Getting Ready Frenzy

So Friday I had an appointment at the OB office, it was with a nurse practitioner because I somehow missed scheduling this week and the OB was all full for the week... Anyway, at the appointment the nurse told us that Baby's head is pretty far down in my pelvis (no wonder I get up every hour to go to the bathroom every night), and that I was pretty well effaced. To sum it up she asked if I had an appointment for next week and then said that we have a 50/50 chance that Baby will be here before then! We were excited at that prospect, but then remembered that we still weren't ready for Baby to come...

So Friday night we went and got all the last minute things that we absolutely needed before Baby comes... Then I had an hour and a half of false labor (contractions 4-7 minutes apart, but not getting stronger then eventually fading) that night from 10:30-12 which made us glad that we had gotten the things we need, but our apt was not ready. Which made today the frenzy that it was...

Today it was laundering all the last minute items (plus all our dirty clothes) and then having our Home Teachers bring over the Cradle that Adam and Bethany are nice enough to let us borrow (thanks again!). We also cleaned out the car (way overdue) so we can put the car seat in. So when it is light tomorrow we're going to install the car seat, then we'll be as ready as we can for Baby to arrive.

Pictures

So I've had people ask about seeing pictures of me showing how pregnant I look... So here is one of me today. It is weird for me to see this view as the only mirror we have in our apartment shows only from my neck up.
While I am at posting pictures, here is one of all the people from our ward who attended the Baby Shower we had last Saturday. (Such brave souls, they came even though it was snowing!)

Full Term

Well we made it to 37 weeks, and are now considered full term. Our OB told us that they wouldn't stop me if I went into labor now, but it is still best if Baby stays inside for the next couple of weeks. :)

I am definitely feeling the exhaustion of late pregnancy though... I don't understand how I can be so exhausted and then when I get into bed my body refuses to go to sleep. Or the nights when I wake up and can't get back to sleep for 2 or more hours. Then there are just the nights that nature calls every hour which is not conducive to getting quality sleep. I guess it will all be over soon enough and I won't be getting lots of sleep at night anyway! ;)

Hospital Tour

Today we got to take a look at the Family Birth Center at the hospital we are going to deliver. It was nice to be able to see what the rooms are going to look like and learn what the hospital has to offer. The tour leader walked us through the route we are going to take when we go into labor. We traced the route from Triage to the Birthing Suite, stopped at the C-Section area, then to the Family Suites (recovery), passed by the NICU and the Nursery. One thing that I thought added to the tour was that the tour leader was an actual nurse in the Birth Center. Daniel really liked towards the end when we passed by a baby getting bundled up to go home. 5 more weeks!

Tagged...

So this is the first time I've been tagged (at least that I've noticed).

1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer.
2) Select the 4th picture in the folder.
3) Explain the picture.
4) Tag 4 people to do the same. No cheating (cropping, editing, etc.) Have fun!!

This picture was taken in August when Daniel's sister Elise was visiting and one of her previous roommates was moving to Madison. We went to visit the Vilas Zoo. Daniel had to get a picture of a badger as that is the school mascot here. We took a lot because this little guy was not willing to stay still (but deleted all the bad ones or this might have been a picture of a part of a badger or blurry).

I tag Lisa (just to make sure you do it...), Leisa, Bethany, and Margaret (just cause you were there...)

Ultrasound Pictures

So we know these are a little delayed, but we finally posted the Ultrasound pictures on the right hand side of our blog (after cropping the personal information off them).

Also there are 8 days left to vote on when you think Baby is coming... Any comments on guessing the exact date can be tied to this post. ;)

Temple Trip

After learning that the Chicago Temple was going to be closed until early March due to a water pipe breaking (the pipe broke the week we were going to go in December) we decided that if we wanted to attend the temple before Baby got here, we would have to go to the next closest temple... Which is actually the St. Paul Minnesota temple, but we opted to drive about 45 minutes longer to go to Nauvoo.
Before we left we took our car in to get the oil changed (we got a coupon from Midas for a free oil change and 45 point inspection). We learned that one of our tires has a small chunk taken out of it, and while it is okay to drive in town, if we were to take it on a long trip we would have a chance for a blow out. Since we didn't have enough time to get a new tire and such, we ended up renting a car for about $30 for the two days.
We left for Nauvoo in our rental car Friday afternoon. We missed the the exit to I-39 in Rockfort, IL and ended up going about 10 miles until the next exit. We stopped and had a late lunch at Panda Express (at an Oasis, before we got to the exit where we could turn around) - we shared a meal and so we only got one fortune cookie - when we opened it, it said "You are heading in the right direction". The irony was great. After we got turned around, we were aboule to make it to Nauvoo around 9:30.
The next morning we checked out and went to the temple for a session barely making it on time because check out took longer than we thought it would. After the session we drove around Nauvoo, visiting the Visitor's Center, the Scovill Bakery and the brickyard. We drove by some of the other historic places but because we wanted to get back to Madison before midnight we didn't stop at them.
On our way back we took another detour which took us about 20 minutes out of the way (we ended up on Davenport, Iowa). We got home about 11PM. I slept until 11:30 the following day and was still tired. I decided a 2 day trip with over 10 hours driving is not something I'll ever do again when I'm 32 weeks pregnant.
This is one of the only pictures we got before our camera batteries died.