10 weeks and 10 days

10 weeks until my due date! No, time has not flown by. I have been too busy to even think about prepping for his arrival, but after next week...

10 days until we officially sell our house and 2 days after that, we officially purchase our next one! But first, we get to visit Grace and Daniel in Virginia!! I've been looking forward to this trip for MONTHS and I can't believe it's actually happening this week.

We are crazy, yes, but we had to get this trip in while we could because I've never traveled on an airplane with a baby before and I thought it would be a nice getaway to see those guys.

To sum up: we're going on a trip, selling our house, buying a new house, moving and then thinking about setting up for Conner within the next 14 days!

I hope these stupid allergies don't get the best of me.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

So I had my 28 week check up with my OB on Friday. I drank the "fruit punch" glucose drink which was pretty gross but not unbearable (thank goodness). It has warnings on the bottle that says it may cause nausea, fainting and diarrhea. PERFECT! Just what a prego lady needs! I talked to the doc about the pelvis pains and she thinks that's just something I'm gonna have to deal with. Some women get kicked in the ribs, I get a baby sitting on my pelvis! Maybe this means when it's time for him to come, it will help me dilate faster? We'll see...

Also, included in this appointment was another doppler check to listen to Conner's heartbeat. He's sounds great! I haven't been worried about that at all because of all of his movements. I received my first Rhogam injection because I am Rh negative. I saw the tube of liquid that the nurse was going to inject into me and decided this was a shot that I didn't want to watch. Cody said the needle was quite big. It didn't hurt, but it did feel like I was being pinched and that the pincher wouldn't let go! Apparently the needle was big because after it was removed, some of the liquid dripped down my arm! It must have left a sizeable hole! When Conner is born, they'll check him for the Rh factor as well. If he's negative, then I won't have to have another shot. I'm hoping he won't be since I found out last weekend that being Rh neg runs in my family.

An hour after I finished my tasty drink, I had a CBC (blood draw) so they could check my glucose levels to make sure I don't have gestational diabetes. They also just wanted to make sure that my other levels were fine (like iron). If I don't here from them on Monday, all will be well!

I started with the ugly with this post. The good news is with my weight. Since my last appointment, 3 weeks ago, I gained only 5 pounds! This is a big deal because I've gained a lot of weight each month for each weigh in. The bad news is that I gained 5 pounds. I'm only supposed to gain a pound per week from my last check up until I deliver. Hopefully I'll get on track, though I'm not exactly sure how.

Now I'm going to mention the cute! When I started this post, Conner was positioned on my right side, upper part of my belly. He then wiggled his way to the middle of my left side at about the point when I mentioned the blood draw. Then I mentioned the bad news and he moved over to the right side and now he's spread across my belly because it's moving on either side! This is such a trip!

Good morning, Conner!

Swelling

My feet HURT! The season opener for the Horns was alot of fun and a ton of walking. At the end of the night, I felt like I couldn't walk anymore and struggled to do so. The swelling was so intense. I have a feeling that I'll have to continue to icing them everyday and perhaps buy some shoes that are a larger size. I've gotten away with wearing my Crocs that are flip flops all throughout the pregnancy, but I think it's time to move on up. My toes look like mini sausages!! My feet feel like I'm carrying saddlebags! I'm looking forward to the cooler weather and am hopeful that will help.

87 more days!

Baby news

Conner is all over the place! I am looking/feeling huge at 26 weeks, 5 days. A perfect stranger actually said to me today, "you look like you're ready." I know he didn't mean anything by it and I can see where he comes from. I guess I'm just disappointed by this because it proves that I am in fact BIG! At least Conner has plenty of space to move around in there so he can stretch his legs. He seems to be doing that alot more these days! I love it! It is still the weirdest/coolest feeling ever. He's such a good boy, too. When I feel very upset about whatever, he moves around in my belly and it makes me smile and wonder what he's doing in there and also wonder where I'm going to feel him next. I'll get to continue being curious for the next 3 months!

I did have a dream over the weekend that I went into labor at 26 weeks and Cody took me to a delivery clinic to have the baby. They showed me my bed and I noticed there were 3 others in the same room and they all looked like cots and the room had wood paneling. I grabbed Cody and we left. I was curious in my dream why we didn't go to our hospital (we hadn't seen the rooms yet) because that is where our doctor works. In the end, I wasn't in labor so all worked out.

We went to Ray's lakehouse on Sunday to hang out and enjoy everything. The funniest thing that happened immediately upon our arrival was when I was chatting with Nicole in the kitchen and Brian comes down the stairs and turns the corner to get to the kitchen. He stopped suddenly upon noticing me and said, "Whoa! There's a baby in there!" We all just died laughing! I guess it has been a little while since I've seen him, but I didn't think it was that long!

I think Conner enjoyed his boat ride because I know I did! I was so jealous of everyone wakeboarding/battle tubing/skiing. I'll get to do that again next summer so that's good.

OH! Conner has legs and he likes to show them off! Most babies are in a fetal position where their legs are bent in close to their bodies, but not him. He extended both his legs for the student techinicians a couple weeks ago and it was a sight to see. So far the ultrasound of his legs is my favorite picture. I can't wait to see how long they really are. I'm sure he is making his daddy proud!

2nd busiest person you know

I don't want to say that I'm the busiest person you know, because I'm sure that you know someone busier. Nonetheless, I'll bore you with details of what Cody and I have been up to over the past month.

For 3 weeks we worked on getting our house ready to be listed for sale. We worked during the day and at night we packed, painted, hauled, donated, caulked, cleaned, watched some t.v., went to the lake and caught up with some high school buddies. We listed our house on a Friday evening, visited some long lost family, went to bed to be awakened by a phone call from a buyer's agent asking if they could stop by our house in 10 minutes. 15 minutes later we were out the door and didn't come back until that evening because we kept getting calls from agents wanting to show our house! It was an exciting day! We were hoping to celebrate listing our house by being able to stay in it and take a breather. We really wanted to go to Christina's Master's graduation party, but decided it would be best to stay home. Ultimately, I wish we had gone considering we didn't get to relax anyway.

All that hard work paid off because that Tuesday, just 3 days after people started looking at the house, we got our first offer! The next day, we got two additional offers! Well, we are under contract and negotiations have finished. Whew! Closing date is scheduled for Oct. 6th!

So, now that we have a contract on our house, we have to find a place to live. We didn't start looking until we listed our house as we were thinking it would take much longer (minimum of 3 weeks) to attract a buyer. SO our weekends and a few weekdays have been spent looking at houses. We looked at over 40 houses in Leander, Cedar Park, Austin and Round Rock. We narrowed those down to 5 and just put an offer on one in our neighborhood!

We started childbirthing classes last week and so far they seem to be pretty informative. We got to tour the labor and delivery area and let me tell you, these birthing rooms are pretty sweet. They are large enough to walk around in and have roughly 40 people in there with you! My step mom asked me prior to this visit if we were going to set up bleachers for people who wanted to share the birth with us! I told her no, everyone had to wait outside during delivery. Now, everyone could be in there and not see my "parts" because the room is so big! I'm still going to have them wait outside during delivery.

I wish we could have had more time to spend with friends during the past month. We were certainly going stir crazy for a while there. Luckily we were able to make it out to the lake and see a couple people to "get away". Now we're beginning football season and it seems like we're not slowing down!

I miss you guys!

Just for fun

I just decided to find out what the names Conner and Aiden mean!

Conner: strong willed

Aiden: little fire

Since we came up with these names immediately after we found out that I was pregnant, I think it's appropriate that he already seems to be acting this way. He is already so much like his dad!

So much fun at the H E B!

Hehe, a little Bob Schneider reference.

Ok, so my HEB experience wasn't all that fun. I was hoping this trip to the store would bring rain. I purposefully didn't bring an umbrella even though it was threatening a storm. I think the weather is catching on to my scheme to outwit it. It continues to not rain even though it would be funny if I got "caught" being prepared or if I just washed the car.

This was the first trip in quite some time to the store without Cody. Unfortunately, I had to buy heavy items like 2 gallons of milk, o.j., cat food and soda. This made for an unreasonably long trip to load the cart as well as my car, then unloading it all at the house. I didn't have a particularly pleasant experience at the store with the people there tonight. It didn't seem like people were being courteous by moving out of the way when in the middle of the aisle or creating "road blocks" by stopping their carts immediately next to another cart so no one else can get by. I had one lady just stare at me as I was trying to figure out which way she was going to go toward the sausages. Was she stopping where she was? Was she going to go left/right? I ended up squeezing past her, too!

Then at the register, the cashier lady left her register to go get a bag of sugar for the lady checking out because they were "sistas". I'm not making that up. The customer greeted the cashier with, "Hey, my sista!" Meanwhile, I was trying not to pass out because I just loaded the conveyer with the heavy items I was purchasing and became very obviously hot and had to fan myself with my shopping list. After the customer left and it was my turn, the lady greeted me, scanned my items and bagged them. That was it. I loaded my cart by myself and left.

Aren't they supposed to help you load, too? I thought people were supposed to be nicer to senior citizens, disabled and pregnant women! Maybe I was just expecting too much from my neighborhood HEB. But, one very nice man did offer to take my cart inside for me. I may have thanked him too much.