1 week old

1 week old, a photo by KMaritza on Flickr.

Rosanna Joan was born one week ago. She and I are doing well. I will try to post her birth story soon.

Contractions and Apostrophes

<p>Have you ever noticed how many contractions are formed by using an apostrophe to shorten the word "not"? It seems like my life has been filled with contractions ending in nots. </p>
<p>It isn't time yet.<br>
These aren't continuing.<br>
Don't go to the hospital.<br>
It won't be worth your time.<br>
The baby hasn't finished cooking.</p>
<p>While all of these episodes of not-contractions are incredibly frustrating, I know they will eventually lead to contractions where the apostrophes stand for "is".</p>

It's time!
Let's go!
She's here!

For now I am anxiously awaiting the change from NOT to IS. Hopefully it will happen sooner than later. I am ready.

Due Date!

Today is Baby Girl's estimated due date. I was really hoping she would be here by now so I could see all THREE of my kiddos on Mother's Day, but it looks like that is not going to happen. Oh well. I had a very nice Mother's Day anyway. I had a nice mixture of time alone and time with family. 

This evening I also got the artwork hung above Baby Girl's bed. My sis helped me arrange the pieces. The artwork was made by Zoe, Thomas, my dad, my sister, my brother, and me which makes it super special.

 

I want to wish my mom, my mother-in-law, and all the other mamas in my life a happy Mother's Day. 

Baby Hat

Well, it doesn't look like I'm having a third kid born on the 8th of their birth month since there is only an hour and 15 minutes left. However, I did get a cute little hat made for Baby Girl. This is not a great photo of it.  I think it is cuter in person. I sized it off of one of the Gerber newborn caps so I am hoping it fits her. It is a tiny bit larger than the Gerber cap and is fairly stretchy. The flower is made from 3 flowers I made ages ago for a scarf that I never finished. I layered them together to put on the hat. Can't wait until I can show off photos of Baby Girl wearing the hat.

39 weeks

First of all, thank you to everyone who has submitted guesses! If you haven't already submitted a guess of when Baby Girl's birthday will be and what her birth weight and length will be, you can still do it!

Yes, I'm still pregnant. One more week until the estimated due date, but I'm really hoping she will arrive sometime this week. The 8th would be fantastic! Zoe and Thomas were both born on the 8th of their birth months. It would be fun to continue that. I also would love for her to be born this week since Joel finishes his exams this week and then has off from school-related stuff until June.

Realistically I know that Baby Girl will most likely be born after the 40-week mark. The other two were, and I'm mentally prepared for that. If nothing else, I'm hoping she gets here before we really have to start discussing induction. I do not want to have labor induced unless absolutely necessary. I'd rather let everything progress naturally, even if that means 3 more weeks of belly pics instead of baby pics.

A Waiting Game

I'm 38 weeks pregnant now which means I hit full term a week ago and could have this baby any time in the next four weeks. While I'm playing the waiting game, I'm going to ask you to play a guessing game. Here is what I want you to guess: Baby Girl's birthday, birth weight, and birth length. Leave a comment on the blog and whoever has the closest guess will get a shout-out on the blog. Exciting, right?

To give you some background:

Zoe was born 8 days past her due date. She was 6 lbs, 15 oz and 19.5 inches long.


Thomas was born 11 past his due date. He was 9 lbs, 14.5 oz and 21.5 inches long.


Baby Girl is due on May 13. I've gained less weight than I did with either of the other two, but she feels longer to me than the other two were.

Yes, there was really almost 3 pounds difference between the birth weighs of my kids. Crazy, huh?

Okay, start guessing!

Bedroom Before...

Today's task is to organize the master bedroom. Here is the before of just the bay window area: