36 Weeks

36 Weeks, Lyle on the left, Baby Girl on the right.  What do you think??? Bigger, Smaller?

How Many Weeks: 36 

Size of Baby: Ripe Papaya

Weight Gain: 31 pounds

Gender: A sweet sweet girl! 

Movement: After not being very active on last weeks scans, she has been back to normal!  

Sleep: A little bit better this week.  Still up several times a night, and constantly turning over to get comfortable, but overall a little better.

Symptoms: Having a lot more braxton-hicks contractions this week.  At my appointment my doctor said that I was already dilated to 4cm.  So who knows if that means I will go early or not....that's about the way it goes.  We actually have a scheduled date this time and she will find someway to keep us guessing!

Maternity Clothes: Yes

Cravings: I had a craving for Coke the other day, which is just weird because always drink either Dr.Pepper or Pepsi.  It's been cold this week, so I've been living on Chili and soup!

Best Moment This Week: We had a great time celebrating my mom-in-law's birthday this week!  My day off on Tuesday was so so nice!  I got things put away in the baby's room, and worked on packing our hospital bags!  My mom and dad came down yesterday and Mom helped me clean, while Dad helped Zach paint a dresser for the nursery.  We also sat down and did some Christmas shopping last night, and are almost finished.  Such a good feeling! 

Looking Forward To: I have a gift card to use, so next Saturday I am heading up for a massage and pedicure.  Can't wait! 

Also, look what my sweet sister Kristen and my mom made for me!  Such cute onsies, skirts, burp rags and bibs!  I am in love! :)

  

Lyle

I started writing a Lyle update two months ago (and never posted it obviously, story of my life).  And everything has changed already!  This boy is growing up faster than I can imagine!  He seems like such a big kid now, and I know he will seem even older when this little baby comes!

So here is a glimpse into Lyle's world.

-Everything revolves around superheros.  He was Hulk for Halloween, says he wants Santa to bring him three Hulk costumes, gets to watch "Avengers Assemble" cartoon with his Dad on Netflix, and can tell you the names of the bad guys in his Spiderman book (mostly because we ask him to repeat Gleen Globalin (Green Goblin) all the time-so funny!)

-His favorite activity is to "work" on his tractors.  He will get all of his tools out and fix whatever needs fixing!

-Pizza and macaroni are his favorites.

-He loves to talk to baby sister.  He will hug my tummy and say, "She's getting bigger and bigger!"  He will tell her something he did that day, then turn to me and say, "What she say?"  We are still working on the concept that baby sister won't be able to talk and play when she is born. lol.

-He insists on wearing his boots everyday.  With sweatpants, shorts, jeans, his Halloween costume.  Everyday.

-He has started to love to sing, usually picking the ABC's or Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Start to sing, especially yelling out the last word of each line.  He loves lots of other songs too, my favorite being PLOP Goes the Weasel.  Which turns into PLOP goes the popcorn, and anything else he can think of.  Such a silly man.

           

-He has been much better at going to bed each night.  We usually read a book, then he climbs on up and gets snuggled in.  I turn on his night-lights and say "night-night, I love you!" And he so sweetly says back, "I love you too Mama!"  Melts my heart every time.

-Your imagination is starting to go crazy!  I love to listen to you playing and making up stories!

Snow Day

We woke up to snow this morning, and I really did not want to get out, so I pulled the 9-month pregnant card and we had a snow day.  

Just talking on the phone while sneaking some of Dad's cereal.

He LOVED playing in the snow!

Clearing a path for me.

Don't mind the nose...

And then I put up my Christmas tree.  Such a happy day! :)

35 Weeks

How Many Weeks: 35, our scheduled day is in one month !!! So exciting! 

Size of Baby: Canary Melon

Weight Gain: 30 pounds

Gender: A sweet sweet girl! 

Movement: Yes. She was a bit of a stinker during my biophysical on Friday. She would not kick (which is very unusual for her), so that means a failing score. I stopped by my doctor's office to see what I should do, and they sent me over to Wesley to have a non-stress test done. They hooked me up to the monitors and everything was fine, so I will have my regular appointments next week. I'm trying to monitor her kicks pretty closely this weekend to make sure she is still doing okay. She gave us a little bit of a scare! 

Sleep: Same story different week

Symptoms: All around uncomfortable. 

Maternity Clothes: yes, if they even fit anymore

Cravings: Apples

Best Moment This Week: My mom came down yesterday to help get some projects done. It feels good to check things off the list! 

Looking Forward To: I have the day off on Tuesday. Looking forward to  relaxing with my coffee in the morning and getting more checked off my list! 

  

Halloween Fun

They say holidays are so much more fun once you have kids.  I definitely underestimated how much fun Halloween would be with Lyle this year.

We asked him several times what he wanted to be, and he always landed on the Hulk.  We have a small obsession with superheroes at our house right now.  His father might have something to do with that.  So we found a hulk costume, complete with fake muscles, and Zach found some huge soft fists that completed the look.

He was so insistent the day his costume came in the mail that "yes, it was Halloween day and we needed to go trick-or-treating right now!"  So you can imagine how excited he was that morning when I woke him up and told him it was Halloween.  He said, "Yay, yay, yay!  It's Halloween Day!"  He got to take his costume to daycare, and they went trick-or-treating at the bank.

We ate a quick dinner when we got home from work, got ready (he insisted on wearing his cowboy boots with his costume), and took a few pictures.  We walked around our neighboorhood, and he was LOVING it.

Grammy and Papa

He kept his mask on the whole night, and his fists too, other than turning to Zach or I once they opened the door to take a fist off so he could grab candy! Then it was "on to the next house!"

With his spoils

It was so nice that Halloween was on a Friday, and we had the rest of the weekend to relax!  We were lazy Saturday morning, and Z went to get donuts (because we all needed more sugar, right???)  Zach's mom made chili for lunch, and we left Lyle out there to nap and play while we headed to Wichita.

Z's friend had a stroke a week or two ago, so we stopped by the hospital to see him.  He was down getting an MRI, so we missed getting to visit, but we were able to say hi to his wife, and leave him a gift.

We spent the rest of the afternoon shopping and going to see a movie (it had been forever!)  It was so good to just spend time together, especially with how busy things have been lately!

I know this picture is really dark, but Lyle was building me towers out of blocks.  The first tower was a gas station, this tower was "full of bolognas."  Hah!

Sunday was spent at church, with afternoon naps for the whole family.  I worked on some laundry and cutting out fabric for baby girl's Christmas stocking.

A great weekend with lots of time with my sweet family.  That's what I love the most!