Things have been going much better lately! Not that things were really ever too bad, but I figure I'll stay positive and share why things have been good!
1. I've started working only part time which has made things soo much easier! This alone has made me so much happier, I go into work late and leave early, I mean, who wouldn't like that? It hasn't been as stressful or hard on me and my body and I've had more time to do so many things I've been procrastinating! Which leads me to #2..
2. I've gotten a good start on my baby registry at Target, it honestly was sort of a hassle. Registering for our wedding was soo much easier for some reason, we got it all done in a couple hours. But registering for my baby has required so much more thought and research, I feel like I need to get the best of everything! And so it has been a very long process.
And I've decided not to buy anything until after my baby showers, well besides a couple big things that I may need to go ahead and buy so that I'm somewhat ready. So even though I've picked out things for my registry I'm still waiting to buy anything.. I know everyone thinks I'm crazy I still haven't bought a single item and I'm almost a month away!
3. So although I have not bought any baby items, I did find time to buy a new video camera! This has been hard for me because I did a lot of research and bought a very expensive camera on Black Friday back in November. We did get it on sale but it was still quite a splurge. Anyway, verrry long story short, we were robbed on Luke's birthday December 17, just a few weeks later and almost everything of value was stolen, including all our christmas gifts, which of course included this very expensive camera, essentially the only gift Luke and I were getting for each other. So I was pretty upset over losing that and it has taken us awhile to replace things that were stolen, but one at a time we've been buying things back, like clothes, Luke's drill, a computer, and now we have our video camera. There are a lot of items that we aren't going to bother replacing, because we also had to buy a car at the very beginning of the year. But I am excited to finally have a video camera, its pretty cool actually. And I guess it's kind of a baby item since I'm so excited to use it to tape our little boy!
4. As I mentioned, I do have a baby shower planned that I am really excited for. I've invited a bunch of girls from church, and my friends have been great in planning everything for me and got the invitations out for me today. It will be February 21, so I'm looking forward to that, it should be fun!
5. I went to the doctor again this past Friday and this time I requested to see a new midwife since there are 5 and I wanted to make sure I met them all since any of them could be on call when I go into labor. But I mostly wanted to see someone new since I wanted a second opinion on the chest pains that I have been having pretty much constantly since the end of December, and the midwife I had been seeing kept blowing it off. Anyway, the new midwife was wonderful, she was very nice and helpful and I think solved my problem too! She said my pains were not from the baby but show to be coming from my stomach and also shooting pain to my gall bladder. Go figure. Anyway, she got me a prescription for this medicine that is basically like a histamine blocker. So it has seemed to help so far which is a relief. It's not perfect since its a 24 hour pill and it never seems to really last that long, but its been soo much better so far!
6. By the time I go to my next doctor's appointment (Feb 18th) I will be in my 36th week, so in my 9th month and considered in term. It's kind of freaky to think that I could be having my baby that soon, I just keep hoping I'm a week late! But at the same time its nice to know that I'm so close to having my baby, but overall I'm not ready and hope it takes longer! I am excited to have another ultrasound at my next visit though, those are the best!
7. Luke and I also signed up for a Childbirth Preparation class at the hospital, its a couple hours on Wednesday nights in February. So unfortunately it does take a lot of time but I'm hoping it will be worth the money. We've only gone to one class so far, and it was ok, I'm hoping the next couple classes will answer more of my questions and give me a little more confidence and idea of what to expect. Luke hated it of course, but hopefully in the end he'll learn soomeethinngg!
8. I finally cleaned out the baby's room yesterday. There's nothing in it yet but at least it is all cleared out and ready to be filled up! And I'm also hoping that when my mom comes in we might have time to paint it. I'm not decided on colors exactly yet, but I am going with a Noah's Ark/animals theme. Hopefully it will turn out really cute!
9. I'm also happy that it has been such gorgeous weather lately! This whole past week was in like the high 60's and sunny, it was great! Of course it's supposed to be back to cold and snowy weather this week, but it was nice while it lasted. I keep hoping things warm up again by March though..
Anyway, so that's what's been going on, things have been good lately! Everyone keeps saying how huge I am. But I'm actually pretty proud of myself because I've only seemed to gain weight in my belly, and haven't gotten any stretch marks! So hopefully things continue to stay going good and as planned. Time is flying by but I'm just trying to take it all one day at a time!
Me at 34 weeks
look at my cool diaper cake! 
baby's room so far 
