Giving Thanks

Hello to everyone who checks in with our blog occasionally! Since this is the week of Thanksgiving, what better time to say "Thank You" to everyone for all the love and support you've given us as we embark on this family-expanding adventure! We are truly blessed to be so enveloped by you all.

We are thankful for our health, your health, and our belly-dweller's apparent health. I am now 34 weeks 4 days along and cannot believe that means we're a mere 6 weeks (give or take) from meeting this mystery bundle! Wow. I guess it's seemed like a long 9 months as much as it seems the time has flown by... crazy. Our next appointment is in 2 weeks on Wed Dec 2nd, so as of right now, no new medical updates. I'll be sure to update the blog again after that appointment to let you all know how things went. At that appointment the doctor is going to check to see if the baby is head-down and ready and rarin' to go! Since she'll be doing a mini-ultrasound to check that status, she said she'd TRY to see if she can figure out the gender, but I'm not convinced that our modest little one will share. heh heh... Though, the lady at our local Chinese restaurant told me with no uncertainty, that we are having a boy. Who needs those silly ultrasounds anyways?! ;)

For those of you checking our shutterfly album of belly updates, these pictures won't be news to you, but here's a picture of my belly at 34 weeks, and then a couple pictures of the nursery!





Happy Thanksgiving!
love,
the willies

Nursery? Check!

My husband rules.

Last weekend we picked up our crib and dresser combo tower changing table thingy (technical term) at Direct Buy only to find out that they were both in lots of pieces and it would require quite the assembly to get them together. My heart sunk a little because of course I wanted to run home and have the nursery all set up so I could play house... but then I knew that I'd have to be patient and wait for Ryan to want to put them together, and not nag. And guess what!?! Not nagging totally worked! He decided last Sunday to put the dresser thing together, so we got that done right away! And that was a DOOZIE. We got done with the basical frame of it, which was quite time consuming as it was, and he goes "why are there still so many parts?", to which I had to say "oh, we have to put together the drawers..."... HAHAHA! Poor guy. But we got that done and look, FABNESS!!!


And then just last night he started in on the crib, so we got that all put together last night and now we have ourselves a nursery!!!! Here's a pic of the crib. Perty, huh? And yes, we're going to raise up the mattress, we didn't realize it was so low till we finished and by then we were ready for bed, so we'll raise it up this weekend :)


So now we just have to buy detergent and wash the sheets and baby clothes and stuff and that nursery will be ready for our little bundle's arrival! Yay! I also want to hang some pictures and move others around and stuff, so still some fun decorating to do, but for the most part, we're good to go! And ahead of the game, too! Yahoo! I've said it before, and I'll say it again... I heart my husband.

Today is our 32 week check-up, so I'll keep ya posted on how that goes! Gee, I can't wait to get on the scale. Yikes! HAHAHA! I think this baby is going to weigh 15 pounds... HA!

Love yuz!
*alliwilli

Post 32 wk OB appt update:
Let's skip right over my weight, shall we? And move along to the baby's heartrate, which was super strong, we heard it the second she put the doppler thingy on my belly, no searching around for it! It was at about 140bpm. And my belly measures in at 34cm, which means the baby is growing and growing well! (Maybe it WILL be a 15 pound baby? Please Lord, no.) All is well in the belly!