4 Days Left

Let the countdown begin. 4 days!!

Survey time!! (a few days late...)

How far along?: 38 weeks
How big is baby?: She's ready, that's all we know.
Weight Gain?: Right around 25lbs.
Stretch Marks?: Thank you Mom's genes for not passing down stretch marks.
Maternity Clothes?: Dresses and my maternity capris. That's about it.
Sleep?:Well lets see, I woke up at 3:30am (after three trips to the bathroom since 11:30) and haven't fallen back to sleep. So, sleep? No. Not so much.
Best moment this week?: Scheduling my induction for next Thursday!
Food Cravings?: Not craving much at this point. But I have eaten Mexican twice this week trying to get things going. Nothing...
Pregnancy brain?: She's all I'm thinking about.
Gender?: Girly girl.
Movement?: I think we might both be uncomfortable now. She has no more room. I have no more comfortable positions. So, lets go baby!! Come on!
What I miss?: Being able to lay down comfortably.
Belly Button?: Outty out out out. But only for a few more days!
Labor Signs?: Lots of random cramps and tightness all day but nothing constant still.
What I'm looking forward to?: Thursday is the BIG day!
Milestone?: Hmm... biggest milestone this week. Done with work! My last day was Friday. You know things are close when I'm not working anymore. WOOHOO!

Our last trip to the beach before baby gets here. I couldn't even fit in my preggo suit. What's that? Nice gut hanging out you say?! Hey it took a lot of guts for me to put this gut picture up!

Here's a better one of us last week at a Tides baseball game. We went to watch a friend Martin "run the bases" at the end of the game, but I got a little tired. I made it to the 5th inning and called it quits. My attempts to walk the whole game and walk this baby out failed.
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So what are we doing today? Working on the list that I created at 4:30 this morning...plus a few extra things. So since its just been the Giant and I here, we have a few things to get from storage. Like, we need more than two bowls in the house. And, a few extra blankets for beds. Hmm, I won't go through the whole list or you will get horribly bored! OK the Giant's home from the gym so its time to get crackin'. Enough procrastinating.

Back Online [way too early]

It's 6:30 in the morning and I'm awake. No big deal right? Right, people get up this time every day for work. Except, I've been awake since 3:30. Doing what you ask? Nothing. I laid in bed for almost two hours just thinking. Trying to get comfortable. Once finding a comfortable position, trying to decide if I really needed to get up to use the bathroom. Wondering if I should go ahead and wake up to start my day or if the Gods would find favor on me and let me drift back to sleep. No such luck. So after two near misses of my husband's elbow in my face as he tossed and turned every time I tossed and turned, I gave up. Here I am. Laying on the couch, with it still dark outside, wrapped in a blanket, blogging.

But, notice I'm at home blogging?! Yep, we're back to the 21st century. We have internet and all 22 channels of basic cable [which the installation tech told us he never has to put in for younger people, but mostly for old retirees that just watch the news- thanks tech guy- we are broke and actually do like the news]. So, let the catch up begin.

Turning the frown

Here's my quick update that I am begrudgingly writing. Not because I don't want to update you, but because I had so wished I had something different to update with.

First, I had my 38 week appt today. No changes. Still. 1cm. However, I've had my time to sulk and cry and be depressed. I've had a few hours to recoup from my disappoinment and am moving on. Moving on to the idea that apparently baby girl just needs a little more time in there. As Dr. sis said, even though I don't see changes dialation-wise, things are happening. So, I'm trusting that my body is needing more time to prepare and Peapod is getting herself ready for her big debut. Positive thoughts. Positive thoughts. Man, its getting hard. Nothing that I(we) have done has helped so far. Ok, I'm stopping here on this one before I slip back into sad mode. Good thoughts.

Second, my OB scheduled my induction for next week, Wednesday AM which means then Thursday I'll be admitted into the hospital for baby girl's birth. Good part, baby girl is at most one week away from holding. YAY! HUGE YAY! That part hasn't completely hit me yet at all. I'm still thinking about the bummer part, this means I have to change hospitals to one I wasn't crazy about deliverying in because it is much farther away from home and older. I really liked our other hospital Obici. Its brand new and we're comfortable there since that's where we did our birthing class. The staff is wonderful and the facility is immaculate. So I'm still holding out that Peapod will make her appearance sometime this week. PLEASE!!! Switching subjects for real this time...

Third, we still don't have internet at the house- however- good news! We are getting it this weekend!! WOOHOO technology! As of Saturday at noon, we should be revisiting the 21st century sans Redbox movies. Life without internet/tv at home wasn't so bad for a while, until my blackberry called it quits on me leaving me completely technologyless. No good. Not for this Crackberry at least. So, soon and very soon, I'll be back to my bloggity blog ways (with pictures). Excited? Probably not as much as me.

And last but not least, the Giant is back. Not back back because that would have meant he left and has returned. No no. (No thanks to the USAF- different subject). He is back in football mode, in more than one way. Its football season- another big push for getting tv/internet going in the house. And in our house football season isn't just a season, its a way of life. Our schedules completely revolve around who's playing when. (OH boy is he in for a few changes when Peapod comes?!). But so this year, football isn't just on tv for him. Its on the field again, but in a different and waaaay cuter way. He'll be on the sidelines this time as assistant coach of a local middle school (6th-8th grade) football team this season! He is the Offensive Line coach, and they had their first practice yesterday. He expected the worst from these little ones (seriously, I've heard they are little...not in comparison to me I'm sure...just little for middle school boys apparently) based on all he'd heard from the head coach. However, he split the offense into two teams: the bigger/experienced ones and the smaller/lacking experience ones. He took the latter ones to test out and by the end of the first half of practice, the assistant offensive coach he had practicing the bigger boys wanted to switch kids because the smaller ones were catching on faster! :) GO GIANT!! I always knew he'd be a great coach. Even though most of the littler 6th grade boys will be cut, purely due to size, he was happy with the turnout. Practice is every day after school until 6:30. Games are on Wednesdays. I can't wait to take Peapod to these to watch her daddy coach like a big boy. If we weren't ridiculously broke, I'd be that killer coach's wife that makes homemade brownies and brings Caprisuns for after the games. But, yeah that won't be happening. Not this year at least.

That is all for now. How's your post-Labor Day Wednesday going? Wow, that was supposed to be a "quick update." Sorry for the long read with no pictures to break it up for amusement.

Look Who We Saw

BABY MAX!!!

Cheyanne's future play buddy. We finally got to meet this little stud over the weekend and let me tell you, he is precious! All of 11ish pounds and the spitting image of his daddy. It was a nice surprise that the Saia's were coming in town, despite the "destructive" hurricane Earl. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to see them until after Cheyanne's here. Which by the way, she is not yet. I think I might be pregnant for the rest of my life. At least its starting to feel that way. Maybe my long walk last night helped. OK, here's my last picture of me and Max. My cell phone has died and is currently at Verizon trying to be fixed. We'll see. Its pretty d.e.a.d. If not, my bro-in-law is going to give me his old phone tonight and I'll have it up and running tomorrow. Now is NOT a good time to be without a phone!!!

Earl is a Girl

Hurricane Earl... what a dud. Now we have multiple stacked packs of bottled water, a new flashlight, extra batteries, and barely even a puddle to show for us surviving Earl. Oh well. We're going to have a hurricane party anyways- with our lights on and water running



And no hurricane baby yet. Yesterday was my 37 week appointment and no progress. I'm still at 1cm. Disappointed to say the least. I decided to take off work the rest of the day yesterday and today. I was too frustrated yesterday to go back to work and decided I need a full day to myself. None of my walking or other efforts had helped, so, we're stepping up the efforts now. Today, I'm elevating my feet to help this dang swelling. All I can think when I see my swollen feet is the Eddie Murphy version of The Nutty Professor movie when his feet and hands start swelling so much they look like they are about to burst! Elevating seems to be helping a little. I'm also spending the rest of the day getting some final things done around the house. I've cleaned baby girl's window shades. Washed all sheets and towels in the house. Cleaned the kitchen twice. Working on my thank you cards. Lots to do in between propping up the feet. Oh and the Giant brought me to the in laws house for a while while they're at work to use their internet..hehe :) I needed to blog.

Let's see. I have pictures to catch you up on. A random mix of pictures, but ones I obviously haven't been able to upload so here you go.

My daddy made this for little girl

These are here new Kenya sweaters from Aunt T

Her closet so far

Her hospital bag is packed and ready to go!

Her entertainment shelf :)

Our closet sea of pink