10 weeks and 2 days left....

There is only 10 weeks and 2 days left until this baby is scheduled to arrive!! It is coming so quickly now! Ty and I set up the crib last week, and as we were sitting there on her bedroom floor assembling crib parts, I realized just how quickly she will be here! Yikes! I distinctly recall the day that I sat at our computer when I was pregnant with Luke and wrote out my monthly email update for friends and family (no blogger or babies online at that point!) and I was talking about how we only had 9 short weeks left until his due date! I remembering feeling just a little overwhelmed that it was so soon! And I also remember Ty's reaction at the time....which happened to be the opposite of mine. "Oh.....what are you worried about, hun? We still have NINE WEEKS left!" It was four days later that Luke was born. :( Little did we know!

Not that I'm thinking this little one will arrive in the next week or anything. No. I actually feel a LOT more confident these days that I just might make it to my scheduled c-section date, but I have to giggle inside at the reactions that Ty and I are both having at this same point. All I have to say is that at-least we are consistent....we are both feeling the same things we felt with Luke around this time. I'm in a bit of a panic that we won't be ready and am anxious to get every little thing possibly done NOW, and he is a little more on the "What are you worried about" side of the coin. "We'll get everything done....don't worry." he tells me. I sure hope he's right! :)

As far as the room goes, we are making good progress. The crib is assembled, the walls are painted and as of last night there is just one final coat of paint that needs to be put on both the chair rail and the her new dresser, and the big parts of her room will be complete. We brought the dresser home on Friday (thanks to my dad's help!) and Ty worked on painting everything while I worked on Sunday. Too bad that our luck with paint colors is so terrible, because we would have been done yesterday if it wasn't! I had taken a piece of the crib down to the paint store to have them match the white for the dresser and the chair rail, and they did what I asked of them. However, once the paint was actually ON the pieces, it was much more GREY in color than white. Grrrr! The crib apparently is not bright white, it's a little on the grey side of white. And grey is NOT what I had in mind for her room. So.....once Ty arrived home yesterday, I zipped on down to Redlands for a new color and we spent the rest of the afternoon and evening in the garage painting. I'll be glad when it's done!!!

I guess I haven't blogged since my birthday, eh? Well....the day turned out to be WONDERFUL!!! Very relaxing and rejuvenating! My massage and facial were fabulous! The lady who did my massage was an older, grandmother type, (which I was a little surprised about at first) but who was so grandma-like and nurturing that I wouldn't have wanted anyone else! She was the kind of woman who uses endearing terms when she talks to you like "dear" and "honey" and I felt as though I were one of her grand kids as we talked about the baby coming and she shared in my excitement. So cool. She offered a great prenatal massage, and I found out later that she does in fact have 4 kids of her own and 8 grand kids.....and she still wants MORE! She was definitely a sweet woman!

Anyway..........after my massage, my mom willingly kept Luke and Tess at her house for an extra hour while I went home to a very empty and VERY QUIET house to get ready for our dinner out. I put on some relaxing 'spa' music and took my time readying myself for evening. I was like mush when I picked Luke up for dinner.....all relaxed and happy!

The rest of the weekend was nice too! We didn't do much on Friday except pick up Baby's crib, get Luke a much needed haircut, and hang out at home, but Saturday was a bit busier. I had a photo shoot in the morning, so Ty tagged along and kept Luke entertained at the park while I did my thing. Luke was happy to spend some time swinging and playing with Daddy, even if the morning resulted in a skinned knee! :( He's a trooper though, and it hardly fazed him. Saturday night was our special dinner with my friends, and that was a lot of fun too! Probably the last fancy dinner we'll be sharing for quite some time! The food was delish and the company good...what more could I ask for???? :)

I worked in the ED on Sunday, so most of my day was shot. But we indulged my craving that morning for coffee and doughnuts, which was fun! We NEVER eat doughnuts, but I was craving them intensely Sunday morning, so we all threw on our slippers and a sweatshirt and piled into the car to get some! Luke was impatient in the backseat on the way home as the sweet smell of all that sugar wafted his way and kept asking "Dough-no, peeeeeese!" The inside of my car had just been vacuumed, so there was not a chance he was getting his chocolate sprinkle-covered doughnut in the car! Instead, we snuggled on the couch when we got home and ate them, as Ty and I giggled at how cute Luke was in his attempts to pick off just the right sprinkle! Good times!

I was without a car yesterday since Ty's car is in the shop AGAIN (grrrrrrr!) so Luke and I were home bound yesterday until Ty got home. It was actually kind of nice to have an excuse to NOT go anywhere. We lingered long in our pj's and played silly games in the morning until I decided that I should probably get some laundry and chores done. So Luke helped me dust the house, strip the sheets off his toddler bed for washing, and followed me around while I did my chores. He's actually a pretty good helper 'round the house! Then, like I said, we headed outside in the afternoon to paint and Luke stayed cool playing with the squirt bottle, mister and water cans on the driveway. The afternoon ended at the dinner table with homemade enchiladas (my favorite recipe from my dad) and a little more rough-housing for Ty and Luke before his bedtime. Luke found a deflated Trader Joes balloon in his playroom and we snapped these silly pictures of us.....his impersonation of me! :) He ran around the house giggling with that balloon tucked up under his shirt....he thought he was hilarious!




Well.....I think that's 'bout it for me today. Kinda a boring re-cap post, but oh well! Luke just got up for the day, so I should be going. Look for the next installment of belly pics in the next few days...... :)