Just waiting....

I am growing....and growing and growing LOL Luckily we got through the house move just fine so now I am really ready. Not really ready for the pain, but the more I wait the bigger I get and the more nervous I get about having a vaginal birth, which I really want. Todd has been awesome with it all, what a huge help he is!!! I can see him getting excited and anxious. I think he really wants to tell people he's a Dad now rather than, nope still waiting LOL Say some prayers that our baby boy can come real soon and that he's safe, healthy and ready for life!

Happiest Birthday!!

Yes, I am now 34 years old, and I am happy about it! Sure I am one year older, but I had a whole year of full life, of new beginnings and promise. What a birthday I had and I thought that it wouldn't be good because of my huge belly!! I had an easy morning of doing odds and ends while the kids were in school. Todd came home early so I could get the baby checked, he came home with a beautiful dozen of roses. Of course I had to run off for my apt but those roses were so beautiful. He found a vase for them. 2 hrs later I return home to cooked dinner and two hyper excited kids because it's mommy's birthday. Matthew is telling me to look in here, we have a surprise for you. Of course I could have suspected a cake, but there were no dishes, it didn't smell like cake, but MAYBE he bought one, how sweet. So we eat dinner, YUM. The kids insist on the surprise, so Todd disappears into the bedroom and comes out with a cake with 34 candles!!!! He baked a cake, not just any cake but a diabetic friendly cake with two "little helpers". Wow. then the gifts come out. I was expecting one that I knew he bought me,a new Vera Bradley purse :) But Maria hands me a card signed by her and Matthew, how cute!!! She even picked out a present for me, a picture frame, which she tells me I can put a picture of baby brother in which I correct her and said I could put a picture of all three of my babies in! Then I see a Michael's Jewelers box! In it is a beautiful Sapphire ring!!! I'm so loved!! Also with my new ring is a thoughtful card which is my fav part :) And if the night couldn't get better, I don't even have to do bath for the kids! THe day couldn't be any better. Thank you so much Todd, I love you :)

I'm grown up!

Maria in all her great wisdom has announced that since her first tooth has fallen out she is now grown up :) This little tooth has been loose for a while, maybe for some time in her imagination but for some time anyhow. I have been instructing her to not bother it and let it fall out on its own. Finally her dream has come true! She was eating some popcorn and low and behold, her tooth falls out! She ran upstairs to find me and announce the big news! She's so excited that the tooth fairy now has to come visit her. She expects the tooth family to leave her five dollars, five quarters and five pennies because after all she's five years old :) She gets a box to put her tooth in, puts it under her pillow and anxiously falls asleep and wakes in the morning to find her treasure from the tooth fairy. She of course spends it that next day on littlest Pet shop toys. She is so proud of her missing tooth and now she has another tooth off to the tooth fairy. Can't help but look at her and see that she is yes indeed growing up.
All else is pretty good. My gallbladder pain has subsided due to taking all fat out of my diet. I get it scanned Thursday morning to make sure there's no stones in there. It was a relief that Dr Mihalek listened to me. I've been getting pretty good contractions but thankfully nothing regular, I am only 34 weeks and some change and we really need him in there at least two more weeks. Plus Grandma is out of town so he has to wait until the 8th :) We get measured and weight done on the 15th and find out if he'll be section or vaginal. I am scared either way :( What if he gets stuck if we go vaginal and how will I cope with the recovery of a c section if it goes that route? He's very active and has done well aside from the contractions, his heart looks great and his fluid levels are healthy. I can't believe that I will have three kids soon, Todd will be a Daddy and how different it will all be this time around. His swing is ready, carseat in the car and his big sister guessing his birth date and what he'll look like. My girlfriends are getting together Friday night for a baby celebration, I so can't wait. All my friends from different phases in my life, all important and love so much!
Court was court Monday, nothing happened, our hearing date will be March 17th, hopefully lucky day for me. I decided I just have more important things to stress about right now other than money, so it is officially off my plate, it feels good to give myself permission to do that.
The house closing is coming fast and furious! I am frantically looking for those who are better at bending over than me to help and just trying to get it out. It feels wierd to be there, not home, like a ghost life, revisiting an old old life. Instead of feeling the good times I feel this hollow me, hard to explain. It's sad. I will be glad when it's all final.
Todd has been such a trooper, I fall in love with him more and more every day. He's been such a pillar of strength and help and partnership. It's a good good life! I'm starting to believe that he actually really cares about ME! What a concept. I thank him all the time, but it doesn't seem enough. I hope I am spending the rest of my life finding ways to show my gratitude.