Work Shower

Today my co-workers had a shower for me and I got lots of great things for the Baby! Dave now has his first item to put together, the Jumperoo...although the Baby probably won't even use this until early next year. But, this is the first of many things he'll put together for his child as a Dad!! I was quite self-conscious today being the center of attention, but luckily we had cake to feed everyone so I wasn't 100% of the focus the whole time. We're slowly coming together on all these items we need as parents. Now it's time to start putting the room together so it's in workable order as soon as the little one arrives. Up until now, I've put everything in the Baby's room to store there, but now it's time to get everything organized.

34 Weeks

Here we are, at another 2 week update! I had my doctor's appointment this past Tuesday and nothing new to tell. I have one more 2-week appointment before I start going every week!!! Dave and I are definitely getting excited that we will be parents soon..we just go into the Baby's room and look around sometimes and realize there will be a little one in there before we know it. Dave is growing increasingly watchful over me. Whenever I walk or drive anywhere, I am reminded that I need to "pick up my feet when I walk" or to "drive safely". And, I'm only allowed to go on walks where there are houses in our subdivision so "no one takes me". I look at this as his form of nesting. :-)

This weekend was one of the busier ones for us. We had a wedding on Saturday evening for one of Dave's co-workers. It was a Greek wedding, which was interesting.

Sunday, we went to my Grandma's 80th bday celebration in Wisconsin. It's amazing how large my family is and I love when we can all get together! My grandma has 7 children, 19 grandchildren and we have her 7th great-grandchild on the way! Makes for a HUGE family reunion when everyone is there with significant others etc.! Here are pics of me with my mom and grandma and my grandma with all my girl cousins.

"Mini" Shower Pic

A picture from my shower last weekend with friends.. my next shower will be Aug 28th at work!

32 Weeks

My oh my, I honestly can't believe I have only 8 more weeks to go! But, here I am...at 32 weeks. Dave insisted we take the picture somewhere new, as the front door background is just 'boring'. So, what better place to take the picture than in front of the Baby's crib.

This weekend was great for us! I had brunch with some high school girlfriends and they surprised me with a mini shower. So, we got our first wave of tiny Baby items. Honestly the thing I couldn't stop smiling about was the size of the newborn diapers! I of course took a picture of all the little items they got me and have posted below.

On another note, Dave is quite eager to make sure we're prepared for the Baby. He keeps reminding me that we need to pack our bag and all sorts of other things. He makes me laugh sometimes....but he is right, we do need to start preparing. What better weekend to designate to some final baby preparations than "Labor Day" weekend. That's our plan for now, to ensure we have most of the preparations completed by then. Back to the baby names, we have taken at least 5-7 names off the boy list and a few from the girls - so we're working our way down.

2 month countdown...

Today was the start of my 2 week appointments vs. only once a month. Not much new to report. I gained 3 1/2 lbs. in the last 3 weeks, so a total of 23 1/2 to date! The nurse was able to find Baby's heartbeat as soon as she put the little machine to my belly and it was 150bpm this time. We talked about pediatricians, so now Dave and I have a bit of "homework" to do to pick which doctor we want to see our baby when we're at the hospital. I printed out all the bios for the doctors that are at the location closest to our house and there are 6 to choose from, so I think we're good to go. It's funny because my friends at work talk about how I'm all organized with printing out my lists of things for the baby and doctor options etc. but yet I didn't find out the sex of the baby to be the "most organized" that I possibly could be. I laugh too because it's a good point. I just think this is the last big surprise we have and when we call everyone to give them the news, there will be that much more anticipation for us to tell you what we actually had!

On another note, a friend gave us a baby name book to use and I'm not sure if it's helping or hindering...so far we've made it through all the boy names and we have 21 options! Now, I know the baby needs a first and middle name, but 21 names is definitely excessive. We haven't started even going through the girl names and we already have 10-12 names! I told Dave we need to narrow the list down to at least 5 of each sex and if we still can't decide, we'll bring the list to the hospital....Baby can always be "Baby Hickman" for the first few hours of life. One thing I can count on Dave for is if the name has anything to do with a car part manufacturer, he tends to like it....he cracks me up!! I think we'll definitely be able to narrow the field down in the next 2 months though.

That's it for now...this weekend is the 32 week picture time and in another 2 weeks I'll maybe have some new doctor update.