baby update!

We are 38 weeks so we have about 2 weeks or so to go! It is exciting! I can't wait to meet this baby and find out if it is a girl or boy. I am definitely more restless this time, it is all I think about, which means I will never go into labor! At my last appt. midwife informed me that baby is OP which means they are sunny side up. She can tell by feeling my belly and by where the heartbeat is. She said this is one of the reasons for my being so uncomfortable! Well yay, I was afraid that I was just getting to be a whiner. I have heard that back labor is the worst so we are hoping that baby will decide to roll on over before labor. She suggested that I scrub my kitchen floor on my hands and knees to encourage him. I did once, guess I should do it again. We will have the cleanest floor ever! Last night I told Dave to tell the baby to roll over and he was acting silly and putting his mouth right on my side to talk to the baby and Trey started dancing around! It was so funny! Trey is also in what she called an oblique position which means his head is by my hip bone instead of my pubic bone. She says when baby decides to move down onto my cervix labor will probably begin very soon. So everyone send thoughts of baby getting into the right position my way next week!

Here we are with just two months to go! I think we finally agreed on names and have all of our supplies for our birth kit! I have been trying to clean up projects around the house and Dave went on his trip and is home from now on so we are ready! A few short weeks and we will meet baby trey!

I made baby Trey's quilt! Dave bought me a new sewing machine for our anniversary and it works so well! I finished it and it is soooo cute! I got the idea for it and most of the instructions off of littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com

They have a lot of quilting tutorials. I used the applique tutorial for the elephants and the free motion quilting tutorial to quilt it. It turned out really well, there are rookie mistakes if you know what you are looking for but I am happy with it. It is really only my second quilt and the last one was a rag quilt so this was very different. On their blog they have an elephant quilt that has an elephant template, I printed it out and made it bigger then traced it onto freezer paper (great tip from their website) and cut that out. I put heatnbond light (learned the hard way to use lite!) on the wrong side of my fabric, then I ironed the freezer paper onto the right side of my fabric and cut around the elephants. I tried using heat n bond ultra because I had it on hand, it is not sewable! Don't use it! Ok, then I used a zig zag stitch to finish the edges of my appliques. After that you stack your quilt layers and pin them then trim them to match and you can quilt them. I did practice for quite awhile before I actually quilted on my quilt. I made practice sandwiches. Then I used premade quilt binding to finish it. Next time I would love to make my own binding out of a really cute fabric but for this time I needed easier. So there you go.

I think everyone has that moment during each pregnancy where reality sets in and you panic a little bit. You are not just pregnant, you are going to have a baby. I know, that is what being pregnant means but it is really easy to lose sight of that. We get a lot of attention, there are so many things to get done and all the pregnancy symptoms that distract us from the fact that we will in fact be bringing a new person into the world that we will be responsible for very soon. With Sammi it was towards the end of my pregnancy when Emma and I walked into a public restroom and I saw the changing table. I suddenly realized that I would have to start using those again, no more easy trips in with my potty trained big girl. I was having a baby. This time that moment came today when I got my weekly email updating me on the progress of my baby. I thought I was 33 weeks. Somehow I lost a week and am 34 weeks today! That means I have only 4-8 weeks to go until we meet baby trey and I am the mommy of 3 small children! Scary! Plus there is the whole impending labor thing. There is a lot I would like to get done before baby makes their appearance but I am going to have to just take a deep breath and realize it may not all get done and it isn't necessary. We have everything we need to have this baby, so what if my living room needs to be painted or I don't get all my sewing projects caught up. Although it would be nice to have a name picked out before baby gets here. But that is a topic for a different day.