Thank You Ladies!!

My best friend Jodi was in town this week for Thanksgiving so she and my other BFF, Jessica threw my little girl a baby shower. It was at my house, but they took care of everything. They had decorations, food, a diaper raffle (where if you brought a pack of diapers you got to enter the drawing), and everybody decorated a quilt square for Jessica to put together later. Thank you SO much to my Mother and my wonderful friends for showering our baby girl with love, presents and diapers. I had so much fun! (click on the pictures to make them bigger)

Lots of generous presents and cute babies.

Keegan got to hold his first baby. He LOVES babies! He was SO happy holding him on his lap. He just wanted to cuddle and kiss him all day. When Eli sat next to him he kept putting his arm around him and giving me a proud look. I think he is going to be a great big brother (at least till he figures out that she cries and won't go away).

Finally getting the hang of it all

I feel like I am finally getting the hang of being a stay-at-home mom, and a mom of one. I can keep the house semi-clean, I can have dinner on the table when Matt gets home, I can entertain KP for the whole day, etc. Is my life really going to be turned upside down again in a few short weeks?!?! Is it going to take another two years for me to get used to being a mom of two?!?!

Random Pics

I haven't been very good at posting pictures lately, so here are some random pictures of what we have been up to.

My wonderful coworkers threw me and two other pregnant ladies a baby shower. Mimi (on the left) and I were pregnant together the first time (he son Jake, holding onto her leg, is 4 days younger than Keegan) and she just had her little girl last week. Nicole (on the right) is due the same week as I am. Looking at the pic, I really wasn't showing much, but I promise the next week I "popped."

A few days before Halloween we had our first snow storm of the year. We got Keegan bundled up, took a few pictures, and he was done.

I had been looking for one of these on Craigslist all summer and finally found it, right before the big snowstorm. Since we had seventy degree weather shortly after our snowstorm we were able to put it together. Keegan LOVES it, and spends as much time outside as he possibly can.

We successfully moved Keegan to his toddler bed, but he still has some rough nights. He falls out of bed about once a week, and occasionally we find him like this:

In an effort to get Keegan ready for a baby, I bought him a baby doll. He is HILARIOUS with it. He carries it around, and feeds it, and wraps it in a blanket and puts it to bed. He is going to be a good big brother.

32 weeks (and counting)

I had my 32 week pregnancy check-up yesterday. Crazy! That means that I have 8 weeks till my due date, but only 7 till my c-section! How did the time go by so quickly?!? Everything seems to be right on track. My little girl has a great heartbeat and is measuring at 33 weeks. We are going to have another ultrasound at 36 weeks to 1. check to see if she is breached and 2. see how big her head is. I have the scheduled c-section on the 30th, but I have decided that if I go into spontaneous labor (my water breaks, or start contractions, etc) I will probably attempt to deliver "normally." That is depending on her head size. If it looks like she has a noggin like her brother than I might not even try. :) Who knows. Right now, I am not pulling for one way or the other, and I will hopefully be very flexible to my options when the day comes.

This whole pregnancy has been SO different than my pregnancy with Keegan. I had much worse morning sickness in the first 16 weeks with this pregnancy, even to the point that I needed to be put on anti-nausea drugs. Because I was so sick for so long I lost weight in the beginning and even to this date I am not even close to gaining the amount of weight that I did with Keegan. The first time I gained about 60 lbs total, and this time I have only gained 19 lbs so far. Not gaining so much weight has definitely made this pregnancy easier. I am so much more comfortable in my body and I can occasionally forget that I am pregnant (not very often though). My joints, muscles and most importantly my back don't hurt as bad as the first time. I really think that chasing around a 1 1/2 year old has really helped. My body is in different shape than I was last time, not necessarily better shape, I am just more used to lifting and carrying Keegan around. Also, before I was working full time and sitting around most of the day, and that killed my back. But these days there is very few times where I can sit down for more than 1/2 an hour (the length of a cartoon), and the movement really helps my back and joints stay loose.

I am getting to the point where I am about ready to be done. Although I am not ready to give up my one-on-one time with Keegan. I got teary eyed yesterday as we cuddled together after his nap, realizing that our days like these are numbered. I hope that I will still be able to take the time to spend one-on-one time with Keegan. I hope that once the baby sleeps I won't feel like I need to be doing something "more important" (housework?!?) and that I can focus on my #1 child. I also hope that Matt will forgive me if the house is cluttered or the dishes are not done everyday. Not that he is an overly demanding husband, or that he doesn't help out with the house (in fact, he probably does more housework than I do), I just have the guilt of not getting it done.

I guess I just needed to put my thoughts down. I don't always blog about me, or my thoughts, but there you go. That's whats going on in my little world and my big belly. If you made it this far, thanks for reading!

What Keegan has been up to while I'm at work

I've neglected to post the links to Keegan's recent activities while I am at work. He has so much fun with his friends Lucas, Bridgett and Scarlett. I love this picture of him, so you will see it twice, this is when they made TEXTURE RAINBOWS. They have also done FIST LADYBUGS, played with ROCKS, and made INDIAN CORN. Keegan always comes home with a great art project, and I am having fun staring a collection.