Andrea's Birthday and Birth Prep

Well, all is still going well. We enjoyed a wonderful three day weekend last weekend and got to celebrate my birthday. Brandon spoiled me and took care of tons of housework while I rested. We did a little shopping and got to go out for lunch on Saturday and dinner on Monday. Overall it was an excellent birthday weekend.

In other news, we have been taking some birth preparation classes to get ready for our little one. This last week the nurse brought in an empathy belly to give the dads a little taste of what it's like to be pregnant. Brandon said it wasn't too bad, but we were told that taller people carry it easier so it probably wasn't the best comparison, but it was still fun. We got a good belly to belly picture. I'll let you decide who looks better pregnant!

I only have to hem the curtains for the nursery and Brandon needs to hang the curtain rod, then I will post pictures...I promise! For now you can enjoy looking at some pictures of other things I have made.

Car seat cover

Inside of car seat cover and the car seat blanket I made. I'm not sure how much she will use the blanket as a blanket in the beginning since it will be summer, but it makes a good car seat liner tucked in and hopefully she can get some good use out of it this winter.

inside of blanket

Two blankets I made. The bottom one is just a simple fleece blanket, and the top one is fleece squares sewn together with a fringe around the outside, the opposite side of it looks like a rag blanket.

We are in the single digit weeks people! Just a little longer until we get to hold our little girl!

30 weeks and Brandon's birthday

Well I'm 30 weeks now, about 10 weeks until we get to meet our little girl. Here is a couple pictures of me at 30 weeks. We had an appointment last week which went good. Baby girl keeps moving around like crazy, when the doctor was feeling my stomach he commented on how she was kicking back. The other day while we were walking around Walmart she decided to nestle in on my sciatic nerve, very suddenly, and I about passed out, literally we had to sit down because I was so light headed. I think the sudden onset of the pain caught me off guard. When we got home I called the doctor just to make sure I shouldn't be worried about the continually back and upper leg pain I was feeling, he said it most likely was baby and to get in a comfortable position and wait for it to go away. It took a while and a little jostling of my belly done so lovingly by Brandon, and finally it went away. Other than that everything is looking good.

Last weekend while my parents were in town we got to celebrate Brandon's birthday which also happened to be that weekend. We went to Tucano's Brazillian Grill for lunch and I made Brandon a Strawberry English Trifle. Overall a very tasty day. Happy Birthday honey!

We started putting the nursery together, and once we get it a little more finished and I find the energy to bring the camera upstairs with me...I will take pictures of everything else I have made and get them up here. Who knows maybe you all will get lucky and I will get to it this week...but if not you and I can practice patience together ;-)