34 Weeks...

I'm really not sure how to feel when I tell people I'm 34 weeks along... yes... 34 weeks is a long time... but that leaves 6 weeks to go and that seems like forever! In the beginning I was so obsessed with how many weeks I was. Of course I went out and bought one of those week-by-week pregnancy books that would describe changes as you get further along in your pregnancy. Up until around 24-25 weeks I would read the next chapter (covering the week I was on) every Friday when I could consider myself a week further along... heck, sometimes I'd even read it on Thursday night because technically I'd made it through that day and what's reading it a couple of hours before Friday going to hurt? But for some reason I haven't even opened the book since week 27 and time has gone by so much quicker since then! This is my first(and will be my ONLY pregnancy) so I don't know what to expect but I'm ok with that. Plus the book can't predict everything. For example...

Daniel and I went to Lowes last night to pick up some things and when we got back in the car I took a deep breath and I could breathe!!! I was so excited but then thought...wait a minute... why can I breathe??? Apparently little Kaylee finally decided to make her way on down a little bit closer to the exit sign. I had went to the doctor earlier in the day and she told me I was far enough along to where they wouldn't try to stop the contractions if I went into labor from here on out, so I guess she figured she might as well head that way... I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure it doesn't say in the pregnancy book that at exactly 34 weeks the baby will drop and what I thought was hip pain before would be NOTHING compared to this! I can barely walk, I can't get my pants on without feeling terrible stabbing pains in my stomach...heck, I can't even lift my leg up high enough to get in the car! I know that just because the baby drops doesn't mean I'm going into labor anytime soon but now I feel even more sure that she will be here in July instead of August.

We have so much to do around the house before she gets here like painting her bathroom (yes, this is sad... she is going to have her own bathroom from the moment she is born!), cleaning up the house, finish painting other rooms in our house and picking up a few other things that we will need for her. It has been so nice to have Daniel at home with me all weekend the past few weeks but it looks like that is coming to an end starting this weekend. I can't complain because that's a good thing as far as his job goes but now it's back to worrying about him being out of town when I go into labor. I really thought we would've taken advantage of him being at home these past few weekends and get things done around the house but we haven't gotten one single thing marked off our list of things to do! I'm not sure what exactly we've done all these weekends but it was nice just hanging out.

I finally managed to get my hospital bag somewhat packed a week ago. I had made my list back at around 30 weeks but kept putting off getting everything together. When I had to go to L&D 2 weeks ago for contractions I rushed around and got most of my things together and threw them in a laundry basket beside my hospital bag... there was something about putting the things in the actual bag I plan on taking to the hospital that made me feel like I was really about to have a baby so putting everything in the laundry basket somehow made it seem a little better... last week I got tired of looking at the laundry basket so I finally put everything into the hospital bag. With the exception of a few things that I'm still using, my hospital bag is pretty much completely packed and ready to go!

I can't believe it's been a week since I've posted a blog... hopefully this next week I can get back to posting something on here more often. I'm just trying to enjoy these last days of peace and quiet before Kaylee is here!

Exhausted...

It's funny how things change physically when your pregnant. After hauling around little peanut for 8 months I'm still not used to it. Yesterday Daniel and I went to Concord Mills to go shopping for more clothes for Kaylee. It was nice because we really don't have the time or money to get out and do stuff a lot here lately. It was early in the day and not quite time for lunch so we decided to kill some time and walk around. About 30-45 minutes into walking I was already tired and starting to feel an aching pain in my hips but tried to ignore it and keep walking... bad idea! After about a hour and 1/2 of walking I could barely walk and started having very painful contractions... Concord Mills is just like Opry Mills mall...huge! When I finally stopped to sit down we were all the way on the other side of the mall from where we parked. After taking a 10 minute break I finally managed to get up and start walking again... we finally made it to the car and stopped at On The Border to have lunch on our way home.

I had hoped that after getting some sleep last night I would feel better but it didn't really help much... I still feel like I've been ran over by a bus, my hips are still hurting and I'm still having painful contractions. I have decided that for the rest of the pregnancy I'm taking it easy...no more long walks...no mowing the yard...nothing! For some reason I kept thinking that if I was tired I could just get over it and keep going but apparently when your pregnant you just can't. I'm also still not used to this stomach sticking out so far! I have almost burnt it several times leaning over the stove after cooking to put pots and pans in the cabinet above it only to look down and see that my stomach is like 1/2 an inch away from being on the hot burner. I had another one of those moments yesterday when in the bathroom at the mall... for some reason I still catch myself thinking I can 'suck it in' which is what I tried to do when opening the door to try to squeeze out of the bathroom stall only to wack myself in the stomach with the door.

I am 33 weeks along today and hopefully I have only a month to go. I keep thinking Kaylee will be here in July instead of August... we had a little talk this morning and I told her she is allowed to come out anywhere between July 20-31st... let's see if she listens...

My nightly walks...

Who needs to work out when you have to pee every few hours? I think for the most part of the pregnancy I have been fairly lucky only having to get up twice at night to make my way to the bathroom... it looks like my luck has run out! So since I'm currently unemployed and pretty much just sit around the house all day this is what I choose to write about... late night bathroom trips...

Normally I wouldn't mind having to get up to run to the bathroom every 2-3 hours but at this point, it's something that requires a lot of thought and planning... I wake up thinking great... here we go again...and for some reason I still lay there thinking oh...maybe I can just hold it and go back to sleep...nope...can't go back to sleep. Then there's the issue of getting up without messing up the pillows I sleep with... that probably wouldn't be such a big deal if my hips weren't hurting so bad and I could just roll over out of bed... after what feels like several minutes of scooting around on the bed trying to get over my body pillow without pulling out of from under the covers I finally make it out of the bed.

What started as my hips popping only right as I would stand up has now turned into constant popping all the way to the bathroom... the only way to stop it is to try to waddle across the bedroom... I'm sure if all of this was on camera it would be worth a few good laughs... Liza usually lifts her head up to look at me thinking..."your up again?" and Remi will come stumbling out from underneath the covers to see where I'm going. What's sad is that even with much effort it takes to make it to the bathroom there's no feeling of accomplishment there...I walk back into the bedroom thinking, "I'm going to have to do this all over again in a few hours...maybe I should just sleep in the bathroom tonight..."

Unfortunately at that point my walk is only beginning... I have had trouble with my knees since I was younger and being pregnant certainly hasn't helped... along with waking up having to pee I also wake up to an extreme aching pain in my knees. I have found the only way to get the pain to go away enough to where I can fall back asleep is to walk around. So before going to get back in bed I make a few laps through the living room, dining room and kitchen before finally making my way back to bed to lay there and try to catch my breath before falling back asleep.

I think the only way I get through having to get up to make trips to the bathroom and walk through the house is by telling myself somehow maybe this is getting me used to getting up a lot at night so that when little peanut comes home with us I will have some practice... probably not... but what's wrong with wishful thinking?

Kaylee in 3D...

Back at the end of May (the 22nd to be exact) Daniel and I went to Tiny Toes Prenatal Imaging to have our 3D/4D ultrasound. Luckily Kaylee was awake and cooperating with us for most of the 30 minutes of the ultrasound. It's really weird seeing her while she is still inside of me... it was like looking inside of my belly and made things seem even more real. We were able to see her yawn, hold her toes up above her head, play with her umbilical cord and even smile! After getting many pictures I'm still not sure if she looks more like me or Daniel... I guess we will have to wait til August to see!

I love this picture... look at those chubby cheeks!

Look at that adorable little smile!

Finally finished with the nursery!

It seems like it took forever but we finally finished Kaylee's room! I tried to get it all in 2 or 3 pictures but didn't have any luck...

I ordered this blanket from etsy.com they have the cutest baby stuff!

Her little nightstand and bookcase:

A few stuffed animals and her little swing:

The picture turned out darker than I wanted because of the light coming in the window...

We still have a few things that we need before she gets here but for the most part we are just waiting on little Kaylee!

The Beginning...

Our little peanut...
January 5, 2009 we saw little peanut for the first time... I went into the doctor's office obviously knowing I was pregnant (the nightly trip to McDonalds for a Hot Fudge Sundae should've been my first clue before taking the pregnancy test) but even after seeing those 2 little pink lines on the test and taking it twice just to make sure, it didn't feel real. It's been 5 months since I first saw her...the first thing I thought when her picture came up on the computer screen was how tiny and cute she was and that she was mine. But still it didn't hit me that I was actually going to have a baby until I heard her heartbeat for the first time, I can't describe how I felt when I heard it but I knew she was alive and in 7 months she would be here!

Better Late Than Never...

Ever since finding out I was pregnant back in November I have been telling myself I need to start a blog to be able to look back on and remember all of those 'special moments' of being pregnant and to show Kaylee when she gets older how her momma kept track of her growing up... of course, looking ahead I'm sure once I tell her about this blog when she is a teenager she will do her best to have the page deleted when she finds out I posted embarassing baby pictures and stories of poopy diapers.... what 'cool' teenager wants their embarassing moments published on the internet?

Hopefully here soon I can get caught up on some of the bigger moments during the pregnancy so far and go from there!