38 Weeks

I'm looking a little tired, huh? Well, I am!! I am really really ready to have this baby. Here I am at 38 weeks - a little less than 2 weeks to go. At this point, I am wanting to her to come after Thanksgiving, but I honestly will take her when she is ready to come! I went to the dr for a check up today and I am still at a 3 and she is estimated to be about 7 lbs. All in all, I have loved being pregnant, but these past few weeks she's been sitting on a few nerves so walking, sitting, bending down, anything that involves moving can be so painful! 3.5 official days of work left so after that, the countdown can really begin.

Surprises

On Friday we finally were able to get together with my family. It had been awhile since I've seen my own dad so it was nice to all be together and enjoy an evening of games. While we were still sitting around before we got wild & crazy playing the Game of Life, my nephew was running around like a crazy man and entertaining us all. My bro-in-law pulled him over to the side, so I thought that he was just being told to calm it down a little bit. Well, the next words out of Eli's mouth was "I'm going to be a big brother." YEA!!!! Clint & Emily are expecting another little one in May! I am super excited because this will give Haylie a little cousin that she can play with. This baby will be closer to her than any of the other cousins, so that will be super nice.

After all the excitement though, my sister told me she had a funny story for me. We go to the same OB, so the day they were there for the ultrasound and confirmation, she mentioned to Dr. Wilks that she would be delivering "my sisters baby soon." So Dr. Wilks asked who her sister was and she told her my name. Lo and behold, Dr. Wilks said that I would be coming in to see her in 20 minutes! Well, E wasn't ready for me to find out that day so Operation Sneak Out came into play. E went to grab C, who was sitting in the waiting room so I wouldn't see him when I walked in. Then at one point, they were hiding in Dr. Wilks' office so I wouldn't notice them and while I was being called back, E was walking up to the check out desk looking towards the wall so I wouldn't see her face at all. And I think C went out the back entrance. All in all, I obviously didn't notice they were there - not that I probably would have anyway. I'm pretty oblivious about stuff like that. But how random that the connection was made and they were able to sneak out without me knowing.

So needless to say, I am super pumped about becoming an aunt again! I think my mom is on hypermode with now two babies in the near future. We might have to give her a hyperventilation bag. :)

Some Friday Thoughts

I passed Sonic this afternoon at 2:08 - prime happy hour time. All 6 cars waiting in line were white.

I got home from work this afternoon - long enough to pee - and I got a knock on the door. It was a younger guy trying to sell me a $78 jug of cleaning stuff. Why isn't he in school? Is this going to happen more often when I'm at home with Haylie? I might need to get us a sign.

Most Friday afternoons I try to go run a few errands. And I most always run into Phyllis Allen. Today we met at Ross!

Do people feel bad when they are the only one turning and they make about 10 cars stop just so they have their turn?

Here is a hint - if someone stops to let you cross in front of their car, please don't saunter as slow as you can, practically stopping to look around, while they are waiting. They might not be in a hurry, but there is a time limit before I run you over!

Yesterday I went to the doctor for another weekly check up. I am at a 3 and 50% effaced. Dr. Wilks didn't think I would go as long as my due date. Hurray for an early baby (hopefully)!

Getting Closer

We have 3 weeks to go. We are so busy that we have started to double book our evenings. Take for instance tonight. We decided to go ahead and purchase some term life insurance and therefore our friend who is setting it up came at 5:30 and then we rushed off at 6:40 (pushing him out the door) to attend a Baby Feeding Class. Our Thursday evening will be the same deal too, although this time it will be a window salesman (who was told he has 45 minutes or less to give us his best price) and then friends coming over for dinner! I guess we are just trying to maximize the time we have left of pre-baby. My sister asked me the other day if we could get together with the family one more time before baby Haylie arrives and it was like a week and a half before we had a free evening. Crazy!

The countdown is coming closer. I have one more baby shower. I have 10 more days of work. I have 21 days until D-day...and that's if she comes on time!

Dreams

Some people say that when you are preggo, you have crazy dreams. Well, I have them even when I'm not "with child" but here are a few really random ones I've had lately.

1. My sister and I have been invited over to Sada's house for breakfast. We enjoy our meal and then we go outside and play with a big exercise ball. Then I realize that I have to be at work that day and don't make it in until 1. No one cares that I'm barely there for half a day.

2. Crislyn invites me over to help her put up a wooden swing set. Then we realize I'm pregnant and probably can't help with the heavy lifting.

3. There is a snake that keeps slithering up my leg, but it's not a regular snake. It keeps changing colors, like technicolors. I'm yelling at Justin to kill it (at one point I caught it on my hip) but he laughs and doesn't think it's a big deal. At this point, it turns into a cute pink pig and that's when Justin kills it.

Some of these don't seem random to you, but they do to me. Why is Crislyn putting up a swing set? Why are we still at Sada's house at 1 pm when we were invited over for breakfast? Why is a snake changing colors as it slithers up my leg? Or even better, why is a snake slithering up my leg and my husband doesn't care??

Any dream interpreters out there?

We have old, ugly windows. I think they are the original ones that were put in with the house - 30 years ago or so. Windows USA sent out a flyer that offered $100 gift card to Wal-mart if we let them come do a demonstration in our home. Sure! No problem. Until...

The demonstrator's time to come was at 8 pm. Sure, that's okay. What the problem turned into is that he did not LEAVE our house until 11:15 pm. At night. On a Tuesday. Are you KIDDING ME? I'm pregnant and tired. Get out of my house.

During the demonstration, we had to watch two DVD's of some guy explaining why their windows are fantastic. I did not sign up for DVD's. Nor did I sign up for our demonstrator laughing at everything he said. I can't even understand your joke before you start laughing and you want me to laugh with you?

Apparently, the only way this company can converse is through making cell phone calls back to the "home office." We had to make at least 5 during the 3 hours he was there. Why am I talking on someone's cell phone to get quotes about windows? Not just once, but several times over the course of the night. Get to the bottom line and stop jerking me around.

Finally, we got around to how much all this would cost. I'm sad to say that their quote was $15,000!!!! For 11 windows. Are you serious. By the time 11 pm rolled around, their quote was down to $6000. As a Dave Ramsey believer, that's not good enough for our budget. Why couldn't we have started at that price at 8 pm and he would have left by 9? That would have made me less grumpy.

Needless to say, we are now $100 richer at Wal-mart, but I'm not sure I would ever do that again for free $$. That was pure torture.

MRCC Shower

Wow, we had such a good weekend. First it started off with a massage, then the 3D/4D ultrasound, then Halloween, then we had our MRCC shower on Sunday! It was a whirlwind of a time, but it was so much fun. I'm sad because I didn't get a picture with me and all the hostesses, but maybe I can get everyone together and "recreate the moment." Haha.

Continuing my awesome facial expressions.

So many gifts! We are truly blessed!

My mom, me, my sister, my grandma & mother in law! Aren't we all pretty!

Later that evening, we were going through everything that we were given taking an inventory :) Anyway, we noticed Caramel sneak in and she found herself a little napping spot. Oh boy, the fun begins. Hopefully we won't have a cat fight break out once Haylie gets here. Get it? I'm so clever.