babies, babies everywhere

We are excited to know so many expecting parents right now. Baby Meek is going to have lots of friends around the same age! This is a picture of Becky and her mom posing with Fearrin's long-time family friends. Molly Applegate (McHugh) had a baby 3 weeks ago and Molly Voris is due in 10 weeks. We couldn't be more excited for these girls and all of our prego friends.

Nothing New

I had my weekly dr. appointment today and sadly there is nothing new to report.

• The baby's heartbeat was still strong at 150 and measured in at 37 weeks (although I'm 38.5 weeks pregnant).
• Somehow I've managed to lose another pound on the scale. I have no idea how that happened since I've eaten out almost every day this week AND ate 4 boxes of girl scout cookies. I assume all those calories will show up at next week's weigh in.
• The doctor said I haven't dilated at all. I'm not surprised since I haven't had any contractions yet, but hey, a girl can always hope.

If you voted that the baby would arrive late, I'm starting to agree with you. This baby has no desire to come out now. Maybe he/she is just holding out for Spring (which also doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon)!

Oh No Bo!

We were hoping Bo Kitty wouldn't notice the new crib in the house. And for the first couple of days he didn't. The other night I noticed Bo starting to play underneath it...not so bad. But he was board with that pretty quickly and decided jumping into the crib was much more fun. I would scold him and quickly take him out, but apparently that just added to the game. Every time I took him out, he would jump back in. This little game is going to come to an end real quick. Bo Kitty will NOT be sleeping with the baby. Thankfully Nina is too fat to jump that high so we don't have to worry about her.

Passing The Time

So we're about 2 weeks from the due date and what a better way to pass the time then to play with the big ol' belly. Below is Kyle's masterpiece.



We had our weekly doctor's appointment on Friday. The baby is head down and in position. I've had some cramping and the baby has dropped. The doctor says both are good signs of progress. Now it's just a matter of time before the contractions start and things really start happening. Our next appointment is on Friday....if we make it to Friday. I have yet to pack my bag, but I can now say it's out of the closet and sitting on the floor ready for me to put things in it. For me, that is progress!

Let's avoid tomorrow

Not that the baby is showing any signs of coming out any time soon, but I sure hope we avoid tomorrow (February 29). We aren't sure what the protocol is on leap-year babies. Do we only celebrate birthdays every 4 years or do we arbitrarily pick Feb 28 or March 1 as the baby's birthday on the off years?

In addition to working on the nursery this weekend, we did some finishing touches to the newly remodeled bathroom. All we are waiting on now are some new blinds. It is so nice to see all of these projects coming to an end.

The furniture finally arrived Saturday while the Kelkers stopped by for lunch. Craig and James got into the assembly action.

Kyle had the crib assembled in record time. I would say less the two hours with minimal confusion from the ridiculously hard to read directions.

Below are a few pictures of the nursery. Sometimes it's hard to believe this room was our purple guest room 2 months ago! Almost all of the big items are in the room and ready for Baby Meek. We haven't done any decorating yet. That will be something we'll do over the next several months.