And the crib is up!

Two posts in one day, wow!  While I was out this afternoon George worked hard and got the crib up! He did a great job and was very proud of himself, as was I :~) It is so exciting to have this piece of furniture up in her room!  We haven't ordered the dresser yet, we'll probably do that next weekend but we do have the hutch that has to go over the top of it that we'll have to get put together.  Big thanks to my mom and George's parents for our awesome bedroom furniture!!  I'm posting a few pics of what the crib looks like although it's not in the right spot in the room nor does it have any of it's cute bedding in!  That to come later:~)

Daddy working hard to get it finished!

Proud Papa!

Can't have a picture without at least one owl!

And done! It's beautiful!!

31 weeks!!

I know it has been FOREVER!  I have no real excuses besides being L.A.Z.Y!  Actually, there isn't a whole lot to post, I'm still feeling great, getting bigger, and anxiously anticipating the arrivial of this little girl!! 

My last appointment went well I'm up a whopping 12lbs and measuring about 3 days ahead of schedule (that can change at any time, not a big deal).  My doctor did say that because of the diabetes she will NOT let me go past my due date.  In a way this is good and bad.  I REALLY don't want to be induced for several reasons, on the other hand at least we know she will be here by April 2nd and no later!! YAY!!  I was sent for a growth ultrasound this past Tuesday and baby girl is measuring PERFECT, she is weighing approximately 3.2lbs (in the books it says anywhere between 3-4lbs.).  We weren't able to get many good pics though because she was totally squshed up, feet literally on top of her head!  She has been like that at EVERY single appointment since 20 weeks, at the 26 week ultrasound we were able to get her to move around and strech out but this time she was being stubborn (she must get that from her dad).  She was also sucking on her bottom lip, I thought it was so funny that the ultrasound tech could tell that, I could see that she was sucking but once she pointed out that it was her lip I could really tell!  And I was able to see her "breathing" which was really cool, getting practice in for when she's on the outside!!

I'm adding one pic from the ultrasound, the one that shows her foot on her head!  And a couple of belly shots, they aren't that great but they're from my phone, I can't find my camera case so I'm not able to plug my camera into my computer, so I'm working with what I've got;)

28 weeks  

29 weeks

30 weeks

Future Gymnast?

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!

So we are about to become the proud parents of a little girl! Here's the breakdown of the opening of "THE ENVELOPE" It goes like this...

5:30 pm December 23: I BEG George to plllleeeeaaaasssseeee open the envelope, NO ONE would have to know! His response, "nope, there's no way you could keep that secret for a whole 24 hours" okay so he knows me well.

I wait.

Around 9:30pm December 23, PLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE can we open it now? We're going to bed soon, I can for sure keep the secret then, "nope, it's not Christmas.

I wait (not very patiently I might add).

7:00 am December 24, Me: IT'S CHRISTMAS, LET'S OPEN IT! Him: It is NOT Christmas and I'm sleeping, leave me alone...

I wait.

9:30 am December 24, Me: lovingly rubbing my sleepy hubby's back... my mom is now at work, Ashley is getting her hair done, I'm desperate, I might have to work for this envelope opening, but at this point I'm willing to do what it takes! LOL!!! He rolls over and looks at me like you've GOT to be kidding. I beg again and show him that I have taken it upon myself to go out to the car and get said envelope... he tells me to OPEN IT!!! So before he changes his mind I rip it open, now for some reason I'm a bit nervous! I slowly take out the picture that the ultrasound tech has put in there for us and I pull out the card stock that she wrote it on, we both open it... GIRL! I cry, he is grinning ear to ear. We are so happy! Now... plan how to tell the rest of the family.

Since we are not with George's family we call his parents first, George's dad says he knew all along, his mom is happy... what will they do with a girl? LOL!

Fast forward... 11:30 am. My sister is now home, we're starving so we're going to get lunch. We want my mom to join us; we've planned how we'll tell them. My mom being the procrastinator she is still wants to do some last minute shopping, I tell Ashley to convince her to come... Ashley has now figured out that we opened the envelope, she's FREAKING out. We won't tell until they are both together, she freaks more, calls my mom insisting she HURRY up and get to where we are!! FINALLY my mom shows up... we hand them each a little bag... they must open it together, inside each bag is a tiny pair of pink socks, tears and hugs all around!

Christmas Eve night... my whole family gets together, for some reason this year we were all there early (unheard of for my family) we're itching to tell and I have NO poker face so when someone asks (everyone at some point) if we know I can't contain myself, I grin! BUT we're waiting on the Pie family before we announce. Finally everyone is there... it takes one of my uncles (not sure which) 2 times with that obnoxiously loud whistle to quiet down my loud ass family. We're all here, together, and it's a GIRL! Tears, hugs, woohoo's!

And that's our day! Well worth the wait. We can't wait to meet our little lady! And of course mommy, Aunt Ashley, and Mimi (still testing that out) went shopping the day after Christmas and indulged in some sweet girl shopping, I'm in trouble I can tell already! 

Oh yeah... because this post isn't long enough... we had a 3D ultrasound on Sunday, they were not the best images and since I have an anterior placenta (in the front) the baby was kind of smushed up aganist it so it was a little hard to see her face, plus she was bent in half with her legs over her head!  We did fially get her to strech out a little bit and here are the pics of that.

Forgot one!

This was a funny one, Ashley and I were getting ready to leave so I was saying goodbye to George (while asking if he liked my new outfit) he OBVIOUSLY LOVED my new outfit, as he never took his eyes off the football game;) LOL!  And Ash caught it all!

22 weeks and a visit from my sister!

Everything is going really well, I'm feeling the baby move a LOT but unfortunetly no one else can at this point.  George is dying to feel this little one and I can't wait for that too!  Thanksgiving was good, just George, Chance, and myself but lots of yummy food!  I picked my sister up from the airport yesterday and we went and saw New Moon, did a little shopping (she helped me pick out a new outfit, yay!) and went to dinner.  It is so nice having her here.  We're also going to paint the baby room this weekend, just the base color for now, a really cool blue and then my mom and aunt are going to come down and help me do the tree and owls.  That's all for now, I've included a few new belly pics, it's really sticking out there now!

                                            

It's a.... SURPRISE (until Christmas at least!)

Here are the rest of the pics...

The envelope with the goods inside!  We even had her staple it shut:)

This is Petri looking at us.

George's favorite... flexing muscles!  Little fist and all, right after she got this shot the little stinker punched me! LOL

20 week ultrasound!

Okay I wasn't able to upload all the cute pics that I wanted to, stupid blogger!  I'll try again when I get done posting this.  The ultrasound went great!  When we first went in little Petri was literally folded in half, it was so cute!  By the time we were done he/she was sprawled out with hand behind his/her head laying just like mama was!  It was adorable.  The tech was sooo sweet and we were in there for about an hour.   She explained everything as she went and told us that everything looked really good.  We saw all 4 chambers of the heart, both sides of the brain, fingers, toes, arms, legs, EVERYTHING... EXCEPT the goods:~) LOL!  We were strong and held out, the tech had us turn away twice so she could check, then double check and says she's 90% sure of the sex.  She wrote it down in our envelope along with a "money shot" pic!  I did find out that my placenta is in the front, nothing harmful but that is why I'm only feeling small movements down low, probably punches since the head is down.  Baby is measuring great, and we couldn't have been more happy with what we saw.  Can't wait to meet our little one!  I've posted a couple of profile shots below and hope to post more later.