Makutus

We haven't really been out much for play dates since I was having so many aches and pains and contractions. My friend Jennifer asked us if we wanted to go to Makutu Island to let the kids play and since I felt ok, I decided we needed to get out. They have a special toddler program right now, but unfortunately, since they are 5 and not 4, they didn't qualify. It's okay though, we still had a lot of fun.

They have so much fun climbing and running around like little monkeys. We let them play for a couple hours and then took them to Taco Bell for lunch. While we were there the kids were being very silly. So silly that they had the workers rolling laughing. I guess at least they weren't angry. I will take laughing any day. 

We had so much fun. I'm glad we were able to get together at least one more time before the baby is born.

Great deals

I love great deals. I love yard sales. Unfortunately, often the yard sales here are not very good. A lot of junk or just someones coupon stash that they still want what you pay in store. I have been a bit anxious lately and so once Molly wakes me up in the morning it is very hard to go back to bed. Last Saturday it was 6am and Noah woke up too so we quickly got dressed and checked out a few yard sales that I saw on our local buy and sell sight. I was super happy that we found a bunch of things!

One great deal I got was these reusable food pouches. I like to make my own baby food and have always wanted to try these but they are $4 a pouch plus shipping. I got 7 for $5! Super happy for that.

This is my pile of clothes that I found. Lots of clothes for Elijah. A few clothes for me and a few for the baby. $15 for all. Very great deal! All the pants/shorts for Elijah are all name brand like Levis, Starter, and Arizona Jean co. All in great shape. It filled my washer. I love getting great deals!

Happy Birthday to Jonah and Noah

It is so hard to believe that these two are now five years old! It is amazing to think about. Unfortunately, they missed the kindergarten cutoff by 3 days, but that just gives them some more time to mature. I wish I was a little more organized to do more things with them at home. Hopefully, things will settle down and we can get into a routine after the baby is born. 

One of the things that they really wanted to do, was go to the park. Well, it's 100+ degrees so we had to settle for going at 8am after we dropped Elijah off at school. At least it was only 90degrees. Augh! I am not fond of the heat!

Aren't my boys cute?! 

I feel a bit guilty, but even though five is a big birthday milestone, we just did a very low key birthday. I just made cupcakes and we picked up a pizza and wings and had Gaga and Papa over. Being 36 weeks pregnant and constantly contracting does not equal wanting to have a big party. But there was cupcakes and presents so I think the boys were still happy.

Happy Birthday boys! I can't believe how big that they are getting!

Baby Shower

Last Saturday my friend Lauren gave us a baby shower. It was super nice of her. I have been having a very hard time with this whole pregnancy and it was very nice to have friends to come and support us in this journey.

It was a super hero theme and was SUPER cool. Check out the watermelon that our friend, Kevin, carved.

Yummy!

She made a super yummy caramel apple dip that kept calling my name.

She also got very creative with the names.  I don't have photos of all the food (and some of what I have I stole from my friend Jennifer's blog...thanks Jennifer).

We were super excited to have our friends come to support us. It was nice to have something positive happen for a change. I had a lot of fun and hope everyone else did as well.

I am ready

I am 34.4 weeks and as much as I know that little dude needs to cook a bit more, I am so ready to have him. I have turned into a moaning, complaining beast of a woman and the thought of 5 more weeks like this makes me shudder. Pregnancy with the twins was no piece of cake and had it's own issues but I think the Motrin until 34 weeks masked a lot of the discomforts. The discomfort has been more intense lately and has been added to with all the joys of my body getting ready to deliver him. Last week I worked three shifts in a row and was extremely busy. I am pretty sure I got dehydrated from it all because when I woke up Sunday I was pretty out of it and not feeling well at all. Monday morning I had an NST and while baby looked good I did have quite a few contractions. My OB let me go home to rest and push fluids instead of sending me to triage, which by the way, if I didn't have awesome insurance my last triage visit would have cost $5,000! So I have been trying to rest and drink water as best that I can. I must have caught a bug or ate something that was off because I was sick for a few days. When I went for my biophysical profile I ended up seeing my doctor too and he took me off of work for a few days to see if we can get me better. I do feel better so long as I don't walk around. I have another NST tomorrow so we will see what he says. I am following a message board of people due in September and it is so hard to see so many people delivering now. They are due at the beginning of September though so their baby's are technically term now. If I wasn't a NICU nurse I would be trying to do anything I could to encourage baby to come. But I know better.

Here's our little guy. He's pretty cute. I will say that I am excited to hold him and see what he really looks like. We aren't completely ready which somewhat stresses me out but Jake keeps reminding me that we have all the basics that we need so if he comes we are ok. He does not care if the house is clean. Very true. But it's hard when you are fighting the nesting urges. I find myself very restless. Now it's just a waiting game.