9 months pregnant....

I decided to take some pictures:

Just had some fun!

GO BAG!

I mentioned a few weeks ago, that I was going to do a post about what I packed in my Go Bag. My Go Bag is the bag we will be grabbing on the way out the door. It contains Mine and Finn's items for the hospital stay. We will leave the diaper bag and blanket in the car until we need it, and Ben will have to come home and feed Jasper and let him smell a blanket of Finn's, so he doesn't have anything to bring except a toothbrush. Here's a peek:

Le Bag

Les Pads. I wasn't sure if I would like the hospital ones, or how big to get them, so I bought two different sizes and packed a few of each.

Toiletries: L-R

Nursing pads, Lanolin, soap, razor, toothbrushes, brush, shampoo, conditioner, more soap (?), hand sanitizer.

I will also have my everyday makeup bag in my purse which has hair bands and pins and contact lens stuff and chapstick.

Blue and white blanket for Finn's hospital picture, Jasper is smelling a receiving blanket that Ben will bring home for him, and a nursing cover in case I need it.

The first three things are newborn and the last is 0-3 months. Wasn't sure how much to bring for him, so I just packed a few things. Ben picked out the striped sleeper to bring him home in since it is suuuuuper soft. The blue onesie is from his Aunt Amy, and this may be the only time he gets to wear it, depending on his size. Ben also picked out the brown and white sleeper with bib. And I just packed the last outfit in case he is bigger and want to put him in something cute until someone can grab a few things from home.

This is the first book we bought him and we both wanted to bring it to the hospital.

Then there's me. I decided not to go get cutesy pajamas for the hospital because I don't want them to get messed up, so I plan on wearing the gowns they provide. I did, however, buy a pink robe in the top left corner. Then I have my striped PJ pants, just in case. then a blue maternity shirt that I will wear home with a pair of pants I cant pack yet. On the bottom row I have a nursing tank, and nursing bra and panties and socks.

Everything else, like camera and phone and baby book will have to be grabbed last minute, but as far as this goes, I feel pretty set!

Lolly & Me-Delany 4-in-1 crib

Finn's crib is here!!! One of the nicest gifts we received, from a doctor that Ben works with.
He said to pick out which one we wanted and I fell in love with this one and so we chose it. The crib arrived today and Ben put it together tonight :)

Oh, I forgot to mention, Jasper helped.

It was actually fairly simple to put together...

So pretty!

The animals won't stay, but we wanted to see what it looked like with something inside of it.

Now I just need to figure out what exactly I want to do, if anything, to the bedding.

But We love the crib!!!

DIY bird...chicken...mobile

So I have been wanting to make a bird mobile for Finn's crib, literally since i found out I was pregnant.

So I went to Hobby Lobby and got these supplies:

They looked like birds in my brain, and they also looked like birds when I cut the felt. But something went horribly wrong when I sewed them together...and I had a bunch of handmade chickens...

At least they were cute chickens.lol

I've since made a tree that goes in the middle of all these chicken-birds. And currently it is hanging above the mobile.

"That's gross!" GAG "Take a picture, quick!"

Once again, I appologize for the grammar. Sometimes spell check wants to work, and sometimes it doesn't. So this post is pretty detailed and gross. Its about my mucous plug. So if you don't want to read about it, or are gonna say something to someone else about how you can't believe I posted this, I suggest moving on to the next blog post...

So I'm sitting on the potty.
Had a pretty stressful day/evening.
I wipe, and BAM! there it is, on the toilet paper..my mucous plug..or well, bits of it.

It was dark brown and dark red and basically looked like the most disgusting thing ever. I called ben to come to the bathroom quick and I held it out and said in between gagging,
"What the HECK is this?!"
"Oh, thats your mucous plug hunny"
"That's nasty"
Gag
"quick, get a picture of it, so I can look at it later!"
and he took the picture.

Now I'm not going to upload it because thats a little too far, but I knew Malina and Amy would want to see it. So I sat there realizing what just happened, and went to work on google trying to find out what to do next. Turns out, nothing. I remember my DR and the birthing class lady saying it could be weeks before anything happens, so, we wait.

I called my Mom and she was asleep and told her and she was so out of it, you would have thought I was going into labor. hilarious.
Then I texted Amy and Malina.

I was pretty excited. It is so strange to be excited about something so disgusting, but I am!!!

So Mom said that I should probably go ahead and have things ready now, just incase its any day now. But like I said, probably weeks. I just turned 37 weeks, 37 minutes ago! So Finn still has some baking to do.
But this weekend I am planning on recleaning the house, and just tidying up again. My bag is all packed and I'm writing lists for people and all that last minute stuff.

I also had my weekly appointment yesterday with a new midwife that I LOVE. She told me how much she thinks he's going to weigh, and that i'm measuring a week big. I paid the rest of my OB care plan bill (woohoo!) and now I am caught up on the bill, except the hospital bill, which I obviously can't pay now, cus I havent had Finn! Mom went with me to this appointment and then we went and toured the maternity ward and Labor and Delivery. What sucks about it is the construction going on in there. They are rennovating and it is a MESS. Oh well, at least I only have to be in there for a couple of days.
More later!

Boring post

I got a breast pump.
My friend let me pick out the one I wanted and that was my gift from her. So I chose a Lansinoh Manual Single pump. It had the best rating of manual pumps that I read that were in our price range. The suction is good. Ben and I put it on our faces and laughed so hard when it pulled my cheek out. It didn't work so well on Ben because of his beard. lol

This past Saturday I was invited to Amy's Lingerie Shower in Valdosta. So I figured it would also be a good time to shop there for anything on my registries at Babies R Us and Target that I hadn't gotten yet. Both stores have sent me a coupon for 10% off of anything left. So Mom drove me and I went to the shower, which was fun by the way. She got a lot of funny stuff, and then some practical stuff. My personal favorite: the box of HoneyMoon Chex Cereal. -Long story-

Then we went to target, and I ended up not using my coupon but I did get a box of nursing pads that were on sale with a leftover Christmas gift card. They were the nuk brand. We'll have to see how they work. And I went to JC Penny's and bought a waterproof crib pad with a gift card. I returned a few things at BRU, and bought 2 books for Finn. We went to Hobby Lobby and I bought the few items in there to make his bird mobile, and I also bought the cutest wire basket for his newborn pictures. Pics will come soon of the mobile and basket!
Whats left for us to buy??
-going home outfit
-a pack of white crib sheets

I still have a shower at work, and I put diapers and newborn sleepers and just other basic necessities.
The crib is being ordered probably this week.

So overall we are pretty ready!!

Ben's Family and Friends Shower

This post is going to take forever to finish because I'm watching Glee while I'm typing. This post is also long overdue.
Two weeks ago we had a shower here at our home and we had a great turnout. I'm really fortunate to have alot of friends that came to my shower and Mom's grandma shower, so I'm really happy that most of Ben's family was able to make it. He got to open all of the gifts and everyone got to see our house and the nursery for the first time. We actually only got it complete the night before, except the crib which we're ordering this week.  We really received alot of stuff we needed. So with two more showers, we hopefully will only have to buy a few more items :) here's some pics:

We're really thankful for everyone that showed up!!! it was fantastic :)