One More Week! What?

We almost had a baby on Friday.

*gasp*

Not really. But it was looking like that for a short while. After my NST on Friday, I began to feel very dizzy and nauseated. My blood pressure was taken twice, once after resting for 10 minutes. Joanne and I were told to go home, gather my things and head to the hospital. Calls were made, Todd came home from work, I got anxious. Then, my blood pressure went down. Waaaay down. From 154/96 to 120/67.

For the past few weeks the only labor symptoms I've been having are weird dreams. I dreamed that my epidural didn't take and only worked on one side. Apparently I was having a vaginal delivery, not a c-section. That was weird. I keep having a recurring dream that my water breaks. Sometimes I wake up thinking I've peed the bed and sometimes I just sleep through it. (note: I have yet to pee the bed, honest.)

I'm writing and posting this on Sunday because I honestly don't think much is going to change at tomorrow's appointment. There's nothing new going on. Dilation doesn't matter because I am having a c-section in a week. Unless the baby falls out, I'm going to go ahead and assume that tomorrow is going to be relatively routine. HOWEVER, I will update this sometime tomorrow with a 38 week belly picture. I'm currently upstairs in bed and will not be leaving until the morning. Hopefully. Maybe. We'll see.



Now, onto the fun stuff. Since we did think we might have possibly ended up with a baby this past Friday, we thought it was about time we got our butts in gear. Enjoy some photos of Nina's crib set, along with a close up of her Mr. Bear. I also got her diaper stacker hung in our room as well as the bassinet emptied out and lined with aluminum foil (to keep out cats, especially Miss Zelda).

We have to hang new shelves in the kids' room. Their current shelves which were moved from one wall to the other are no longer safe. They're drooping, which is weird, since they're floating shelves. Somehow, over the last two years they have lost their structural integrity. We'll do that sometime this week. Since Nina will be in our room for the first little while, it's not a HUGE priority that they get hung today.

Crib set with bow holder

Mr. Bear and Lady Bugs

I haven't been posting much about Jack lately. He is starting to talk, answer questions, and is becoming more willingly repetitive. He obtained "my" recently but isn't really all about MINE MINE MINE, so that's good. He "needs" things. "I need dat, Mama!" is especially effective when referring to the iPad.

I used to have a baby who hated dirty hands. No more do we have that child. Look at him finger paint! His daycare teacher says he really enjoys painting, so we're encouraging that at home. His uncle is a fantastic artist so hopefully this will bring them close together. Of course, paint is messy business. Jack must be stripped down to his diaper because that stuff, it gets everywhere. Obviously, we only paint on bath night.

You want me to what now?

Here are my hands! Covered in paint!

We went to lunch at UNO today and Todd introduced Jack to hand tracing with crayons. After that, everything had to be traced. Mama's hands, Daddy's hands, GG's hands, Mama's iPhone. He had a blast. We also discovered that he's grown out of his shoes in the last week. Thankfully, GG had 30% off at Kohl's and some Kohl's cash so we stopped and bought him new "choos!" He didn't want to try any shoes on until we bargained letting him out of his seat to run around. Then, he adored his "choos!" and ran all over the store. He's been in the same size shoe for close to 6 months now. He has finally outgrown 24 month size pants. They're floods on him. Still not filling out the waist, so adjustable waist pants are absolutely still necessary, but at least we know he's growing taller.

His growth spurt is accompanied by a cold, we think. His eyes have been watery and his nose is running. He's not been running a fever though, and has as much energy as you'd expect a 2 year old to have. It's about time. I don't think he's had a cold in months. Despite his cold, his appetite has been incredible. He's been eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For a while dinner was a fight. However, on Thursday he at french toast for breakfast, requested TWO PB&J sandwiches for lunch, ate a ton of cereal, cheese and fruit snacks between meals, 3-4 cups of watered down juice, AND ate grilled cheese for dinner. That's a lot of food for my little guy to partake in one day. I even let him have one of my Milky Way Midnights for dessert.

Not much else has been going on. I have just 7 more days (at the most) before Nina arrives. We're down to the wire here. Things are starting to feel real, people. My next update may possibly include fresh baby pictures!