Finally, 33 weeks (on Wednesday)! Not gonna lie that this pregnancy has sure seemed like the longest 40 weeks ever. Even during my short “feel good” weeks, they went slow. I’m hoping the panic of how long my to-do list is will make this last stretch not seem quite as long as I think it will be.
Then I met with Ray on March 19. He had two students with him which I always find annoying but feel too bad to say no to. We chatted about ways to help my gbs test be negative so I wouldn’t have to get an IV this time around. But oh, new policy, I have to get a heplock no matter what to go down to the 4th floor. I know it’s not the end of the world, but it would be so nice to labor without a needle sticking in my hand/arm.
Baby Name: Well, we are almost 100% sure of our name but since we haven’t announced it publicly yet, might as well just wait. If you ask me in person, I have no problem sharing it, but I guess it will be fun to be able to share it with more people on the day he arrives.
Stuff I done for the man: Hahahahaha. I mean a whole lot of nothing. Ok well I have lots of ideas but the our basement reno has taken all priority right now. Also baby’s room had been housing the stuff from the basement, so I could barely walk into the room, let alone start decorating. But the room got cleaned out this weekend and the painting has begun! Here’s a little preview of the color scheme in his room. The walls will be the aqua(ish) color with accents of grays and yellows.
The trim, closet, and window right now are a cream color so my first job is to paint the trim white. I decided to keep Ellison’s room the same and not move her out of her crib just yet. I felt like Owen was ready before Ellie arrived and he got a big boy bed. But she’s just now giving us more nights without waking (if you don’t count waking up at 5:15 ready to go)and I don’t want to mess with it. So this baby gets new white furniture. Here’s his crib (which has arrived but is not put together yet).
I have quite the growing list of things like a blanket, his coming home outfit, art for above the crib, mobile, nursing cover, updated burp cloths, etc that need to get finished in the next 10 weeks. I keep telling myself it doesn’t have to be done before he gets here (as he’ll be in our room for the the first month) but let’s be honest – I’d love to have it completed beforehand.
In other news: Jenna has decided not to fly out for little man’s birth. While I’m super sad to not have her beautiful eye taking pictures, it does relieve a little pressure of only have a 3 day window in which to go into labor. So I’ve booked Holly Birch Photography to take pictures for me. She does amazing work and is in town so she can come whenever the big event happens. It’s been so great to not have to worry about snapping pictures and having gorgeous shots of the biggest events in my life!
How I’m feeling: Like a whale. Ok, it could be worse. Just feeling the normal end-of-pregnancy things where you have 5 pillows in your bed and still can’t sleep and are peeing every 20 minutes. But I’m also getting really excited that we get to meet him soon!
Pictures:
January 7 (20 weeks, 6 days)
January 19 (22 weeks, 4 days)
February 5 (25 weeks)
March 30,2014 (32 weeks, 4 days)
This has been a little joke in our girl’s nights. Christine has a love of “ranking” things and it progressed into this fun game for the night. We each brought one or two flavors of M&M’s. There are 12 flavors on that table and that’s not even all the flavors out there. Then, we sat around the table and munched on chocolate!
Christine had made this adorable ranking sheet and as we ate, we gave the flavors numbers 1-12. Then we shared our rankings and answered fun ice-breaker type questions about ourselves that related to the flavor. For example, the mega M&M’s question was “What’s your mega dream job?” 
2 pink baskets and 2 blue!
I just love these ladies. They are so real and it’s wonderful knowing I have a group of ladies that I can weekly spill my guts to! They spoiled us and now the closet is full of diapers ready for the little man.
I made a few little bibs to tuck in with all the diapers and wipes!
2 of the babies have made their appearance as of publishing this. One more down and then we’re up!!
He picked out a baby and tried to help me put on the diaper and then swaddle him.
He got a cool goody bag with sunglasses, crayons, big brother stickers, and a slinky.
Then they had a little graduation and he got a certificate saying he’s ready to be a big brother. Overall, a cute little class that I think he enjoyed. Also, an interesting side note. William has been vying for the name ‘Grayson’ since I was pregnant with Owen. I love the name, it’s just becoming super popular around here which William didn’t believe. In the class there was one Gracyn and one of the babies-to-be was going to be named that. After reiterating this to William, he agreed to use it as a middle name instead of his first name. 
He got to choose where we ate lunch and he wanted chips and salsa, so Mexican food it was! What a fun date with my little big man.
Here is the gist of it. I contacted Wendi to schedule a party. I picked 8 meals from her awesome menu and let the first 2 girls who RSVP’d pick the other two. Wendi did ALL the shopping and prep work (like chopping up the veggies and browning meat). She brought it to my house and we helped her unload everything.
Then we all got to work labeling bags. Everyone took a stack of gallon freezer bags and labeled them with the name of the meal and the cooking directions. It was easier for one person to label all the bags for one meal.
Then a group of 2-3 ladies was put in charge of each meal. They would read the recipe and dump in the ingredients into each bag.
Once all the ingredients were in the bags, they closed them up and put one bag in each lady’s laundry basket or box they brought. Then that group moved onto the next recipe.
No, we didn’t drink those. :) One of the ingredients for a chicken meal.
It was super fun and in less than 2 hours, we each had 10 meals that were ready to go into the freezer for our families. For someone who doesn’t love to cook, I love this! 