34 Weeks

Well, we are at 34 weeks today, we can't believe that we only have 6 more weeks until we can meet our little one! I have been feeling much better this week with the virus out of my system. Unfortunately, I have started to get heartburn and swollen feet on a regular basis. So tums and foot rubs have become my new favorite things. I also have poison ivy from head to toe, but it is slowly subsiding! We continue to work on the nursery and I am happy to say that it appears that I will be getting the carpet is finally ordered!! Which makes me feel so much better. I sure have become cheap the older that I get. We recieved alot of rain and had a beautiful rainbow over our house, just thought that I would share the picture below.

33 Weeks

Only 7 more weeks to go! AHHHH!!! We are getting anxious excited and anxious nervous at the same time. We are working on getting the nursery ready, I sure hope we can get everything done before the baby arrives! We have taken out the old door, trim and carpet. John and my Mom stained the door and trim and John has finished varnishing everything. The room is painted and my friend Lara is going to come and help us paint grass and clouds (should be SUPER cute) and the final thing we are working on is getting carpet ordered so it can be installed hopefully soon!!

In this picture you will first of all see my MESSY house due to me laying on the couch for 4 days. Then you will see Ace sitting right next to me and Gaddie in the background. We have been training Ace with an electric in ground boundary fence. We put this in the week before we left for our trip and he is not sure what the heck is going on. He can't go and run around anymore! Since John is the one training him, he wants nothing to do with him, so he is right by me as he knows that I won't be the one to do that to him :) Hopefully he will adjust to this though and figure things out so that when the baby does arrive, I can just let him out and not worry about him running into the woods!

The only other change is that I can't wear both my wedding and engagement rings anymore. I have been just wearing my wedding band, but I am thinking that it may be best to just find a fake one that is a bigger size so that I don't have to have any of them cut off! How sad!

Our Trip to Chicago! (32 weeks)

Last weekend we went to Chicago to meet Beth and Ben for the weekend! As you can see we made it to a game at Wrigley field to watch the Twins play! The trip was alot of fun! We did different sight seeing and even gave into our temptation for a bite of their pizza. (John and I took out pizza and french fries back in March until after the baby arrived.) But, we couldn't resist trying Chicago pizza!! Although there was a lot of walking, it was great to spend some time with Beth and Ben and we are looking forward to our next years trip, whatever that may be!

We decided to fly to Chicago so that I wouldn't have to sit in the car for hours and get there in an hour from the cities... on the way home I must have caught something on the plane. I caught some sort of flu bug and have been laying around since I got home on Sunday. I went to the Dr. on Monday and they admitted me into the Family Birthing Center for stress tests on the baby due to decreased fetal movement and high temperature. Although, things with the tests went really good! The baby had a great strong heart beat and was super active once I was hooked up to everything. I went back in again on Tuesday to see my regular Dr. who had me get a ton of lab work done and everything came back indicating that I had a virus that I just had deal with and let it work itself out. Every day has been getting better!

31 Weeks

Here I am at 31 weeks!

28 Weeks

Here is a picture of John and I at our birthing class that we attended! John was able to wear the belly, however he sat pretty much the entire time, so I don't feel too bad for him! He was a good sport though. I think he was pretty excited to do it... MEN!

One new thing that started around 28 weeks was dizzy/faint spells. I have continued to get these however not as frequently. They were happening once a day for about 5-30 minutes depending on the day and what I had or didn't have to eat. When I asked the Dr. about it, she says it has something to do with low blood sugar and that there was nothing that I could do about it during pregnancy as if they wanted to do testing it may put the baby at harm. So, I have been trying to eat a lot of natural sugars and of course a few DQ treats every now and then! This is the opposite problem of gestational diabetes.