37 weeks. A full term baby!

Yay! We officially have a full term baby boy! Still 3 more weeks till he is due but it is nice to know that he could come any day and be okay.

New for this week:

• Dane has "dropped". I woke up on Monday and looked completely different then the day before. I also waddle more and need to know where the restroom is at all times
• Started the weekly doctors appointments. Everything looks good.
• Purchased a breast pump. One sided and manual. Will I really need this?
• My hospital bag is ready to go.
• Things I still need: a boppy pillow, swing or bouncy chair(?).
• I'm excited and getting ready for my friend Stephanie's baby shower. She is my neighbor, in the same ward, and due 5 days after me with a little baby boy that will be named Roan. Cool ha?
• Car seat is installed.

You can really tell in this picture that he has dropped...

Merry Christmas to me!

This may be my favorite Christmas gift. Thank you Aaron!

Enjoy...

...the "Hoodie-Footie"

I know you want your own!

I kind of want to get one of these for all my girl friends so we can have a Hoodie-Footie party

I know, I know, way sexy ;-)

Seriously though, they are so comfortable. Aaron may regret getting these for me.


With other news, we went on a bike ride today and it was wonderful.

I got several funny looks but it felt so nice to be riding again.


Oh, and I think I might have "dropped". I have a Dr. appointment tomorrow and I'll ask him but my belly looks way different today then yesterday. It's getting close! I'll post a pic tomorrow.

35 Weeks

35 Weeks! Crazy!


(30 weeks)
Update:

• Feeling good!
• The nursery is ready
• I'm having a lot of braxton hicks contractions
• Weight gain has slowed down.
  
• Starting every week dr. appointments next week
• Pulled out a bag to start packing it for the hospital. Any suggestions with this?
• Christmas decorations are up!
  
• Dane is very active. I think I'm going to miss feeling all his wiggles.
• I waddle.
  
• Birth plan written up

Seems like everyone I talk to tells me about how I am in the worst part of pregnancy and how it will be the worst month of my life. I almost feel guilty that I still feel relatively good and that I am really enjoying being pregnant. Sure I have a lot of the aches and pains and sleepless nights and the ever expanding body but I just think that being pregnant is the coolest experience ever. I am so grateful to be able to carry our little Dane.

We are very excited to meet him!

We got a new camera...

and this is my favorite picture so far...



I couldn't stop laughing. Needless to say, the shutter speed is very fast :-)

30 weeks, maternity pics, and belly pics.

30 weeks! Yikes! (actually I'm now 31 weeks but I did take my 30 week pics last week. I'm just now getting around to this post)

It's hard to believe that our son will be joining us in 9 weeks. I have been really enjoying carrying him and love him so much already. Aaron and I have been busy getting ready for this little guy and hope to have the nursery done in the next couple weeks. All the hard stuff is done and I'm just working on the sewing now. I'll do a nursery post soon.

While on our vacation in Miami we had some family/maternity pictures taken and here are a couple sneak peaks. I haven't seen them all yet and will post more when I get the cd.




I don't really look that big from the front but then I turn to the side and you get this...

(that picture didn't turn out that great. It was a dark rainy day)

(25 weeks for comparison)

Big difference in the last 5 weeks, ha?

Here is my 30 week list:

• We have a name! Well, all most. His name will be Dane Christensen and we just need to finalize the middle name.
• I feel heavy. It's a lot harder to get around.
• No swelling...yet
• I have an "outie"
  
• My baby shower is THIS weekend! I can't believe that I'm about to have a baby shower!
• I've been eating to much ice-cream/frozen yogurt.
  
• Just need to finish the bumper and dust ruffle and two pillows and the sewing for the nursery will be done
• We took our birthing class and it was great! I feel excited and prepared for labor (as prepared as you can be I guess)
• The most common comment I'm getting "When is your due date again? Wow, I don't think you're going to make it" -Lol, nice way to make a girl feel small ;-)
• Nesting has started. Actually started about 3 weeks ago. Isn't that to early? Poor Aaron.
• Every now and then he will get in a position where he is sitting on my sciatica nerve and I can't walk. Ouch!
• Dane is really active and strong. I'm starting to be able to recognize where body parts are.
• He gets hiccups :-)
• I dressed him up as a basketball for Halloween since that is what everyone says he looks like. His Daddy was a basketball player.
• Sleeping at night? Not so much.
• I get a lot of offers to help me with things. I guess that is the up side of looking so big:-)
• Finished my glucose test. It wasn't that bad. I did just fine.
• I can't seem to remember anything! I apologize now if I was supposed to call you back or show up to something and I don't. I have a serious case of pregnancy brain.
• I'm so excited for the Holidays!

We are in the market for a new camera. Any recommendations? We want a pretty good one.

That's it for now. I think I'll start taking my belly pics every two weeks now since we are getting close to D-Day.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Here is a lazy post about our Halloween festivities so far (pictures in a completely random order, sorry)

We won best family costume at our ward Halloween party.

This was our big competition for the costume contest. They won best adult costume and really deserved it. She made all of their costumes! So cute.

Mama Bee and baby Sunflower aka Shawna and Shye.

Anaheim 4th ward peeps

The Walks threw a really fun Halloween party and everyone dressed up! Here are the boys fighting it out at the donut eating contest.

Back to the ward party for a pic of the girls (minus Rachel...we missed you).

One of the YW was dressed as a referee and so we grabbed her for some pics. I'm pretty sure she thought we were crazy.

Now back to the Walk's party, the night ended with a little Rock Band.

Aaron tells me this is the "triple threat" pose...what ever that is.

What did you dress up as for Halloween?

25 Weeks

Well, it looks like my blogging has been reduced to an every 5 week event. It's not because there isn't anything to blog about but more like we are so busy that I just don't have time.

I got a little bit of anxiety when I looked at my pregnancy ticker and it said we have less then 15 weeks left. I have a feeling these last 14 weeks will go by a lot faster than the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

25 Weeks picture

2o weeks picture for comparison.

It doesn't really look like I've gotten much bigger since 20 weeks but that can't be right. I feel so much bigger and heavier. It is getting harder to maneuver.

Oh, and for all of you wondering if I am naked in these pictures, I'm not. You can kind of see in the top one I am wearing a black t-shirt and black yoga pants.


At 25 weeks I:

• am starting to feel pretty big
• have pretty text book weight gain. Not under not over.
• have painted the nursery & prepped the chair rails to go up.
• started the stroller selection process. It is a little traumatizing, I'm not going to lie.
• am still craving green grapes but now I can't stop thinking about Costco's chocolate dipped ice-cream bar.
• Experienced my first swollen ankles. This happened when we flew to Miami, luckily they went back down pretty fast.
• Have increased my working out. I figured it is only going to get harder so I might as well do what I can when I can.
• We are pretty close to a name decision.
• am enjoying all of the kicks and wiggles from this active little boy.
• can recognize his sleep cycles. So neat!
• am enjoying singing in the OCMCO! He seems to love listening to the music.
  
• am itchy. Really just around my belly button and bio-oil helps with it.
• will have an outie pretty soon:)
• starting to try to figure out someone to take newborn pics. Any suggestion?

That's it for now.

I also wanted to thank everyone for their registering suggestions. They are great! We will be making our first trip to register this week. Hopefully we are less overwhelmed then when we went to look at strollers. While we are on the topic, any suggestions on strollers?

Next post: Our Miami trip! Be prepared for some pregnant lady bathing suit pictures.