37 Weeks

**If I look super tired in this picture I am. I have not been feeling well or sleeping well at all.

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far: 37 Weeks

Size of Baby: He is a bit over 19 inches long and weighs about 6.25 lbs. He is the size of a stalk of swiss chard (from head to toe).

Total Weight Gain: 25 lbs

Gender: Boy! Trace Daniel

Maternity Clothes: That is all I can wear at this point and even those are getting uncomfortable. Would like to go naked at all times!

Movement: He moves a lot all day and then in the evening he moves into some special position which causes me to throw up for about an hour!

Food Cravings: Not much room for food, but Tortilla's and Queso have been heavenly!

What I Miss: Sitting comfortably! Standing for long periods of time without feeling like I walked a marathon!

Sleep: I have been sleeping awesome once I am done with all the puking!

Best "Big Brother" Moment: Just seeing how patient he is with the little girl across the street and Chase when he cam over Saturday. I think he is going to be an AWESOME big brother!

What I am looking forward to: Meeting my little man in 9 days! Last day of work is Friday 10/22!

Doctor Appointment: Everything looked good. Pre-Op appointment on Wednesday!

Next Doctor Appointment: October 20, 2010 Pre-Op appointment at the hospital (Only 1 week left at this appointment!)

To Infinity and Beyond

Just a little sneak peak to Trenton’s Halloween costume! His jet pack should be delivered this week and that will complete his costume! He is so stinkin’ cute!

Fall Festival

Every year we try to go to a fall festival. We usually go to the one at Trenton’s school, but considering I will have a 2 day old on that day we opted to visit the festival at the elementary in our neighborhood. Our neighbors we going and I thought what could be a better way to enjoy this beautiful weather! Now being 37 weeks pregnant and walking about a mile was a challenge, but I did it and Trenton had so much fun. Of course, the first thing we did was ride the train when we got there. They had a lot of little games set up and TONS of snacks. They even had little boutiques set up inside the school! Trenton got to touch a baby sting ray too. The Kemah Aquarium had a station set up! I have to say it was a blast, but this Mama was exhausted. The things we do for our kids!!

My camera was acting goofy too so these are not the best quality of pictures!

The train

Crystal and Chase riding the train

Trenton and Scott (super excited!)

Scott was brave and got his hair spray painted. Trenton opted to buy a ring pop with his tickets!

We played a few games like……

Football toss (he made it 2 out of 3 times!)

Gone fishing

Nerf hunting (we played this one a couple times) What boy wouldn’t want to shoot nerf darts at a paper deer, hog and turkey!

The Chic-Fil-A cow! Our favorite place to eat

 

We even had italian ice to cool us off. Trenton wanted to show me his tongue was blue and mine was red!

And what day would be complete without a big stick of cotton candy!

  

Needless to say we had a great time and came home with a sugar high!

Trenton and Chase decided to grab their blankets and watch Princess and the Frog! They are so cute and having Chase at the house made me realize that our house is NOT ready for a cruising baby and neither is my energy level!

Spooky Baking

It was just Trenton and I at home tonight so I thought what better way to spend the evening than by ordering a pizza and making Halloween cookies! I am getting much better at baking and decorating cookies! Maybe one day I can make my own dough and frosting! Until then Betty Crocker is my friend! Trenton had so much fun icing the cookies and of course sampling the icing. I can’t believe that soon I will have 2 little ones to bake with! Maybe my boys will learn to bake and really impress their wives…

Cookie cutter, icing, sprinkles, dough……CHECK

One super excited little boy…..CHECK!

Trenton wasted no time getting started on cutting out the cookies

Look at that face! He had such a blast

Waiting and watching the cookies bake

Cookie masterpiece part I

I highly recommend the Betty Crocker cookie icing in the bags. Less mess and Trenton could ice his very own cookies with little of Mommy’s help

You can see his first cookie! Not to shabby

 

YUMMMM! ICING!!!

Some of his final masterpieces…and a few of Mommy’s too

And the end result!

I think we did pretty awesome for some beginners! Anyone who knows me should know I am less than great at baking, but I am determined to learn. First baking then sewing!

Football Time

In all of my organizing and moving rooms around I found Trenton’s UH football jersey! We have not been able to attend a game this season, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still root for them at home! Even if they aren’t having a great season!!

We were heading to Gretchen’s last night to watch LSU beat Florida and decided since UH was playing at the same time we would wear our gear over there! Trenton was super excited about his jersey and kept saying “GOO COOGS”

Mommy and T in our gear…you can barely tell I am delivering a child in 17 days!

On our way out he turned and posed for me

Ummm…first attempt at the Coogs sign!

And now we have it down! Go Coogs!