36 Weeks!

Doesn't look like there's much room left in there! Nothing new to report on the pregnancy aspect just trying to get everything prepared for her arrival. I think within the week everything should be taken care of and all we need is her! Not much else going on in my neck of the woods, stil working a lot. Asa's enjoying his new job and I'm enjoying him being back at work and not at home so much ;-p The kids are good full of energy, all the time! Connor's getting excited to see his little sister, he's been talking more about it in the last week! He says he wants to hold her while he watches his cartoons! I think that can be arranged for him!

Oh yeah, they both thought they were pretty hot stuff with their sunglasses on! Now if only they would keep them for the approiate reasons but I think they each just like to take them off and put them back and take them off and put them back on!

Who-Hoo!!!!

So another doctor visit down and I'm now on to every single week appts. Lost 3 pounds in the past two weeks so that brings my grand total to 2 lbs!! I'm pretty happy with that :-) I long for the days when I can exercise and start losing more weight again. I mean I can exercise right now if I want to but who ever wants to do that when they're pregnant!? I was really good at first about riding my bike and exercising but let's just say it's been non existent in the past 3 months! I had to have my blood rechecked today because I guess at my last appt the blood platlette (sp?) count was low so it has to be rechecked today. We'll see where that goes. And on to the most exciting part as far as I'm concerned.....got my cervix checked today!! And dum da da dum I'm 50% effaced and 3 cm dilated!! I was expecting to be at least 1 cm dilated so was rather happy with 3 cm! My doc says he's guessing I'll go two weeks before my due date which is in like two and a half weeks! But if I don't go that early then at my doc appt on Feb. 19th we'll strip my membranes which should hopefully start my labor! It worked with Zachary so I'm hoping it'll work this time although if I can go into labor all on my own I'll be happy too! So crazy to think that I'm about to be a mother of three! I'm anxious to meet my little Taylor and see what she looks like. I think I'm more curious this time than before just because it's a girl this time. When Zachary was born he was the spitting image of Connor so I'm curious as to if she'll look like them too....

Photo Shoot Part 1

So I was going to wait to post the pictures of my photo shoot but since my friend Shasta has received some devestating news I'm not sure when she is going to be able to get the rest of my shots for me. We had a blast doing the photo shoot, took over 120 pictures! The weather outside was freezing cold! The kids were cold, we were cold but you always get nice pictures outside! We decided to go down to our local park which didn't turn out as well as we thought because the wind was going crazy down by the river. Every shot my hair is all over the place! Overall lots of laughter was had and it was nice to hang out and just talk, something we hadn't done in a long time! I appreciate her doing this for me so thanks Shasta, again!

Oh the cuteness! I decided to break out the camera today since it's been awhile to see if I could get any good shots of the boys. Well I got a few and here's one! Today Zachary is 18 months old!! I can't believe it! He's getting to be such a big boy but then in other ways still seems much like a baby to me! Hard to believe that he's gonna be a big brother next month! I know I know I've already talked about how much it freaks me out that next month I'm going to be giving birth! But seriously as each day passes and that means I'm one more day closer to having three kids I get more and more freaked out about it! I think I'm going to be purchasing one of those baby slings to carry her around in and hopefully that will help me manage all of them by myself! Anyone got any opinons on the baby slings good, bad or who knows? On a little bit of a different note I'm happy to say that Asa finally got a job!! Very excited, he starts tomorrow and I couldn't be more ready for him to start :-p I'm looking foward to not working so much myself now! I feel like I've been working so much and giving so much energy to all these other kids when I work that when I come home I'm so tired and don't have the energy to spend much time with my own kids and I'm ready for that to change!

Yay, Finally!!!

It is with great pleasure that I post this picture because we finally agreed on a name!! I am super excited to finally refer to her as Taylor. It's a name that I've had in mind for awhile I was just waiting on the final word from Asa and today at my photo shoot with Shasta (thanks again Shasta!!) he said that we could do these blocks with her name! As it turns out this is actually a family name because my grandma's mom's maiden name is Taylor so it just seemed right! Her middle name will be Elizabeth which is a family name in Asa's family so we got lucky as to include both families in the name of our daughter!!

32 Weeker

Wow it's hard for even me to believe that next month I'm going to be giving birth to my little girl! I'm almost done with this pregnancy and overall it's been a really good pregnancy. I have my moments of wanting to complain about being uncomfortable because yes she is jammed up into my ribs and yes it's uncomfortable for me to sleep at night but I try to avoid being too whiny! I think that part of the reason why it's not more uncomfortable for me is the fact that I haven't gained much weight. My body doesn't need any more extra weight than what it already has! Anyways there's the latest! My kids get so excited when they get the numbers on their belly!