January 18, 2011

Sounds like just another day off in the future, right?  WRONG! :) That is the day that we have scheduled our c-section for Jensen...that will be my new little man's birthday!  We are so excited, but you know what else?  I'm starting to get nervous.  That's only 32 days from today...yep, you read that right, only 32 days!!  WOW!  I'm starting to feel the pinch, it seems we have a lot left to get done before he gets here.  I'm sure we'll be fine and have it done, but that still doesn't stop the stress.

We had our baby shower last Sunday, December 12th from 2-4 pm at the church in Maple Hill.  Although it was very very cold and rainy, we had a great turnout and Jensen received lots of wonderful goodies.  I'll have to take a picture of the nursery before we organize it...it looks like a complete madhouse in there right now.  We had been doing so well with keeping it clean after emptying it out, but now it has turned into the catch all for the Christmas shopping and wrapping. 

Speaking of Christmas shopping, I have 1 gift left to buy, then I will be D-O-N-E with shopping and that makes me super happy.  I haven't gotten much of it wrapped, but I did make an early morning stop at Target before work and picked up some more gift bags, so I might not be wrapping as much as I usually do.  I prefer to wrap because I love watching people actually open the gifts, but this baby belly is getting in the way of my sitting down in the living room floor and leaning all over the place to wrap, so I'm thinking I might be lazy this year with bags.  They're still cute and they still match my Christmas tree, which is a must for me.

I would like to put an image up of the Christmas Cards that I've sent out, but I can't seem to get Hallmark.com to let me do that.

I hope everyone has a great and wonderful Christmas, and I'll probably do another post after Christmas, we go back to the Dr on the 27th. 

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Soon & Very Soon...

We're at 7 weeks and counting, I can't believe it's getting so close!  I went for my last monthly appointment early last week and everything is still going great.  The nurse questioned whether or not I had participated in the Thanksgiving festivities because, believe it or not, I had not gained anything since my last appointment 3 weeks prior....woohoo! :) I have done so much better this pregnancy with weight gain, so I'm hoping I'll be able to lose it (and what was left from Ryan too!) a little bit easier. 

One thing that this pregnancy has taught me is that I can be much more proactive at things if I really put my mind to it.  I'm almost completely done with my Christmas shopping, which is something I usually haven't even started by now.  I've also learned that I'm really not as patient as I once thought I was.  I've done as much of my Christmas shopping online this year, or I've handed over the reign and let Casey go get it.  I just can't seem to handle the crazy mobs of people out there!  Any of it that I'm doing in stores is usually done on my lunch break or before I even come in to work in the mornings, so the crazies aren't out yet. 

This coming weekend is our baby shower and I'm so excited.  Casey's mom and sister are throwing it in Maple Hill at their church, and I know it'll be great.  Our bridal shower was there as well and we were very blessed then, and I don't doubt this will be any different.  I might not be convinced yet by my husband to move back there (I'm pretty certain I can't take being that far out in the middle of nowhere), but I am more than convinced that it is a great community full of people who would do anything and everything for those around them.  Hopefully I will have some pics up next week or so from the shower, and I have one or two of my sister and I with our bumps. 

We go for another appointment on Monday, and the last doctor had told us that we'd be scheduling the c-section date at this appointment.  So hopefully, this time next week, we'll know a more accurate date of when we get to meet our new little man!  This whole pregnancy has seemed to fly by, but now that its getting closer to the end, its creeping!

Jensen's growing....

and therefore so am I.  :) 

This is pretty much one of the first pics that I've had taken since I've been preggers...I'm not so much for pics of getting bigger and bigger, even if it is mostly because of my little rugrat growing inside.  :)  The countdown is on, 10 more weeks!

Halloween & More

First off, let me say I really just can't get over how fast this pregnancy is flying by!  I'm already 28 weeks along...that means only 12 weeks left to go!  And technically, that's 11 weeks, since we know we'll be doing a scheduled C-section and they will schedule that for 39 weeks (hopefully we get that date scheduled soon). 

Ryan had a great time for Halloween this year.  We went on Saturday afternoon to the Fall Festival at Poplar Grove Plantation with my sister, her husband, his son and daughter-in-law and their daughter, Marley.  There was lots of those inflatable slides and bouncy things, and Ryan had a ball doing each of them several times.  Here is one pic where it looks like he's on his feet, but actually I caught the shot in mid-bounce. :)

They also got to do pony rides, which both Ryan and Marley thought was pretty cool.  Hard to believe, but I think this might have been Ryan's first pony ride.

They both also did the bungee jump thing and Ryan did the rock wall climb too...obviously, these children are completely spoiled! haha  Ryan also just had to prove to us that he was tough and he wanted to go with us through the Haunted House.  I kept trying to convince him that he wouldn't like it, but he kept saying "I'll be fine, I know that stuff is fake"...he was ready to come out of there within the first 5 feet of the door!  My brother-in-law, "Uncle Mere" to Ryan, opted to carry him all the way through for me so Ryan could say that he went through, which of course, at the end, he said he wasn't really scared, he was just kiddin'.  haha.  Boys and their egos...:)

Sunday we were back over at Denises' house to do trick-or-treating with Marley.  Both of them had a great time getting buckets full of candy.

Sunday afternoon before trick-or-treating, Casey and I got to work on putting together the crib for Jensen's nursery.  I was recently out of town for 4 days for work, and while I was gone, Casey painted the nursery, shampooed the carpets, and put together the changing table.  So I was extremely excited to get the crib together and put the bedding in...doing that definitely makes this seem a bit more "real".  Here are a few pics of the finished product. 

I'm still planning to put up some pictures and some words on the walls.  I can't quite decide on what words...not sure if I want to do his name over the changing table, or maybe I can find an appropriate quote to put up...we'll see what comes up. :)

Pics

The Worst Drink Ever

So, I have to say...this is absolutely the worst drink ever!  You'd think that they could come up with a better way to do the Glucose Tolerance Test when you're pregnant.  I mean, seriously, one time in a woman's life when her gag reflex goes out the window and everything seems to make her nauseous, they want you to drink something that is supposed to taste like Tang, but instead just tastes like crap!  haha, anways, enough of my rant on the drink, I did get my call today that I passed, so I don't have to A) go sit for the extended test (and drink more of this stuff) and B) I definitely don't have gestational diabetes...

25 Weeks

25 weeks??!  Already?!?!  I can't believe how fast this pregnancy is flying by!  It seems like just yesterday we were letting Ryan telling his grandparents and everyone that he was going to be a big brother, and now we're on the "downward" side of it.  I remember feeling like I had been pregnant forever with Ryan, but not so much with this one.  I guess it really is true that every pregnancy is different.  And we have finally come up with a name for Baby #2...Jensen James Wooten.  Jensen was just a name that we both felt "fit" and James is Casey's middle name, and his grandmother's maiden name, so it's been around a while. 

Jensen is a very active and rambunctious individual...he is in constant motion, which, in turn, constantly keeps me entertained.  I can't believe how much I missed feeling a baby move around inside...it's unlike anything else you'll ever experience, and it's something that just seems so special.  It's your first contact, so-to-speak, between mother and child and something that strictly belongs to you two.  Granted, Casey and Ryan have had their chances to see/feel Jensen kick too, but its nothing (in my opinion) compared to feeling it almost constantly.  I have to say, I will definitely miss it when he get's here, although holding him in my arms will completely make up for it. :)