Emily's nursery, the finished product!!

 So as of today, the "nesting phase" is complete. Emily's room is all finished!!!! Yay!! It looks great! I love how both Ashley and Emily's nurseries turned out. Ashley's was sweet, Emily's is fun. And both ended up with some homemade touches to make them extra unique and special thanks to grand mom!

Along with the room being done, all of Emily's clothes have been washed and put away, bottles have been sterilized, the carseats are in the car and truck for when we need them, we've pulled down and cleaned all the baby things we need. The only thing left is to pack the hospital bag for Emily and I, and a suitcase for Ashley too in case Emily comes before family gets here. I even managed to get the house cleaned and in order, or at least to the best of my abilities without pushing myself too hard.

I feel accomplished and excited. I just did it little by little, and managed to get it done before she got here (also with thanks to those that helped).

Latest Doctor Appt

Yesterday I went for my routine doctor appointment. Everything is looking great--weight, blood pressure, measurements, heart rate, everything right on track. The doctor guessed that Emily is about 5 1/2 lbs, and estimates that if she makes it full term she should be about 7 lbs.
He did say that she is head down, and her head is already quite low. Oh boy!

Ashley's First Haircut!

On Monday, 10/22, I took Ashley for her first haircut! I have been putting it off for forever. Initially I planned to just let her hair and bangs grow out, but Ashley's not a huge fan of bows or clips. She recently has gotten better about leaving them in her hair, but still doesn't love them. Without anything in it, we'd have to constantly push her hair to the side to keep her bangs out of her eyes.
I also prolonged it because usually once you get the first haircut, you lose that "baby look", and I was sad about that. Lol. She also had an adorable curl/curls (depending on her hair that day) in the back, and I love it and didn't want to chop it off.
But, I decided to stop putting off the inevitable and get it cut.

I took Ashley to a place called Snip It's, which is geared for children. The place has toys and is decorated really cool to make it a fun atmosphere for kids. Also, the first haircut is free, so that was a nice bonus as well :)

Ashley did a great job! When she got in the chair, she was a little nervous at first I think (or maybe she just wanted down, which is also common for her these days when she's sitting in a chair). But then she warmed up to it and did fine. There were no tears--from either of us. Haha.
The girl cutting her hair was named Ashley as well.

After her haircut she got to pick out a clip, which of course she picked out a butterfly since she's fascinated with them. She also won a prize--her very own bracelet.

It was a fun experience. AND I did save the locks of her little curls in the back for the baby book.
Anyway, here are some before and after shots of that day.

I actually love the way it turned out, and now I wish I had done it sooner. Haha.

35 Weeks!

Today I am 35 weeks pregnant...that number didn't shock me until I saw the post and put two and two together when I realized that is only 35 days to go! When you start putting it in days, and see there are only 35, give or take some, wow! Crazy!! It is creeping up quickly.

I have a feeling I may go early too. I was reading the blog I kept with Ashley, and I had this "feeling" I may have her early (which I didn't)...but when looking back, I think that feeling was more of a hopeful excited anticipation. This time there are actual physical symptoms that make me think I may. With Ashley, I was still feeling "pretty good" right up to the end. Normally when you get close, you start feeling it in your body more from what I hear.

I was reading that last week was supposed to be when the baby begins to drop. Emily is always very prompt with these updates. Haha. In the past few days she has definitely shifted, and it hasn't been too fun for me. I have been having a constant ache/borderline pain on the top right half of my stomach. I am pretty sure it's her little "hiney" sitting in a new spot. Not comfortable! I was excited because yesterday I woke up and she had moved out of it after a day or two of it being constant, but then later that day was right back in it. Grr.
Emily--I hope one day when you read this blog you will look past all the complaining and griping about the pregnancy and still see that you were so loved and wanted. Poor thing, I am always complaining about pregnancy stuff this time, but that doesn't mean we are not thrilled to have her joining our lives (and a little bit of the normal nervousness too).

I will post pics later!

I am also posting pics from our FUN day! We started off by having our traditional "Waffle Weekend". I call it a tradition because Matt and I started making homemade waffles on either Saturdays or Sundays for the past few months. It's something we really enjoy now.

After we took Ashley to the pumpkin patch in the morning. She LOVES pumpkins right now--we stop and point at all the pumpkins or Halloween decorations that we see around the neighborhood. So she had a blast seeing a ton of pumpkins and picking some out. They also had a hayride that we went on, farm animals that we saw including some of her favorites--roosters and chickens, wheelbarrows, etc. We all had a great time.

Later that afternoon we went to Boo In The Zoo. It's this big event that the zoo puts on where they have a ton of halloween decorations up, a "not so scary" scary house to walk through, and they do trick or treating. All of the animals were up and the most animated that we've ever seen (probably due to the huge crowd). We went with our good friends, Matt, Christi, Eli and Katie Wagner. Then afterward we went out to dinner at Chilis together. It was a really fun day! Here are some pics from the day.