week # 37!!!! i can hardly beleive its only 3 weeks away...thinkin back over the past 9 months..it seems like forever.it went fast!it really did yet it feels like its been sooo long since ive been un-pregnant:)last week i went to the doctor for my first "check" and got some exciting news..i am dialated 1 anda half and i am almost 60 percent effaced:)good signs i thought..but it could also stay that way for a while..soo i am super excited about what shel say wen i go again on thursday-im hopeing for some real good news!a friend of mine said that her friend who is a doula said that being 60 percent effaced i could so much as sneeze and taht could send me into labor(i tried,it didnt work!:)) so hopefully this meens that it really could be any day-even though i stil have 3 weeks.
the past week has been crazy-unexpected and simply wonderful!!!thursday morning at 530 am someone POUNDED on our bedroom door....my first though was oh my word were being robbed..but why would robbers knock??i sat up so fast(told matt i havent moved that fast in 9 months:))and standing at our door was my 2 sisters and some of there kids..i was soooo shocked..they definately got me good:)we had the most awsome relaxing fun weekend!!thursday my sister karen went with me to my dr appointment-that was so fun..first time that i had someone other then matt go with me.and i was so glad it was someone in my family(what a treat!)..after that we of course ate at the famous mexican place out in town:) then my sister rosa took me out grocery shopping and taught me all her fun couponing tips:)or some at least-:)i was coordinating a wedding over the weekend so i was gone a few hours for rehearsel thursday evening and a couple hours friday for the wedding..but they mannaged fine without me..wen i got home friday night from the wedding..they had reaaranged my living room and cleaned:)they always work wen they come down here./matt thinks i tell them to but its so not true..they just always do..i love it!:)karen dipped all kinds of things in chocolate so we are set on sweet stuff in this house! saturday night we went down to spartanburg,hit up the target and then got wild wings cafe wings for supper..we took them back to the house which was really nice-cause we continued relaxing:)it was so fun sitting around my house all weekend-and every now and then we'd get the urge to do something in the house,we'd do it and then get back to relaxing:)karen kept making me do squats to try to move baby mullet along:)it was so fun and definately made weeks #36 go allot faster!i have the best most thoughtful sisters:)they left early sunday morning...now im back to waiting:)my prayer every day is that i would go early and that i would have a smooth delivery and a healthy baby...i dont ask for much do i :)haha i had a rough day yesterday..ive been gettin major heat flashes lately!and yesterday it was an all day thing...i threw up in the morning and the rest of the day just felt yucky!i was hopeing this was signs of labor...but obviously not..i told matt wen he got home that we have to do something that night cause i got to get my mind off of this baby coming...soo we ended up goin ot his sistters house-she just had a baby..so we sat tehre all evening and held her baby:)it was great!today went much much better..i felt fabulous!energetic and not nearly as worked up about the baby coming early...sooo we wait patiently!:)everything is ready..bags are packed,carseat is by the door ready to be put in(were waiting for the rain to stop so matt can instal it)baby room is looking good-sheets are cleaned for mom to come and sleep in the spare room,now all that needs to be done is christmas decor..which i am not allowed to put up till after thanksgiving..and if baby comes early-that will be mom and matts job:)whether i do or do not go early...we have allot goin in the next 2 months,thansgiving,my job asked me to come an extra day this week and possibly next,baby,hartwell georgia for a christmas dinner with some friends,pa for family christmas,christmas,possibly florida..and all the in between stuff:) weve got allot to do:)thats the way i like it
i will try to post after my app thursday if there are any changes:)
here are some pictures i wanted to put up..my sister did an incredible job of capturing some baby belly pictures...i was soo glad we got some cause i was wanting to take some before bellys no longer there-matt didnt get in on any cause we were goin to the wedding and ran out of time..but at least i have some good shots of the belly so i never forget:)







my little neice payton wondering where her baby is:)