Notes from the Under-belly: Week 35

Me & Holly, Beckett's mom, at 34 1/2 and 37 1/2 wks!

How far along? 35 weeks!
Total weight gain/loss: 28 lbs. 

Maternity clothes? : picking up a few things here and there, but I basically live in my goucho pants. 

Stretch marks? Not any new ones...

Sleep: Wish I had more of it. 

Movement: I'm starting to notice her awake times now...and apparently she's gonna have a late-night feeding around 11:30, and one at 3:30am. :)

Food cravings: chocolate, specifically Reese Sticks and Vanilla Coke

Gender: hopefully she's still a girl ;) But just in case, we did come up with a boy name, Brett Morgan.

Labor Signs: I have a lot of Braxton Hicks contractions but have even had some real contractions. Not too many though! 
Belly Button in or out? starting to poke out a little.

What I miss: cute jeans and shirts, being skinny, lung capacity...

What I am looking forward to: my friend, Holly's baby is due to be born any day now!!, and we're having a small get-together on Sunday to celebrate Corrinne's arrival. Can't wait to see everyone and show off her room! 

Weekly Wisdom: Let Drew do things around the house when he offers. :)

Milestones: 4 wks from Thursday is the big day -- scheduled c-section! She's approximately 6 lbs now. Wow!!!!

Summer fun...

Corrinne has lots of friends on the way: 

Baby Boy Adams - 21 wks

Avery Mae Richardson - 23 wks

Corrinne Olivia - 33 wks

Of course the men couldn't let us have ALL the glory.

The only time I've found cellulite cute. :)

Our pool boy. 

at The Indians game - Cash loved it! 

Well, Hello.

We are BACK! Cable guy came out yesterday and we are, once again, fully connected to the outside world. It was a long 24 hours but we made it. We went with AT&T U-Verse and let me tell you - I wasn't prepared for such a change. Mainly with the TV. We got the 200 channel package, however the "guide" lists every single channel available to mankind so you spend 20 minutes trying to find PBS.

(Seriously -- 200 channels?! Sounds ridiculous and I kinda think it is, but if we went with just 100 channels I wouldn't get my beloved TLC or Food Network. And I just wasn't sure what I'd do all day if I couldn't watch 15 episodes of  a Baby Story.) 

Anyways, on to my real reason for this post. 

Wednesday night was our last night in our first house. It was a rough night anyways because Drew had an overnight maintenance project at work so he was gone from 10pm - 4am. Even though we had a security system, I'm what some may call a chicken and HATE being home by myself...especially at night when all kinds of evil ensues. So my fear of some crazy stalker breaking in, raping me, and hurting my child overshadowed the reality of us moving the next day. I woke up on Thursday, went to my OB appt (everything looks good - I'll post about that soon enough) and then the moving commenced. Tony & Drew got 95% of the rest of the stuff out of our old house and into the new. I did a final walk-through that night to make sure we had what we needed for the evening and did not expect the tidal wave of tears that came almost immediately. It was just so weird seeing that house so empty. It was like a video montage of all the memories of that house playing in my mind: painting our room with Zach & Lilly the weekend after we closed on it, opening our wedding presents in the living room after returning from our honeymoon, hosting Thanksgiving and Easter dinners for my family, our first Christmas as a married couple, and then Cash's first Christmas. The tears really came when I walked by Cash's room and saw his "I am a child of God" on the wall above where his crib was. So many fantastic memories in that house and we were leaving it all behind.  

(Ok, so my in-laws will be living there and I'm sure we'll be back there on a semi-regular basis. So its not that bad. I realize this. But still.) 

For a split-second I was sad that we were going to be living in this fabulous, almost too-good-to-be-true new house. But I kept telling myself we'd make new memories. And since we plan on being here until Cash and Corinne both graduate from high school (at least) I'm sure the memories will be innumerable. (whoa. SAT word.) 

I was made certain of this when we pulled into the new driveway that same night. I was wearing my (ahem, maternity) swimsuit with nothing but a towel over me and had tear-stained cheeks and very puffy eyes when I noticed our new neighbor walking over to greet us! He's a really nice guy (and a cop, who parks his patrol car right in front of our house. Fine by me!) and introduced us to his 2 sons and wife. I just wish I hadn't been sporting a towel. That barely covered my belly. The only sigh of relief was that we hadn't seen our other neighbor that night - the pastor. 

Well I took care of making that encounter embarrassing as well when our neighbor "The Pastor" and his young family came by to drop off cookies last night. We welcomed them in, invited them to sit down and chat for awhile. Which was a very nice conversation...except that due to the extreme heat (as mentioned in a previous blog) I was wearing a tank top that mostly covered my pregnant bosoms. Normally I'm not a cleavage girl, but when its 90 degrees outside and "the girls" are ever-growing, its hard to contain them. It didn't help that when I asked Drew if I looked inappropriate his response was, "sometimes". Awesome.

"Welcome, Pastor Kip. Don't mind my cleavage." 

Thoughts from today. In list form:

1. Spaghetti sauce isn't easy to get out of eyebrows. Please note that none of the sauce actually entered Cash's mouth...it was used merely as a facial mask of some sort and/or finger paint. 

And while we're on the subject, can I just say that when once I thought feeding Cash was difficult during the infant (6-9 month) stage - because of all the restrictions, choking, etc - I was wrong. Totally wrong. My child lives on cheez-its, yogurt, cheerios, french toast sticks, and milk. Sometimes he'll wow us by eating some chicken or grilled cheese. I'll be thankful if he sees his 2nd birthday...

2. I knew being pregnant during the summer would be different...but holy NIGHT! Its horrible. I sweat walking to the car. Yesterday, I was actually sweating INSIDE my house where the AC was blasting. Its like the scene from Father of the Bride Part II up in here. Cash & Drew wear their christmas jammies each night while I'm trying to figure out how I can wear the least amount of clothing without showing off any accentuated body parts. I just might start wearing my bathing suit everyday. For real. 

3. Tomorrow is the last day I will wake up and go to sleep in this house. Its a weird feeling. While we haven't lived here a really long time, we still have had some major milestones in this house: This is the house Drew and I started out in... This is where we spent our wedding night (blushing!!! don't read this Dad or Grandpa), This is where we brought Cash home from the hospital...we painted this house together, we planted flowers together. We made it ours. And I know we'll do that at this next house and surprisingly, when we're there it feels sort of like "home" to us already. And we'll bring Corinne home to that house in just a few short weeks, so we're already making memories there. 

4. We bought Corinne's bedding this morning. I got a killer deal on it too! Love amazon.com and their free shipping! This is what we've chosen for our little lady's room.  

5. I ate an entire carton of strawberries in one sitting tonight. Sorry, Drew. 

...and that pretty much sums up today for ya! 

I would've said something about how I watched the one hour Jon & Kate +8 episode where they announced their divorce tonight and how it really saddens me. It does. And I can't stop thinking about it. 

So I guess I did mention it.

SOLD...to the lady with a big belly!

Its official - we have a new adddress! We got a couple loads of boxes and furniture moved over last night, but probably won't be living there until the middle of next week since we have jobs and stuff. (Geez...working is so annoying!). 

We are SO excited and thankful for this house. We both feel its a tremendous blessing and still can't believe its ours! Once we get some good pictures of it I'll post 'em. 

PS - Happy Father's Day! :)

Never Say Never...

Yesterday was a strange day for me. I did two things I never thought I'd do in my life...

1. I chose my daughter's birthday. Since Cash ended up a c-section baby and I'd rather not put myself (or the baby) through any added risk by attempting a VBAC (which, in my dr's opinion would end in c-section anyway) we decided to go with the scheduled repeat section route. The whole "scheduled c-section" just seems too easy to be for real - we go in at 8am, get prepped, baby's here in an hour and we're done for the day. Well, Dr. Davidson is done for the day...I think my shifts a little longer. Like 18 years...or forever. 

(Drew and I haven't decided if we're sharing her birth date with anyone outside of family just yet or if we'll wait till closer to time, so sorry. Not gonna find out today! MWAHAHA!)

2. This is the real kicker. I lost Cash's beloved "blankie". The perfect, adorable, soft, light blue blankie he sleeps with EVERYDAY! He has it for every nap and every night when he goes to bed. How could a responsible, loving mother such as myself do something so heinous you ask?! I DON'T KNOW!!!!! All I know is we had it at the food court in the mall and I thought I saw it when we got in the car. But when I got home and went to lay him down for his nap...it was missing.  Thank goodness he has a back-up blankie that seems to be working just fine. But still. I need to get another one. 

"Don't forget to take me with you!"

In case you haven't talked to us in the last 6 weeks or so - we're moving! Thats right...we didn't feel adding a second child 15 months after the first one was hectic enough for our lives so we decided to throw another humongous life change in just for the fun of it. So, Lord willing, as of next Friday (June 19th) we will be the proud new owners of a beautiful, 2-story house. I don't have any pictures right now, but as soon I do you can expect a post! Lets just say its a major upgrade in house for minimal upgrade in payment -- which is what I call a beautiful thing.

We were able to move because Drew's parents decided last summer they'd like to move out here and take advantage of the low cost of living. That, and there's this adorable little boy by the name of Cash they'd kind of like to hang out with. Oh, and their son lives here too. :) So we worked out a deal with them and they're actually purchasing our current home and will be taking care of that for us - God really worked it out for everyone's best interest. 

As if thats not enough excitement Drew's sister, Laura and her family are moving out too! We're really excited about adding the other branch of our family to the area and getting our kids together. Growing up, I didn't have cousins close to my age so I'm really excited that our kids will be able to take advantage of that and have both sets of Grandparents nearby. 

Keep us in your prayers over the next few weeks as we go through several transitions - all good, but slightly stressful. :)