Theisen Trio: 39 Weeks Baby!

WEEKS: 39 weeks!

BABY'S SIZE: 20 inches, 7 lbs, the baby is the size of a small watermelon....small (ya right! : )

TOTAL WEIGHT GAIN: 37 lbs now which I blame on laziness!

SLEEP: Sleeping has been interesting this week. Either I am sweating or just can't get comfy. When I sleep on my left hip it feels like my bladder is going to burst even right after I go and when I sleep on my right side my hips feel like they could crumble at any moment. Regardless though I got some really good sleep in Friday not waking up once until 4:00 when Riley man called out for me. I had told him that Mommy would be home in the morning and to call for me instead of Daddy and he did!-just a bit too early so after a snuggle and a kiss on the cheek from him (he is such a lover!) it was back to bed until 8:00! Sunday I got up at 5:15 (BOO) and couldn't wait for the guys to arise!

MOVEMENT: We have been playing a game this week. She stretches out her little leg as far as she can until my skin feels like it is going to rip and I gently push her foot back down to where it should be. Seconds later her little foot it getting dangerously close to breaking through my skin again and I push it back down and we do this multiple times everyday and it's crazy weird and completely fun!

SYMPTOMS: My belly is like a bowling bowl in consistency. It is hard as a rock and painful to the touch at times. I know she is coming soon because I remember this phase with Riley!

WHAT I MISS: I am just going to enjoy this last week and I am not going to miss anything from my pre-pregnacy days because Lord knows we have no idea and cannot 'plan' a pregnancy so it might be awhile before we are preggo again.

CRAVINGS: Salty and sweet anything!

MATERNITY CLOTHES: I have once again discovered Derrick's clothes and I am LOVING the comfiness and roominess (did I just invent a word or two? or did I just grossly misspell them and make it look like I invented them?!) of them.

WHAT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO: No brainer=due date in 6 days!!! and the Superbowl of course!

PROGRESS: Today's appt I am still sitting at 4 cm dilated but am 100% effaced and she is at 0/-1 station and continues to be head down!

We just realized that we are due on Superbowl Sunday and we are a f-ball loving family who plans out special appetizers and treats to enjoy while the games are being played so if our little one decides to make her debut and we are stuck in the hospital my dear sweet husband will be bringing in special delivery style Jimmy Johns and if I am really lucky (yep, pretty sure I am) maybe a small crockpot of chili cheese dip. So we will make it special even if we do have to watch it on a tiny TV but the trade-off couldn't be any better...tiny TV for a tiny newborn and I/we will take the newborn everytime! P.S. Go Packers because we have no border hatred and because Aaron Rodgers is freaking awesome and after all the Brett drama it would be fun to see his old team take the glory.

We spent a quiet weekend running lots of errands to stock up on paper towels, TP, food, water and more. It looked kind of like we were stocking up for the apocolypse! We did sneak out for some fun on Saturday night with our good friends for Red Lobster...yum! Our kids do so good at restaurants and giggled to eachother across the table in between bites. Little Leah turns 1 on Thursday and could have to share a b-day with our little lady, but she is so sweet that I don't think she would mind! Riley got to show off his fishing debut video to Sorin and Rach and I really should have recorded his reaction to watching it with new people because the boy was hilarious! He ran commentary on the whole thing and laughed like a goon! Thank you Rach for the cutest baby girl clothes and for borrowing me all the books and the doppler! I hope you win big in Vegas and have a relaxing and fun time even though it will be hard to be away from Leah for 4 days!

I was asked at Sunday School if I was a professional photographer (ha!) and I have been thinking about donating an hour session to the silent auction for Riley's school but have been dragging my heels about it.

For one, everybody out there thinks they are a professional photographer and with dSLR's being so cheap anyone can afford them now. My mouth pretty much dropped open when I saw how cheap my camera was this summer but so it goes with technology eh!?

For two, I love my job and love how much time I spend with my family so do I really want to start an endeavor that would take me away from that especially with another baby on the way?

For three, I provide the insurance for our family and will have to do that for the forseeable future so I will have to work at least 24 hours a week at my current job to do just that and I just had another awesome review stating "leadership quality employee" and "will be in a leadership role with PN soon" along with a "you are coming back after baby right (hint hint I am begging you please come back)" so I would like to see where I go when I come back from maternity leave.

For four, I could still enjoy taking pictures for friends which I have been doing for a few years now and be happy at doing it except that it is aLOT of work...

so the dilemma continues...to be or not to be that is the question : )

At least I have kept my promise to D and not paid for any professional pictures of our Riley for a very long time! A little creativity and you can take wonderful pictures of your family even with a point and shoot!

But onto more important goings on in our household...

We showed Riley his baby book last night and his U/S pictures. He was in absolute amazement of them all! His response was "that me in Mommy's tummy!?" He put his hands and feet on the stamped baby hands to compare sizes and he marveled over every picture of everyone holding him in his little hospital cap. He is excited about this baby and although he probably doesn't understand we have prepared him the best we know how to and we have no doubt that he will be great with her and that we will have enough love to go around. He also has now kept his big boy cotton unders dry for over a week with NO accidents! We still put him in a pull-up for naps but he continues to wake up dry and go pee pee as soon as he gets up. Way to go buddy! We did go sledding quick after work this week to take advantage of the longer day hours and I was sad I couldn't go but watching D climb up and down the hill made me tired so I was happy to sit in the Tahoe and keep warm!