3cm's and Counting

Today I went to the OBGYN thinking nothing exciting will happen, you know, routine pregnancy check-up. I thought maybe I had lost the mucous plug on Christmas day but I wouldn't had been surprised if I was wrong.

Apparently I was very right cuz I went in to find out I went from a closed cervix last week to 3cm. I guess the Christmas stuff and shopping did more than give me exercise. So for the next week or so I think I'll take it easy in the walking department. I want to be watching Les Miserables with my family girls and at least make it to January since my Mother already bought a January gem for her grandkid heart necklace.

My Mother already votes for 1/1/13 at 12:13am.

Any more votes for day, time, weight, and length?

37 Weeks

Not many changes this week from the doctor. Still growing normally and negative on Group B Strep.

Tehya however has been giving me heartburn nightly before bed because she's getting bigger and hopefully growing more hair in the process. Oh the doctor did say that Tehya may be around 7lbs already, but the doc has been wrong before so we'll see. Tehya has also been moving around a lot, sometimes even kicking in-time to a song on tv, weird feeling but makes me laugh every time.I'm a bit uncomfortable sometimes but not as often as people think...I think. Usually when I'm having a braxton hicks contraction and I'm walking, after the contraction and Tehya stretches to tell me to stop them from squeezing her, or the usual stuff like putting on certain shoes, or Tehya stretching into my bladder. But otherwise I'm just tired...or lazy. You pick.

Happy 37 Weeks to me and Merry Christ-mas to you!

Gma's Present

Here is the finished product for my mother aka Gma Lynne.

Months ago I saw a picture online that resembled a plaque/picture holder like this and it was something my mother didn't have. Oh she could show off her fellow co-workers from her computer but this was something she could display to them if she chose to hang in her office plus easily change the pictures when she wanted or had new ones to post.

I found the biggest wooden plaque at Hobby Lobby, the smallest wooden clothes pins there too and small wooden hearts. I used a make-it-yourself stencil to make the "grandkids" but got the lettering from online. I painted the plaque maroon, the big lettering is gold, and the hearts are cream with maroon lettering. The clothes pins have some designs on them as well to combine the cream, maroon and gold for a finishing touch.

So far on this plaque there are 13 pictures, L-R oldest to youngest, including Tehya's ultrasound picture until she is born. There is even room for more pins for more Gkids later on!

Merry Christmas Gma Lynne!

36 Weeks Along AKA 1 Month Left

I thought I'd list a few things I miss, will miss, and won't miss while pregnant for this last month countdown.

I miss:

• Laying on my stomach
• Feeling alone with my husband (if you catch my drift)
• Taking medications for colds or sleeping
• Sleeping on my back
• Fitting into jeans and shirts
• Feeling useful around the house
• Sleeping without being poked in the ribs every time I wake up during the night
• A smaller stomach

I will miss:

• The baby kicks
• Easy care for the baby
• The excuse of a fat tummy to blame on a baby
• The excuse of why I'm scatter-brained
• Sleeping (Ha ha!)
• The kids' fasination with a baby in my tummy
• Tehya's dancing in my belly
• Having just 2 kids

I will NOT miss:

• Her stretching into my ribs
• My large tummy every skinny girl thinks I'm having twins with
• The heartburn
• Peeing so often cuz a baby is bouncing on it
• Waddling
• Pregnancy pants
• Not having Tehya

There are probably more if I had the time or wasn't pregnant-brained but I'd say these were the biggies.

Angel the Bear

This is Angel, the bear I "adopted" at Build-A-Bear for Tehya. Ain't she cute! I wanted to do purple but most of the purple stuff they had wasn't gonna be good for a baby, you know it had beads or something, so I came up with this. She also has a "beating heart", there's a button in it the shape of a heart that beats 5 times with a "thump, thump...thump thump". I hope Tehya likes it!

Christmas Cookies

We made sugar cookies and I put frosting on them!

If they look a little wierd it's because 1) I thought I could only use 3 colors but found out at the end I could've added like 2 more colors If so needed, 2) yes that is pink not red cuz I've run out of red, and 3) I ran out of official frosting bags so I used other baggies.

 

 From L-R, Top to Bottom: Santa, stocking, polar bear, snow man (with laser eyes as Chris says), snow clouds & snow, gingerbread man, Christmas tree, candy cane, wreath, and snowflake...

 Another Santa, Christmas lights, teddy bear, snowed on evergreen, and snowed on house with snowman...

 Ornament, "Noel", another snowflake, "Joy", and another snowman...

 Rudolf, "Tis the season", candy, snowed on cactus for AZ, bells, and heart...

"He is Born", green present, red present, "Give", another candy cane, and Christmas colors.

My personal favorite is the cactus!

Trailers

The Croods- Looks pretty funny to me. So far I like the characters Eep, Belt, and Gran. What do you think? Les Miserables- I'm anxious and nervous to see this. I'm worried Russel Crowe will not hit the notes mostly, but also worried how real or what they included in the movie, considering the prostitution. Are you in the same boat? There are other trailers that I like: 'Warm Bodies' (Comedy, romance, horror), 'Iron Man 3', 'Star Trek Into Darkness', 'The Host' (favorite book), 'Mortal Instruments' (I read the series), even 'After Earth' and 'Oblivion' look interesting. Long list so hence why I didn't post them all.

Toothless Grin

Here are the pics of the tooth and Christian.

 Such a small tooth!

Christian's bottom middle tooth is gone!

Oh and he's excited to note he can still "whistle" on his own.