Our stoller/carseat

We got our stroller/carseat combo in the other day! We waited for this set for soooo long. It's been out of stock everywhere for months on end and we just happened to luck into one on walmart.com the other day (the next day they were sold out again). I love how it's girlie without being overly pink! We have enough pink elsewhere! It's so surreal right now...I can't believe we'll have a little one to put in there soon! Travis has already installed the base in the car which trips me out everytime I get in the car now! Of course, Tucker had to be the first to try it out! :)

super cuteness!

Lori brought over my crib bedding today...Oh my I love it! It's gorgeous! Here are a few pics of the bedding...it's not easy to see with the mattress all the way up but the blue fabric will show up more when we drop it down some. I am in love with this pillow as well! How cute is it? I realized after I took all these pics that I need to tie the front ties...oh well. Maybe later! Also here is a sweet little tea set that was given to me when I was really young. I've kept it all these years and now it sits on Essie's shelf! :)

29 Weeks

This week I have a butternut squash in my belly! E.C. is now about 3 pounds and 16 inches from head to toe. Last night she put on quite a show for us...we love just laying in bed watching her move around in my tummy. It's hysterical to see her bump, scrape, and poke around in there! I'm still sleeping well at night...I've become used to sleeping on my side (even though I do tend to wake up on my back at times). My pregnancy pillow is ESSENTIAL now...I even travel with it. My hands tend to fall asleep during the night now so that's a little annoying. Overall I feel pretty good (I'd feel great if this stinkin tree pollen would die down!) I'm enjoying being pregnant at this point which is a statement I NEVER would have dreamed of saying a few months back. I think I'll miss it once she's here. I get the rest of her bedding in tomorrow so I'll know I'll be posting pics of that! Also we have TWO showers next week (my work shower and a friends shower here in town) and I'm super excited about those.

Easter weekend

We went down to Pine Bluff to spend the weekend with Travis' family. His brother, sister in law, niece, & nephew also came down from Rogers. We had a great time visiting with everyone. All the girls went to a brunch on Saturday in Little Rock with his sister and we enjoyed alot of great food! Then Travis and I met up with my parents to do some shopping while we were there in Little Rock. We all went to church this morning and then had a huge Easter lunch afterward. It was so nice to see everyone and spend some family time! His brother and sister in law gave us some great gifts for Essie...we got this bouncy seat (so pink and cute), a boppy, diapers, and 4 cute outfits! We loved it all and can't wait to use it! It dawned on us that this weekend is most likely the last time we go down to Pine Bluff just the two of us and the dogs! Here are a few pics of our loot and of us that we took once we got home!

28 Weeks & whoa...momma!

Essie Claire weighs about 2 and a half pounds this week (same as this chinese cabbage) & is around 16 inches from head to toe! She's definitly made her presence known this week. I feel and look really pregnant this week! We've not taken "belly pictures" all along but I decided to take one today just to document how much she's popped out there. I've started getting those "when are you due?" questions for the first time. The good news is that I passed my second glucose test...which was a huge relief for me!

Look what we bought today!!!

We found this stoller that we liked awhile back but it has been out of stock everywhere for MONTHS! We had finally decided on another one that we were going to get at babies r us this weekend. I decided to check walmart.com just one more time and it was in stock! So I ordered it and got it shipped free to the store! :) Yay!

Sleepy Puppies

We went to Batesville for the weekend which always wears the dogs out completely! This is how they crashed after we got home. Maggie wouldn't move so we made the bed around her...she stayed there for over 2 hours just like that behind the pillow. Then Tucker came and crashed right in front of her!

3 hour glucose test

I went today for my 3 hour glucose test. I got there around 8:00 (my mom went with me) and they did my first blood draw around 8:30. They had trouble getting a vein so pricked me a couple of times. Then I drank the sweet stuff (this time it was twice as sweet but still not terrible.) Then I just had to wait and have blood drawn every hour for 3 hours. I did fine until the last 20 minutes or so (right before they drew my last blood). Then I got really dizzy and lightheaded and thought I was going to pass out. The techs said that my sugar had probably bottomed out (considering I hadn't ate/drank in over 18 hours!). So they gave me some juice and I scarfed down a NutriGrain bar. Then we went to get some lunch. I feel better now...just really drained and exhausted. I'm fighting a head/chest cold on top of everything so that hasn't helped! I called to get my results this afternoon and my nurse had left so I had to talk to another nurse. She said that her doctor requires a high reading on 2 out of the 4 blood draws to diagnose diabetes. I was high on one (the one right after I drank the glucose stuff). So she said my doctor would look at it and contact me if they needed me to do anything else. So overall it wasn't too bad...except that they had to stick me EIGHT times to draw blood 4 times. I'm hard to find a vein in...they even had to resort to taking it from the inside of my wrist the last time...scary!

4D Ultrasound

We went for our 4D ultrasound on Friday afternoon...right after I got the dreaded "you failed your glucose test" phone call. We were prepared to not be able to see her...the tech had forwarned us. I was just really, really, really hoping Essie would be in a position that would work. That wasn't the case. It was very apparent from the beginning that we wouldn't be getting a good shot of her. That sweet tech worked so hard to try and get her to move or to work around the placenta but it just wasn't working. She tried for over 15 minutes! The placenta pretty much covered the bottom half of her face which made everything blurry. And then Essie turned to where her back was to us and we couldn't see anything! Stubborn girl. We did get to see her a few times...enough to determine she has Travis' nose! She sucked her thumb ferociously the majority of the time. We could see her little jaw just a working as she sucked away! We also can absolutely, no doubt confirm that she is indeed a girl. We got our first "good look" at her girl parts. The sweet tech did give us the few pictures she took and didn't charge us since it was a lost cause. So we got a free glimpse at our girl...which is priceless! It's a little disheartening to know that Friday will most likely be the last time we see her until delivery!

Well...dang!

I went in for my glucose test on Monday and was told if I didn't hear back by Tuesday that I could assume it was okay. So after Tuesday and no call I gleefully assumed away. Joyful to have passed! That joy faded when I got a call this afternoon from my nurse...I failed. My number was supposed to be 140 or below. I was at 171. Crap. So now I have to go in on Monday morning (and miss another day of work) to do the glorious 3 hour test. Any tips out there for passing this dang thing...or ideas of how to pass 3 hours sitting in the waiting room???