Mommy-9 months Pregnant

Dear Baby Boy, 

Here is your Mommy 9 months pregnant with you.  Only 3 weeks left until we get to welcome you to the world.  We can't wait to meet you. 

Love, Mommy & Daddy

3 Weeks to Go!

The weekly doctors appointments have begun and remember in the last post when I said that I hadn't had any leg cramps yet--well, that is no longer the case---Yay! another pregnancy symptom.  Other than the "normal" symptoms I'm experiencing everything is going well. My blood pressure is still good, baby's heart rate is good, I'm measuring 37 weeks and I am 36 weeks, so the baby is growing well and is packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. He could weigh about 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and may be more than 18 1/2 inches long. He's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected his skin during his nine-month amniotic bath.

The Ninth Month

OMG it is finally here!  The last month of pregnancy.  The baby is almost full term and I start going to the doctor weekly starting this Friday.  Here is "What to Expect When your Expecting" tells me I should be feeling this month:

• Changes in fetal activity (more squirming and less kicking)--YES
• Constipation--Not too much
• Heartburn, indigestion, flatulence, and bloating--YES
• Headaches and Dizziness--No
• Nasal congestion and ear stuffiness--Sometimes
• Sensitive Gums--YES
• Leg Cramps at night-No (thank goodness--I had theses with Chloe and literally woke up screaming)
• Increased backache and heaviness--YES to the heaviness
• Buttock and pelvic discomfort-No
• Increased swelling of ankles, feet, hands, and face--YES
• Itchy abdomen, protruding navel--YES, but my belly button is just flat --so wierd
• Stretch Mark--Sadly YES
• Varicose Veins--No
• Hemorrhods--I don't think so, but I guess I would know it if I did
• More frequent urination--YES
• Increased difficulty sleeping--Yes and No--Lately I've been sleeping Ok, but am so tired all the time still
• Increasing clumsiness and difficulty getting around--Yes
• Extra fatigue or extra energy (nesting syndrome), or alternating periods of each--YES on the fatigue, I've decided to hire professionals to do the nesting for me.
• Increase in appetite or loss of appetite--YES on the increase
• More excitement, more anxiety, more apprehension, and more absentmindedness-YES
• Relief that you are almost there--No relief still seems a long way off
• Irritability and oversensitivity--YES if you ask Ami
• Impatience and restlessness--YES
• Dreaming and fantasizing about the baby--YES

I have been really bad about taking belly pictures--but here is where we are now!  That's one big belly:

We've also been finishing the nursery.  I made a bulletin board using some of Ami's old baseball, football, and basketball cards.

Ami also hung these box shelves that match the colors of the room.

And we finally built the hutch and put it on top of the dresser, so now we have a changing table for the baby.  

There is not too much left to do in the nursery.  It will have a touch of a sports theme as we have decided to hang some sports banners--Ami's Lakers and Dodgers penants, and I ordered a Cardinals penant to hang so he'll grow up at least liking one local team and of course there will be an ASU penant up somewhere. 

Movin' and Shakin' : Week 33

Our baby boy is the size of a honeydew this week and may grow up to a full inch this week alone.

His brain is developing like crazy. Pretty soon, he'll be able to coordinate breathing with sucking and swallowing. Also, his bones are hardening, and he's started to keep his eyes open when he's awake.  He seems to like to be wide awake at 10:30pm at night when my belly starts moving and grooving with elbows, hands, and feet pushing in all directions.  Sometimes it feels as if he is going to burst right out of my belly button.  I can't believe we still have 6 weeks to go  I'm starting to think I will never make it that long. I'm trying to keep myself busy at work and at home trying to turn Chloe's room into a big girl room as well as get the nursery ready.  The waiting game continues for me and the little honeydew!
 

What to do with the walls

I spent some time tonight putting stuff away in the baby's room and the bare walls and blank slate of ideas in my head are driving me nuts.  I think the theme of the room will be a boy theme....nothing specific like monkeys or sports.  It is kinda like Chloe's room--which is just girly--but I tied it all together with a floral theme--but what do you use to tie it all together for a boy.  I'm starting to think that I'm going to go with the name in some sort of decal or lettering behind the crib and found this decal from Dali Decals.  Don't know what the letter or the name will be so I'll have to wait until after the baby comes to order and install if I decide to go with this.  I think the letter would be in Navy Blue and the name in Olive Green to match the decor of the room. 

Babies in Hats

My mom recently had a good chuckle when her phone buzzed at 4am and it was an email of one of my blog updates--she thought--"Oh Kelly must not be able to sleep and is blogging"  I assured her I was not blogging at 4am and that there was a delay in the time that I post the blog and when it is automatically emailed out to those that subscribe.  But today, on a day where I actually could sleep in since Chloe is spending the night at Grandma's House, I find myself blogging at 5:50am.  I've actually been up since 4:30am and about 1/2 an hour ago decided to get up and do what everyone else does when they can't sleep--cruise the web. 

I have been thinking about our baby's first photo shoot--I know there will be one in the hospital and then we will most likely do a full photo shoot when the baby is about 2 weeks old or so.  I just love these little hats so much--the trouble is picking which one to order.





Love the little monkey and this one below in baby boy Kron's nursery colors.



I think I might like this set the best.



Any grandma's out there want to take a stab at crocheting or kniting a cute hat for your grandson???--hint hint. 

Green is the New Pink!

We tried to buy most of our baby stuff in gender neutral themes or tones, but it is hard to have a little girl and not have some pink things.  One of those things was the cradle bumper.  I thought I would use my handy dandy sewing machine and try to cover the bumper for cheaper than buying a new one in "boy" colors. 

Before:  Too girly for our little man to rest his head.

After:  Green and Great--just a perfect first bed for our baby boy.

I just basically made a long pillowcase for the bumper. The hard part was actually making all the ties--I had to make 24 of them. 

Now onto the next baby project--I'm going to make a bulletin board using some of Ami's old baseball cards.