34 weeks and approaching 35 fast!

Getting ready to meet baby girl Scholen soon!  I still feel like I have a ton of preparing to do, but don't feel as much pressure to do it all as I did with my first two.  Keller and Sadie are sleeping together in one room now and things are going great.  However, Keller is still in her crib/converted toddler bed and we need to move it into the baby room eventually.  The problem is that we don't yet have a twin bed for her.  I have a furniture set that we purchased for Sadie on Craigslist and I want matching pieces for Keller now since they are sharing a room.  So, I have been scouring Craigslist for months waiting for a bed to become available like Sadie's.  So far, no huge luck.  I am talking with a woman up in Greenville who is selling some of the line, but she is asking a bit too much right now.  Hoping she will come down, but still not thrilled about having to drive 2 hours to get it either!

At my last appointment baby girl was in the oblique position.  She has been there for weeks now, but I THINK she may have turned head down this week.  I have been using the spinning babies website and doing a few of their exercises this past week that are supposed to help spin babies in the correct position.  I think it may be working (or baby girl just decided to move on her own!).  I am beginning to feel a lot of pressure in my pelvic bone area, like I am carrying a bowling ball or something.  lol!

Sadie started school today.  She is in Pre-K and is going 4 days a week.  For me, 4 days is A LOT!  We have only done 2 days for the past 2 years, but 4 is now the minimum they will allow for her age.  AND, she gets dropped off through a carpool line!  Oh my goodness, she looked so old this morning getting out of the car and walking on her own carrying her bag to where she needed to go.  I started welling up!  Here is a picture of her before we left the house.  And of course, Keller wanted to get in on the action too!  In fact, when the teacher got Sadie out of the car in the carpool line, Keller started saying loudly, "Me too!!  Me too!!"  She really wanted to go into the school with Sadie and be like her big sis.  

Not much else to report today.  Just praying that baby girl's head is down and stays down this time.  My OB actually does deliver babies breech and so we have that option, but not oblique or transverse.  That would be a bit challenging!  Our OB is very old school and delivers breech babies all the time.  His reputation is amazing and people come from all around - Tennessee, Alabama, etc... just to have him deliver their babies.  Glad he is right here in Atlanta!  At least I know that if I have to have a C-section, there was literally no other way.

More pictures of room transformations to follow once I get said rooms ready!
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32 Weeks!

So, I am officially 32 weeks tomorrow!  Woo hoo!  We don't have to wait much longer.  I am feeling pretty good, but definitely pregnant.  I have been doing water aerobics, which is wonderful.  It always feels good to be more weightless in the pool.  I have also been getting regular pre-natal massages.  They really help with weary muscles. : )  We hired a doula for the birth, so I am excited to begin getting to know her better.  She is coming over to meet Jeff next week.  She is a doula who is also a trained massage therapist.  Grateful that I can use her skills during what will hopefully be a natural birth in the water.

I have gotten into major nesting mode.  Seriously.  It is like the list of home projects that I want to accomplish before this little one comes keeps growing!  We moved Sadie and Keller into a room together a couple of weeks ago after repainting and decorating their room one Saturday.  They have been doing surprisingly well in the transition.  Grateful.  I also repainted the baby room and have been busy at the fabric store getting a crib sheet and pillow made for her room.  Pictures to come!  We also took home my old family kitchen table and hutch from my parent's house.  They hadn't used the table in years and somehow Jeff and I decided it would be great for us because 1) it is solid maple and 2) it can seat up to 12 people when all of the leaves are put into it.  We often entertain large crowds (like his family) and so needed a larger table.  Anyway, the table and hutch need to be updated a bit to work with our decor.  So, Jeff worked on stripping and restaining the table top last weekend.  We plan on painting the hutch and table legs/chairs black.  I will show you the pictures once it is all done.  The top looks awesome though.  So excited that we have a piece of my family history at our house.  I remember many family meals at this table in Cincinnati.

We are also trying to add crown molding into our master bedroom and we also added some nicer door/closet trim into each of the bedrooms.  So, I have a bit more painting to do!  And we only have 8 more weeks (if that!) to go!  Trying not to panic.

I am getting really excited about meeting baby girl, but also feeling a bit of nervousness knowing how difficult the newborn phase can be.  Keller was SO hard.  So. So. Hard.  I just pray that this last one will be easier.  Please, Lord.  No reflux or allergy issues!  : )  I have picked up some contracting work training leaders of small groups out in California.  I worked as a Groups Director at the church we attend here in Atlanta for 6 years and am now working with one of our strategic partner churches.  I only make 1-2 phone calls a week for about an hour each, but am wondering how all of that will work after the baby comes.  Wondering if I am crazy thinking that I can schedule all of these calls around the baby and Jeff's schedule.  Hoping I haven't bit off more than I can chew.  

So, my belly pic...  Let me just tell you that my belly button never turned inside out with Keller's pregnancy.  I think you can see it in this picture!  I am SO much bigger than I was with Keller.  I delivered Keller when I was 10 pounds lighter than I am right now.  And I still have 8 more weeks!  Yikes!  This is the first time I have surpassed my husband in the weight category.  So scary.  Ha!

Hope you all have had a good week!  Love reading all of your updates!