Baby Update

The time is drawing near for this little boy to make his way into the world.  I had a doctor's appt this morning and the nurse practitioner was a little concerned because my blood pressure was a little high.  This along with not being able to get an accurate measurement on how big he is prompted them to do an ultrasound.  Thankfully the ultrasound showed the he is doing great and when they checked my blood pressure afterwards it was back down again.  With the measurements that they took they are estimating that he weighs about 7lbs 11 oz right now.  My next appt is scheduled for next Thursday at 4pm and they are talking about scheduling an induction if he has not come by then.  I'm really hoping that he comes on his own but at least the end is in sight.

Over the weekend I was able to get all of his clothes, burp cloths, bibs and bedding washed and last night I put together my bag for the hospital so we are ready for him to come anytime.

We have not been taking the belly shots like we did with Emma so while mom and dad were up over the weekend mom took this one of me.  Not the best but it is at least something to record how big I have gotten with him.

 These are some pictures of the nursery. 

 38 Week ultrasound.  It kind of looks like he is going to have a head of hair.  Go figure our little girl had almost no hair until she was like 18 months old and our boy will more then likely be born with a full head of hair.

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope that everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.  Since I'm pretty close to my due date and pretty uncomfortable everybody came up to visit us this year.  Mom and Dad came up on Thursday and stayed until Saturday.  Barbara, Wes and the kids came up on Friday and Vince came over on Sunday.

With the Sander family together we decided to take the opportunity to make some holiday cookies which is something that we always did growning up.  Emma and Aubrey helped a little but they were more interested in playing then making cookies. 

Thursday Mom, Emma and I made some puppy chow and chocolate/carmel chip cookies along with decorating some sugar cookies that Mom, Barbara and Aubrey had made the weekend before.  Then on Friday we made Turtles and peanut butter kiss cookies.  We also finished decorating the rest of the sugar cookies. 

Chocolate/Carmel Chip Cookies

 Turtles

Grandma helping the kids put a floor puzzle together.

 Mom and dad brought up a twin air mattress for mom to sleep on and then dad was going to share Emma's bed.  Well Emma decided that she wanted to sleep on the air mattress and that mom and dad could just have her bed.  This is how she was when I went in to check on her in the morning.  She is clutching the teddy bear that she made for her little brother.

 

There is a second post below.

Garage Project

When we moved into our house 4 years ago (Hard to believe we have lived there that long) the garage had drywall up but that was the extent of it.  Vince has been wanting to finish out the garage since we moved in and Drew decided that it was time to get it done.  The baby's room is on the other side of the garage and Drew wanted to make sure the walls were sealed up to be on the safe side.  This project started going on 2 months ago and I'm proud to say that besides a little clean up it is finally finished.

I forgot to get any pictures of what it looked like before the project was started but I think that it looks a lot better now that it is done and we ended up with a little more storage space which is always nice.

This is the garage with all of the drywall patch up.  As you can see we had just started to paint when I took the pictures.

 All finished painting and the shelves are up.  We still need to get some of the stuff put back up against the walls so that the car will fit back into the garage but at least the van fits. 

Overall it was good to get the project done and it is nice to have the extra storage space.  I think that what I'm grateful for the most though is not having to scrap frost off the van in the mornings any more.

Welcome to the Family

Awhile back Drew and I told Emma that we would take her to Build a Bear so that she could make a special friend for her baby brother.  Last week Drew told Emma that we could go on Sunday.  Well it turned out that Drew ended up working a 13 hour shift on Saturday night/Sunday morning because of some daysifters calling in sick.  He did not want to disappoint Emma so when he got home we went to Build a Bear.  To say that he was dead on his feet was an understatement.  We got back home around 2:30 and Drew went straight to bed and slept until around midnight. 

Without further delay let me welcome the newest addition to our family. Emma named him Winnie the Pooh.

 When I took the picture of Pooh Emma wanted her picture taken as well so this is Emma with Pooh and her buddy George.

Happy Halloween

Hope everybody had an enjoyable Halloween.  Emma had a good time going out Trick or Treating but I think that she had an even better time being able to hand out candy to others.  I heard several people say how cute it was that she was the one handing out candy. 

Sherif Emma.   Unfortunately I cut off her feet but she had the cowboy boots and all.

Pumpkin number 2. Since the first pumpkin was carved so early it had gotten really moldy so we threw it way and got a new one.

 

We went out Trick or Treating after Supper last night but since it was cold we only went down the street and back.  Then we told Emma that she could hand out candy to anybody that came to the house.  She sat right by the door waiting for the door bell to ring.  When we told her it was time to go to bed she told us that if anybody else came to the door she would get up and answer it.