A Little of This And a Little of That!

Hello again! This is going to be a long post because we haven't updated in a while! I seriously almost typed bc instead of because. I mean, really? It's not like I don't have time to type the whole word.. I am unemployed. Anyways..
Yay the fair is over and has been for a bit. I believe Jamie touched on this, but I had to share this awesome picture

Wow isn't that pretty? I thought so.

Now on to more. We had two baby showers and got most of our big ticket items. Friends and family are great :) One shower was for friends and another was for family and church members at Jamie's parents' church. I was, to say the least, a little stressed about the church shower. I mean we are a lesbian couple in East Tennessee. It went a lot better than I expected. Only one person asked me how Jamie and I were related ;) People insist that we look like sisters, but I don't see it. Oh well..

Before our first shower we had a "special delivery" class at the hospital and Jamie's friend Stacey was amazing enough to enlist some help and fly all the way in from California to decorate Sophia's nursery. It is gorgeous. It seriously looks like something from a magazine. Here are a few peeks!

It's feminine while not being overwhelmingly girly at the same time. I'm super excited about it and I could not be more thankful for all of the hard work our little nursery fairies put in. 

                                                   

 

We also did a little decorating for fall. I love decorating :)

Last night we also got a visit from our lovely friend Alex over at alexbeephoto.com and she did a maternity shoot with us. We even got our pup Charlie to run by in a few pictures. She's not very cooperative to say the least :p Here is a sneak peek of that.

alexbeephoto.com

She is absolutely amazing and some of our engagement photos that she took for us were featured on A Bicycle Built For Two. How fun! Maybe I can insert the link to that? (This is all I know to do haha, but it works )   http://www.onabicyclebuiltfortwo.com/2013/09/engagement-sesh-jamie-courtney.html

Annd lastly we have our 36 week appointment for baby girl on Wednesday. I believe we will get our last ultrasound this time and hopefully we'll get to see if Jamie is dilated or effaced at all. We both are thinking she will come early because Jamie's practice contractions (BH) are getting stronger.. or maybe it's just wishful thinking because we want her here already. I'm sure we'll have an update for you all on Wednesday. Until then!!!

A different kind of TWW

Two more weeks until our 34 week appointment. Then two more until our weekly appointments start! AHHH!!! I can't believe we are getting so close :)

Today's appointment was pretty boring...aside from the whole "how would you feel about a Halloween baby" question hahaha. Our doctor came in the room with that question. She is basically saying that since everything is going really well and everything is on track...the only real worry we could have at this point would be meconium (the first tar-like poos for a baby) in the fluids. It is more likely that this could happen going past the due date...so she has given us the "go ahead" to start all the natural labor inducing tricks at week 39. I want to labor in water (or at least have the option to if I'm feeling up for it) and she said if my water breaks and there is meconium, I can't labor in the water.

I love that she is doing everything she can to let me have the labor/birth I have planned out in my head. At this point I am feeling pretty confident and happy with everything! Things are falling into place, slowly...but surely. I can't wait for our Birthing class...I think that coupled with the hospital tour will reallllly make things feel real and not just like plans anymore.

We washed a load of tiny clothes last night...it was so cute! And loud haha...those snaps really do sound like a bunch of pennies tossing around in the dryer :) We still need to prep the prefold cloth diapers...that's right. We are going for it!! We won't let ourselves feel bad if for the first few weeks we have to use newborn disposables...but we are going to be ready with the cloth if we want to start right away too :)

My pal text me on Monday "17 days" I can't believe he will be here in less than 17 days!!!!! He is decorating our nursery for us and I won't be able to thank him enough...I was really having a hard time figuring out exactly what I wanted for her nursery. He offered to fly out and do it for us! So while we are out he is going to decorate and then we have a shower the next day to add to the mayhem of his decor haha. It's going to be great :)

I think that is everything...We are going to be busy little bees for the next week, so I am glad I was able to write this out now! Until next time...