scrapbooking

I have a nice craft table set up in our game room, so I've finally been able to start scrapbooking again. I'm trying to get our wedding scrapbook finished before Alexis gets here so I'm not SO far behind. I ordered a whole bunch of wedding pictures from our professional photographer today, so while I'm waiting on Andrew to bring those home (I ordered them from Walgreens), I finished a good portion of our honeymoon pages... not a whole scrapbook, just a few pages at the end of our wedding scrapbook. So now I just need to do the prewedding pictures, the ceremony, the reception and leaving the reception. Obviously that's a good but to do in the next 10 weeks, but I'm hoping to get it all done :)

We had our 4th childbirth class on Thursday. The pediatrician that came to talk to us answered a lot of my questions, so I enjoyed it. A lot of the information we got at the end of the class was stuff I already knew, but I enjoyed meeting the pediatrician... and eating at Fuddruckers afterward haha. We're going to start meeting with pediatricians soon. I liked the one that came to talk to us a lot, but I want to meet a few others, just to compare.

This week we're learning infant CPR, and then next week is our last week... it's going by SO fast!

Doctor's appointment today

My doctor's appointment today went well... she said everything looked good, so I don't have to come back for another 3 weeks, then after that 2 weeks, and then every week after that.

I also asked her how far along I was measuring, and she said right on track... but then she said "you're 30 weeks and 30 cm"... but I'm 29 weeks, or at least I thought I was. So, I guess I might be farther along then I thought. But, if I'm 30 weeks now, my due date would be a week earlier, August 3... so I guess I should expect sometime inbetween the 3rd and the 10th, if Alexis pays attention to the due dates... most babies don't :)

Happy Memorial Day Weekend :)

This weekend was very, very tiring for me... I'm glad to be home, sitting in bed with my feet up!

Thursday we had our 3rd baby class, all about breastfeeding. We were planning on breastfeeding, as long as everything went well, so this class was pretty informative. They showed a video about the proper latch and how to tell if the baby is getting enough to eat, etc. Next week is about recovery and infant care, and there will be a pediatrician there to answer questions if we have any.

Friday we left for Valdosta with my parents... we got off to a late start because my parents were late meeting us for lunch. And then south of Atlanta there was crazy traffic for no reason which set us back some more... finally Andrew and I made it into Thomasville, where we were meeting my old friend Betsy (old as in elementary school :) facebook is amazing!) for dinner. We finally got there and ate dinner (at Applebees)... it was fun catching up and I got to meet her little girl Natalie, we took a picture too but my camera is out in the car so I'll have to post it later when I'm not feeling so lazy.
After dinner we drove the rest of the way to Valdosta and spent the night with my sister.The next morning we woke up early to meet my parents for breakfast before heading down to Panama City. We have a family reunion every Memorial Day weekend and this year there were SO many people there! It was nice seeing everyone and the new babies... our group picture this year was quite a task because for some reason we did it inside and crammed 50 people into a living room around a couch...
Anyways, by the end of that night I was EXHAUSTED! I might mention that my grandmother doesn't believe in A/C... so with 50 people in that house, and all the cooking is gets SO hot in there... never before has it ever felt that hot... I guess that's what happens when you're preggo.
So for dinner that night we ate with the family at a restaurant in Valdosta and as soon as we got back to my sister's house I crashed and went to bed. My feet and hands were nice and swollen by that point, and now my wedding rings don't fit :( So, I got some sleep... inbetween tossing and turning and waking up every 2 hours to go to the bathroom, I didn't get much. But Andrew offered to drive the first leg of the trip back home this morning, so I got a couple more hours after we hit the road early this morning. We stopped in Cartersville to eat lunch on the way home and then picked up our dogs (always a fun time... you'd think at least one of our dogs would like car rides, but no) and now we're home :) I'll work on getting the pictures on here sometime today or tomorrow. Hope every else had an enjoyable holiday weekend and has a great Memorial Day tomorrow!

garage sale

I work up early this morning to go to a big garage sale Walmart was sponsoring to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network... they basically just sold space, and people brought their stuff to sell. So there were like 10-12 people there and about 5-7 of them had baby stuff :) And... 4-5 of them had little girl stuff! woohoo! jackpot! I got 2 HUGE bags of clothes (so if you're wondering what I want for my shower... not clothes... I really have enough I think, if you *have* to buy me clothes because it's just too cute... get a big size, like 9 months and older, the older you go, the less clothes I have)

I also bought a high chair for $10 (a pretty white wooden one), and a bouncer seat for $3... oh and one of those Boppy pillows for $1. It's an off brand, but I think they still make covers for it... if not, oh well it was only a dollar! I got a few cute pairs of shoes and a couple cute bibs too... oh! and I got 2 baby carrier things... one's a sling and one's a backpack. The sling was $2 and the backpack was $1.... so I thought I'd try them. I didn't really think I wanted one, but I know a lot of people LOVE them... but I didn't want to spend $40 to try one... for $3 to try two... not so bad :)

more pictures...

It will only let me add 5 pictures per post, and I still had 2 more pictures to show you :)

The first one is a picture of the cradle I painted. It's for babydolls of course, but it was mine when I was little and Savannah and Madison both used it, and now Alexis will too :)






Here are the letters I painted... I love how they turned out :) They're right above the crib, length wise and on the same wall as the castle (the paint colors are also the same as the castle)

pictures

I have pictures of our living room, the hall bathroom and the letters for the nursery.

I painted the letters yesterday... it took SO long! But I love them, so it was definitely worth it.

I also have pictures of the hall bathroom. My best friend from when I was little sent me a congratulations baby gift for the bathroom... so thanks to Betsy I have a shower curtain and towels :)

The random frog and ribbon next to the mirror on the wall is for hair barrettes and clips... a friend of mine said that she saw something similar to it at a craft fair... I thought it was a cute idea, so I made one :)

mother's day/working on the house :)

So I had a great Mother's Day... Andrew gave me a small gift Saturday night after he got home from work- box of chocolates and a Ped Egg (which by the way, works really really well to get rid of callouses on your feet, you can get them at your local Walgreens). Then on Sunday I went out to eat with my family, and my dad got me a card :) I thought that was sweet, because obviously I'm not his mom or wife, so it was nice to be thought of :)
I also took my 27 week picture that night after I got home.

Today I have big plans to do some things around the house I've been meaning to get done. I'm going to paint and put up the letter's in the nursery, clean the back patio off (we've accumulated random stuff out there that doesn't really belong), and then there's a couple more crafty projects I've been meaning to work on that I'm going to try to get to today... lots of things to do around the house still before Alexis gets here :)

A couple days ago I rearranged the living room, and I LOVE the arrangement now... I'll have to take some pictures of it and post it, for those of you who knew what it looked like before. It just feels a lot more like a room now instead of being SO open. Because we don't have our tv in there, it was kinda hard to figure out a good arrangement for the furniture. (seriously, without a tv... what do you point all your furniture at?)

I also finally uploaded the pictures of our fence and will put them on facebook sometime today. I love having a fenced backyard. We just put Mayer's doghouse together today, so now she can stay outside when we're both gone... she loves it out there (not as much when she wants to come in and can't... but still likes it better than a crate), so hopefully she'll like her new house.

Oh and last night I started packing my "hospital bag"... my friend Lillian went into labor 2 months early (her and her little boy are both doing well... he's still in the hospital, but breathing on his own :)), so I decided to get a jump on things :) I also realized there's a lot of things I still need, so I'm glad I went ahead and did it, now I have a little bit of time to find and buy those things I still need before the time comes (for those of you who have lost count, I'm almost to 28 weeks, which is the last trimester... still 3 months to go though)

Well, I guess that's it... if I want to get anything done I need to get off the computer :)

first childbirth class

We had our first childbirth class today. It went pretty well I think... a lot of the first part of the class was stuff I already knew from reading books. Basically just text book information about pregnancy discomforts and how you know you're in labor. At the end of the class though we learned some the "pelvic tilt" which is suppose to help with back pain, and helps move the baby if she's not in the right position towards the end of the pregnancy. And we also learned the first breathing technique- deep breathing (or something like that). I have a feeling that one will be the easiest to remember when the time comes. But next week we learn 2 more breathing/relaxation techniques. And, even though I plan on getting an epidural, our teacher made a good point of saying that you don't really want to get one right away, and so you can do these relaxation exercises before we get the drugs.

Also, even though I do plan on getting an epidural, I don't want to get one right away anyway, because after you get it you are kinda stuck on your back and I want to be able to walk around and move as long as I can.

Anywho... that's all for now. Next week we do more of this stuff, so I'm looking forward to it :)

Back from Gatlinburg

We had such a great vacation! We ate way too much, but it was so good! I'll post some pictures on facebook tomorrow probably.

I had my Gestational Diabetes test yesterday which was no fun... the drink wasn't that bad... it was pretty gross, I definitely wouldn't choose it, but I managed it alright. But, when they were taking my blood I fainted. So that was no fun... And the nurse took blood from the top of my hand instead of the inside of my arm, which caused me to bruise and now my hand hurts...
But I did get to hear Alexis's heart beating, which I love! And I feel her move around every day, usually a couple movements at a time.

Oh, and Andrew finally felt her move the other day for the first time. We were resting in our hotel room in Gatlinburg, and I told him she was moving, so he came over to see if he could feel her (which he's started doing since a couple weeks ago), and this time Alexis actually cooperated and kicked right where his hand was. He was so happy! Very exciting...
Now, tomorrow we start our baby classes, and in less than 3 weeks we're going down to Florida for my side's family reunion... then in June... my baby shower :) woohoo!