37 weeks and 5 days

Well today I had my weekly check up, I am 37 weeks and 5 days. They listened to her heart beat and everything looked great. Dr. Avery checked and said that I was maybe 1 cm. At this point, I just hope that I don't go late. For the most part, I am feeling good. I can say that I am not sleeping at all. Paul, Mollie and I start in the bed and once I start to get up every hour or more, Mollie and I go lay on the couch....I think we need a bigger couch.

Her room is finished for the most part, we just have a few more things to hang on the wall. I have taken the pictures of her room, so I will post them to the blog this weekend.

Update

I have been really slack on updating the blog when I go to the doctor lately...partly because I have been tired and busy but mainly because my lap top has been at "the doctor" and I am lazy to go upstairs and use the desktop. I know, I know!!

At this point, I am 37 weeks....3 weeks to go. I had my weekly check up today and the doctor said that she is head down and everything looks good. Thank goodness!!! When the nurse tried to get the heart beat, she would not seem to "sit" still but they finally got it. It was about 140. I have another appt on Thursday, December 18th and then Christmas Eve morning. Let's hope she comes by the end of the month....tax break!!!!!! Remember I am an accountant.

On a side note:
Things should be a little bit easier since tonight I graduated. Yes, no more school. I finally have my Masters, just enough time to welcome our little girl into this world.

Stay tuned.....

North Carolina shower

On November 1st, my closet friends and family members threw me a wonderful shower. The shower was at my sister-in-laws house. There were lots of wonderful people there, even my mom and my sister flew down from New York. The girls did an amazing job with the games and food. Karen hosted the games and she was hilarious. She was like a game show host, I couldn't stop laughing. They really worked hard to ensure that I had a great shower. We received tons and tons of wonderful gifts.

Pictures from the wonderful event will be posted soon!

Work shower

On October 24th, I had to go to our Morrisville, NC office for AED training. While I was there, the wonderful people that I work with gave me a SURPRISE shower. Oh how I hate surprises, but it was so nice of them to share in our excitement of the anticipation of our new little girl. We had cake and ice cream and celebrated the upcoming arrival of our new little girl. We received some wonderful gifts but mostly Target gift cards, which will come in handy for buying diapers and formula. My supervisor, Nancy, also made me a diaper cake (see picture below). Here are some pictures from the wonderful event:

Paul's first feeling of the baby

On October 18th, 2008, we went to the East Carolina - Memphis football game. It was a rainy and crummy day but we went tailgating at 8am and then went to the game at noon. We cooked breakfast sandwiches and hung out getting ready for the PIRATE game. We were at the game and the pirates were losing by a touch down, if I recall correctly. Paul and I made the decision that if Memphis scored again we were going to leave and watch the game at home.....since it was cold and rainy. The Pirates came back and scored, I was up cheering and I guess our little girl was cheering too because she started moving. I had Paul put his hand on my stomach and he finally had the opportunity to feel her kick. It was so wonderful that he could finally experience the joy that I had been feeling.

First feeling of baby Mickey

I have been feeling our baby girl move for some time now. Everytime I feel her move, I run to get Paul so that he can feel her and then she stops. Paul says that she is disobeying him already....

While I was in New York, I was out to dinner with very good friends of ours, Danielle and Rick. I felt her move and grabbed Danielle's hand, placed it on my belly and of course she stopped. Well it happened again, so I grabbed Danielle's hand again and she felt her move. Danielle was the first person other than me to feel the baby move.

New York baby shower

On October 11th 2008, my mom threw us a baby shower in New York. It was at Villa Monaco, the same place we had our wedding rehearsal dinner. We had about 25 of our family and friends there to celebrate our new baby girl, which is scheduled to arrive on Jan. 3rd, 2009. It was so nice to be able to see everyone although I wish that I was able to spend more time with everyone. It's hard since I don't live in New York anymore, so my time there is spread extremely thin.

I must say it was overwhelming sitting there having everyone staring at you as you open all the gifts. Contrary to what people would think, I hate being the center of attention. In the end, it was wonderful and baby Mickey received tons and tons of wonderful gifts.

Here are some pictures from the wonderful event:

the table setting

Danielle and I

my sister and I

me opening some of the wonderful gifts we received

my mom and I before I cut the cake