Wings...

family pictures from 2 springs ago : )

so, i had a doctor's appointment today. im 39.4 weeks pregnant and here are my stats. i am 39 cm for the fundal height. she said i was 39 cm last week, so maybe the baby dropped. lets get a hallelujah!! for some reason i lost 2 lbs but the doc didnt seem to think it was a big deal. (so i came home and had the biggest lunch of my life, no joke. i dont want my baby girl starving in there! i promise i eat like a man!) i am 4-5 cm dilated (last friday i was a 3), and 90% effaced (last friday i was 80%). when my doctor saw how dilated and effaced i was, she laughed! out of shock i assume, because then she questioned if i was always like this with my others. i told her sadly, yes, but not this much before my due date. soo, she told me i could have her any time really, and if i start having regular contractions, to get to the hospital ASAP! that was exciting to hear. i was induced with both cole and tucker for being overdue (i feel like a library book when i say that), so i get excited to think i might go into labor on my own. she said she couldn't schedule an induction though until the 29th! that would be absolutely horrible if i did have to wait that long. because, as i said in a earlier post, my original due date was the 15th... so to push it back all the way to the 29th... i might lose my mind! but, neverthless, i am getting so excited and its starting to sink in that she really will be here any day now! i get so many emotions going on whenever i reach the end of my pregnancies now. i get soo excited we are adding a sweet little soul to our family, but then i get nervous and sad to think i won't be able to give AS much attention to the boys-at least for a while. i will try though! i am soo grateful for ryan, tucker and cole. they make my life soooo meaningful! im truly grateful to have our eternal family. i am so thankful to be able to and feel so blessed to have it grow. as i sit here typing this (when i should be doing the laundry that i let pile up that is making me nervous ; ) my nesting is getting out of control), while my sleepy little men are taking naps, i just thought, "man, life keeps going faster and faster. and visually, this is how my thought process went...

when did this...

june 30th, 2006 aka, best day of my life : )

pregnant with tucker

baby tucker

tucker at 4 years 3 months

pregnant with cole

baby coley

cole at 21 months

(sorry, reapeat! this pic was from last week, i haven't taken another one yet. 38.5 weeks pregnant with baby girl!!)

Become all of this? When did all of this happen? Life is seriously growin' some wings and just flyin' by. i am trying to soak as much of it in as i can!! some days are hard, and some days are heavenly, and i wouldnt want it any other way!

i love my life! i just can't get over how blessed i feel! im so excited for what the next few days will bring : ) wish me luck!!

Recipes and Fitness

with my nesting going wild lately, another nesting instinct i have had is to cook and bake like crazy! this isn't necessarily a good thing... for me anyway lol. its good for ry and the boys since i am finally cooking again, not so much for my weight gain : ). but a blog that i have been getting a TON of good recipes from is melskitchencafe.com. its SO GOOD and i have had some really delicious meals because of this fine lady! my favorite so far was her mexican lasagna. it was somewhat time consuming, but i stayed pretty organized, so it didn't seem that bad at all. AND IT WAS WORTH IT! sooo good. i froze some of it so we could have some stuff to eat when i get lazy again after little lady comes : ) and i made an adjustment- i didn't have 3 cans of tomato sauce, i only had 2, so i used one small can of green enchilada sauce to replace the one can of tomato sauce. and then i didn't use the whole 8 oz of cream cheese. i just couldn't get myself to use that much. i used probably 2/3rds of it (it was the 1/3 less fat cream cheese too) and it was perfect! anyway, i had told my sister-in-law irina about this website last night, and i thought i would make a post about it so other people can know about this blog too! i love it! i waste too much time fantasizing about all of her scrumptious recipes! : )

p.s. after i have little lady, i am going to hopefully track my way back into shape on my blog (as well as the other good stuff). im hoping to run a race sometime over christmas break when i go to alabama to visit my family. so, as soon as i get the ok, im going to be training. and by telling you all this, i am hoping it will make me keep up with the blog better : ) maybe once a week? thats not too much to ask, eh? : )

Going to Pop!

This is us on our family vacation in july. we went to maine with my family : )
they are just too cute!

since the boys were both in plaid, i wanted to take a picture of the two of them together

38.5 weeks

well, according to my second due date, i am 38 weeks and 4 days. i just had a doctors appointment today, and i am 3 cm and 80% effaced. my doctor is on call THIS weekend and the doctor at their office that i DESPISE is on call next weekend, so im REALLY hoping to have the baby within the next week and NOT next weekend. : ) im sure hes a good person, but hes just not a good doctor. i went to him for a few months when we lived here in springfield for internships 2 summers ago. i was prego with cole. anyway, i just would be so depressed if he ended up having to deliver for me. SO with a full moon this weekend, and all of your prayers ; ) maybe i will have this girl this weekend! i doubt it though since i was induced with tucker and cole, im sure i will have to be induced with this wee babe as well. after i told my doctor i did NOT want to deliver with the other doctor, she said i could schedule an elective induction next friday if i wanted. i just dont know though, it would be sooo nice, but im not sure i want to make that decision. we will see : ) anyway, so heres a pic for 38 weeks, and a few other pictures of what has been going on lately!!! sorry ive been so lazy... i dont have any excuse except for just being lazy : )

we still dont have a name picked out for this baby girl, but im hoping we can at least get it down to a couple before we go to the hospital. we are all getting pretty anxious to meet her! the boys are getting especially excited! they are going to be great big brothers and big helpers, im sure! im kinda getting nervous for recovery with 2 hyper little men running around, but im sure it will be fine. im just getting uncomfortable at this point, and i want to have her out of my belly and in my arms!

tucker and cole are so fun. they are starting to fight more, which has been hard, but they are also playing better than they ever have too. they both love to be outside and run around. they both love love love to fish! tucker is getting soo good with writing and learning letters which is exciting. im going to have a little preschool curriculum for tucker (and a little for cole) starting this fall for the school year. we just dont think preschool is for us, but i love teaching the boys, and tucker is eager to learn, so im going to figure a little something to do every day (if i can keep up with it :) ) of the school week. it might just be a fantasy though lol. cole is talking more and more and he is doing well with going potty on the toilet (if i remember to keep up with it and ask him every few hours.) ryan is as hard working as ever, and he definately makes me a better person. he is so patient with the boys. and there is nothing like seeing the boys get so excited to see him when he gets home. he gets down and plays with them just like he is a 3 year old : ) i am definately a lucky gal. we are very blessed and are very excited to meet our new little lady! well, im already out of stuff to say. maybe i can get better at this blog thing sometime!

until next time...which could possibly be next year.... : )