Kylie Bobbette Heaton

Meet our newest addition.....

Kylie Bobbette Heaton

Born May 29, 2012 @ 23:23 (11:23pm)

7lbs. 6 oz. and 19 inches long

 Here's our birth story:  On Tuesday morning after getting Hunter and Madelyn off to school the rest of our family spent several hours in our garden. We moved the water hoses, picked weeds and planted a few herbs. I was hoping that working in the garden for the umpteenth time would bring on some contractions but no such luck. We came home, Kory worked on his laptop, and I set up the playpen in our room for the future arrival of Kylie. Kory eventually left for work about 2:15, my big kids came home from school at 3:30 and by 4 we were next door to help Aunt Natoshia pack up her car as she was moving to Nebraska the following morning. I really didn't do anything but take a few canning jars and plastic containers downstairs into her storage room. I then sat at the kitchen island chit chatting with everyone else that was there to help. Aunt Heather had a banquet to attend later that night with her husband and her big girls. I volunteered to watch her little girls ages 9, 6 until she got home so that they wouldn't have to spend the evening by themselves at home. 

She dropped the girls off about 6 and I started warming up left over for dinner to feed everyone. When my plate was warm, I sat down on our computer chair to eat. Immediately I felt a gush. I just sat there thinking no way was that my water breaking. I must have lost complete control of my bladder. However, there is no way I could have peed that much that quickly and be as wet as I was and have a puddle in the chair. I went hobbling into the bathroom still unsure of what had just happened. I rinsed off and put on some clean clothes. I kept standing and squatting trying to see if I could get more gushing. Nothing was happening. Not even a trickle.  I was feeling a bit embarrassed and glad my kids weren't around to see me "pee" my pants. I started walking back out to the kitchen to eat my dinner when I had a huge gush. I was soaked! With every movement of me walking back to my room more and more fluid was leaking. Minutes ago, I couldn't get anything to come out and now I couldn't get it to stop. 

I called Kory to inform him. He said he'd be home right away. I started calling around to sisters-in-laws to see who could take care of my nieces, but no one was home. In the end I called Natoshia, who was moving the next morning, and asked her if she'd take the girls I was tending. 

While waiting for Kory to get home I ran around getting everything we would need in Cedar out in the car. Kory was covered in black coal dust and so took a quick shower. When he was ready, we quickly loaded the kids up with the intentions of meeting my parents at the hospital who would take them until it was time for us to go back home. Of course, the van was on empty, so we had to make a quick stop to fill it up. Lucky for us instead of having the 2-hour drive ahead of us to the hospital Cedar Mountain had just announced that they would have the road open every weekend and during the week from 7pm-7am. Yay!

About 8:30pm we pulled into the hospital parking lot. I was having contractions about every 8 minutes, but they didn't really hurt. They seemed to be more like Braxton Hicks. The worse part about them was that every stink'n contraction real or not that came I had the pleasure of feeling another "gush" come out of me. I seriously had no idea what it was like to have your water break. I assumed it was a onetime occurrence but for me it most definitely was not. When I got out of the van, I had another "gush". The kids teased me that I had peed my pants. By the time I had walked into labor and delivery I felt like I had jumped into the pool waist deep. My pants stuck to me, and my socks were soaked. With every step my feet were sloshing in the water that was in my shoes.  Disgusting!!!  It was by far the most bizarre feeling I have ever had!   

When the nurse checked me, I was shocked to hear I was only at a 3 and still pretty thick. All my other babies were born within the hour of my water being broken. I was really worried I was going to have this baby on Cedar Mountain. The nurse thought we'd probably have a baby in the wee early hours the next morning.

An I.V was placed about 9pm and I was started on just a little pit to see if we could get some contractions started. By 10pm I was at a 5 and the Anesthesiologist was called for an epidural.  At 10:30 I had just received my epidural and could feel it starting to take effect. When checked, the baby's head could be felt, and I was at a 6. At 11 o'clock my doctor came in to check on us. I was now at a 7-8 and was told that baby was quickly descending and that we'd probably have a baby by midnight. This was my 5th epidural, and I have never had any issues with them in the past. This time however I had a hot spot which means I was numb where I was supposed to be except for a particular area on my right side. Oh my HECK!!!! Even though the majority of me was numb I could not believe the pain I was feeling in this one spot. I have no idea how women give birth naturally. There is no way I would ever even try to do it naturally having felt the pain I felt this go round. Kudo's to those women who can do it. I am most definitely not one of them. Not much later I was starting to push and miss Kylie was born at 23:23 or 11:23pm. We were only at the hospital for about 3 hours before she was born. To be only at a 3 when we got there and really not having any contractions at all.... This birth went fast!! 

We had a few visitors come see us the following morning. Here's Aunt Hanna taking a turn with her newest niece.

 Lovely picture of Kory and I!

  

 Wednesday night Kylie was tested for jaundice and her scores were a bit too high. She had the privilege of spending the night on lights. She had to wear a face mask to protect her eyes from the lights. She absolutely HATED the mask!!!

 This morning to our delight we were released from the hospital. We met up with my mom to get our big kids back and headed home with our newest addition. It's so good to be home. Kory had to leave for work almost immediately this afternoon when we got home leaving me by myself with all 5 kids. I was a bit worried wondering if I would survive by myself on my own tonight, but everyone has done really well. The big kids have done great taking turns holding Kylie and just being helpful. There hasn't been any whining, or fighting, they've done what they were asked the 1st time and have just been very helpful to me. I really, really appreciate their help this afternoon.  

 Emily was pretty proud of herself when she discovered that while she was singing to Kylie she had fallen asleep. She let me know that if I wanted I could wake her up in the middle of the night for her to sing Kylie back to sleep. So helpful!

 I was on the other couch talking with the girls and Brayden when I heard Hunter mumbling something to Kylie. It took me a minute, but I was able to tune out what the girls were saying and focus on the mumbling. He was telling her in a hushed tone how pretty she was and that he loved her already! I then asked him out loud what he was saying? He wouldn't tell me and acted embarrassed that I may have heard what he was saying. I just let it go but I'm pretty sure of what I heard him saying. He's been a bit bummed to have another sister. He was really hoping that the ultrasound was wrong and he'd get another brother. I'm glad he'll admit even if it's only to the baby that he loves her already. Despite his teasing and not knowing when to quit egging his siblings on he has MANY moments of being a good big brother.  

Here's our beautiful little girl!

Kylie Bobbette Heaton

The kids picked Kylie's 1st name several months ago. I think it's pretty cute and everyone's agreed, even Daddy, to stick with it. When it came to a middle name, I have been unsure, and Kory's been of no help of course. We have given all of our kids a "family name". For some it's their 1st name and for the other's it's their middle name. Some of the "family names" are from the Heaton side while others are from the Christensen side. All of them have a family member that they were named after. I wanted to continue this with Kylie.

My parents live across the driveway from my grandparents. My kids call my grandparents GG (great grandma) and GG pa (great grandpa). Being we lived in Hurricane for a year before moving to Alton I felt like each of my kids developed a relationship with their GG and GGpa. Even Brayden only being 2 loved to go on walks with GG and get a never-ending supply of jellybeans from his GG pa. Unfortunately, GG is suffering from Alzheimer's. On her good days she knows who my children are. But more often than not she does not remember their names or who they are or that she is their great grandma. Alzheimer's is such a horrible disease. It saddens me to know that at this moment in time for the most part she does not remember my kids. Hunter, Madelyn and Emily are old enough that I think they will always remember GG. They have memories of living across the driveway from her. They will be able to share stories about her with their own kids one day. Brayden, I think is too young and won't be able remember the short time he had with her but at least he was able to spend some good times with her regardless. She could get him to laugh, they talked to each other and he was always quick to give both GG and GGpa hugs and kisses. Almost every sacrament meeting Brayden would walk over and sit on GG's lap. It breaks my heart to know that Kylie will never have this experience with her GG. Kylie will know who she is because we will teach her, but she'll never have the experiences that my other children had by living so close and before the Alzheimer's really took control of her life. I don't think GG will ever "know" Kylie like she was able to "know" my other kids. GG will probably always have to ask who that little girl is, what her name is and how she belongs to the family. After much thought we've decided to name Kylie after her GG, Bobbette Grow. Whether GG knows it or not Kylie and her will always have something in common, something that they share, a bond. So that is why we've named our new little girl

Kylie Bobbette Heaton. We love our GG and GG pa!

37 weeks

This morning, I had my 37-week appt. I wasn't surprised to hear I was only a 2+ and still pretty thick. It's progress but not much! My doctor said she'd induce me if I wanted on June 4th. That's Kory's birthday so probably not. June 4th I would be 38 weeks and 4 days! 

My mom asked me today after my appointment if I was disappointed with this news? I'm really not. I'm not uncomfortable, I don't have the feeling "get this baby out", I can breathe, I can eat, she's not hurting me. I'm doing just fine. My only complaint is the frequent need to pee, and my shirts are getting too short to cover up the ugly prego paneling in my pants! Honestly, I feel like if I went to 40 weeks or beyond it wouldn't bug me at the moment. I'm feeling pretty good compared to how I was feeling a few weeks ago.    

36 Weeks

                                                          I am 36 weeks as of today.
                                                                        Yippee!!!

 I had a doctor's appt. earlier this week and the 1st thing she said was "Congratulation's, you've made it farther than your 1st. born." Hunter was born at 34 weeks and 2 days. We were very blessed with his early arrival in that he was healthy and didn't have a NICU stay or any lung development issues.  Even though pregnancy is not always the easiest and there are days that I want this all to be over with I'm glad we haven't had a baby born that early since. I'm so glad we've made it to 36 weeks. One more week and baby will be considered full term! 

My doctor did not check me this week in fear of "stirring" something up and causing me to go into labor. My next appt. is next Thursday at which point I will have hit my 37th week mark and I will be checked. I always like to hear how much effacement or dilatation has taken place. It's good to know that the annoying contraction's that I'm having is doing something even though it doesn't mean I'm going to go into labor the next day.    

I'd love baby to be born next weekend, Memorial Weekend. Kory wouldn't have to miss any days of work, his paycheck wouldn't be short and the road going over Cedar Mountain. will be open (only for that weekend). This means instead of having a 2 hour drive to the hospital we'd only have a 1 hour drive. But we'll see what baby decides to do. 



A couple weeks ago I got my hair cut. I've been meaning to blog about it but never got a picture taken to show it off until tonight. It's not the best picture of me with the puffy, tired eyes, no make-up but it shows my hair cut the best. It's short! Much shorter (like 7-8 inches) than it was a month ago. I haven't had my hair this short since I was in high school. I usually get my haircut before having a baby, but I've never gone this short before. I wanted something different and a little easier to maintain this go round. 

Angry Birds Party

Several years ago, Kory and I decided that our kids didn't need a big elaborate birthday party each year. Birthday parties are fun, but they are time consuming, can be expensive and frankly are a lot of work.  That being said, both Kory and I grew up having birthday parties and we wanted our kids to have this experience too. We decided that when the kids turned 5, 8, 12 and 16 we would have a birthday party with friends.  

Last year while living in Hurricane Hunter turned 8. This was his year to have his big friend birthday party. At that time he wanted a knight/castle theme. Unfortunatley Hunter had some friends that weren't behaving the way they should and Hunter was following in there footsteps. It got so bad that I even went and talked to his "best friends" mom about some of the things that were taking place. The mom already knew about most of them. She had even told her son that she was expecting some of his friends' parents to come to her because of his behavior and what he was "teaching/telling" his friends. After several weeks and trying different consequences, nothing seemed to be working. We felt like we were nearing the end of our rope and didn't know what else to do. After much thought we informed Hunter that any more of this inappropriate behavior and he would lose his birthday party. I HATE this part of parenting. Unfortunately, Hunter didn't believe us and purposely did something he had been told not to and then lied about it.  We had to follow through with the consequence. It was absolutely HORRIBLE. He cried, he was mad and devastated. I cried that night too because I was so sorry he had chosen to test us.

A few months ago, Hunter asked if he could "earn" a birthday party this year, even though he wasn't supposed to have one when he turned "9". Kory and I both felt that since he was willing to "earn" it and wasn't expecting it we'd go ahead and give him one. Hunter came up with his own ideas of how to earn this birthday party. He cleaned out the van and did an amazing job vacuuming it. He washed all the windows and vacuumed the blinds in the whole house. The basement is a dark and cold storage room. He took flashlights down, vacuumed the spiderwebs, wiped down the shelves, and organized all the canned goods. It looked so good! He definitely earned his birthday party.  

 Hunter decided he wanted an Angry Birds Birthday.   

Here is one of the 12 invitations that he and I made one day after school just using cardstock and googly eyes. On the back we had printed out all the party info. I loved the way it turned out.

  

 
One of the games the boys got to do was a wrist rocket game. I searched for quite some time for some cheap sling shots/wrist rockets. I was a bit amazed to see wrist rockets going for $5-10 a piece. I couldn't spend that much and then I saw on eBay 20 wrist rockets for $40. This was a bit more than I had wanted to pay, and I didn't need 20 of them however $2 piece sounded much better than $5-10. So, I bought them, and this became our thankyou gift to each of the boys. When the boys realized they got to take them home I won "the best mom of the year" award. During the party I heard over and over how I was the coolest mom, or the best mom cause their mom. I'm glad I found a party favor that the boys will LOVE!

 Here is our game. Uncle Jason was able to get me the canvas for free and then I spent a day painting on it to match our theme.

 The boys used their wrist rockets to shoot giant marshmallows through the holes. Some of these boys had quite the aim.

 We borrowed some foam noodle swords, and the boys had a sword fight!

 The biggest part of the party was supposed to be a "live" angry bird's game. Kory and I made up a sling shot area using our swing set,

 We then piled a ton of boxes in the front lawn to build with. Unfortunately, we had 30-mile hour wind during the party. We had an incredibly hard time keeping the boxes on top of each other to give the boys a chance to knock the tower over using the sling shot. The wind was just too strong! But they still had fun trying. 

 We also did a scavenger hunt. We ended up having a total of 13 boys including Hunter at the party. I split them up into 2 teams and sent them off with their 1st clue. After their 1st clue, I had the 2 teams going in different directions. I had 9 different clues around town. The clues would then lead them to the fire station, the school bus garage, post office, milking barn, church, etc. Their goal was to find the golden eggs that the green pigs had supposedly hidden. With easter being just a few weeks ago I took some of our eggs and spray painted them gold. The last clue lead everyone back to the house where the eggs were waiting to be found in our tire swing in our front yard.

 We had plenty of color full food to enjoy. I had a fruit tray with banana's, strawberries, apples and grapes. Then the fun part was gum balls, mini jaw breakers, mike n' ikes and a bowl of gummy worms with green juice to help wash it all down.

 I really, really wish the dang wind would have stopped. I considered moving his party indoors but there was no way my house could handle 13 wild boys! So, we stayed outside. I don't think the kids minded as much as I did. It was pain in the neck having plates and cups flying all over the yard. I put 2 rocks in the bottom of the garbage can and it still got blown over and I had to run around and pick up the blowing garbage.

Near the end of the party Hunter opened his presents.

 Afterwards I brought out his requested cupcakes instead of cake this year! I was impressed with the way my birds turned out. They were fun to make!

Every single boy whined and complained when their moms came to get them after the party. It made me feel good that even though some of the games were harder to do with the dang wind that they all had such a wonderful time and didn't want to go home. Hunter has told me many times that it was the best birthday party ever. All that hard work was worth it!

I had to share this picture when I saw it. Brayden being the typical little brother, running around with a stick in his hand yelling, "Expelliarmus" to all the boys. The boys were great with the 3-year-old trying to tag along and play with them. 

Bountiful Basketts

I'm fairly new to Bountiful Basketts, while in Prescott Valley I had many friends that participated and they loved it. While living in Hurricane I remember my mom doing it a few times too. We've been in Alton now for almost a year and all my sister-in-laws participate too. I don't know why it's taken me so long to jump on the band wagon and participate myself. About 6 weeks ago my sister-in-law called and asked if I wanted a baskett. Instead of creating my own account she'd order an extra one for me. I went ahead and gave it a try. I loved it and even Kory loved it. After we recieved our 1st baskett Kory asked me why I had never done it before. Uh.... Don't really know.  Being lazy I have still never created my own account. My sister-in-law is great to call me each monday morning to tell me what they have to offer. Sometimes I participate by ordering a baskett or one of the many extra's they have to offer by placing my order with hers.  This past week she told me that one of the extra's was strawberries. I was very interested in those. I was told that each person could only order 8-1lb. containers of strawberries which would be about $1.30 a piece. Having recently been to the grocery store and seeing strawberries still at $2.50 I thought this would be a great deal.  My sister-in-law only wanted 2 containers so I told her I'd take the rest. I THOUGHT I was only getting 6-1lb containers of strawberries. You can imagine my suprise when I ended up with this on my kitchen table saturday morning. It wasn't 6-1lb containers but 6 flats of 8-1lb. containers. What do you do with an unexpected 48 containers of strawberries?

Saturday I quickly pulled out all my canning supplies. To my delight I had many, many, many boxes of pectin left over from last season. I then pulled out every Freezer Container we owned and made some fresh freezer jam. I was able to use up 1 entire flat and made about 23 containers of jam.  

Still having 5 flats left I took one flat, rinsed and cut the stems off, froze them on a cookie sheet individually and then put them all in a freezer bag. During the summer we make fruit smoothies almost on a daily basis. I think these strawberries will make a great contribution to our smoothies this year.

 

For family home evening tonight the kids and I dipped 4 containers of strawberries in melted chocolate. Some we left plain and others we dipped in coconut and nuts. They were so yummy! Maybe a little too yummy. I had to tell the kids NO MORE several times! I'm afraid they all may be visiting the bathroom a little more than usual tommorrow. We should probably wait a day or two and then the kids would like to dip some more.

I spent most of my day in Cedar today and seriously "cleaned out" Wal Mart's stash of freezer containers and pectin. Unfortunately they only had 4 boxes of pectin but I'm hoping with the boxes I still have left from last year I'll be able to turn most of the remaining strawberries into jam. I don't know though. I still have 3 1/2 flats left. That's a lot of strawberries.

Brayden's 3rd Birthday

Brayden celebrated his 3rd birthday this past Friday.  When I started going through his pictures trying to pick out the ones I'd like to share to show his milestones these came to mind. I don't have any pictures taken of Brayden at the hospital without all the wires and tubes he was attached to. He was born exactly 3 weeks early and weighed 8lbs. It brings tears to my eye's remembering what his 1st week of life was like.  It was a rough week for our family.

The above picture was taken when Brayden was still in the Prescott Valley Hospital. He was about 3 hours old. The below picture was taken when he was 4 days old. I had been warned the night before I left him at the NICU in Phoenix that the next day his I.V would no longer be in his leg. By this time his little veins in both hands and his legs could no longer be used. I was told his I.V would be placed in the side of his head or his neck. It was still a bit of shock to see his I.V sticking out of his head. When I saw him, I couldn't hold back the tears. I sat and cried and cried and cried. It was hard to see him with a needle sticking out of his head! 

        After getting Brayden home my best friend, April, took some newborn shots. These are my favorite. I love the green bow!

    I love his wrinkles!

Grandma Heaton made his blessing outfit. 

Then we were celebrating his 1st birthday!

This is one of my most favorite pictures of Brayden. He is such a fun, loving little guy!

                  Then we celebrated his 2nd birthday. He loved/loves animals so the cake was perfect!

   He's sure grown up. I'm so thankful this little guy is a part of our family. He makes me laugh all the time.

       And now he's 3!  

As with tradition we had pancakes for breakfast, his favorite.

    He asks for pancakes for breakfast/lunch and dinner.

It was HILARIOUS to watch him blow out the candles. They each got blown out one at a time. By the third candle he kept putting his hand on his forehead. The closer his face got to the candle the closer his hand got to his eyes. When asked what he was doing he said the candle was HOT! It was burning him.

Trying to get a decent picture of this little guy in nearly impossible right now. He puts his hands up to his head like he's holding the camera and says "cheese".

This little man loves letters. His favorite show to watch is Leap Frog, any Leap Frog. He knows and recognizes every letter. He can almost tell you what each letter says correctly too. He reminds me of Hunter, he loves to learn new things. So, for his birthday we got him the Leap Frog magnet that sticks to the fridge. When a letter is placed in the box "Tad" says the letter and the sound it makes. Being I bought it off eBay it came with a word Leap Frog magnet too. When a 3-letter word is spelled out "Tad" again sounds out all the letters and says the word. He's loving this. He got some lacing farm animals which were a big hit when we took them to sacrament meeting this past Sunday. He also got 2 battery operated cars that drive themselves on Hunter's old car track and some "Disney Cars" bath supplies. I think his absolute favorite was a book that we gave him, "The Three Little Pigs". I don't remember when or exactly how it started but several months ago at nap time and bedtime instead of reading him a story I would tell him a story. He quickly took a liking to The Three Little Pigs story. Almost on a daily basis I am asked to tell him the story. I love it and he loves it. When I saw the book on Amazon a few weeks ago I knew I had to get it. Especially when the price was only $2.75 and had free shipping with our Amazon Prime. He Know's the story almost by heart. Many times, since Friday I have found him "reading" the story out loud to himself. He's got the basics down and is learning to tell the smaller details now. I wish I had a video camera to catch it on. It is so fun to see!

Brayden wanted a "Diego" cake. I had plans of making Diego out of fondant and an animal to go by his side. However, I got a bit busy trying to finish up my last online class and waited till the day before his birthday to begin. Fondant takes about 72+ hours to dry hard so when I wait like I did I have to add gum paste to it so that it will harden much quicker. Thursday night I realized I didn't have any gum paste to add. Not having a Wal Mart or Michaels down the street and knowing that plain fondant wouldn't work I had to grab 2 of his toys to use as our cake topper.  I also had the intentions of making some animals out of royal icing to place on the side of the green cake. OOPS!!! Didn't have one of the main ingredients for that too. I really didn't plan very well for his cake. Even though I didn't get the cake done the way I had envisioned or wanted to do it, Brayden was thrilled that his name was on it. If Brayden sees a word with a B and Y he thinks, and will argue with you, that it says his name. He loved the fact his name and letters were on his birthday cake.  I realized to late what horrible lighting I had when I took his pictures. This is the best I got!

Happy Birthday big boy!

I love you.

 

Kylie's Car Seat

Before Brayden was born, I wanted to "re-do" his car seat. I don't remember what happened, but it never got done. When I discovered I was pregnant this go round I wanted to once again redo the car seat to something a little more unique. I wanted a "WOW" car seat that I had made!

 Many weeks ago, an awesome friend gave me her old car seat that they won't be needing anymore. It's a typical, normal infant car seat that we've all seen around. It was neutral colors and just an average car seat.

 When we learned that I was pregnant with a girl I started searching for fabric. Being this will be our last baby I want it to be "girly".  Last time we went to Prescott I finally found some fabric that I wanted to use.

The past few days I have giving the car seat a "re-do" and I absolutely LOVE it!!!

 It took me several days to accomplish but I've finally gotten in 100% done. It is ready to go.

 I love the hot pink/black. I love the frills. I just love everything about it.

 As with most projects I had to make a few changes along the way (like running out of the black fabric). But in the end, I'm in love!

Kory's comment was "wow, that's bright.....but cute!" It is bright. It surprises me every time I look at it.  But I still love it! I definitely got my unique car seat that I was after. 

Fire...

 This morning Kory decided we'd take advantage of our abnormally warm weather, a whole whopping 70 degrees and burn our burn pile. Our burn pile has been accumulating since we moved in almost a whole year ago now. We had everything from tree branches, hoses, broken plastic buckets, weeds, hay string, and left-over rotten wood from when we're assuming the big red bard was built 5+ years ago. Our fire got pretty big! While cleaning out the barn Kory picked up a box to bring to the fire. Luckily he looked in it before tossing it on the fire. Guess what he found???????

 2 Baby kittens, probably less than 2 weeks old!

These little kids could not leave the kittens alone. They were taken everywhere this morning. They were very gentle with them but still.... We finally had the kiddo's put them back in the box and made them leave them alone. Kory keeps telling the kids if they play with them too much the momma cat will move them somewhere else. I guess we'll see if there still around come morning. I'm not an animal lover and neither is Kory. However, we have seen the neighborly cats trotting around our property with mice in their mouth. I have never seen a mouse in our house or any evidence that we have mice. The barn however is a different story! I don't care how many cats take up residence out there. As long as they continue to do their mice catching job these cats can stay!

32 weeks...

Have I grown any these past 4 weeks?

Yep, I do believe I see a difference!

32 weeks down, just 8 more to go!

I have stopped teaching preschool and have requested to be released from YW's trying to stay down more and follow doctor's orders. To help relieve the stress part of things I am doing my best trying to finish up this year's school semester a little early. Taking online classes allows me to do this. I've finished one class and have just one more to go. It will be a relief when I'm done for the semester!

There are a few sewing projects that I've wanted to do in preparation for our new baby. I would like to re-do baby's car seat, make some burp cloths and get started on her blessing dress. If baby waits the full 40 weeks to make her presence, she'll be 2 weeks old when she's blessed. I don't think I'll feel like making her dress after she's born! I've started on one of these projects and will have pictures to show off soon!

The "moderate" bed rest seems to be making a difference. I honestly didn't think it would do any good and at the beginning of the week I couldn't see/feel a difference. Now that I've been doing the "bed rest" for a little more than a week I think there has been a change. Hopefully this is all that I will need to do. My next Dr.'s appt is in 10 days. I'm anxious to see if my body's made any changes. I've never made it to the full 40 weeks and this pregnancy probably won't be any different than the previous 4. My first was at 34weeks (my water broke). 2nd-39weeks, 3rd-38 weeks, 4th-37 weeks. Is this a pattern that will continue to go? Will this one be 36weeks? To think I could be done carrying this baby girl in 4 weeks is starting sound pretty good. However, I hope she'll wait till at least 37 weeks being that's considered full term. As much as I'm ready to start getting my body back I'm willing to wait as long as I need even if it's the full 40 weeks if it means a healthy, full term, baby girl!