One Week Away!!

So today is Wednesday and that means that next Wednesday is my official due date. It is really hard to believe that I will most likely have a baby by then! The doctor says that they will set my induction date at my appointment next Wednesday is she does not decide to come before then.

The past few weeks have gone by soooo slow for me. I finished my summer semester of school two and a half weeks ago, so I had nothing to distract myself with since then. Two days ago fall semester started so I have had more than usual to fill my days, thank goodness! I am taking a full load, all online, and so far I think it will be manageable.

In the mean time I have scrubbed the house to death, deep cleaned every room at least once, washed all the baby stuff and finished setting up the nursery. Now I am just waiting.

Mya and I hanging out a week or so ago

Baby room!

Poor Corey. For work he has to jump (out of some sort of aircraft) at least every three months and for some reason or another every jump he has been scheduled for in the past couple months have not gone through. Finally last week they got him on a blackhawk jump, which is great, because they take away your jump pay if you don't jump within the requirements. That would have been a substantial chunk out of his next paycheck.

Anyway, we thought all went well and was pretty routine. And then the next day it looked like he had gotten a bunch of bug bites along his lower back. And then the next day it all turned pink. And then the next day it blistered and turned bright reddish. My poor husband has landed in some poison oak or something similar. It looks like the poison got all over his shirt, his ACU coat must have pulled up when he landed at the jump, and then rubbed all along his sweaty back. I feel so bad for him! It itches like crazy and I don't think the benadryl and steroids and zyrtec they gave him are doing much to relieve the pain.

In the last couple weeks/months Corey has started fishing again. Here are some pictures of us at a couple different lakes around Fort Bragg. Corey says he has never really fished for catfish before, so he has been trying to learn about them since most of the lakes around here have them.

Baby kitty fish

Pretty sunset

Baby Stuff!

The last month or so has been filled with tons of baby prep! It's exciting and scary all at the same time. I've known everything I wanted for the baby for a while now, and the buying of it all was officially given the go ahead when our new carpet was finally put in.

It took the guys forever to do it and I am going to gripe about it a little. The buying of it took several hours in the store even though we had an estimate and everything already done when we got there, the install date got pushed back, the carpet got in late, and when the guys came to finally do it they were late and took forever! All day. It looks good, and is a 100% improvement over the nasty stuff that was here before, so I am very happy with the end result. And now the baby room actually has more than a subfloor.

Corey with the shelves and dresser and newly carpeted floor!

We have most of the big stuff ordered now, except we are still debating the need for a glider. We are waiting on the crib to get shipped since it got lost on the first try. For some reason the processing of the order is taking a lot longer than the first time, so it is still not even close to shipped. :( They say between the 1st and 7th of July is should be here. Very excited to get it and get it put together!

 As soon as the crib gets here I am going to put in a major decorating effort! We already did the not so fun prep like the painting and replacing the fan blades and stuff, so all that is left is the girly decorating part that Corey wants no part in haha.

Last Saturday I went to a cool event for military moms to be called the Boots and Booties Baby Shower. It was hosted by the city and they had tons of raffles and cool things they did for 1000 expecting moms from Fort Bragg. Of course, I didn't win anything lol, but someone even won a car. I got to eat all the food and treats though and meet other preggo ladies, it was pretty fun and an awesome thing for the city to do.

a picture from the event

me at 31 weeks and 3 days right before I went to the boots and booties thing

While I was at this event Corey spent the second day in a row at the Toyota dealership. It took them three hours, maybe more, to do his 5k mile check up the day before. The truck had several recall notices, so we asked if they could check that stuff too. They said they couldn't, so we had to make another appointment for that. It took them over five hours. So frustrating because they literally have to look at a number on the part and compare it to the recalled numbers. We even had an appointment, both times.

Corey did some asking while he wasted his day off there, though, and decided to buy running boards. The guys at the dealership gave him advice on where to buy them cheapest and said he could install them no problem. So Corey is getting a present for his truck that I will appreciate. It's getting harder and harder to climb up into that thing! I am sure he will post a picture on facebook when they come in.

Here are some other pictures! (can you tell who is the most spoiled dog of them all??)

Mya trying out the swing my sister Elena & bro in law Mark got us.

Mya testing out the car seat

me at 30 weeks 2 days

Mya hanging out with Jocelyn. Best friends already!

Corey, being the awesome husband he is, bringing me pillows to make me a pillow castle on the couch!

Two weekends ago we paid for another elective ultrasound. We wanted to see how much she had changed since the last time we'd seen her at 19 weeks. She had her hands in her face the entire time, so no face shots, but I will never get tired of seeing her!

sucking her thumb, so cute she did it the whole time.

I had to change doctors, so at my first appointment on Monday they, to my surprise, did a growth ultrasound. (The Army doctors/hospital I was at before don't do this.) Again, so cool to see her! From her head, spine, femur etc measurements they say she is measuring two weeks ahead, in the 80th percentile. Pretty cool that they can do that even though I know they are often off with those measurements. 

I like the new doctor, I actually got to meet him!! On post you just get whoever is on call that day and there is a large number of them. This was the first time I actually saw an OB since I got preggo. The best part is that their office is like five minutes away from the house and the hospital we will deliver at is just as close. Much better than a thirty minute drive on post.

Since we didn't get to see her face in the ultrasound we paid for they let us come back yesterday for a free re-scan. This time the placenta was all in the way of her face, but we got something. At both ultrasounds I had this week the doctor and tech said that she has a ton of hair already! I think that's crazy and I can't wait to see if they are right. 

Corey says she has upgraded from skeletal alien to a zombie. 

zombie baby lol