Single digit countdown continues... 7 1/2 weeks

As of last Tues things were still going good. I had been having a lot of cramping but everything checked out fine and it was determined that it's just because of her low positioning! My blood pressure is slowly climbing, but I'm just now at 120/62. Which yes is pretty high for me, considering I'm doing good to break 100, but it's still considered normal at this point! I will say she must be packing on the pounds. I've gained about 7 lbs in 3 weeks or so. Again they say they are not concerned, since i was slow to gain in the beginning and have still only gained at total of 17 lbs. My luck I will have had a c-section for a tiny 6lbs 5oz baby and this time that I'm going for a VBAC I'll end up with a 9+ pounder!

We did get sad news that Andrew will NOT be allowed to visit us in the hospital. Because of the H1N1, the hospital is restricting any visitors under the age of 12. I cried off and on for a full day about it. It breaks my heart to think he won't be one of the first people to meet her. And now I'm praying for a VBAC even more, so I'll only have to be in the hospital for 2 days instead of 4. I can't imagine not seeing him for 4 days. I don't think he even knew it was possible to come visit us at the hospital before, we hadn't really talked about it much, so it won't be as hard for him as it was for me! :) My mom is going to bring her laptop with webcam for us to use at the hospital, so we can video chat with him.

He is so excited. He's always saying how he wishes she was already here. And when he talks to her he tells her all about the things she's going to get to do and see and the people she will get to meet! Just about every store we go into he finds something that he wants to buy her! :)

Monica's room is SLOWLY but surely coming along! It's about half way cleared out from being a computer room. We got her changing table and dresser on Thur (gotta love craigslist), and I've hung up most of her clothes. Hopefully the two weeks I'm off around Thanksgiving, I'll be able to finish up clearing out the room, steam clean the carpets and maybe, just maybe get to start painting! :)

Well here are the most recent "belly" pics at 32 1/2 weeks. In a few weeks we have a professional photo session set up to take maternity pics so I will post those as soon as I get them!

Trick or Treat Fun!

This year Andrew grew his own pumpkins in HIS garden. They were a little small becuase we had to pick them early so they didn't freeze and turn to mush with the first snow (first week of Oct.) Some friends of our gave Andrew an adorable pumpkin decorating kit. We called them "Mr. Pumpkin Heads" (aka mr. potato heads) They were alot of fun! And much less messy and smelly then carving pumpkins.

This is a gourd Andrew finger painted at school. Since we had left over pieces, we decided to put a face on this one too. It turned out to be our favorite! :)

This year instead of staying home we went to our friend's house and the kids went trick or treating together then after bedtime, the adults had fun hanging out and playing games!

My "cheesy" Lion

Cooper. He was supposed to be a Rodeo Clown, but he refused to wear the clown nose make up so he turned out to be a cowboy instead.

Laurel the Cat (you'll see her tail in the next pic) and Gabe the chubby monkey!

Laurel and ANdrew walking. I just had to get a pic of the tail!

The men stayed at the house and handed out candy while the mom's took the kids trick or treating.

Andrew preschool class party. Unfortunately my camera batteries died so this is the only pic I got! :( There are two Andrew's in his class and both chose to be Lions this year.