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that was my baby vase that my mom received when i was born. she passed it onto me.
i had a great delivery. i progressed extremely fast for being induced and he came out easily. he eats great, but does have juandice and has to be under the glow light. 
BUT...... now last wk at 38 wks i have absolutely no energy and can't get my ballooned body off the couch. i feel like this coming week will be no different. Maybe that's a sign that he's coming soon! we can only hope!
josh took me downtown to PF changs for what we hope was our last hot date before the baby comes and who knows when we will do it again. we had to wait a really long time, but i was dressed and feeling pretty good about myself so we weren't leaving! The date was much needed and i loved spending the time with my joshy like the good ole days of being young.
since the first grandbaby my mom has bought and refinished old dressers for the baby to have. so this time around it was no different for me. She stoked craigslist and found nothing, but we ended up getting a free dresser from Josh's sister. it was pretty ugly and we were positive that we'll just have to paint it, but mom worked her magic and it turned out beautiful.
i knew from the moment i found out i was pregnant that i was going to make the bumper for the crib. i'm just too picky and i didn't want to spend the large amount of cash on a crib set when all i needed was the bumper. I took the design from my nieces bumper and found the boy ribbon i liked and my mom sewed it all together. i absolutely love love love how it turned out. the colors are perfect and the outside of it is just a plain navy. the picture doesn't do it justice!
my mom also makes blankets for the her grandbabies and she didn't fail to create two ridiculously cute blankets for my little man. 
Warning gross feet picture
Sunday's also brings me sitting for 3 hours straight at church. Which equals my little cankels to become massive swollen calfs/cankels/feet! besides it being totally unattractive, it's also painful for my skin to stretch and swell like that. My one real big complaint about this pregnancy is my swelling.
by that night they were even more worst, if you can even imagine! Oh and my tailbone get extremely sore from sitting in the hard church chairs, that between me not being able to get up and my swollen legs we end up leaving church early because i'm in so much pain!
i'm still measuring pretty big and my dr. is pretty sure that i'm not having a baby anytime soon. well at least not on my own. So we'll see when he decides to actually arrive. Josh and i both had dreams that he was weighing in the 9 pounds....yikes...lets hope not!
i'm just now starting to feel uncomfortable and real front heavy. i'm getting slower and more sore with any activity. We've started taking long brisk walk to help maybe get this process moving along. As much as i'm ready for him to be here, I will be sad to not have him all to myself and feeling his foot jab up into my ribs or his massive rolls across my belly.
8lbs 9oz
getting larger and larger! 9months/36wks
8 MONTHS or 32 wks!!! baby boy really is getting so close to arriving. We are really starting to get anxious now. I only have 8 wks left, give or take....hopefully not longer! but if i'm like my mother i'll go late and have a large baby! speaking of large baby i've been measuring about 2.5 wks bigger! so either i'll go early....have a sum what bigger baby or there's a little baby in a lot of fluid! I've really grown over the past month and i really don't see how i can get much bigger, but i know it's going to happen. the last few months was awful in the fact that i could've ever sleep!! i was constantly getting up and finding things to do in the middle of the night. I also seemed to have gain a tremendous about of weight as well. since i have only a few weeks left i've already been sleeping perfectly and settling into my weight gain! 
Josh picked up this super cute super soft giraffe for baby boy to have! we call him Geri the Giraffe and we hope that baby loves him.
since we've moved in to our house our oven just doesn't want to work correctly. The oven just doesn't' want to cook anything i put in it. I either have to turn the temp up real real high or just let the meal cook for twice as long. very annoying! I was in the baking mood the other day and thought what the heck I'll try to make cookies knowing in my head they won't turn out good. Well to my surprise they turned out pretty darn yummy! I was trilled, now only the oven will cook my meatloaf in less then 2 hours!
Amanda's birthday is on Jan 4th, but since they were here why not celebrate her as well.
I debated and debated if i was going to ski, but at the last minute I decided it wasn't worth the money for only a couple of runs. instead I stayed in the lodge and helped my mom watch the kiddos. lucky for us all three kids fell asleep and slept most of the day! Boe is under the table, Luke is in the blanket on top of the table and Kole is fast asleep in G-ma's arms.
