From our family to yours, happiest of holidays! We hope you all had a delicious Thanksgiving filled with food, fun, and family and lots of memories. Seeing as Mike and I are nearing the end of our 9 month trek here, we have incredible things to be thankful for this year :) Every day Baby gets a little bigger, kicks a little harder, and the thought of him arriving is a little (or a lot) bit sweeter. Our house is filled with books and toys and precious things for our coming addition, and each day we get a little closer to being "finished" making our house a home, for both us and for baby. We've had so much fun these last couple months and can not wait to snuggle Baby to bits!This Thanksgiving we spent a little time with both our families and also decided to be "those crazies" who try to snag a deal when the Black Friday (Thursday) doors opened at 8pm at some stores. And, despite my being the size of the Titanic, we did manage to get the items we wanted! I got a Cuisinart food processor to make our own baby food (among other delicious things), the highchair we've been eyeing up, and a Cricut bundle, and we also snagged a new vacuum (which is AMAZING!), Mike got some bits for his router and a bunch of Bond movies, and we managed to finish up all our Christmas shopping (and are really excited about the gifts we found people, which is the best feeling ever!). So despite being 33 weeks pregnant and exhausted, we are super excited to have gotten things we wanted and needed. And no, we didn't stay up all night- not this year :)
Only 6 more days of clinical practicum left for this girl and then hopefully it's just smooth sailing from here til baby shows up! I've got plenty of crafts and sewing projects piled high in the craft room yet for baby, which I'm crossing my fingers I'll get done before he arrives. I scored some amazing deals on baby fleece for crib rail covers and a changing pad, some muslin(gauze) for swaddles, waterproof fabrics for wet bags for our cloth diapers, and some amazingly fun print remnants for homemade toys :) so I am VERY excited to be done with school for a bit and have some fun back on the sewing machine instead! This whole studying and paper-writing thing is definitely super lame compared to cute baby prepping.
So the big news this week? Baby's almost in the clear as far as health goes! After 34 weeks, typically babies are able to breath on their own with fewer interventions (if any) and generally do well if born at this point. Of course, we'd love for him to stay cooking a little longer (i.e. like, after I'm done with school) but at least we've got some reassurance now that he's got some good chances even if he did show up early :) As of now, he's pretty much just working on that surfactant (aka, lung lube) and filling out those cute chubby cheeks before he makes his appearance!
So the big news this week? Baby's almost in the clear as far as health goes! After 34 weeks, typically babies are able to breath on their own with fewer interventions (if any) and generally do well if born at this point. Of course, we'd love for him to stay cooking a little longer (i.e. like, after I'm done with school) but at least we've got some reassurance now that he's got some good chances even if he did show up early :) As of now, he's pretty much just working on that surfactant (aka, lung lube) and filling out those cute chubby cheeks before he makes his appearance!
