36 weeks...

Your Size: 7 pounds- the size of a real life baby at this point!

 

Your Due Date: November 12^th… only 3 weeks left.

 

Maternity/ Baby clothes? I broke down and bought you the cutest little preppy outfit for your first Thanksgiving Dinner! Can't wait to see you in it!!!

 

Nursery: Still working on it but only have a couple last minute things and then it will be all ready for you! And we also finished getting our bedroom ready to have you too... apparently you get 2 bedrooms in our house!

 

Your Changing Station in our room!

 

Baby Gear: Packed and ready to go.

 

 

Sleep: It comes and goes!

 

This week’s adventure: This week started my first week of Maternity Leave! Though I have to say I’m pretty bored already- so hopefully you will come sooner rather than later. So far we have spent a lot of time sleeping & walking- pretty relaxing so far.

 

We packed our Nurses Thank You Basket this week!!!!

 

Miss anything? Energy! I had such great energy for the last 2 weeks and it has left me… we are averaging 2 naps a day now.

 

Movement:  So much movement all the time!

 

Your favorite foods: I’ve turned into my father- I have a chocolate chip cookie with my coffee every morning.

 

Anything making you queasy or sick:  Everything seems to make me sick again.

 

Gender: Boy... very large boy!

 

Labor signs: 1 cm dilated! Though I could go for weeks being 1 cm but I’m taking it as a good sign that my body is getting ready

 

Symptoms: Just the labor ones.

 

Belly button in or out?  Still in, it’s a miracle!

 

Wedding rings on or off? Still on- though I seem to always forget to put them on these days.

 

Happy or moody most of the time: More happy!

 

Looking forward to: Week 40! Your Daddy and I can’t wait to meet you, we are getting so excited!

 

Advice to my soon-to-be baby: Know that I am already sorry for all the emotional “distress” that I will cause you as a child… I know I will be HORRIBLE. I’m going to dress you up & take a million pictures. I will embarrass you millions of times over in grade school, high school and I’m sure even college! But just know that everything I do is because I love you…. Even if it’s giving you thousands of kisses before you leave for school each morning!

 

P.S. The Notre Dame Scoreboard is now 5-1… it was a really rough game last weekend. Luckily they don’t play on Saturday- I need a week off after the stress of last week’s game.