Productive Weekend

Madeline and The Wizard had a fun time at the Pumpkin Party on Saturday morning. The bunk bed finally came in, and I picked it up on Saturday afternoon. We then stopped by Blooma's first birthday party, and then on to dinner at the Convention Grill. Saturday night was spent assembling the bunk beds, so Madeline could sleep in her new bed that night (I don't know where the other eleven slept, but I'm sure it was in two straight lines)!

Baby Update

I had an appointment with the midwife on Friday, during which she detected an irregular heartbeat with the Doppler. I had a NST (non-stress test) where we listened to a longer segment of baby's heartbeat, and the midwife was pleased with it. I'm measuring right on, and everything else is looking good. Today we went for an ultrasound, where they were specifically looking for any structural abnormalities in the heart. Baby had several PACs (premature atrial contractions) [which are very common, and usually resolve on their own], but the cardiac chambers and vessels all looked normal. I then had another NST, and the radiologist wants me to have another on Friday (and weekly until baby is born). One really cool thing the sonographer pointed out was that #3 has hair. I could have told you that with the intensity of my heartburn, but nice to be validated.

Two More Shots

Loving Siblings

Here is one of the first pictures I took with our new digital SLR! I'm going to have to figure it out quickly, so #3 doesn't complain as a teenager that "it's so unfair- all (4) of my baby pictures are blurry!" The title of today's post alludes to the fun we've been having recently with A and B's communication difficulties. Apparently it's only around me though, since Grandpa and Grandma took the kids swimming yesterday (MEA break), and they had a wonderful fight-free, whine-free time.

Tuesday

Here is my 37 week belly. It has definitely dropped since this picture was taken. I had a rough night last night, thinking that "this is it" and ready to call my parents over to watch the kids. Then nothing ended up happening. I've got to get out of my head. How do you stop thinking????? I've never been good at that.

We had a nice day at home yesterday, Mike was home for Columbus Day! I had a nice yoga class in the morning, and Mike got the cords of our entertainment center wrangled last evening. Bennett and I had lunch over at Danielle and Henry's today- thanks, D, it is so nice to have someone cook for us. Tonight is my last night volunteering at Blooma for who knows how long.
The kids carved pumpkins on Sunday. We left the mommy and daddy pumpkins to carve for closer to Halloween, but Annalise just couldn't wait to get her's carved.

The Votes are In!

The poll stated that you, my loyal readers, think we're going to have a boy. However, Mike had a dream last night that we had a girl, so that trumps all of you! He also dreamt that I immediately wanted to go on vacation after giving birth- does he know me, or what?

Oh, BTW, I made it to weekly appointments!

We'll see if I actually make it to my first weekly appointment, scheduled for Friday the 17th. I'm pretty excited to even have made it to the scheduling of weeklies!

36 week visit

We had an appointment with the midwife yesterday. Baby is measuring right on, and is head-down. Heartbeat was in the 150's. Although I'm not going to have this baby until November 1st, I am ready to go at any time. My bag is packed, and I've gotten all the big things done that I wanted to get done. Bennett has been sleeping in his big boy bed since Sunday night, and it went flawlessly. He did fall out of bed, around the railing on maybe Monday or Tuesday night, but we've since put a feather bed on the hardwood floor to break his fall, if he should repeat that stunt. Annalise has been sleeping on a mattress on her floor, since she gave up her bed to her brother, awaiting her bunk bed, which should be coming this weekend.

Bennett starts block time tomorrow, where he'll be at his "school" from 9 until 1 every Friday. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself tomorrow, but once the baby comes, it will be nice to maybe take a nap with the baby, and not have to leave the house until 12:30 to pick up Bennett. We'll be getting our pumpkins on Saturday, and might go to a Fire Station open house on Sunday, but otherwise I think we're ready for a low-key weekend.

Aachchk!

I just noticed this is the first day my baby ticker is in the final box! Woah...I'd better go pack my hospital bag.