Announcing Our New Arrival!!

So, I'm a little behind, but I want to officially announce the newest addition to our family! AJ was born on March 9, 2010 at 0857! She is a beautiful baby and we already love her very much!

Happy Birthday Daddios!

Today is my Dad's birthday, so I want to take a second to wish Dad a very happy 52nd birthday!!



And yesterday was my FIL's birthday, so I want to take another second to wish FIL a very happy 54th birthday!!

Last Minute Errands....

So now that we're on the official countdown, I've decided that I should probably do all the last minute things that need to get done before Baby G arrives! I should clarify, by "last minute things" I mean all the things that should have already been done but have been put off to the last minute! This includes, but is not limited to:

• Installing the carseat in the car.
• Packing my hospital bag.
• One last grocery/Costco trip.
• Cleaning the house.
• Mani/Pedi so my toes look nice (they're BEE-scusting right now).
  
• Taking the tags off of and washing all the baby clothes.

Doesn't seem that bad when I look at it, but I know that as I start those things I will be able to add about 100 more things to my list! I kind of need to get this stuff done this weekend because Monday I have to take Pup Pup to the kennel and go to the hospital for my pre-op appointment. The only problem with this "pre-op appointment" is that its not an appointment, so it could take anywhere from 1-approximately 4 hours or so, depending on how busy they are up in Labor and Delivery.

On Tuesday we'll finally get to meet our baby girl and see what this face actually looks like!

Update Time

So the past few weeks I've either been super busy with things or just too plain lazy to get on here and update on our situation with baby G! As of today (one day shy of 38 weeks) AJ is still breech. We have a C-Section scheduled for March 9th!

We have a consultation next week on the 3rd and then our regular appointment on Friday the 5th, which will be our last appointment as the surgery is scheduled for Tuesday. We are supposed to call in early on the 9th and they will let us know how busy they are. If they're super busy first thing then we will most likely be in later in the morning, but if not, we will probably be the first surgery of the day at about 0700.

I don't know too much else, but I'll leave you with the latest picture of the big belly! This is from 36 weeks, 2 days.

We're Counting Down!!

Here's me at 34 weeks exactly! This was a few days ago, so we're almost at 35 weeks now! Only a few more weeks to go. We have another appointment on Friday (tomorrow) and we will hopefully get some more information about C-sections and what our chances of having one are. I know D has a bunch of questions and we're both wondering if she will even be able to turn based on her position. If she hasn't turned by 37 weeks then the midwife says that she will have to schedule a C-section.

I will update again after we know more!

Baby Stuff!

So FIL is here visiting the Pacific Northwest for the first time and D had to work today before he takes a 4-day pass tomorrow and Friday. FIL and I decided to do some shopping while D was at work because I knew that he wouldn't want to walk around Babies R Us all afternoon with us. Well, we got TONS of stuff that we needed for the baby!

We got a diaper genie, some bottles, some clothes, lots of blankets, a changing table pad, a cover for the changing table pad, a bath tub, a mobile, socks, night gowns, diaper cream, pacifiers, a formula dispenser for the diaper bag, a travel container for wipes, the baby monitor, baby wash, a swaddler, some hats, some cloth diapers for burp cloths, and a head positioner for the car seat.

Tomorrow we are going to Target to get some extra crib sheets, another changing pad cover and pack n play sheets. We might even get a stuffed animal or something if we see something really cute! I told FIL that I would rather get those things from Target because I know specifically that the sheets are about 1/2 the price of the ones that they have at BRU.

I'm just excited to finally have all the stuff! Tomorrow we're heading up to Ikea to get a dresser for AJ's room and possibly a rocking chair as well. Depends on if D likes the upholstered gliding swivel chairs they have at Macy's. Should be another fun day of shopping!

Typical Washington Day...

So today I got up to take the dog out and it is pouring rain! I guess I'm kind of used to it now, but for whatever reason, the dog wanted to take her own sweet time going potty this morning, so I was soaked!

I got a text from my Mom this morning letting me know that they closed on the condo in Florida! What a relief that must be for them! I talked to my Dad yesterday and he explained the crazy hoops they were jumping through yesterday! They were supposed to fly out of Chicago yesterday and there was a big snow storm, so a lot of the flights were canceled. They thought theirs might be also, so they wired the money down to the realtor and printed out all the contracts and legal documents (79 pages worth) to sign and have notarized. They FedExed the papers back, only after buying more paper and ink for the printer!

Well, turns out, their flight was not canceled, so they spent all that time running around trying to get everything ready and sent down there for nothing! They ended up making it down there! I think they're spending the weekend trying to find some basics for the condo. They said that they're planning on looking on Craigslist for furniture and stuff and they got some kitchen stuff from all us kids for Christmas.

All in all, an exciting day for them down in Florida, but up here in Washington, we are just enjoying the rain and getting ready for our next OB appointment this afternoon! We get to hear the baby's heartbeat again!