Still Pregnant

Baby hasn't come yet, and with only 5 days until the due date, she's not making any indication that it's going to be soon, either. I'm praying she'll come sometime this week for the sake of my sanity, but it's not looking too hopeful. We'll just have to wait and see!

No baby yet

Well, I am now 38 weeks 4 days. Just 10 more days until this little one is due. Things have slowed down a lot the past couple of weeks and I've gone from feeling like she could come at any time to feeling like she's probably going to stay put for a while longer. Right now I'm just really hoping that she decides to come by (or really close to) her due date because I was so convinced that she was going to be early that I know I'll cry if I go more than a couple days overdue.
I had Kurtis take a belly shot Sunday after Church so I'll have to get back on and post it later. I'm at my parents house right now so Emmy can have some Grandma and Aunt Donna time so I don't have my camera. Hope everybody is enjoying the new year!

2009

Wow, I can't believe it's 2009 already. All the family went to Dale and Laura's house for New Year's Eve and we had a really good time despite leaving around 9:30 so I could go to bed. All I can say is I'm pregnant.





Emmy spent New Year's Day at Grandma and Papa's house while Kurtis and I spent eight hours cleaning, putting away all the Christmas decorations and finally setting up the nursery and getting it ready for the baby. Emmy is now quite infatuated with the baby's room and has spent most of the day in there. Her doll has also had to try out the car seat and crib, and is wearing one of the baby's diapers.



I am 37 weeks today! Just 21 days left until the due date, but I'm really feeling like she might decide to come in about 10 days! I guess only the baby knows for sure when she's ready, though, so I'll just have to wait and see.

Christmas Fun

Well Christmas has come and gone and we definately did a lot of partying. Most of the time has been spent at my parents house with everybody else. We had a very white Christmas, at least it's the first Christmas I remember that we had a foot of snow on the ground and it continued to snow most of the day. Huge, fluffy, beautiful snowflakes; the kind that make you want to go outside and tilt your head back to try and catch them on your tongue.

Here's a lot of pictures of my sweet little princess having fun with her cousins on Christmas Eve. She really likes rough-housing and kept asking for more when all of us adults were telling the boys to be more careful. I have a feeling she might be the girl in her class that plays on the football team.








Emmy's big present this year was getting her ears pierced. She has been asking for earrings since she was 15 months old practically on a daily basis, and she's one tough cookie, so I figured she could handle it. I had originally planned on doing it on her birthday, but decided I would prefer having it done a few weeks before the new baby comes so we could have time to establish a routine for cleaning her ears three times every day. I can honestly say it was one of the hardest things I have ever done. Yes, I did it myself at home using piercing needles intead of taking her to Claire's because frankly the latter scared me a lot more. Emmy has done absolutely great with them and is thrilled that she has earrings now like Mama.


Here's Emmy riding her alphabet catapiller...


...helping Daddy with the Farming Game...


...in her Christmas pajamas that Grandma Jan made...


...and playing "tea party" with Aunt Donna...




...and Donna's new toy, Spike, the Ultimate Dinosour. (notice the butter knife in Spike's mouth?!)


I had a midwife appointment last night and apparently all the holiday food did me in, even though I took it easy on the sweets. Ten days ago at my last appointment I was measuring at 41 weeks, but last night I was measuring at 44! Yikes! When I said that I hadn't know it could get that big, my hilarious midwife said, "It does with twins!" Anyway, here's a picture of Emmy measuring my belly last week telling me that it's "big". (Excuse the frizzy hair, I was not feeling up to styling it.)


I forgot to mention that we took our Wii over to my parents house figuring that with all of the family being together it might be fun to play a few games of bowling. Well, guess who stayed up until 2:30 in the morning playing it. My parents. Yes, that's right, my mom and dad! I thought my dad was joking when he told me the next day, until Mom and Jake confirmed his story. It made me laugh.

(Sorry about typos, I couldn't get the spell check to work and I'm too lazy to do it myself!)

Hats and hair

So we finally pulled out all of Emmy's clothes and things from when she was a newborn to sort through them and start getting them ready for the baby, seeing as how she would be considered full-term and can come safely anytime after Jan. 1st. Well, Emmy found a hat with the face of a bear on it and decided it was the coolest thing ever. But of course there were a bunch of little baby hats, too, so she had to put one on her baby doll, because, according to Emmy, she was cold.





Lately I've been wearing a ponytail a lot because it's easy and I'm so hot all the time. Emmy thinks this is pretty cool for some reason, she probably gets it from Donna, and has been asking for her hair to be in a pony too anytime mine is. Here she is yesterday watching a big CAT try to clear some of the snow out of the streets. Sorry her face is so dark. My camera was registering all of the light from the snow behind her and wasn't letting the flash go off. It only has two settings, "auto" or "off". I really wish it also had an "on". Isn't her face priceless!

I'm still alive

Okay, so I know some of you might be thinking that I've fallen off the face of the earth, but the truth is I've just been somewhat miserable and incredibly lazy. :O) My last prenatal appointment was on Friday, I was 35 weeks that day, and I am measuring as a week past-due! Now I know why I've been hurting so much. I'm really, really starting to hope that this little girl decides she's ready to come meet us a couple weeks early. I can't imagine if I actually go all 40 weeks, or worse, past it. To top things off, this means I'm as big as I was the day I delivered Emmy. So from here on out I'm only going to get bigger than I have ever been before.

To sort of summarize this month: we got our tree up and decorated, Emmy and I have had a cold all month, Audra got a very contagious infection on her chin so I had to wash everything in the house with hot water and clean all of the toys, we've been Christmas shopping, we currently have lots of snow, and the Stake Christmas Cantata was last night. I was so nervous about my solo before we left for it that I thought I was going to be sick, so I asked Kurtis for a blessing and felt a lot better afterwards. It went pretty well and I was so thankful to have gotten through it without messing up so bad the director cancelled the rest of the show, fainting on stage because I couldn't breathe, or having my water break in the middle of the song. All three scenarios have played over and over again in my dreams the past week.

Okay, now time for pictures because they're the best part.

Emmy helping decorate for Christmas.



Here is a tired little princess.


Emmy after re-discovering her box of bows that I put up several months ago because she refused to wear them.


Emmy ready for Church yesterday.


And a shot of my 35 week pregnant belly which is measuring at 41 weeks after the Cantata last night. People kept asking me how I was even able to sing when we got done!


I also forgot to mention that Kurtis got done with his finals last week and Christmas Break started a day early on Friday when we had a snow day. I don't have to watch Audra again until January 5th. Yea for a break so I can try to get the baby's things ready before she comes!

We love you all and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!!!

Busy Weekend

Our Thanksgiving vacation consisted of spending lots of time with family, staying up way too late every night, taking lots of naps, and eating! Oh, and we also got to have Christmas, too!
We ate Thanksgiving dinner with my family here in Wendell and then got up Friday morning after Kurtis delivered the newspaper and got ready to go to Pocatello to see Kurtis' family. We stopped in Twin on the way and got Emmy's pictures taken since she turned 21 months old on Thanksgiving day and we haven't had any professionally done of her since she was 5 months old.
When we got to Pocatello we had a little Christmas with Kurtis' parents and sisters since we're not going to see them for Christmas. Emmy loved opening the presents! But I think she loved just spending time with all the family even more. She's been asking for Grandma Jan and Papa this morning and asking to "go, go", which means she wants to go see them.


Emmy with Grandma Jan on the quilt Grandma made for Emmy's bed.


She's figured out what presents are for: to open!


Emmy playing with her new easel.


She really loved modeling the new play jewelry she got. "m'Emmy pwitty."

We came home home Saturday night and met up with my family in Twin to eat at Montana Steakhouse for Jake's 21st birthday. We had just gotten done eating a late lunch with Kurtis' family at Red Lobster two hours earlier, so we ended the night overly full.
Yesterday was one of the busier Sundays we've had for a while. Kurtis and I gave talks in our ward, had tithing settlement, and stake choir practice for the Christmas Cantata, during which the choir director announced that I would be doing the solo for one of the pieces we're doing. Wish me luck! I hope I can still breath deeply enough to sing in three weeks! If not, it should be very interesting. :O) After that we got to go have brownies and ice cream for Jake's birthday. Emmy sat on his lap and tried to help him blow out the candles. It was way cute, but of course I didn't have my camera with me.


Here's Emmy admiring her Christmas ornament that she picked out this week. Now we just need a tree to put it on.

I can't believe that it's already December! The last part of this pregnancy is definitely going by faster than the beginning did. I'm ready for winter and have been thoroughly enjoying the cooler weather. Bring on the snow! There's nothing I love better during the Christmas season than see Christmas lights in the snow.