Pictures - 35 and 37 weeks

Here I am at 35 weeks, I think...

And at 37 weeks this past Saturday. The dress made me look pretty big, but people are still telling me I don't look like I'm this close to my due date. Whatever they say, it's still less than 3 weeks until the date!

The room is pretty close to finished. I need to take some photos to post of that, so hopefully I'll get them up over the weekend. We still need to get the carseat installed, but for the most part we're ready to go!

Baby Shower!

Last Saturday was my baby shower. It was so much fun and we got a lot of great things for the baby. Kathy and Suzanne did a wonderful job of organizing it and we were amazed at how generous everyone was. Mostly it was just nice to see everyone! I'll try to get updated belly photos posted soon. My due date is five weeks from today!

There are too many photos to post, so here's a link to them on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeandrachel/

33 Weeks

I'm now at 33 weeks, and it's starting to feel like we're getting close. The baby should be about 4.75 lbs. She's been mostly head down all along, which is good, and I can tell that's how she is because I feel hiccups low in my stomach!

30 Weeks

These are from last Saturday at 30 weeks. She gets bigger every week and so do I!

Baby room update

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year! We've been busy on the baby's room, and now it actually is starting to look like a baby's room. Here are some pictures from today:





Here is the view looking through the door.























The stroller and infant seat from Dad and Holly!















New blinds, new bookshelf, and the Pack 'N Play still in the box.










The crib. We don't have a mattress yet, so it kind of looks like a cage, but it will be nice once it's all together.

Pictures from last weekend

Before...

During...

After...

Belly at 27 weeks

Long work weekend

We both took off Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to get stuff done around the house. We don't get many days off together because of our work schedules, so it's hard to get anything done together. It was nice to have 4 days in a row. We took all 3 animals to the vet, which is something we could never do seperately, so now everyone is up to date on shots. But our big project for the weekend was painting the baby's room! It was quite a production because we had a lot of junk piled up in there, and also in the room that we needed to move all of the junk into. We did a lot of organizing and moving stuff around to start with, but we were ready to paint by Saturday. Esther and Jesse came over to help, Mike's parents were here and my mom was here, too, so it was a busy, productive day! We got a coat of paint, and also lots of cleaning done. Esther even cleaned out and organized two of our closets! Today we got the second coat on, and we'll take a look in the morning to see if we'll need another coat. We used a new paint that has no VOCs, so it was supposed to be safer for me to be around. It hardly even smells.

Mike took before and after pictures, and new pictures of my now giant belly at 27 weeks. I'll post them hopefully in the next couple days so you all can see our progress. It's back to work tomorrow, so goodnight!