Patience

Still waiting... we went to the Dr today. I had hoped to hear I had at least progressed to 3-4cm since last week. Unfortunately no. I kinda think he's comfy in there and doesn't plan to come out any time soon. I was thinking both of us are born on the 7th of a month so maybe Nathaniel is waiting for February 7th? That sounds like a long time from now :-( I scheduled another appointment for Feb 5th where they will check in on him and we can decide if we want to wait longer for him to come on his own or not. Patience... something I can never quite master.

January 29th is HERE

So I know they tell you the due date is just an estimate... every little baby is different in how long they take before they are ready to come. It's strange knowing this Big Event is coming, but not sure when. I've decided to book plans for every day/night this week so that I will keep busy. We are so anxious to meet this precious little one! I'm trying to enjoy the fact that we aren't overwhelmed with a crying little one just yet.

A few more thoughts

It is SNOWING AGAIN! It's supposed to start warming up by noon, but it's coming down hard right now. I had a bunch of errands to run, but I think me and my big belly will be staying home. Why cause undue stress... unless... will that start labor? Hmmmm. Seriously though, I have plenty of things to do around the house so a day cooped up inside won't be too bad.


And for those who are curious just how big I am.... here's a picture. Dad thinks we are at least a week away from Nathaniel's arrival. He sure is moving around like he is trying to get out though. I'm told many first borns are late, so I'm trying to be patient. I keep getting a knee or foot right behind my belly button :-( I'm told this is the most comfortable time of pregnancy.

Just waiting now...

Well we expect Nathaniel any day now. I am happy to report that we have a functional room and cradle for our little guy. We did a lot of work on the room on Saturday to get it up and running, and I'm happy with the way it turned out. I even finished the rocking chair cushion covers on Sunday. We found the glider/rocker on craigslist for $20 but when we got it home the cushions smelled a bit like smoke so I set off to find cushions and with little success moved towards pillows and fabric. It was a little extra work but I think it was worth it. It took me about an hour to remember how to thread the sewing machine but eventually it came back to me.

38 weeks

We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our little Nathaniel. We had a Dr. appointment on Friday and then said he is in position (just not "engaged" yet). She felt his head but it still had wiggle room. It sounds like the cervix is starting to soften and dialate, so ready or not... he's a coming. His heartbeat sounded really good too. It's really too bad we don't get another ultrasound, we really got used to seeing him every visit in Israel. He's still stretching and moving quite a bit and I'm getting bigger and bigger.

We've been working more on getting his room ready. Ken's sister Norine was really helpful in getting me to commit to a color theme (reds/blues/baseball) and yesterday Bethany (another sis-in-law, Steven's wife) assisted with pulling it together and starting to paint. We are making progress now. Our upstairs is completely turned up-side-down but it should be back together soon. I'm missing my other sis-in-law Amy (Micah's wife) and know she would love to be here if she could. She's been so excited and supportive even when she is so far away.

I'm trying to determine if Nathaniel will be more like dad or mom in terms of timeliness... Ken's "on time" is always 10 minutes early, mine is always 5-10 minutes late. I guess we will know soon enough :-)

Pump It Up

We found a fun place to take our little buddies for Christmas. Pump It Up. I guess there are multiple locations in the Portland area, but this site is specific for kids under 5. There are two rooms filled with blown up castles and slides for the kids to run around in. Here's a pic of Garrett and Maddie. Looks like fun!

A day with my brother

This weekend we took my little Honda Civic up to my brother's house. Hoping he could help us with two little "issues". We've had multiple people tell us that our muffler needs replacing over the last year or so. Jeremy agreed to take a look at it and ended up fixing it for us. Wow, our quality of life just went up without that lawnmower sound everytime we drive around town. Turns out all those people were right, we did have a hole in our muffler. Our second issue was the lack of sound coming from our radio. This last summer while we were gone, our car battery died so we had it replaced. Apparently if you remove your battery from the car, the anti theft feature will activate causing the sound in the stereo to be cut off. In order to fix this little problem you need the serial number on the stereo which is mounted into your dashboard. We asked Jeremy if he could get at that serial number so we could call the Honda dealer with it and in return get our secret code to reinitiate our stereo. I thought it would be a quick pop-out-the-stereo job, but the next thing I knew I was in the back seat of the car holding the glove box and the dashboard covers. I've never seen the insides of my car like that! I kept asking him if he was keeping track of the ever increasing pile of screws that was beginning to overflow the cupholders. Does my younger brother really know what he is doing? Apparently not... he called one of his buddies. Actually he did really well, but his buddy knew a lot about this specific make/model and was of great assistance. I felt bad for all the ways Jeremy had to maneuver under the dashboard. It looked pretty uncomfortable being upside down for long periods of time. Surprisingly though, all the pieces went back together and our emergency lights, heater knobs all seem to be working properly, and there were no left over screws. Now we need to call the dealer and get our security code. I'm exhausted!