Due date come and gone . . .

. . . and no baby! grrrr. I guess he likes it in there, but I wish he would come out now! The suspense is killing us. I'm starting to think I'll never go into labor and I'll have to go induced, though Dr. Bowen claims that on average, women are 5 days late with their first baby. Right now I'm 2 days late, so it could definitely still happen! One nice thing is that I'm getting extra paid time off, so I can't complain. :) And I can't even begin to list all the projects I've completed around the house. And my scrapbooks is almost up to date! I just need to scrapbook Boston from this summer, then I have plans to scrapbook college graduation (I know that was like 3 years ago, but I really fell behind). And I've been baking A LOT. Ed and I went and picked apples last weekend at Irons fruit farm, and somehow we ended up with 57 apples. So I've made 2 apple pies, apple cake, and caramel apples. And, even after giving some away, we still have like 20 left!
It's funny when random people ask me when I'm due now. I was at Target on Thursday afternoon, and the cashier asked me when I was due. So I said "today, actually" and she got this really funny panicked look on her face, like "oh my god, why is she outside of her house?? her water is going to break right now!". It was really funny.

I have a doctors appointment scheduled for Friday Oct 1oth for a biophysical profile (in depth ultrasound) and non stress test. And while the doctor said he usually likes to wait 2 weeks after the due date to induce, he also said it is up to us. So if I'm still pregnant on Friday, I think we're going to ask to be induced before the full 2 weeks is up (based on the ultrasound results, too). We'll see!

Baby's Room

We finally finished the baby's room (well like 95%)! This room definitely has the nicest furniture in the house, and is the most "complete" (ie.. window treatments). Here are a few pictures . . .

Also, if any of our pregnant friends out there need a crib we have an extra (someone from work gave it to me, but then we liked the furniture we found.) I thought I'd offer the crib for free to someone before we give it to goodwill or something. Let me know if you are interested, or you know someone that would be!

No baby yet!

So we made it back from St. Louis without going into labor. I have to be honest, I'm glad about that. Now I just want to make it through my last day of work (the 17th - 7 more days!) then he can come whenever he wants :) I know I'm not really in control, I'm just expressing my feelings about the situation.

So we can't decide on a name. What do you think? I'm going to try and post a poll for people to vote.

36 weeks - 4 to go!

Well it's been awhile - I'm bad at updating this thing. Today is the beginning of week 36 - so 4 more to go (+/- a couple)! We've had all of our baby showers now (thank you to Renee and Nichole and my mom for throwing them!) and gotten a lot of great stuff, including all of the essentials. We spent most of last Monday cleaning - I had a lot of stuff to get out of the baby's room :) including sorting through old picture frames, candles, things like that. I still have a little bit left, but it is mostly done. We got all the furniture set up in the room, too, so it's really coming together! I will try and take pictures soon and post them on here. Tomorrow we're leaving for St. Louis for the weekend to go to my cousin's wedding. I'm really looking forward to it since I don't get to see my family in St. Louis very often, but I'm a little nervous about the car ride. And about going into labor early - we're taking the car seat just in case. :) I really don't think I'll go into labor that early, but I figure it's better to be prepared (and, I figure it's the same as when you take an umbrella with you and then it doesn't rain - if we take the car seat and stuff then it won't happen). I'll let everyone know next week how it went!

P&G, Diapers and the Basement

I must say one great thing about working at P&G is the free stuff - so far I've gotten a case of Size 1 diapers (so 4 jumbo bags), some newborn size diapers, and a bunch of wipes. Then Monday I got 3 cases of Size 4 diapers - which we won't need for awhile, but I figured - why not?? I still have a couple hundred coupons for our bonus store so I'm hoping to be able to stock up on more before going on maternity leave! One other reason I like P&G - we had the Femmy (yes I said Femmy, not Emmy) awards Monday afternoon down at the Freedom Center. There was a girl wearing a dress out of pads . . . I thought it was funny so I took a picture.



My last day is Sept 17th - I can't believe how quickly it is approaching (or how much I have to do!). I'm planning on going back Jan 7th. I'll be going back to the same department/section but working on a new material. It will be challenging but also hopefully enjoyable! At home we (and by that I mostly mean Ed) are making great progress on the basement! I put some pictures below - unfortunately I don't have any before pictures, but if you've been down there before you'll appreciate the difference. We are still waiting on the countertop for the bar, and we need to buy cabinets and a few other things. But we are getting there, and we can start moving stuff in which means we can start working on the baby's room!

10 more weeks

Well we have 10 more weeks! We found a really great crib/changing table/dresser at Babies R Us. Here is a picture of the crib and changing table. We also ordered a dresser, but they didn't have it in stock so we got a rain check. Once we finish the basement (hopefully soon!) and I get the babies room cleaned out (also hopefully soon!) we can set them up.

So we went and got a tour of the P&G day care today - it looked great, except there is a waiting list until 2010! there are 40 infants on the waiting list. Some parents, ones who have other children there already, have their un-conceived children on the list. They aren't even pregnant yet! It's just crazy . . . so we're still looking for day care starting next year. There's another one we're checking out in a couple of weeks that is close to us and sounds good, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

3rd Trimester!

Well I'm officially in the 3rd tri-mester! It's crazy how fast this is going! We haven't gotten anything done yet in the baby's room - we're still trying to finish the basement. I'm starting to get a little stressed out about it, though I'm sure it will all come together in time. I went to a doctor's appt last week and found out I'm slightly anemic - apparently I don't eat enough red meat, beans, or leafy greens (duh! they're not that good!) so I need to take some iron pills in addition to my pre-natal vitamins. Otherwise everything is looking good! I go back in another 4 weeks, then I start going every 2 weeks. We start birthing classes next month, which should be fun (and interesting).

In other news, we are looking for daycare/childcare starting in January so if you have any suggestions let me know!