37 Weeks and Other Randomness...

I hit 37 weeks with LT2 on Saturday. I'm 1 cm dilated & 50% effaced. And in my mind he can make his appearance any ole time he wants!!! :) We head back to the doctor on Thursday afternoon so maybe there will be more progress...

In other news, Noah will be 18 months tomorrow. It's so hard to believe that he's getting so big. I swear it was just yesterday when we brought him home from the hospital. Now he's running around like a mad man (you can not keep him still for long), jabbering away (some words we can understand, some not so much), and shaking his booty for us when a song comes on that he likes. The boy LOVES to dance. :)

And lastly for this installment... the basement!!! Besides some more smaller items (in my mind they are small) to finish up, it is D-O-N-E! WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!! And we are VERY pleased with everything. It looks great! Pics are in the slideshow and in the May or June album. So check it out! Now comes the fun part... The finishing touches! :)

Sooooo CLOSE!

As I type, the tile guy is grouting the bathroom & the tile in front of the patio door. WOO - HOO!!! Pictures to come after he leaves! I am so excited! And to top the week off, the carpet is being installed tomorrow. Double WOO - HOO! This weekend will be filled with getting stuff moved in downstairs, finishing up the home theater stuff, and possibly starting Noah on sleeping in his big boy bed. Oh and Shawn is getting in a round of golf Saturday morning. Which is great! That man needs some fun time! He's been working super hard lately. Plus putting up with a very pregnant wife, which in itself deserves a medal.

Love you baby! <3

The Heat...

Only in Minnesota will it go from 49 degrees to 95 in 2 days. Top that off with pregnancy swelling and you have one happy very pregnant woman. I am so happy I am not going the whole summer pregnant. I feel so bad for those of you who have done that. Hopefully when Jaime & Charlie start to think about having babies she'll be able to avoid the Houston summer heat. Take it from me sis, you don't want to feel like this!


Otherwise, I'm still on modified bed rest. We go back to the OB tomorrow for our 34 week appt. Hopefully we'll find out more about the induction date and all.

That's it for now!

Start Em Young!

Updates

It's been a while so I thought I'd post a little update. Noah is totally walking on his own now. He won't crawl anywhere anymore except for up & down the stairs, which is what I like to see!

The basement is coming along great! We are still on schedule for finishing it this month. That is if the flooring people get their behinds here and get that done. More pictures are in the slideshow on the right.

Well I am now 33 weeks 3 days, and I have 5 weeks and 4 days to go. :) Yes, you heard that right. I will be induced at 39 weeks if LT2 has not made his presence yet. We should find out more at the next visit. But it's because of the gestational diabetes. Since the baby could be large, they will generally induce you by 39 weeks. At least that's the practice at my clinic. I'm also now on modified bed rest. I'm allowed to work from home, shower, paddle around (that's my doc's term), keep my feet above my head (also her term), but I'm not supposed to do laundry or grocery shop. SCORE! lol! Well Shawn got her to let me grocery shop, but i'm just supposed to point and he's supposed to do the rest.

That's about it from our neck of the woods.

Gestational Diabetes

So after having vampires remove oodles of blood from me last week, I found out on Monday that I have Gestational Diabetes. How bad it is, I don't know as they didn't tell me the results. Just that I failed. Nice. So on Friday I get to go to the endocrinologist where he will explain everything to me. After that appointment I have the pleasure of going to a 3 hour class in the diabetes center. Then next Friday I get to go back to the doctor for another 2 hour class. Oh what fun!

To top it off we've got a contractor coming to do the taping at our house starting tomorrow, and daycare is closed (for a well deserved mini-cation). Needless to say as it seems to be par for the course with us lately, this is not happening at a good time. So Shawn can't even come with me on Friday because he needs to watch Noah & be there for the contractor. {SIGH}

These are the days of our lives....

Oh and just so we're clear. I'm not worried, I'm annoyed. I know the baby will be fine as I'll do what needs to be done, I'm just annoyed that I have to deal with it. LOL!

Car Dancer Extraordinaire

Yes I have fully corrupted our son! Hee hee! I love to car dance and Shawn loves to laugh at me. But I don't care! Noah has recently started dancing along with Momma to the groovy music. I was able to sneak a little video of him doing it last night on my blackberry while Shawn was driving. I hope to get more soon that's longer. But he sees a camera and pretty much stops what he's doing. LOL!

Enjoy!