Dr Apt

Well, I just had my last dr apt!! It went good, she checked me and nothing going on still. I said, he's in the there for the long haul!! hehe. So she officially scheduled me to come in on Sunday night at 9pm to start the cervadil. I'm getting very anxious about it all and I'm just ready for it to hurry up and be over! I was up every few hours last night and finally got up at 4am to watch tv and eat, I was starving. I just am kinda panicky about it all not knowing how it will all play out. Plus, I'm so uncomfortable right now. My back is just killing me and all I want to do is lay down and sleep and be lazy this last week. I have been pretty good about staying active and stuff so I'm giving myself some slack this last week of it. :) So anyways, I probably won't update this again until after he's here or on Monday some time if it's a long time before anything happens. Wish us luck though!!! :)

39 weeks

Some pics from the wedding this weekend...

this is after sitting at the wedding sweating for an hour. :) Dang, I look HUGE because you can't see my legs. hehe!!!

Bride and the groom

Mike standing up in the wedding..

Mike and his cute little smirk walking

Mike and the groom

Well, I'm one week away from my due date!! I can't believe I am this close FINALLY. :)
I go to my next dr apt on Thursday and see if anything has changed and also officially schedule my induction for Sunday/Monday. I'm so excited but also soo nervous!! I just hope the induction works and I hope that everything goes ok. I know I'm going to be a nervous wreck on Sat night.

Well we had a good weekend, had a lot going on. Friday we left here about 11:00 and headed to Austin for a wedding that Mike was in. I wasn't going to go but I figured I would rather be around my family and friends than be by myself here. The drive down was VERY uncomfortable. This one spot on my back hurts all of the time and it killed me all the way for 3 hours. We stopped in Waco so I could walk around for a minute which felt better, but I was just miserable. We FINALLY got in and hit traffic on lovely I35. It was only 2:00 when we got in town and traffic was already stopped near downtown! It's so weird though, Austin traffic doesn't make me panic or anything like Dallas traffic does, not sure why. So we got to the wedding site just in time for when Mike had to be there. He didn't even get a chance to try on the tux before the wedding, so we had to pray it fit. Unfortunately his jacket was HUGE and his pants were too short so he had to sag them on his butt so they wouldn't look like he was waiting for a flood. But it didn't look too bad I guess. Oh and the colors were brown and pink, so he had to wear a pink tie. My husband does not wear pink!! hehe. He was not happy, but I thought it was cute. :) So I went back to the house to nap and see my dad and sister for alittle while before I had to go back out to the wedding. It was great to see them both. The wedding was nice, it was outside though so it was HOT!! We stayed until about 11:00, I was so surprised I lasted that long, I was so tired and my feet were killing me!! I finally said babe, we have to go! So we went home and he passed out asap while I sat up talking to my parents for a few mins.

The next morning we got up and took our dad's to breakfast for Father's Day. It was so yummy!! I love some breakfast tacos. Then we headed back. Another LONG 3 hours home. I took a pillow from my parents house so it wasn't as bad, but I was still just so uncomfortable. That night we just chilled out and watched some movies, didn't do a whole lot. Sunday we woke up and I went walking. Man, the walk hurt. I had so many pains and weird cramps, I was alittle worried, but I had my phone on me incase anything happened. It's getting harder to walk these days, but I'm going to walk as long as I can!

well that's about it. I'll update on Thursday after my apt in the morning. :) I'm so excited.

38 1/2wk Dr Apt.

I went to the dr yesterday. She said the same thing she did a few weeks ago, nothing is happening. I'm only 1 1/2 cm dialated. whooopty dooo!! But, we did schedule an induction date if nothing has happened by then, so that is really exciting. June 28th I will go into the hoospital and start cervadil which I guess softens the cervix. Then Monday early morning, I will start pitocin to induce labor. I'm just terrified of inducing because I do not want a C section and your chances of having one increase with an induction. I need to quit trying to plan my delivery though like I try to plan everything!! Because then when it doesn't happen the way I want it to, it's going to disappoint me and freak me out more. So I'm trying to go into this with an open mind. Anyways, so having this date set is really exciting but also has me so nervous that he will be here a week from Monday at the latest!! AAAAAAAAAAAAA. hehe.

We are headed to Austin this weekend for a wedding that Mike was in. We are only going for tonight and then heading back to be close to the house and the hospital. I checked with my insurance and found a hospital in Austin that I am clear to go to if I need to. I wasn't going to go, but the way I saw it, I could go to Austin where I have family and friends, or I can stay here by myself and be alone if anything happens. I have my friend Kristie here but she's a good 30 mins away or so and who knows what she has going on this weekend. So, I took the Austin choice and figured if anything happens, atleast I will be around everyone I guess. The groom of the wedding said just try not to have your water break DURING the ceremony, after is fine. hehe. So I said I'll try!! :) So we will head back early tomorrow. Wish me luck!! :)

2 weeks to go!!!

Wow, I can't believe it. Only 2 weeks to go. I go to my next dr apt this afternoon for her to check me again and see if anything is happening, I hope so that I feel like all of this walking has done something!! I am really ready for him to come already and I'm getting very anxious about the birth. Some friends of ours just had their baby on Friday, lucky!! She was due about 9 days before me. My belly is in full effect and I don't think can get any bigger now! Some days I feel like I'm HUGE and others not as much. This weekend I feel like it grew though again. I guess that's good though, that means Dylan is growing, but don't grow too big now Dylan before you come out! hehe.
This weekend we didn't do too much I guess. Friday Mike had class until 1 and then he told his boss he was going to write up the reports from home (from all the work he did all week), his boss said fine. Well, being the fabulous wife that I am, he showed me how to do the reports and said if I wanted and was bored, I could do some and then we could go and play when he gets out of class. So of course I didn't have much to do that morning so I typed up all of his reports for him. It took me 4 1/2 hours, man, it was hard sitting there for that long and staying focused. So when he got home, we went and ate a freebirds. I have heard that eating spicy foods can help bring on labor so I ate the hottest thing I could find. I didn't get much out of it but the worst heartburn of my life!! The heartburn I think has been the most painful thing throughout the whole pregnancy. It hurts so bad! I eat eggs, I get heartburn. I eat a sandwhich, I get heartburn. NO matter what, I get it. So eating this big freebirds burrito with the hottest hot sauce they have, was maybe not the brightest idea. We went to the store after and it did give me a few small contractions but I couldn't really be excited about that while I'm burping acid. Anyways, so then we came home and took a nap and just spent some quiet time together knowing it won't be like that for too much longer. That night some friends of Mike's came over to hang out for a bit, then we headed to bed.
Saturday we got up and went walking and puttered around the house for a bit then headed out to this market thing that is in Grand Prairie. Mike and I are both anti crowds so when we got there we were like ok, yeah let's not go. hehe. Plus it was about 100 degrees out and didn't see any muscle cars like we were told were going to be there. So instead we went and bought a new digital camera. We spent about an hour looking at them and debating and we finally decided on one, it's really nice. It has a lot of cool features. I will post some pics below from it. Saturday night was our last nice dinner out together before Dylan gets here. We had the best dinner and the best conversation. We just talked about everything and what we hope for after Dylan gets here. I just don't want us to lose ourselves after he's here, we want to remain as close as we are now and as happy as we are. I know a newborn can be hard on parents, so we are going to try our hardest to communicate and work together. Easier said than done I'm sure when a baby is crying non stop, but we are going to give it our best not to forget each other in the mean time.
Sunday was our most productive day I guess. We went walking in the morning and then had some of his other friends show up at our house because they had just finished a run at the lake near the house. So we wall went to brunch and had a good time, then MIke and I got in this mood to clean and organize the house. We started with our laundry room/junk room and threw out SOO much crap, then he did the garage while I did the other closets in the house. It was very refreshing to throw out so much stuff!! I was so proud of him to throw out as much as he did, usually he will find a reason to keep ANYTHING. He's a pack rat wether or not he likes to admit it. :) I usually have to throw things out without him knowing about it. hehe. So anyways, that was our weekend. Not so exciting, but also very nice and productive. Here are some pics that we took before we went out to our dinner and some funny ones we took with our new camera being silly. Enjoy!!



awwww!!!

DANG BELLY!!! :)

I like this one....

Mike told me to strike a sexy pose. Obviously the modeling companies won't be knocking down my door anytime soon!! haha. I would hate to see what my UNsexy pose is. hehe

Mike holdin the buda belly!!

Going out to our last nice dinner together.

Mike was picture happy with our new camera. I'll spare everyone the other pics of me walking, but had to share one with my funny profile!!

Us being silly with the new camera.

This is the funniest thing. On the camera, if someone in the picture doesn't smile, YOU CAN GIVE THEM A SMILE!!!! So i didn't smile and Mike gave me a HUGE smile. Too funny!!!!

awww...

Great family..

Mike's aunt sent Dylan the cutest gift today with a card that said "couldn't wait until your actual birthday." It's some plates, bowls and silverware and a cup that has a race car theme on it. HOW ADORABLE!! Thanks Aunt Rachel "Grantie". hehe. Dylan is so lucky to have such a wonderful family. I'm sure he will LOVE this when he gets alittle older. :)

3 more weeks

Please excuse the lovely white trash look that I'm sporting and the nicely hung towel in the background. :)

Well, starting Sunday, I am 37 weeks!! I had my weekly dr apt yesterday. The dr was in the delivery room all night so I had to see the nurse instead. She didn't check me or anything, we just listened to the heartbeat. She went over things from the last visit like the strep B test, which was negative, luckily. She said he's about 6 1/2 lbs and that everything looked great on the ultrasound. So that's good news. :) I have been walking a lot. I walked about 6 days last week. Mike has been great about walking with me. It hurts a bit and who knows for sure if it does anything but I feel like I am doing something, so I'll keep doing it until i can't do it anymore. The dogs love it too because I try and walk each of them every morning too. I'm just so ready for him to be here. I'm BORED out of my mind right now with nothing to do. Especially yesterday! Our internet and cable went out on Sunday and they couldn't get anyone out here until Monday from 12-4. So Mike and I watched alot of movies on Sunday. We got a lot done this weekend though. We had a big list and got most of it done. We got the bases in the cars, now we just have to make sure they are in right. It wasn't too hard to put in though, so I'm sure they are ok. We got closet doors for our guest room. We have been without them forever because I HATED the ones that were on there, so I threw them out thinking it wouldn't be long until we got new ones. Well, that not too long turned into about a year. hehe. So we finally got them, now I just have to paint them outside some time this week then Mike can put them on. I also sterilized all the bottles, breast pump stuff etc. So we got quite a bit done this weekend. It feels good to be productive but man I was tired. My back is just KILLING me lately, plus my legs and feet ache really bad everyday. I'm just so thankful that it waited this long to start getting this uncomfortable. Mike's work told him yesterday that there are like 20 jobs in Houston, El Paso, Connecticut and like 80 jobs somewhere else that he has to do. Meaning, he will be traveling a lot!! But they also told him that they can wait until the baby gets here. So atleast he won't miss the birth but that means I'll be by myself a lot after Dylan is here and we aren't sure when Mike will get to take off to be home with us. So I really hate not being able to plan that, but it is what it is. And it scares me being here by myself without family or anything while he's gone. I just hope I can get in the swing of things by myself without him here. I'm sure there will be family and stuff in after he gets here, so I'm sure that will help. :)

Cabin Fever...

I had cabin fever SO bad yesterday! It is just making the days drag on soo bad right now not having anything to do. The baby room is ready, everything is set up, I can't really paint right now, so I can't do much to fix the house up, day time tv is boring and my body hurts. Ok, i'm done complaining. :) I was just so blah feeling yesterday. Mike got home finally and I was like please get me out of this house!! He's usually pretty good about cheering me up and getting me out of my funk. So we went and played putt putt golf, it was fun. Then we went and ate some dinner and he had a few beers. Then we came back and put on mud masks and joked around for a bit then pretty much went to sleep. I posted a pic of us in our masks, Mike looks a bit scary! hehe. I felt so much better. I think I just need a hobby for the next 3 weeks or else this next 3 weeks is going to kill me. I'm going to go to Michael's craft store today and see if there is anything I can paint or do something creative with. Even though I'm the furthest thing from Martha Stewart there is, I'm sure going to try!! :)

Now Mike's work may not be sending him out of town until Monday, so it's good that he may be here for the weekend but that also means he will be gone all next week and maybe even on the weekend. it's just getting too close. Maybe they will put it off so long though that he won't have to go. :)

No husband...

Alittle over 3 weeks before I'm due and Mike's company decides that he needs to go on a week long trip to Connecticut!! I couldn't believe that when he told me yesterday. I mean he has to have a job but it just makes me so nervous being this close. I have no idea when Dylan will decide he's ready to come out. So my parents are going to come up this weekend and then Mike's dad will be coming next week for a few days. I'm very thankful that they are all willing to come up, it makes me so nervous being here by myself for a week, plus not having a job, I'm here all day already by myself being bored, so it would drive me crazy being here all night as well for a week by myself. I'm just ready to get it over with, but they haven't even booked his flight yet. Ugh!! Plus this week has been hard on my back. I swear my back is dying for this part to be over. And the more days that go by, Dylan is getting bigger and has less room so everytime he kicks, my ribs and sides take a beating!! It will all be worth it but right now I'm very anxious to get this over with.

36 weeks!!!

Wow, so I only have 4 weeks left!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. :) I can't believe it. We had our Dr apt yesterday. Lots to tell. We had to do the ultrasound first which we were so excited about because we got to see him again and make sure everything was ok. He wasn't moving a lot the night before and so I drank some OJ and we poked around at him but he wouldn't move. Mike was getting so worried, you could tell. He kept following me around the house poking at my stomach and asking if he had moved yet. He's going to be such a good dad. So anyways, we got in there and she said she was going to take all the boring measurements first, then we can see if we can see him and stuff. So she measured his head and all sorts of other things. At first he was measuring a week ahead, I was like woah, really?? But then after she measured everything else, it evened out and he was 36 weeks again. But she said he is already 6lbs!! :) That's great, but geez, I don't want him to get too big by 40 weeks. He will be about 7 or 7 1/2 lbs from what I understand. I was thinking he would be a small baby. So we finished up there, we got a few pics but they aren't that good because he doesn't have much room in there so he was all squished up. :) He is head down though and I got to see all the things that have been poking at me. They showed his feet right by my ribs, I was like I knew it! :) That hurts so bad!! It was cute though, he was making sucking motions with his lips already. She also confirmed again that he's a HE. We were a tiny bit nervous about that but all is good.

So we then headed over the my dr. (the sono is done in the hospital). She had to check me for step b which is a bacteria that some women carry and some don't. It's nothing big from what I understand for the mother, but can be really bad for the baby if it's passed on to him. So if a woman does have it, she has to have an IV with antibiotics or something in it so it doesn't pass on. It's weird. I have read a few times some women test positive for it with one of their kids but not the other? I dont even get what it is I guess. I just hope it's negative. :) She then also checked me to see if I was dialating at all, she said nope nothing goin on at all!!! I was like bummer, I was hoping for alittle something. But she said that doesn't really mean too much. Some women can be 2cm dialated by this point and still carry beyond their due date and some aren't dialated at all and can go into labor at any time. So we will see. It was NOT comfortable when she checked me though. I'm just glad that's only the second time in 9 months that I have had to be checked like that. :) We also discussed inducing and her rules on that and all sorts of things. So it was very informative this time.

Mike and i went walking last night and my stomach was just cramping like crazy and getting really tight. I'm doing everything she told me to do to get things moving, so we will see if that helps. She said he's pretty much full term, 37 weeks is officially full term, but she said if anything happened right now, they wouldn't stop labor since he's a good size and everything has formed. So that's good. :) She also said that I don't have to, but she leaves on the 3rd of July for her vacation for like 11 days, so if nothing has happened by July 1st, we can incduce then. So that's exciting. I just said as long as I'm dialating, I'm fine with inducing, but I just want my body to start doing things on its own first. I have this odd feeling that he will come early, not sure why. I have no idea though, so I could be totally wrong!! :) So now I go every week, so I get to see her again on Monday.