This weekend...

This weekend we celebrated Jeff's birthday with my family. Big Man had been over to Grandma's earlier in the week and he planned the whole party out. He made a list of games to play and a grocery list of stuff that was needed for the party. So last night, he was in charge of games at the party. It was hilarious. Some of them included: jumping, hula hoop, bingo, and pin the nose on the bunny. The kids had a blast and Jeff and my brother were good sports. Jeff had big man on his lap and told him that this was the funnest party he'd ever had. Big Man gets a smile on his face and says thanks dad, that makes my eyes water a little. He's such a cutie-and quite the event planner too.

I've been having trouble sleeping the last few nights. I went to bed at 10:30 last night, but as midnight rolled around, I was still awake. All of the sudden the alarm on the clock went off. I jumped up and turned it off. Before I knew it Jeff was out of bed and had picked up his phone. He was checking messages or something. He went into the bathroom and then headed downstairs. I waited a few minutes to see if he was coming back. Finally I decided just to go to bed. I actually fell asleep pretty quickly after that. So this morning I asked him about it. He told me went downstairs thinking it was 6 a.m. and was so tired decided to go back to bed for an hour. When he woke up an hour later, he wondered why in the world he was downstairs in the middle of the night. I can't stop laughing. I'm sure he'll be thrilled I shared this story, but it was pretty good.

Finally the last noteworthy event of the weekend. Sunday morning I woke up at 4:45 with a stuffy nose, sore throat and a major side ache. I laid in bed for a while to see if the side ache would go away. When it didn't I went downstairs and decided to read for a while. It only got worse. Little Princess's labor started out as a stomach ache that got progressively worse and turned into contractions, so I was kind of curious if this would be the start of labor. From 5 a.m.-1 p.m. my back and side were killing me (during which time I had to teach a gospel doctrine lesson-ugh) . It was a constant pain though and not starting and stopping. I called labor and delivery and she said if it was false labor to take a hot bath and it would go away. So I did. The pain lessened a lot and once I laid on the bed the pain came back in short little bursts-about 3 seconds every minute or so. It was really bizarre. By about 4:00 it went away completely. Through all this, I was really tired and ornery-sorry family :( Since then I have felt fine. I've never had false labor before and I have to say it's really disappointing. It gets your hopes up all for nothing. Not to mention being in pain for that long only to have it go nowhere. Oh well, I'm hoping this week we'll have some real results. Stay tuned.

37 Weeks and...

All is well. In fact everything looks better this week than it did last week. My blood pressure is down, I was down 1/2 a pound (water weight I'm sure), I'm not nearly as swollen and I feel pretty good. So I'm guessing she's not in any hurry to come out. As long as I feel like this, I don't mind going another week (or two if I have to) :)

My Little Bride

This is how Little Princess entertained herself today while I was grading homework. She raided my drawer to play dress up. The ensemble consists of my knee-high socks and a slip. What a nut.

This next picture is a bit small. I borrowed it from my friend's Facebook account (thanks Katie). We went out last night with some friends for Jeff's birthday. We ate dinner at Texas Roadhouse and then went to the RV Show. It was fun. I got a hilarious video of Jeff sitting on the saddle for his birthday at the restaurant, but so far he won't send it to me. The RV show was fun. There are some cool trailers out there. Some day we'll get one... Jeff had to try out the tub in this trailer. We had a good time.

Last Friday was 'walking report card day' at Big Man's school. I'd never heard of this before. I went to his class to see firsthand his progress over the year. All of the parents were invited. The teacher had a packet of stuff for each student to do. It included letters, sounds, reading, shapes, math, etc. It was a chance for Big Man to show off. I do his homework with him every day so I've seen his progress, but I was proud as I watched him do everything on Friday. He's such a smart little boy. My favorite part was a self-evaluation he got to fill in. There were three options-a smiley face, a straight face, or a frowny face. Most of his answers were smiley faces, but there were a few that he put straight faces on. One was listening to his teacher, another was working by himself. When I asked him about it, he said that everyone always wanted to talk to him. He makes me laugh.

36 Week Appointment

Today was my 36 week doctor appointment. My blood pressure is starting to get high. This is around the same time when it was high with Little Princess. I am dilated to a 1 and 60% effaced. So now it is a waiting game. This is the part I am not good at. I'm not a patient person by nature and combine that with swollen feet, restless nights, and three other active kids-not a good combination. But we will plug away.

35 Weeks and counting...

First of all I couldn't resist taking a picture of this little lady. She had to wear red to church on Sunday because I was wearing a red shirt. Next thing I know she's found a tie to add to the ensemble. She wore it to sacrament meeting and had to tickle everyone's face with it. That's what dad does with his tie during church. What a nut.

A friend of mine posted this picture of the kids. This was taken at her house. They live two houses down from us. The boys play over there all the time, but occasionally Little Princess will tag along. Looks like they had a fun time.

Finally the reason for my post. I am officially 35 weeks. Things are going well. I go in next Wednesday for my 36 week visit and my doctor will start checking to see if I'm dilated. Hopefully it will go by quickly!!! I'll keep you posted.

Before Baby List

The other day I created a list of everything I want to get done before the baby gets here. I came up with quite a few. Most of them are little things. One of them was to catch up on my scrapbooking. I've done pretty good to stay caught up, but I wanted the next pictures I did to be of the baby. So I printed out my last photos at Costco this week and I spent the afternoon scrapbooking. I love to look at pictures. It reminds me of all the good times we've had and how cute my kids are. I love their expressions and personality as it's captured in the photos. I have good kids and I love them a ton.

So because my scrapbooks are all caught up, I will not be taking any pictures until the baby arrives :) At least that is the plan. We'll see how it goes. Stay tuned though for more posts as the countdown to baby begins.

Date Night

This weekend we had a fun date night: me and the boys, and Jeff and Little Princess. Big Man's school had their annual night at Classic Skating. I thought it would be fun to take the boys, but didn't want to have to worry about Little Princess there. She'd want to be right in the middle of everything, but she's too little. So Jeff took her on her first daddy-daughter date.

We told Little Princess about it earlier in the day that only her and dad were going on a date. She thought about it for a minute and then said-I'm so excited. It was cute. It's funny to see her little mind working sometimes. They ended up going to the mall to ride the carousel, window shopping, eating some pizza, and then to feed the fish at Cabela's. Jeff said she was so funny walking in the mall. She really liked the jewelry and shoe stores-what girl doesn't right? She had a fun time. When I was a little girl and went on daddy-daughter dates, my mom would tell me as we left-no kissing. So of course before we left the driveway, I would kiss my dad. I did the same thing with Little Princess. I told her no kissing, so of course she gives Jeff a kiss. She definitely loves her daddy.

The boys loved their night at Classic Skating. It sure has changed a lot since I was a kid. You can now ride scooters on the skating rink. That's what we did since I didn't want to deal with skates. The boys had a blast. There were several friends from our ward and from Big Man's school, so they had fun keeping up with them. After they tired of their scooters, we went and played games for a while and then ended the night in the bounce area. They'd come check in with me where I was sitting and they were all sweaty and out of breath. They were playing hard. It was a fun night.

Saturday night Jeff and I watched the movie Inception. I'd heard how good it was from several people. I enjoyed it, but WOW. It was pretty intense. I'm not quite sure it's a good movie to watch right before bed AND being 8 months pregnant (when I already have weird dreams). I was up several times with bizarre scenes running through my mind.

It's now Sunday night and the weekend is ending with me catching a cold. When I was pregnant with Little Princess, I had four colds in the first four months of my pregnancy. This time around, I've only had one minor cold-until now. It's gotten worse as the day has progressed. I can hardly breathe I am so stuffy. I've taken a few Sudafed and they help for a while, but then wear off. I just hope this cold passes quickly.