One Week Left!

I am officially one week away from meeting our baby! Pretty exciting. I am 38 weeks and 3 days pregnant, and I have my final OB appointment today with Dr Dohm-Palmer, the OB/Gyn who is going to be doing my c-section since Dr Ditmanson is in England. I am getting ready to be done I think. It's getting a bit more uncomfortable to sleep at night. I do have some occasional contractions, but nothing regular. I am still hoping that I don't go into labor before the 4th. Hopefully that will still work out.

We have had some beautiful early fall days here in Minnesota lately, and Connor and I took advantage of that yesterday by going to the apple orchard. We got quite a few apples. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with them all. I guess I will get proficient at making homemade applesauce or something like that!

Our basement is pretty much done now. There are a few things that still need to be delivered or fixed, but by and large we are mostly done with people coming in and out of our house! We got the fridge and the microwave delivered the other day, and the ice maker was just delivered today, but still needs the plumber to hook it up. Connor is very excited that he can make popcorn himself now since the microwave is just at his height. My mom came over twice this week and has really been a big help with getting things cleaned and ready to go. Jeff also got the crib set up over the weekend, and my mom and I were able to finish putting the sheets on it. I finally feel like I'm getting ready for baby to come! Oh, and my bag is packed too!

Here are some photos of the apple orchard and my blossoming belly!

Me at 38 3/7 wks now and below at 40 wks last time:

Connor picking apples and jumping off hay bales:

2 weeks to go!

2 Weeks to go from yesterday and we get to meet our baby! I still don't have any strong feeling as to what it is, but my patient's mother said "You're having a boy right?". I also had a dream last week that the doctor who is doing my surgery did an ultrasound and called me later to say I was having a girl. I don't know what to think! I am anxious to find out and to be done with being pregnant, but I also have strong recollections that babies are much easier to take care of on the inside!! I really can't complain. I have had a wonderful pregnancy and am feeling well still. I am sleeping ok for the most part too, and just need to get up maybe once at night to go to the bathroom. My hips are a little sore today though because my mom and I worked hard yesterday getting the guest room/computer room dismantled and started getting it a little closer to being the baby's room.

Our basement is nearly done, and I think Jeff and I are really ready to be done with people coming in and out and just having the mess in general. We are ready to make it our own. Today they got the granite countertops in and also the bathroom fixtures. The appliances were supposed to be here today, but apparently are on a truck from Chicago and should be here by Monday and be hooked up by Tues. I also ordered a sectional and a cocktail table which may not be here until mid-November. I'm trying to talk Jeff into moving our old couch back down there in the meantime, but I think he'd rather throw it in a junk heap! It would be nice to have someplace to sit though, so we'll see.

I have my 20th High School reunion tomorrow night, so I will have to post some photos of it later. Should be fun.


Here are some updated photos of the basement and a lovely shot of me after working a 12 hour shift! (Only 4 1/2 shifts left! Yipee!)


Bar:
Tile floor in bar area (thank you Dave Roberts for giving us your tile discount!):

Bathroom:


Jeff & Connor watching Star Wars on our new TV:
Me at 37 1/2 weeks pregnant (the scrubs are sooo flattering!):

36 weeks pregnant & 3 weeks to go!

I am 36 weeks and 3 days pregnant today, and I have exactly 3 weeks to go until my c-section. I had an OB appt today and everything looks good. I am measuring right on, the heart beat was 130, and weight gain is on target. If I gain 5 more pounds in the next 3 weeks, I will have gained the same amount as with Connor. I'm sure that's entirely possible, and maybe even a couple more! Still, it's been in a reasonable range, so I'm ok with that.

Connor insisted on putting his construction hat under his shirt and taking a photo with me!



Our basement is coming along too. I have some new photos to post. They installed a lot of the recessed lighting today, and the painting and staining are all done. Tomorrow our light fixtures will be installed. Next week they are going to put the door handles on and put the carpet down. They were supposed to be done by Wednesday, but the countertops are a bit delayed and won't be installed until Friday. The plumber then has to put in the sink, and he is going to install the bathroom fixtures as well. I'm hoping that will happen on Friday too. At any rate we should be able to start moving stuff into the guest room once the carpet is in!

Connor's 1st day of preschool 2007

Connor had his first day of preschool this year. He was very excited to start and was glad to have Ms Katie be his teacher again this year. Today was just a short orientation day with parents, and he will have his first drop-off day on Friday. He is looking forward to being able to play a little longer.

Here are some photos of his first day:

Labor Day (the holiday, not the real thing!)

Happy Labor Day! I'm also 35 weeks pregnant today and will have completed 8 mos of pregnancy. I have 4 weeks and 3 days left until my c-section! It's also our nephew Daniel's 8th birthday today, and will be Connor's 1/2 birthday tomorrow! Happy Birthday Daniel, and happy 4 1/2 to Connor! Jeff is BBQing ribs and beans today and we are going to hang out with our neighbors Robbie & Linda for dinner. I worked 3 12 hour shifts all weekend, so I'm pretty pooped today. I also had some excitement and had to transfer a patient up to ICU on Saturday. I don't really need the adrenaline that often, but I manage to get some now and then. I guess that's why I don't participate in extreme sports!

Jeff & Connor getting the grill started:


Connor 4 1/2 (It's his 1/2 birthday tomorrow):



Here is my 35 wk pg shot:


Also, our basement is coming along. They got started with the doors and trim on Friday, so all the doors are installed, but not stained yet, and they will be doing wood trim this week as well as staining everything.

Connor finished swimming lessons last week too. I think we are going to take a break over fall and part of winter and start them up again in the spring. He made great strides in the past year and is doing really well. Now our next adventure in sports is hockey! He starts in November, every Saturday and Sunday (I think this will mostly be a Daddy and Connor venture with Mommy and baby showing up occasionally for support!) They don't really play games, but just learn. He only has to be able to stand on skates, and he can do that plus shuffle around a bit. He's excited to start.

5 Weeks left

Five Weeks from tomorrow we will be meeting our new baby! Hard to believe. It's exciting and a little scary at the same time, since I will be having a scheduled c-section. It will be really strange to show up at the hospital and have my baby within a couple of hours! That is if I don't end up going into labor before that, which could always happen. I'm not very prepared for that, but I suppose I should pack a bag one of these days just in case.

The basement is coming along great. They got the bar cabinets and entertainment center installed on Monday, and they are putting the tile down today.

Here are some of the latest photos:

T Minus 6 weeks

So, I finally have a date for my c-section! Baby Ingham is coming 6 weeks from today, on October 4th at 11:30am (that is if I don't get bumped by an emergency!). It's good to have a set time to count down to! I'm really getting excited to find out who has been kicking me all along. I think I really started getting excited when my co-worker Tia had her baby almost 2 weeks ago. She did not know if she was having a boy or a girl, but her husband and mom did! I don't know how she could stand having them know, but she did. At any rate, it was really cool to be there with her at the moment of birth and have her find out she had a boy (she has an almost 2yr old girl at home). We all had tears in our eyes, and it made it seem like it was getting really close for me. I have a feeling it might be a boy, but I'm not really sure. The heart rate is low like the wives tale says, but I could be tricked. I had a dream early on that I saw a weiner on ultrasound, and the other night I had a dream I was breastfeeding a baby boy with a fair amount of darkish hair. The only thing I have to go on is Connor, but he didn't have any hair for a long time. Who knows. It definitely makes the anticipation greater not knowing.

Our other big production (besides baby) is finishing our basement. We will lose our guest room/computer room when the baby arrives, and with Jeff's family and my sister being out of town, we do use our guest room fairly often. We figured it was time to get it done. I wish it was free, but that's the way it goes! They have been right on schedule so far, and are aiming for a Sept 19th finish date. That will give us just enough time to move the mountain of junk in our guest room and garage back into the basement, get the crib set up and make some semblance of a nursery. It's funny thought, I had to have everything perfect in the nursery before Connor was born, and with this one I just feel like "They can live in a box if they need to for a bit, they'll be fine". I'm sure we will have stuff somewhat organized, but the furniture is going to be completely mismatched, and I don't really care. I don't really want to paint and buy new furniture, because: a) I don't know if I'm having a boy or a girl and b) I would like to wait to decorate until they are big enough to buy a big kid bed and bedding, and then they can choose what color they want etc. I'm ok with living in decorating limbo for a bit. Jeff would say that's what I'm best at! I'm not very good at making decorating decisions. I kind of need a kick in the butt. Making the choices for the basement has been fun but also a bit of a challenge for me, especially when he says, "you can pick whatever you want". Arrgghh! I hate that! Hopefully it will all turn out well. The rooms are now framed, sheetrocked, taped and primed. We are going to have a family room with a bar, an exercise room/office, a 3/4 bath and a guest room, plus a few storage spaces. I'm excited to see it all finished. It's also been a really good distraction during the pregnancy, and has made things go by more quickly. I will post some before and after photos. Here are a few from before:

The family room

Looking into the exercise room with the guest room on the other side:

The guest room

That's all for now! More updates later.
Nancy