32 weeks!

Another good doctor's appointment today... Baby is still head-down, with a good strong heartbeat, and VERY active. Mommy is doing well too, good blood pressure, and my weight is still well on track, only gained 1lb since the last appointment. The doctor said that she'll strip my membranes at 38 weeks if I'm ready, so I'm very excited about that. If you don't know what "strip my membranes" means, then chances are it would gross you out, so we'll just say it should make me go into labor within a few days. So I'm excited, that's going to be around July 29th, so she may even be here by the end of July!

Not much else going on, just working on getting ready for kiddo to be here, we put together her cute Boppy seat and her pack 'n play this weekend, so now she has places to "play" once she gets here. The dogs are pretty curious about all the new stuff that keeps showing up, I can tell that they like her toys, they keep trying to steal them, especially the stuffed mushroom, that's Catfish's favorite... he's still learning that the baby's toys are not toys he can play with, although I'm sure I'll get over that soon enough.... it's like trying to get the dogs to not lick the baby, it just isn't going to happen.

I got a new sewing machine this weekend, so I'm going to go play with that now, gotta re-learn how to sew so I can start my baby-things-making business!

Wedding Day!

Not ours of course.... today we're going to Alabama to go to my friend Megan's wedding. Baby Claire is excited to get to kick Charlie again, and I can't wait to see all my old friends from college, should be fun!!

We also get to go pick up our pack 'n play today, thanks to the nice lady at Babies R Us that finally found a store that still had a few left, since it's been discontinued. I almost hugged her when she found it.... yep, it's the little things that make me happy now, so a new pack 'n play is right up my alley.

I think tomorrow I'm going to get a sewing machine, I've decided to start a business making cute personalized baby stuff, just have to figure out exactly how to do that... and contrary to popular belief (mom and Aaron) , yes, I do remember how to sew, I just need a machine to do it on! I'm pretty excited about the whole idea!

We go back to the doctor on Tuesday for the 32 week checkup, can't believe she'll be here in 8 weeks!! We're having another ultrasound this week to see how everything is going, and to see how she's positioned, hopefully still head-down! We'll see how it goes!

Less than 10 weeks left!!

Back to the doctor again yesterday.... pretty typical appointment now, they just help pass the time a little faster. Baby Claire's heartrate was good, around 160 bpm, and my blood pressure is still good, and the weight gain is still under control, so everything is going well! I'm pretty firmly convinced that she's got one of her feet hooked around my ribs, just to make it easier for her to kick me, she's getting REALLY strong, some of the kicks actually feel lke they're moving my whole body. She's also managed to irritate a few of my nerves, so I've got a pretty uncomfortable tingly spot on the top of my belly. The belly, by the way, now resembles a little basketball, it's getting pretty big!
This past weekend Aaron's cousin Michelle and Aunt Shiree threw me a baby shower, it was lots of fun, and we got all kinds of cute stuff for the baby, and now finally have a mattress for the crib. Then I found out today that Babies R Us has discontinued my pack 'n play, so I'm a little mad about that, but I guess I'll just have to pick out a new one!
Another appointment in two weeks, ultrasound and another doctor's appointment, so we'll see how she's doing then, so far so good! Only 69 days left!!