Happy 40th Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Today is my parents 40th wedding anniversary. All five kids are here and we are taking them out to dinner at Olive Garden then dessert at their house to celebrate! We all got together and got Dad a DROID smart phone and Mom a pandora wedding bead for her bracelet. It was a fun weekend with all of us together!

Also this AM Matt and I went to the GCMC prenatal class from 9-12. It was actually a great class and we are super glad we took it. We even toured the floor at the end of the class (which was nice for Matt since he hadn't really seen it).

34 weeks! Another Ultrasound

We are 34 weeks today and had our last ultrasound. They again were measuring his size. He measured the 79th percentile and a whoping 6lb4oz. We are hoping his growth slows down or totally off! lol!
Dr Percy said today we will most like be induced in the 39th week to hopefully avoid a C-Section because of his size. I am A-OK with that. Our number one desire is for him to be healthy of course, but if at all possible for me to be able to deliver vaginally. Thankfully being the faithful Calvinist that we are, we know God has already pre-ordained Caleb's means of birth and the exact date and time he will come! So we rest assured in that no matter what! We go back in 2 weeks and then start our weekly visits until he arrives!

We have pictures from his ultrasound, but they are not that great because again he kept his face covered! So I will maybe post one later, but the were much better at the 30 week scan.

Next time we see him will be when he arrives! Oh my stars!

A little scare!

Today we had a little scare and had to go to the hospital! I went to work as usual, but felt lousy all day. Around 11 am I realized I had no appitite and the thought of eating made me wanna puke. I was also having braxton hicks like crazy! I finally talked to my boss and asked if I could go home. I text Monica and asked her if it was normal to feel AWFUL for the rest of the pregnancy (with the nausea, contractions, and loss of appetite). She asked me a bunch of questions and said if I started to throw up or have diarrhea to go to the hospital tomake sure I was not going into preterm labor. Well, low and behold Matt got home from training around 3:45 and within 10 minutes of him being home I began to throw up, ALOT! It was only water because I hadn't eaten all day. After throwing up my BH contractions kept getting closer and closer, so we headed to GCMC. Monica called Kay Hankins and she met us up there and got the awesome charge nurse, Joy to take care of us. I was super emotional of course thinking if Caleb comes tonight he will def. be put in the NICU (I dont handle scary situations all that great :D) Matt did AWESOME.  He got us to the hospital and was the most supportive man every telling me constantly that everything would be okay. The nurse Joy confirmed I was having contractions, but my cervix was still closed, not dialating- Thank God Caleb was not on his way out! She then stated it ws probably just dehydration and a stomach bug I had gotten. I got an entire bag of fluids and some Zofran (nausea medicine) and felt like a new person! Thankful after getting all the fluids the contractions slowed down significantly. Dr. Ramsten was on call and allowed us to be D/C'd without having to even come up there. So around 7:30 PM we were discharged. Matt suggested I stay home from work tomorrow to rest and Day said 100% agreed. So today I am just laying around feeling pretty sluggish working off the rest of this stomach bug. I will definitely increase my water intake because being dehydrated during pregnancy is no joke!!!

Ballet girls!

Today was my last "trip" allowed during the pregnancy. We went to Pensacola to see Ansley and Olivia's ballet recital with In His Steps.

I found that riding in the middle, sitting for 2 hours in a car is extremely uncomfortable at 32 weeks pregnant! I fully understand why I will not be doing this again until he is out!

Couple Shower 6-3-2011

Tonight Cayla, Cindy Scott, Kim Gann, Annette Massey and Cathy Anderson hosted a beautiful couples shower for us at Cindy's house. It was a great time. They made it a poker shower for the guys to play cards with the buy in to play being a pack of diapers. The ladies opened gifts in the other room while they played. It was a huge success and we got so many diapers to last for months! I forgot my camera for this shower because we left the house early in a rush to see James fly into Tyndall Air Force Base before heading to the shower. So, hopefully I can get some pictures from Cindy from the night. They hosts gave us our video monitor system! Cayla knows me so well...she did not take the monitor off of our registry so I would not know in advance what they got :) I looked at her after I opened it and said, "this wasn't on the registry!" She laughed and said I KNOW, I did it on purpose! I thought for sure they had gotten the rocking chair/ glider because it was purchased that monday before the shower (turns out it was from my mom who is already spoiling the mess out of us and Caleb!) We received many other wonderful gifts for Caleb. This little guy is almost completely set! We are still blown away by our friends and family.
We are now 31 weeks and in the home stretch! I can't believe how fast and slow time is flying! He will be here before we know it I'm sure!
Tomorrow is our oldest nieces, Natalie's NINTH birthday! I can't believe she is getting so big. Seems like just yesterday we were in the hospital for the first time meeting her. We are going to her skating party on Tuesday night. No worries, I will be sitting on the benches watching Matt and all the kids skating.

Side note: June 9 is one year since I had my LASIK eye surgery! Still seeing 20/20 and so thankful I was able to receive this procedure for free!