Shower picture and baby update!

Thank you to Linda, Patsy, Ally, Tisha, Judy, Sue, and Joan for a fabulous shower today! It was beautiful and I was so happy to see so many friends. I feel very, very blessed! Thank you for a fabulous day, ladies. :) And thank you to everyone else for coming and sharing in this experience with me!

Doctor update: I went on Thursday and found that I was 25% effaced. I just have a feeling that this baby will be with me until her due date! We shall see...everything else went well, though. I go again on Thursday to see how we're doing then. On another note, I'm definitely feeling 8 months pregnant. I have decided that all goes downhill at about 7:00 p.m. My feet and hands swell (very hard to get the wedding ring off!!) and suddenly small tasks become hard. Like getting up from the couch, getting in and out of a car, finding a comfortable position in which to lie down...all of those things. :) I feel lucky that these things are just now difficult; I don't have too many weeks left! :)

Happy Easter!

Nieces: Brooke and Cally

Niece: Kate

Niece: Cally

Nephew: Collin (the lone boy!)

Niece: Ella

Nursery pictures

It's almost complete! Just a few finishing touches needed... :)

Update on Baby Lainey

We went to the doctor today for a checkup and sonogram and we found out that Lainey has officially flipped! So her head is down and she's in the right position! That's a relief. She measures well - all around the 34/35 week mark and she's about 5.6 lbs. and 17.4 inches. Of course, those are just estimates but I was happy to have that information! The only thing that measures large is her head. She has Ben's head! Her head measures at 36 1/2 weeks. And, on the flipside, her little legs (obviously my short legs) measure at 33 weeks. She hasn't officially "dropped" yet. I am posting a picture, and it's one where she is facing us! Her bow is in the middle of her forehead, and you can see one eye clearly underneath it to the left. Then there's her nose and her mouth is open! She has hair! And chubby cheeks! :) It was fun to see her in this position - she would NOT pose for a profile shot but we were happy with this one. 

Back home!

Reagan is back home with medictions and a page of typed instructions. She's doing well; she's not too happy about the monsoon raging outside, but happy to be home. :) She has a follow-up appointment in 10 days and then in 8 weeks, she'll get her apparatus removed. The apparatus holds everything in place right now - it's the big blue thing in the pictures. We have to keep her pretty calm for 8 weeks - that means confining her when we're gone (she won't like that too much) and no walks or playtime. That will be sad but it will be what's best for her. Oh, and in that time, she'll have to adjust to a new member of our family! Wish us luck. :)

Feeling more like herself

Yesterday, finally, Reagan felt comfortable enough to hobble and hop on her three legs. This was a major relief to us. She's pretty fast on her little three legs until she gets tired, at which point she cries to be held. :) This morning she even wanted to chase a bunny but I had to hold her back - I don't want her feeling toooo confident!! We're taking her in for surgery in the next few minutes, so we'll let you know how it goes. Our vet has been amazing. We are so thankful for her!

Our poor dog

So sad! While out on our evening walk last night, Reagan was bitten badly by a Rottweiler! We were walking in a neighborhood next to ours, and we (Reagan and I - Ben was not with us) had stopped to talk to some neighbors in front of a house. The owners of the house (not the people I was talking to) had their door open. People seemed to be kinda going in and out of their house - grown kids I think. Anyway, all of a sudden their giant dog flew out and targeted Reagan. He got her quickly and grabbed her front left leg and bit her. It was horrifying, particularly because it happened SO fast and truly without warning. We went to the ER last night and learned that the bone in her front left leg is completley broken. It looks like a broken twig whose pieces have been set a couple centimeters apart. Truly scary! She's in this giant cast now and she's on two pain medicines and an anti-inflammatory and an antibiotic. I think she's pretty uncomfortable but she's not squealing or anything. Hopefully we'll get her into surgery on Monday. She is one sad little thing and it was a loooong night - mostly because I kept replaying the entire incident in my head. We are thankful, however, because this could have been 100 times worse. I think we were lucky. And, timing-wise, this happened at a good time. I'm off all next week for Spring Break so I'll have time to take her to the vet and to monitor her. Here's a picture of the poor little thing last night...

Only in Texas

This has been the strangest week ever of Texas weather.  Monday night it snowed overnight and actually STUCK to the ground (despite the fact that it had been about 70 degrees on Sunday) and then Tuesday and Wednesday were nice days (Wednesday reaching 68) and then today, Thursday, it's been snowing!! A LOT! Since before 11 it has been alternating snow/ice/rain and now it's just snow flying down. It's so funny. Only in Texas. 

On another note, I managed to make my 4:00 p.m. doctor appointment today and all went well. We couldn't find her for a little bit (panic) but we did; she was hiding under my belly button. She is still head up so we're going to do a sonogram in two weeks to see if she's decided to flip. My doctor said that at 37 weeks, if she hasn't flipped, then we'll have a "chat" to talk about what we're going to do with this baby. I feel like she still has some time to turn herself in the right direction... :)


Our snowy house... taken this afternoon!

Many thanks!

Thanks to Tracey, Laura, Sherry, and Jenny for a beautiful shower today!! It was wonderful to spend time with all of you. The decorations were perfect and the food was delicious. I'm still trying to keep myself from devouring all the food you sent home with me!

Thanks to those friends who traveled into town for the shower: Sherry, Kate, Sarah, and Leslie. That truly meant so much to me and it was great to see all of you and catch up a little bit.

And finally, thanks to everyone who came and showered Baby Lainey with love and sweet gifts. I am grateful to all of you. :) I am one lucky mom-to-be (still looks weird typing that!) and she is one lucky (and quite fashionable, I must say) baby.

I didn't get any pictures this time except for one hostess picture, but if I get any I will post them! It was a great day overall and despite our dreary morning, the weather turned out to be quite beautiful. I am READY for warm weather - I can't wait.