So much to tell you with this new update.  A bit behind, I know, but so much has happened!  I thought for sure I was going to have pics of the new girl up already!

But first the to do list…

1. Put up the crib - the same one that I used for Chandler and Taylor - Now waiting to have carpets cleaned
2. Evaluate whether the bedding or mattress needs to be replaced - I want to make her all new bedding
3. Move the changing table out of my office and empty it out - it is currently serving as a tv stand and office organizer
4. Purchase a stroller and carseat
5. Pack for the hospital - I just have a list of things for the cooler that needs to be packed when we leave 
6. Buy all those fun, but unmentionable, things that we girls have to buy to care for ourselves after giving birth
7. Do about 20 loads of baby laundry
8. Buy diapers, wipers and all the baby things needed for the baby changing station, including a countoured changing pad and covers
9. Buy all the bath things  I have purchased the bath accoutrements and a friend offered up her baby bath recliner
10. Register at the hospital
11. Finish my Birth Plan
12. Buy a baby swing and bouncy seat - found a seat but the swing is elusive.  I pick one that I like and then read the reviews and find myself at square one again!
13. Pick up my bassinet from my brother and his wife
14. Buy a baby monitor  a friend offered up her new monitor that they are not using 
15. Pick a name or shall I say “convince hubby of Bebe’s name” *** Closer on this one!!  Yeah!
16. Register for baby things - did this at Babies R Us and Target 
17. Find a diaper bag - I think I found one that I like and as a back up, my brother’s wife is also bringing a diaper bag that she is not using
18. Convince Jason that we do not need a guest bedroom, a nursey is more practical
19. Draw up a design for the closet in the GB/Nursery, build it and install it (ha ha!!)
20. Have carpets steam cleaned

So the nursery/guest room is coming along very nicely.  I added have carpets cleaned to the list, because it has been a while and I think they really need it.  I had wanted to put off spending more $ on this carpet because I really want to put in wood floors.  By the time I have all the carpets in the house cleaned (3 rooms) I can pay for most of the materials to install the flooring in one room.  Jason and I installed wood in the office/gym last year and it really wasn’t all that difficult, if your up to doing about 1000 squats a day, and you have some basic tools.  So it’s a toss up. 

But I did just recently find a really cute lamp and some baskets with liners for all her little things.  It is really becoming a room that I want to spend alot of time in.  And I know that once the crib goes up it will be impossible to stay out of there.  In a perfect world, I would have made all new bedding in that room, a coverlet and big pillows for the queen bed that is sitting daybed style and coordinated bedding for the crib.  But life is not perfect and well…. and well nothing, it’s just not.

So as for the excitement…  I went for an ultra sound on Monday and they figure she weighs about 5lbs7oz.  It will be interesting to see how big she really is becausee 10 days earlier they thought she was 4lbs3oz.  Now they say that at this point a baby gains about a 1/2 pound a week, but 20 ounces in 10 days is alot of growing (gains?  gainning?).  So I figure conservatively she must weigh at least 5lbs, which makes her potentially the biggest little girl for us (Chandler and Taylor were 5lbs8oz and 5lbs11oz).  I spoke to them about inducing labor and they said the hospitals/insurances would not allow an elective induction, so I will have to wait for labor to progress and hope that I don’t have a home delivery!   Then came time for the exam (you know)… and I am already 50% effaced and at least 3 cm!  Yikes!  I am only 36 weeks!  I am not ready!  Don’t they read this blog?  (Haha)  Then the lovely nurse shared that she has seen 5lb babies delivered when the woman was only dialated to 8 cm (I confirmed this with a former L&D Nurse friend of mine, she actually swears that by 7cm you can deliver a 5lb baby)!  WTF!?!?  I haven’t even felt a contraction yet!!

So then all Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, contraction, contraction, contraction…  But no change.  And now nothing.

So we sit and wait.  Good thing I have that list to finish…  And I could post some pictures… Or cook something…

~Blondie