Belly pictures (done by Marcia)

Final belly pictures

So, I know that I had G4 3 weeks (and 1 day) ago, but I am just now getting around to posting my finally belly pictures. Man am I glad I'm not still pregnant...

37 weeks 4 days

Today is my final milestone. I had G1 at this gestation. If I were to have the baby now I would be okay with it (although I hope to hold out for another 10 days till we are scheduled). Tomorrow Matt and I will be going back to Peoria, but I'm finally not stressing out about it. Hopefully I will have pictures to post of G4 tomorrow.
*You will have to ignore the stains on the shirt--it has survived 2 pregnancies with toddlers around so I think it's doing good to still be hanging in there.
Oh, and you will notice with the last picture that my wedding ring (and other rings) no longer fit. I had to take them off a couple weeks ago. Every once in a while I can get them back on but that doesn't last very long.

37 weeks

We are 37 weeks along today. My appointment went well. My cervix is still closed. My blood pressure was good. My weight went up (blech!). All-in-all we had a good appointment. Oh, yeah we scheduled the c-section. I decided that I would just go with the repeat c-section because otherwise I will stress too much until the baby is born. We will have a baby in our arms 2 weeks from today!!
Here's today belly pictures. There are lots of them because all 5 of us got involved.

35 weeks 1 day

*ETA-I forgot to measure. Today (5/2--day after pictures) I am measuring 46.5" around.

34 weeks 2 days

G3 wanted to join Mommy:




(This shirt(s) that I'm wearing tends to "hide" the pregnancy more than any other shirt I own.)

Yesterday I was 34 weeks 2 days which happens to be my first milestone. That is at the gestation that the girls were born. I am happy to announce that I am still pregnant. :-)
Thank you for taking my belly shots MarciaAnne!

Last night Matt and I had planned on going to see some racing going on, but it got canceled. But our children still were shipped out to other people. Rick and Ginny had G1 for the night. Jacob and Marcia had the girls for the night. Thank you to all of you for keeping them for us. It was nice to have one last night without the children (well the ones that are out of the womb already at least). Since the races got canceled Matt and I ended up going to dinner and a movie. The movie we went to see was Baby Mama. It was pretty funny. We had a really nice time. But I sure did miss my babies a lot.

On May 5th I will be going to Peoria to see the perinatologist again. I saw him at the beginning of this pregnancy just to be sure things were going okay. I will be seeing him again just to make sure things are still good. Marcia will be going with me (as well as the children and possibly Mom if she has laundry done--they will just be getting back from out east and may not have a chance to get things done before I have to go). Other than going to Peoria for that I have decided that going for long drives (longer than just the 10-15 minutes to get to Mom's) are too much for me and I will not be doing anymore traveling before this baby comes. Except I do hope to take the train down to see Marcia (and Jacob and Jessie and Aiden) before the baby comes. The Gs would love it and I think it will be easier to do before G4 arrives.

Anyway, that's it for now.

33 weeks

*Pictures were taken Wednesday. Notice my gross belly hanging out? BLECH! lol
I am measuring about 45.5" around now.

31 weeks

We are 31 weeks pregnant today. So that means belly pictures (I'm not sure why my cheeks are so red today). Oh and I am measuring 45 inches around today.

G1 wanted to stay up a few minutes extra so he could be in the belly pictures too. He's so cute!

I don't think I will be able to wear this shirt for too much longer without it ripping. It was pretty tough to put it on tonight. I was hoping to be able to wear it for all the belly pictures because it's the one I started with (at 14 weeks). I guess we will see if it still fits in 2 weeks when I try it again.

29 weeks

A few pictures

I just thought this was a funny picture--G3 has the drill

Matt putting the last piece of tile down in the laundry room

G1 in his big boy underwear

Showing the soccer ball on the back of his big boy underwear

G2 sitting in G1's potty chair

G1 took this picture--G3 is on the left and G2 is on the right

G1 also took this picture--G2

Here are some pictures of the laundry room as it is right now. We aren't finished putting everything in there right now. But you can get the idea of how it is. The changing table will be going into my bedroom once it's finished. My plan is to take you all on a "virtual tour" of the upstairs once the bedrooms are completed. So, you will get a better look at everything then.

The washer and dryer just got moved upstairs and hooked up today (yes they were hooked up downstairs).

We will be adding another clothes rod underneath the high one, just lower than the lower one. That is where the baby's clothes will go (and probably some of the other kids' clothes too).

Where the changing table is I plan on having our long dresser there and then somewhere along the wall with the windows I will be putting a table to fold clothes at (provided it will fit right).

Here is the post with the pictures of the room before we did anything to it.

Now on to other things. G2 is walking more and more. She has now started standing up in the middle of the room (without using anything to help her) to take off. She tries to run and it's soo cute. G3 still doesn't show much interest. Oh well. :-) G1 is still as goofy as ever. Another 10-12 weeks and the baby will be here! Both girls have gotten a molar and G2 is working on her second molar. Other than that there is nothing new to share.