8 Weeks 'til We Meet

Trenton,

Today marks 32 weeks of you growing inside me and only 8 more weeks until your due date. Daddy and I are getting more and more excited to meet you! This week was Thanksgiving; how did you like the 4 days of delicious Thanksgiving food?? It'll be even more fun next year when you can eat some of it yourself. This weekend Daddy and I got your room all set up! We bought the last items needed for you, set up your crib, washed all your clothes and organized everything. It was so fun to be able to work together with Daddy to get ready for you. We even got your diaper bags and my hospital bag packed and ready to go. Daddy decided he wanted his OWN diaper bag for you....so I guess we will be ready no matter what then! We even stocked up on diapers and a ton of wipes from Babies R Us' Black Friday sale this year. We are pretty sure that Black Friday is a no-go from now on except for maybe stocking up on diapers and wipes again. It was such a good deal!

You have been growing and moving around like crazy still; kicking so hard! I am getting tired of having to go to the bathroom every 15 minutes so I am hoping you come early :) Also, your wonderful Aunt Steffie bought Grandma Kathy a plane ticket to come see you in January! We are all so excited and grateful. I'm sure you will learn too, there is nothing like having your mommy with you in such a life-changing event :) The other day you and I scared Aunt Brittany. And of course Daddy and I thought it was hilarious. I have been getting contractions lately, some stronger than others, but nothing terrible. But one strong contraction came and stopped me mid-sentence. When Aunt Brittany thought it was you kicking me really hard, I said it was actually a contraction and I'm pretty sure her heart skipped a beat or two thinking we had to get to the hospital ASAP :)

We did have your 32 week check up today and the doctor said you have a really strong heartbeat and are measuring perfectly. Always good news of course!  I've seen those pictures on the Internet of seeing the baby's hand or foot imprinted through the mom's stomach and I've been wondering if that is going to be you. You are still moving so strongly so I am always checking to see if I can see you through my stomach :)

And as always, here is the 8 month photo! My shirt is getting a bit small, so hopefully I won't stretch it out too much more since I used to wear this shirt all the time pre-pregnancy.....We only have two more photos left before we get to actually photograph your cute little self :)

Hello, Sweet Boy!

The past couple weeks have been the start of the very busy season! It is nice that I seem to have a lot more energy than most pregnant women at 30 weeks. It helps get my never ending to-do list done. Though as soon as I stop moving, I definitely feel the reprecussions of going non-stop....

I've never been the type of person who could just relax and do nothing on vacation, and combine that with being pregnant makes for a very tiresome self when I get back. Last week Joseph and I got to spend the weekend in Las Vegas with my coworkers. We had a lot of fun walking around all the hotels and gambling some. Trenton, your daddy is going to have to teach you to play blackjack because he is pretty darn good :) He ended up winning a pretty good amount of money! But then I lost most of it playing slots.....oops. In Vegas, you walk everywhere on the strip, so I definitely got my excercise in; and I'm pretty sure I made up for the past 7 months of not excercising as much as I should have. And poor Trenton definitely got his fair share of second (or third?)-hand smoke :( One fun thing we did with my coworkers though was tour the Hoover Dam! That was really neat to see, though every single one of us was worn out from that. But Joseph and I got to meet up with my mom and sister who so graciously drove the 4 hours from Bakersfield to come see us :) It is always wonderful to be able to see my mommy.

After the busy weekend in Vegas, came the next busy weekend and preparations for my baby shower! It was really fun to help plan and prepare for that. A good number of family and friends came for the shower and Trenton got some much needed items, which of course is wonderful and greatly appreciated.

Then came our 30 week check up! Trenton, Daddy and I are so excited that we get to meet you in just 10 weeks! Though we of course, me especially, won't mind you coming a few weeks earlier.....The check up went well; nothing too special of an appointment. I did meet with one of the two male doctors at my clinic though. I am very apprehensive about going in to labor when one of the male doctors is on call at the hospital but it was good to meet with him. It didn't really settle too many nerves about having a male OB deliver my baby, but that's okay.

One of my coworker's wife is an LPN at an OB clinic, and she so graciously offered to give us an ultrasound for free. So of course I wanted to take her up on that offer! On Tuesday, Joseph and I got to see our precious little baby again. In 3D :) Technology is so amazing and we are so blessed to be able to see our son before he is even born. She did have some trouble getting some good pictures of Trenton though because he is wedged so far into my pelvis already. Which she said when I do go into labor, will most likely help me dilate quickly; which of course sounds wonderful to me! But she also said that is the reason why I have to get up and go to the restroom every 15 minutes (literally) and why my hips hurt so much. But at least since I do have to get up every 15 minutes, the walking helps relieve some of the pain in my hips :) Trenton wasn't really cooperating too well with us during the ultrasound either. He kept putting his hands and feet by his face and moving around too much. He also seems to like sitting folded up in a little ball; silly boy.....we are pretty sure he is going to like to sleep with his hands by his face though so mittens are going to be a necessary investment for us. Trenton also has some big feet! In our last 3D ultrasound at 17 1/2 weeks, Trenton looked exactly like Joseph, but in this one we could see he has more of me in him as well :) He was making some faces for us too it seemed, so I really think he is going to have his daddy's personality. A life of laughter is ahead of us in our little family...... :)

Here are a few of the pictures we got of our sweet little baby the other day!

Look at that adorable little smile :) He kept that arm up by his face the entire time

This one looks like he is puffing out his cheeks like he is blowing bubbles or something, because the other pictures his cheeks and lips don't look that big. But who knows, I've always had pretty chubby cheeks too..... 

This one he is completely folded in half. But still the most adorable little baby in the world :)