33 weeks Pregnant!!

So I thought I'd copy my friend Jillian and do this at least once....for fun and out of bordom.

PregnancyStats:

How Far Along: 33 weeks
Total Weight Gain/Loss: as of last week, 34lbs!! But I'm told that's juuuust fine, especially since I lost more than my weight gain last time!!
Maternity Clothes: Well, last time the only maternity anything I bought was a nursing bra. This time, it's a different story. I actually just bought some maternity jeans which I LOVE. Typical Missouri weather is taking place and for some reason there have been some cold days. I also got some short sleeve t-shirts. Ahhhh...it's so nice to feel comfortable in clothes! I can't wait for the cooler parts of fall (after the baby is born) to wear new fall clothes!
Best Moment this week: When I realized I only have 6 1/2 more weeks, and that's if he stays in there until 40 weeks!!!! :-)
Gender: Allllll boy....it's been verified 3 times!
Movement: Oh my.....they say that the farther along you are, and the bigger baby gets, the less drastic the movements are....LIES! His favorite spot to kick is right into the right side of my rib cage. YIKES! They feel so bruised!!
Food Craving: I can still eat nachos at anytime of the day.
What I miss:Being tiny :-( And being able to sit/stand/walk without holding my ribs! And sleeping without waking up 6+ times a night to switch positions.
Sleep: The same as above.....not sleeping with a giant boppy (which I do love), and actually getting to sleep without waking up 49 times.
What I am looking forward to: Him actually being here and getting to hold him and seeing Sydni's reaction to meeting her baby brother!
Symptoms: Besides the rib pain, not much. Just getting quite uncomfortable. My feet, particularly my left foot, has gotten a little bit swollen by the end of the day, but it's very minimal.
Exercise: My exercise is rolling over in bed and walking to the kitchen...whew....I get tired easily! I'm not used to all of this extra weight!!

Well it's been a while...but that's okay, I don't think anyone's paying attention :-)

Well, it's almost 33 weeks!! My fetal fibronectin test was positive a week and a half ago and as of this Wednesday and it was negative! That means that I have at least two more weeks before he comes! So glad he has more time to cook in there!

So first things first.....Sydni has a field trip in a few weeks, followed by a parent teacher conference, followed by Halloween, and then......LIAM SHOULD BE HERE! I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like I'm in the home stretch!

Okay okay....so I'm not really in the home stretch, but I like to pretend I am! The nurse today at my doctor's appointment said, "Oh, you're 29 weeks! When you get to the 30's that's when you can start counting down!" Is it a problem that I already started counting down?? My doctor said, "Well, you're doing great and everything looks great, you're 31 weeks!" Ummm....wait...29? 31? Huh? Maybe he was going by size? Because by his size, he is 31 weeks big.....but I'm really only 29. Does that mean I can start the countdown?? Well, too bad, I'm going to anyways....and I think I will take the middle week of 30.

So yay! The countdown begins! 10 weeks to go! I keep wondering whether or not he'll be early. Part of me wants him to be a little early so that I can see him because I'm so anxious! I told Sydni today that I only had one more appointment with my Maternal Fetal Medicine Doctor and she said "WOW!" And then I said that it will only be about 6 weeks after that and we'll see Liam!! She was soooo excited....which made me more excited!!

It's finally hitting Jimmy that it really isn't that far away. When you say "2 months" it does sound kind of long...but with our busy month, 10 weeks will go by fast. Sydni has her 6th Birthday Party this weekend, followed by her sleepover on her birthday next week...then I have 2 doctor appointments the week after, and then before I know it, it will be October, and I will have 6 weeks left! When I broke it down like that, I think he realized....wow, it is really soon, and if he comes a week or two early, it's really really soon!!

I keep watching A Baby Story and that makes me even more anxious (in a good way). I get butterflies, like I'm nervous, which I'm not....and I had to remind myself, that that will be me very soon! I hope that everything goes smoothly this time. My doctor told me today that he predicts Liam will be over 8 lbs. YIKES! I had a hard time delivering Sydni at 7lbs 14oz so over 8 could be tough! And hopefully this time my epidural works! That would definitely make it worse...

AND.....I got an ultrasound yesterday by my other doctor, and he looks great! 3 weeks ago I got one, and he had these weird lines above his lips, so I was thinking cleft lip......but when the doctor went to look again, he had put his hands in front of his face and we couldn't really see anything. He didn't seem worried and thought it was probably just a weird position he was in, and a weird facial expression he was making. So when he checked yesterday, there was nothing on his face! Good to know!!

Okay. so the countdown begins. 10 weeks!
:-)

Kindergarten first....and before I know it, College!

So today was Sydni's first day of Kindergarten.

She woke right up when I went into her room. She hopped in the shower, got dressed, and ate breakfast in record time! Normally she is a procrastinator. She stands in the shower collecting water in her mouth......washes her body for 20 minutes, following by getting out and laying in her towel while watching cartoons. And don't even get me started on breakfast! It takes her 40 minutes to eat a waffle! Not today though. She did everything she needed to do, then grabbed her backpack and lunchbox and was ready to go.


The drop off went well!! No tears from any of us! I think the fact that she had two first days with two years of pre-school helped.


She walked into the school and her classroom without hesitation.


She went into the classroom, gave papers to her teacher, put her lunchbox away, hung up her backpack and found her desk.




She started on her desk work (drawing on her dry-erase board). So what did she draw? Her school!!


So proud of her. Can't wait to hear all about her first day when she gets home!

Pro-nunc-i-a-tion

Dear Kindergarten teacher of my new Kindergartner.....it's pronounced "Kinder-garTen".....not Kinder-gar-en.....you can't omit the T. This isn't Jersey Shore, mmm k?

Anyways. Besides that, I really think that Sydni's Kindergarten teacher won't be that bad. She seems really nice, educated (I hope so), friendly for the age group, competent....you know all of the stuff you look for in a teacher.

Anyhoo. Syd is at her 3rd sleepover. It's one of her best friends from school that she hasn't seen all summer! She was so excited! Her friend is the friend that somehow comes up in every conversation.....i.e., "You know who probably misses me the most since I'm on vacation?" Insert _______ friends name. It's super cute.

The husband and I will off to a late movie tonight. We're going to see "Other Guys." I'm super excited. I love Will Ferrel.

And on another note, a sad note.....my grandma is really sick :-( She went to the doctor yesterday and was told she had pneumonia, which seemed like a huge deal since she just had a blood transfusion a few days before that. So we were all upset about it. Come to find out, last night when she had to be taken to the hospital because she was having trouble breathing, they figured out that she actually had congestive heart failure and kidney failure. Stupid doctors. So, she is getting medicine right now for her heart and she's getting the fluid drained from her body from her kidneys. However, she has refused any other treatment. No dialysis, no surgeries, etc. So now we just wait. On top of that, my grandpa is pretty sick, too. He just had a bladder infection, and has many other issues pop up all of the time, and he lives in memory care because he suffers from dementia. He and my grandma haven't lived together for probably 6-9 months, and he gets sad without her. And then he forgets who she is or why she hasn't visited when really she has. So we know that when she goes, he will soon follow. Pray for them.

Haircut....and I didn't cry!!

So I get quite emotional when I get an actual haircut. It must stem back to when I was younger and my mom made me get the ugliest haircut I've ever seen in my whole life. I swear it was awful. I know that's why I had only 2 friends in 4th grade. They were afraid. Yuck. Anyways, ever since then, I've always gotten really paranoid about getting my haircut. It's when it's more than 2 inches it starts to freak me out.
So last Friday Sydni and I went downtown to get our hair cut by one of my best friends. She does an AWESOME job (brag time-she used to work at a salon in Beverly Hills with tons of celebrity clients) so I have no reason to cry about it. I've been growing my hair out f-o-r-e-v-e-r....and it needed a trim really bad. So I decided to give it a CUT......yikes! It went down to my lower back, right along my tattoo, so clearly above my butt, but not by much!!! And I got at least 6 inches cut off, if not 7!!! OMG! Can you believe it? How brave am I???

So here's a before picture....



And here's an after picture.....



Aren't you proud??

Here is a before and after of Sydni's hair, too! Her hair was getting so long and she wanted it cut so bad! We thought it was perfect time since school starts next week!

Before....



And after.....



She looks so grown up!! I don't even know what I'm going to do in a few years when boys come marching into the picture!!

A Big Girl deserves a Big Girl room!!!

So we decided that it was time to update Sydni's room. Since she is becoming such a big girl this year (starting Kindergarten, being a big sister, turning 6!) we thought she deserved to get new furniture and a room make over. And this is the final product!

*This is her new bed! The black is a change for her. Her room before had all white furniture. The painting above her bed was given to us as a wedding gift from two of Jimmy's friends who painted it. It's my FAVORITE!*


*We had taken her closet doors off a while ago. It looks so much bigger without them. The picture of her when she's a baby and Jimmy is holding her was taken when she was less than a week old. My mom took the picture and had it framed and I did the calligraphy on it.*


*This is her new dresser! Her clothes finally fit in it!! The stripes on the wall were time consuming but I love how they turned out!*


*She just had the be in the photo!*


*You can't see the windows, but the drapes match the closet drapes.*