Waiting

39 weeks and we wait and wonder if this baby will decide to join us before next Thursday. Based on the exams from my recent dr appointments this baby is pretty cozy and I am not showing any signs of labor. So it seems March 3rd is the day. Which is good because it has given me more time to run last minute errands and get a few things done to get ready. But I have been stocking up on things like we are not going to leave the house for weeks. ha! Today I had to remind myself we are having a baby there is not a winter storm coming.

We are getting very excited and enjoying our last weekend as a family of 3. We are relaxing and enjoying this nice weather and plan to take James to the movies this afternoon to see Gnomeo and Juliet. I want him to do something fun before our family makes a big change. James seems to be getting very excited about meeting his new brother or sister. He definitely is well aware that there is a baby in my tummy and he loves to kiss the baby (or my tummy). He prefers to kiss it bare skin so in public I have to remind him that I am not lifting up my shirt for him to kiss the baby :) And believe it or not the photo below was taken with my new iphone...

This past week a friend of mine finished James' big brother shirt. I thought it turned out so cute and the coordinating little brother and little sister onesie's turned out great as well. I did not photo the onesies since it would reveal the names :) 

I worry about how James is going to react to the new addition and hope that I can continue to show him that my love for him is just the same as it has always been. He will always be my baby. But I have also realized that he continues grow and is becoming such a big boy. He goes to the bathroom with very little assistance, he dresses and undresses himself with very little assistance and he really helps around the house picking up his clothes and throwing things in the trash and now beginning to help his daddy in the yard. He loves to be helpful so I think he will love to help take care of his little brother/sister. 

36 Weeks

Seriously I cannot believe I am 36 weeks AND we have set an induction date for March 3rd unless this little one decides to join us before. That is exactly one month away!! We had an ultrasound this week to check on a few things, nothing too concerning, so I didn't complain about "seeing" this precious baby one more time before we meet him or her. The baby weighs approx 6lbs so should be around 8 or 8 1/2 pounds at birth, just like its big brother :) We tried to get a 3D sneak peek at its sweet face but he or she would not move its arm away from the front of its face. Had it there the entire time. The same arm was in the exact same spot last time we had an ultrasound. I am wondering if this baby is going to love having its arm by its forehead even after it is born which may make it difficult to swaddle him or her while sleeping. Swaddling was a life saver for sleeping when James was a newborn...

Again in less than 4 weeks we are going to have a new addition to our family and we will no longer be a family of 3. The time has passed so quickly with this pregnancy. When I first found out we were going to have another baby I was excited for the obvious reasons but also I was excited because I had this blog which I did not start until James was around 18 months. I thought it was going to so great to document this pregnancy with frequent pictures of my growing belly and all the crazy things that come with pregnancy. Well I have failed...I think I have a total of 4 or 5 pictures of my baby bump after 36 weeks. I am such a slacker and the time has just gotten away from me. Well here is a picture at 36 weeks...hopefully I can manage to post at least one more before it is gone.

I am actually measuring 38 weeks. I have consistently measured 2 weeks ahead the entire time and as I have documented before I have gotten several comments from several people I know and don't know about how big my belly is. And believe me at this point in the pregnancy there is no need to remind me. The sleepless nights, the out of breath moments, the exhaustion, maternity clothes not fitting quite as well as they did even a week ago remind me all the time. It almost makes you wonder how is it going to get any bigger??

I know this post is becoming lengthy and longer than I had planned but I did want to document a few of the funniest comments we have received in the last month.
1) Chad, James and I standing in line at Mary Ann's in Fairhope to order lunch one Saturday and this woman probably in her late 50's early 60's approached us and proceeds to rub her hands in James' hair because she loved it so much (I am already uncomfortable at this point) and then she proceeds to touch my stomach (now really uncomfortable!!) and says it is a girl isn't it. We explained that it is a surprise which she loved. So then she continues to ensure us that it is a girl and why she thinks so, very convincingly, basically based on the way I am carrying it. She seriously turned me around so she could take a look at my back side. Chad and I still a little skeptical because we are so sure it is a boy. The kicker is she reaches in her purse and gives us her card including her name and number and told us to call her once the baby is born to inform her that she was right. Hilarious. I have saved the card for future laughs however not planning to call this woman.

At this point she is not the first random person that has told us they thought it was a girl along with other family members. I really have discarded the family member thoughts only because I think they want to think it is a girl because they would like for it to be a girl :) Plus several of our friends lately have been having girls. So I start thinking maybe it is the year of the girls and maybe my gut feeling is wrong. I guess after you hear it so often you start to believe it too. Until I got the next comment which happened a few days after the one above.

2) I had an appointment to get my eyebrows waxed (you know trying to get all the important things knocked out before the baby arrives :)) and the woman waxing them for me of course makes a comment about me being pregnant. It really is hard not to notice. She says so you are having a boy I take it. So again I explained we didn't know. She proceeds to say oh you are having a boy. It is the way you are carrying it. In my head I am thinking really? because this other crazy woman thinks just the opposite based on the way I am carrying it. I wondered if she was going to want me to call her too to let her know, she didn't mention it. She is so confident that after I explained that I have a little boy at home she said that her daughter has 2 boys and loves it. And that I am going to really love a life with 2 boys...hilarious.

So here we are 4 weeks out and the suspense is really starting to get to me but at the same time it really is so exciting. I have now gone back and forth between girl and boy that honestly I have no clue and it will be such a surprise either way. Some days I have regretted our decision not to find out (just for planning purposes) but all in all I think it is the best thing we could have done and I am so glad we are waiting!