

I'm 38 weeks today! I had a doctors appointment and the baby is moving up instead of down. Much like what Sophy did. I started contracting on Friday and it hasn't stopped so my doctor decided to move things up a bit. I'm now having the baby on Monday! She also gave me some medicine to help me sleep through the contractions and I'm supposed to take it easy until then. We had a little scramble of phone calls to try to rearrange everything. I think it's mostly worked out, but I have 5 more days to get it in working order. I just might have to call a few friends in to help if things don't quite fall into place in the end.
I think all the major cleaning and preparing has been done already. All I really have to do between now and then is sit back and wait. Which if you know me is not my favorite thing in the world to do.....so maybe some scrap-booking instead. I'm missing my monthly crop this month to have a baby so it would be nice to get some work done. That is if Sophy would cooperate. I think Jeff and I are going to go out to eat once this week as a finale family of 3 before things get crazy around here. That will be nice.
Sophy is doing really well. She is starting to catch on to the whole idea of the potty. We credit this to my friend Jessica and her daughter Ruthie who is potty training right now. Now we just need to go get the little potty cover and the step stool so she can start trying. She also learned several other new things this week:
- How to open a door.
- How to close a door.
- How to balance a spoon on her nose.
- How to blow bubbles with a bubble wand.
- To buckle herself into her highchair.
- To ask for a hug.
She is super cute too! I love to see her stretch out her arms and say "ug". She'll also give us kisses now. Bedtime is a lot sweeter than it used to be.
Now to get Jeff to do the things I'm not supposed to do......

Nesting

I can't believe I only have 2 weeks left! In two weeks around this time I'll be holding my sweet baby in awe that it's all over. It's amazing how quickly time flys! It seems like yesterday Trish was having her baby and already she's 2 months old! For that matter I can't believe that Sophy is as big as she is! She's talking so clearly now and have very definite opinions about things. She is such a wonderful little girl! I can't imagine having two little girls!
In other news we are having our house painted today. That is if the painter ever starts! We are going with a darker color to show off the brick better, but I'm still not too sure about it. We'll see how it turns out. I think I will just be happy when everything is all said and done. House work is TOO expensive to do too much of it!
While we've had people busy fixing the outside of the house I have been busy fixing the inside! I have swept and dusted and reorganized all over the place. It still seems like there is more work to be done than I can do alone. It's not that my house is very messy, it's just that small things bug me right now. Like the insane urge to clean my toilet bowl brush, or wash the door to our closets (in my defense they were dirty). I am currently washing all the rugs and mopping all floors. I think I might enjoy the hospital just so I can get a break from cleaning!

36 weeks!

Wow! I have been so busy! It's hard to even write out everything that has been going on, so I'll just hit the highlights. Last weekend was Easter. We had a lot of fun with Sophy. While she was hunting eggs (no joke) it started Snowing! Just a tad bit cold for easter! We were supposed to have a lot of family in town, but that didn't work out, but we still had a lot of fun anyway. We sure did miss the Sutherlins though. We had to have some work done on the front of the house. That wasn't too cheap. Now we have to have it painted (raw wood looks weird) and that SURE isn't cheap! Can you believe I spent over $200 on paint alone? Then the painters who are supposed to start work tomorrow call and reschedule because of the rain. So now it'll be next week. I like the color I picked out. It took a while because I had to check with the HOA and consult some others before I could choose a color. At least it'll be done before the baby comes. Speaking of baby- I only have 3 weeks left! I'm very ready to have this kid. I'm tired of being huge and always running my tummy into stuff. I had a doctor's appointment today and she said everything looks good. I'm holding steady at 3 lbs. weight gain! The baby has dropped a lot, something Sophy never did so it's nice to get to eat and breath easier this time around. I get to go in once a week from here on out. I think I have all nursery ready now. I'm just can't find a soft purple blanket with silk ribbon trim! Sophy has a pink one and I can't find a purple one. It's Sophy's favorite so I'd like them each to have their own. Babies R Us has one, but ours is always out of stock! So if you live near a Babies R Us run by and check to see if yours has one. I might have to get one there!
Here's what Baby Center says about the new baby:
Your baby is still putting on the pounds — about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds and is a little less than 19 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the creamy substance that covered and protected her skin during its submersion in amniotic fluid. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, which will stay in her bowels until birth. This blackish mixture, called meconium, will become her first bowel movement.

At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Babies between 37 and 42 weeks are considered full-term; a baby born before 37 weeks is pre-term and after 42 is post-term.) Most likely she's in a head-down position by now, which is optimal for a smooth delivery.