Feeling the Love

Last weekend Connor and I were "Sprinkled" with love at an intimate baby shower hosted by my dear friend Carynne (tall blonde in white dress:)). We all met up for brunch at Dexter's to have a delicious meal and get some girl time in before the baby arrives. I was also given wonderful gifts for our new bundle of joy.

Me and the Moms :)

These are the ADORABLE shower favors that Alaina made. The surfboard cookies were to die for delicious.

My friend/coworker Heather and I are pregnant together again, so the Kindergarten and First Grade teams hosted a joint baby shower for us at work. It was unexpected and VERY thoughtful. I just love all the wonderful people I work with and am so greatful for everything. This adorable sports themed diaper cake was made by the principal at my school. Such a thoughtful gift!

The K and 1st grade teams setting up with yummy cake and sherbert drinks.

And now we are in the home stretch. Over the past week I've been having mixed feelings about what will be happening in four short days... it's gone by so incredibly fast and it's hard to comprehend that it's really time for baby to arrive. I'm very anxious and nervous one minute and completely excited the next. I'm confident that everything will go well and look forward to bringing Connor home next Monday and starting our life as a family of four. Here I am at 38 weeks pregnant. My next post will be after we bring the baby home. I'll let you know how it goes! :) Happy Memorial Day!

36 Weeks

36 weeks and feeling... well, rough. My back hurts pretty terribly these days, I wake up multiple times a night for one of two reasons: bathroom or b/c my pregnancy related carpal tunnel syndrome has made me lose feeling in my hands which is very uncomfortable, and the swelling in my feet/ankles has come on in full force (7 weeks later than when I was prego with Landon though :)) I find comfort in my gaucho pants and flip flops, which of course I can't wear everyday to work but whatever. It's definitely harder this time around with having to take care of a 22 month old while enduring these month 9 symptoms, but you do what you've got to do. And besides- the wonderful, amazing, miraculous symptoms of month 9 pregnancy override the negative ones. This little man has always been a mover and a shaker, but boy is he making his presence known these days. Punching and kicking and rolling... actually making me jump every now and then. He hiccups a whole lot too... much more than Landon did. There is nothing more incredible than these feelings, and I will greatly miss them.

Landon amazes me with something new everyday. He is a very bright boy and so eager to learn more and more and more. His vocabulary is way too big for me to count, he's stringing 3 and 4 word sentences/phrases together, sings songs, the list goes on. He's also been testing the waters lately and therefore enduring consequences for bad choices. For a while now he's been biting his friends at the sitter's house which absolutely breaks my heart. We've been trying so hard to break him of this and I think we're getting somewhere because it's happening less frequently. We talk with him daily about being a good boy and when that doesn't happen he has to sit in time out when we get home and he doesn't get to play with his two favorite toys- his golf and t-ball sets. People try to comfort me by saying this is just a normal phase that kids go through. I don't know if that's true or not, but either way I'll be VERY glad when we are past this.

Here's a video of Landon counting to 13. He's been doing this for well over a month, maybe two, but it's been hard for me to catch it on camera!

It Won't Be Long Now

We will be meeting our little boy in less than 4 weeks. On Friday, June 1st, I will be having a cesarean at 7:30AM. I am going to blink and that wonderful day will be here, and yet I feel like we are nowhere near ready for it. I'm visiting the doctor weekly at this stage, and every time it's the same question: "So do you have everyting in order for the baby's arrival?" Today the doctor added, "You're in the home stretch now. It could be anytime really. Do you have a plan for if the baby comes early?" Uh... NO! I'm starting to think maybe we should get our you know what together. But I'm not going to stress. It'll all get done...

It will be hard, however, with all the fun things we have lined up in the next couple of weekends. This weekend being Mother's Day, next weekend being my Baby Sprinkle Brunch, and the following being Memorial Day. I hope to have everything ready by then so that we can spend the day at the beach relaxing or something. I will continue to work up until May 31st- the day before the big day. My mom says I'm crazy but being the end of the school year I've got a lot of things to accomplish before I leave. As I said earlier it'll all get done...

Two weekends ago my wonderful brother-in-law's girlfriend (Alaina) took pregnancy pictures of me and the family. The shoot took place at Rollins College in Winter Park and the pictures came out so beautiful! I am so grateful that we were able to capture this special moment in our lives that will too quickly become a memory. Thank you so much, Alaina, for this priceless gift. Here are just a few of the amazing pictures we got that I plan on compiling into a photo album. I am 34 weeks pregnant in them.

Here is Landon giving his brother a kiss. When I ask him who is in Mommy's belly he replies, "brother Connor." It is too cute.

Alaina took some artistic shots as well. She is talented!

Father and son. One of my favorites for sure.

On Friday I will be 36 weeks pregnant. I plan on posting again this weekend. My intententions were to get this up sooner but I've been having issues with the website as they have updated/changed it. Anyway, I wish you a wonderful week!