36 weeks...

seems crazy that its finally so close! I had a little scare this last week and I hadn't felt the baby move for a while, I kept thinking I'd start feeling her freak out at any given moment and Id stop worrying. I called my Dr and asked when should I start worrying, I told him it had been since the day before, he told me to go in and get checked, and he thought everything was probably OK but just to be sure.  Well as soon as I got to the the hospital of course I started feeling her move again.  Things were fine and normal. 

I had a Dr. appt today I am at 36 weeks and I am now 2 cm. and 75% thinned. I went from a 1 to a 2 and from 50% to 70% from last week.  I was happy that I had had some progress. I have contractions all the time, but that is so normal for me it just gets old after awhile. Things are going well. She is super low and is head down. I am thinking she will come any time.  and sooner rather then later. We shall see! my hands and feet fall asleep all the time so easily! She must be cutting off some type of blood flow becuase shes so low.

Can't wait to see what she will look like and how everthing will go! The fun part is almost here! Can't wait.

These pictures are before church yesterday, after having a beautiful week last week sunday was freezing!

{Warning} not for the weak stomach

This is a post about Williams accident the pic is bad but doesn't even do it justice, also it was taken with my cell phone.

Saturday was a very traumatic day. I am finally getting better when I think about it so I'm ready to post the story and pic for all to see...

William was trying to get crayons  out of the cupboard when Brandon and I herd a loud crash to the floor and a horrifying scream.... We both ran in the kitchen to see what had happened and when Brandon picked William up he said oh shoot! or something like that? I knew it had to be bad from Brandon's reaction but I wasn't prepared for what I was about to see. I grabbed William from Brandon turned him to face me and saw the damage! I said we are going somewhere NOW.... Brandon ran up stairs to grab his shoes, I saw two teeth just kinda sitting in his mouth, totally knocked out! root and all. That freaked me out. I grabbed them out of his mouth and put them in a zip lock bag. We threw both boys in the car and I called my family to start helping me find a place to take him! We didn't know where we were headed we just knew he needed some help. I was freaking out inside.  I was trying to hold it together, My poor baby was being so strong and saying it hurts mama. I sat next to his car seat in the back of the van.  He was bleeding like crazy! I had blood all over my shirt, on my face and arms, and all over him. We ended up taking him to a dentist I had just made an appointment with earlier this month for both the boys to go to for the first time.  Their first appt. was scheduled for the very next week.  Being as it was a Saturday and no one was working he meet us at his office just for us.  William was SO brave and did so awesome.  We took X-rays and determined his permanent teeth didn't look damaged. we couldn't do anything about the teeth that had come clean out, and we just have to wait for it all to heal before he can be fitted for some false teeth. like 5 weeks!!  The dentist wrote us a prescription for an antibiotic in case it got infected and we were good to go. The dentist was great and if anyone is looking for a ped. dentist it's Johnson Dentistry. 

He is having a hard time pronouncing some words and is having a hard time eating regular foods.  I just want to hold him and protect him and never let him do anything, I want to let him have ice cream and Popsicles for breakfast lunch and dinner.  It breaks my heart when I look at it. and 5 weeks is going to be an eternity! He has bounced back pretty well and we have to keep reminding him to be more careful. He gets frustrated when he tries to eat and it hurts his gums, and he cant do it.  He says when I get my teeth back I'll be able to eat in the middle again.

The other middle tooth has about a 50% chance of making it, we might just have to pull it out, but we are waiting and seeing what happens to it first.

feeding the ducks

 We had our Cousin Lilly with us for a few days last week.  William keeps talking about going to her house to play. He doesn't quite understand they live farther away then a little trip across town. This was one day last week when the weather was great and the kids enjoyed feeding the ducks.  William also enjoyed some of his bread.

Andrea's shower

yes I am behind on posting things...

2 weeks ago I helped with hosting Andrea (my sister in law that is due only days after me) baby shower.  It was held at my parents house...

 part of the dessert table. adorable. Andy's sister did the desserts.

 Mallory wearing her wrap -titan. haha

horrible pic (sorry)  the guest of honor her self. Andy opening her presents.

 Brandon brought by my handsome boys a little later in the day.

 adorable claire and her mommy

after the shower festivities dies down all our family stayed and hung out the whole day, it was a beautiful day, the kids were running around and we all enjoyed the sun shine.  This is Lucas and bailee playing catch together.

 William using his tennis racket as a guitar.

feeding the masses! we had amillion children running around together all day, this was the very end of a LONG day for them eating some pizza.

one random morning

for got I took these pictures a couple weeks ago, thought id post some... Ive been bad at taking pictures of my children lately, I do love looking back at pictures like this and seeing them in there every day activities... this was one morning after we woke up and started playing with toys before breakfast... love that this little barn has gotten so much use out of it! I picked it up at a garage sale before we even had William. :)

 William loves his Lego's and he often attaches his "army guys" to things in this case they are turtles haha! ... I swear the little one dollar bag of army guys is so worth every penny! they play with them all the time. :)

34 weeks

pic of me before church on Sunday. a little blurry but you can still see the bump. I feel like I haven't really gotten bigger in months. but that's what I do. I get massive and then slow down a bit and let everyone else catch up. :)

I had a Doctor appointment today.  I am only 34 weeks but I also got checked. I have been thinking about this appt for three weeks now wondering if I would be anything at my appt or if I even wanted to be? I knew it was early and the likely hood of of dilating or thinning was slim but still it's always exciting when you here something right?  Well today at my appt I was 50% thinned and 1 cm dilated.  for 34 weeks I'll take it! As all of you moms know that may or may not mean ANYthing. haha... but still it's always fun.  I have another appt in two weeks on Monday the 19th. I will be checked again then and we will see if anything has happened in two weeks. I will be 36 weeks then.  It's all happening so fast and it's getting exciting. Still doest really seem real yet and I still have a hard time remembering she is a girl.  William asks all the time about the baby and he tells me that when she's a pumpkin he will have his baby sister! We look up on baby center .com what size of fruit she is all the time.  Last week she was a pineapple and he thought it was funny every time we saw one at the store.  This week she is a cantaloupe.  Baby center says she is 4 and 3/4 lbs and 18 inches long! wow... seems like shes about ready to me! so crazy!

Lucas the big boy....

 This is how you will find Lucas these days....

(I should have gotten a picture where he was wearing little briefs... his butt is so tiny I cant help but squeeze it.)

Unless he looks like this....

I picked up this costume a year or more ago at a garage sale its like a size 7 or something and my boys have to wear it all the time!

He'll be two at the END of April. April 29th. He is so little and he is a rock star! I can not take any credit for the way my boys are sometimes! Lucas pretty much potty trained himself. He refused to wear anything but undies on Thursday morning when he woke up so I let him. then again on Friday as well! I told Brandon I guess we are actually doing this! He has been awesome! He had a couple accidents the first two days, and nothing since. He went to church in his undies on Sunday and all Monday he was fine as well. So I think it's safe to say he is potty trained!? I have been dreading this post, because I'm sure as soon as I post it he'll digress or something. I don't want to jinx my self but he continues to do so well! We have gone on a few outing, including walmart today. He tells me when he needs to go potty. He is obsessed with undies and hates when he has to wear clothes that cover them up. He likes to change his undies several times a day so he can wear a newer cooler pair that are sitting in his drawer. So my son is obsessed with shoes and undies and is often found with just both of those things on. A pair of boots and undies, or any kind of shoe for that matter. I hope he continues to surprise us and do well! I am still putting diapers on him at night when he goes to sleep, but the past two mornings has woken up dry and told me he needed to go potty. for his naps he does fine too! It's crazy to me! I realise he is not normal, and again I can not take credit for it as much as Id like to think I have something to do with it. ha! love my little man!

Baby shower

A HUGE Thank you to my sister Mallory for throwing me and Sarah our joint shower last weekend! Thank you to those of you that could make it! We are starting our collection of Girly things and it's making it a little more real!

These pictures may get a little confusing as no one is ever holding their own children! :)

 Yummy food, we had Hawiian Hay stacks and cream puffs

Lucas was my little helper while opening gifts. This pic is aweful of me, not to mention it has a horrible on camera flash, and lucas has one of Williams shoes on! haha... (he is obsessed with shoes!)

 Sarah with her "helper" It's one of our friends little boys, he was just loving on Sarah, he is so sweet. It was getting her even more excited to have a little boy.

 The name of this shower was BABY! we had so many little ones there!

It's always so fun to see long time friends and catch up. Thanks again Mallory for Hosting, and planing!

THE NURSERY

my 15 dollar changing table I got off of craigslist, gave it a little 3 dollar make over and wala.

 changing pad cover

 another changing pad cover

 crib skirt and front piece of bumper

 side of bumper

 I recovered the ottoman to match. plus it was SO dirty. :)

 Pillows

 a little quilt I made.

 One side of the room.

 The other side of the room.

 The adorable table and chairs the boys got for Christmas matches perfectly in here! and I am still going to go and get a matching center curtain panel! :) on my to do list.

 Blankets to match the bedding

 an old Whinny the Pooh lamp that was in my sisters get rid of pile I spray painted and gave new life.

 basket liner I made.

 curtain panels

There are things I don't love about this bedding, I was originally going to do the nursery in a smaller room and then changed my mind and put it in this room.  which has two big windows.  So the material I was going to use for the curtains I needed to change and it needed to stretch! So I don't love them. there are little things Id do differently, and there is nothing on the walls yet.  I have more fabric I plan to make more things with if time permits and I get them done. I would LOVE a huge vinyl tree on the wall, and a few other craft projects I have in mind, something for all her hair bows and headbands to go on and her name on the wall... among other things. :)