Baby Pool!

Well, as most of you deduced from my last post, we've had a little run-in at our house with H1N1. Adam and I have both been down for the count since Tuesday. This wasn't exactly what I had on my calendar for the week, but thankfully it shouldn't affect Elliott at all.

The one thing I keep thinking in the midst of feeling pretty terrible is that I'm just SO glad I'm not in labor simultaneously! But, we are getting close, so I think it's time for a little baby pool to see who can guess when Elliott is coming to play with us!


Here's what I know that might help you make an informed guess:

Due Date: November 16 (3.5 weeks!!)
As of Tuesday: 50% effaced, 1/2 cm dilated, -3 station
Elliott's size: potentially large :) measured at 5 lbs. 11 oz as of 2 weeks ago
Family History: Both my mom and sister delivered late
Dr's Induction Policy: With a first child, she wouldn't induce until at least 41 weeks without a specific reason to (in theory, Nov. 23).

So, leave a comment (yes .. that's you ... I know all of you silent blog stalkers want to come out of the woodwork!) with your best guess of date and time, and let's throw weight in there too in case we need a tie-breaking factor!

Wanna party?

I'm your girl.

**Notice lamby's leg sticking up there by my face ... we're in this together.**

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CDC does not recommend "swine flu parties" as a way to protect against 2009 H1N1 flu in the future. While the disease seen in the current 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak has been mild for many people, it has been severe and even fatal for others. There is no way to predict with certainty what the outcome will be for an individual or, equally important, for others to whom the intentionally infected person may spread the virus."

During/Afters

Hooray! Our house project is finished and we've lived to tell the tale. It ended up taking almost a full week to rip out, prep, install, clean, etc. but we are really happy with the results. We are still putting the house back together in terms of finding where we stashed everything, etc. but it is clean and livable at this point which is what we needed!

I thought to take pics of the "during" process but not so much of the "befores" ~ hopefully you can still appreciate the transformation! Just imagine nasty beige-turning-to-black carpet and cheap laminate everywhere before ...

If blogger is cooperating, you should be able to click on any of these photos below to make them larger:

Office:


Nursery:


Master Bath:

Kitchen:

Living Room:

Guest Bath:

We could never have done all of this without my awesome brother-in-law George who came out to make it all happen. Also thanks to Kyle and Drew for helping out!! And to Elliott for the wonderful supervising and encouragement. He was a big help.

So happy to have our new and improved house back!

Monthly Again ... 35 weeks

So I was late posting the last one which has made this one come quickly ... we are at 35 weeks! I am actually feeling great. The past 6 weeks or so have been the best by far of my whole pregnancy, so I am super thankful!


We had our monthly ultrasound last week and he is looking ... well ... big. Some of his measurements were even in the 90th percentile ... yikes. That's all I can say. Adam is hoping that the head measurement was just big because he has so much hair (let's just pretend that shows up in ultrasounds). I just came across this photo of yours truly, so who knows what we are working with here!

I am now going for appointments every week, so I'll keep you posted on any big changes. Baby pool is coming soon so start working on your date and time predictions!!

Our House

This is what our house looks like right now:


We are living in a construction zone/dust storm. But totally worth it because we are getting all new floors! I'm so excited! My bro-in-law George flew out to help us install them over a long weekend.


The running movie in my head is how this process would be going if he weren't here ... yikes.