Mr. and Mrs. Powell

#1. Only at 37.7 weeks pregnant do you get to Try and balance a waterbottle on your belly in your spare time.
(it's actually quite entertaining, put a basketball under your shirt- you should try it sometime)

#2. Wade in the pool with swollen feet.
I have been lucky to only be swollen once this whole pregnancy- drink lots of water and do lots of walking pregnant ladies!- IT WORKS.
The one time I remember being swollen was after our 9 hour plane ride home from Hawaii at about 26 weeks pregnant.
Other than that I have felt good!
However, yesterday something kicked in, after I went for a little walk
and my feet got a little swollen.
SO I waded in the pool for a couple hours.

#3. Only at 37.7 weeks pregnant can you Eat fruitloops for dinner and not even feel bad about it.

#4. I got this email to my phone today from Baby ap.

It was titled-

Things you thought you would never say...

"Let me just finish this can of frosting."

"Would you mind tying my shoes?"

"Honey, does my belly look too small to you??"

#5. Only at 37.7 weeks pregnant would we spend our date night activity assembling the carseat and stroller.

Oh the joys of being pregnant.

Aaron keeps asking if it feels real that I will only be pregnant for (at most) 2 more weeks-

(until of course I'm pregnant again... which will be a little while---

and in the WINTER! ha in case you were not aware)

I honestly kind of forgot what it feels like not to have a belly.

The uncomfortable-ness and unexcitement of maternity clothes makes it hard to look for the good in being pregnant at this point.

So I tried really hard to come up with 5 things I will miss from this process.

(It was a lot harder than I thought- haha)

(don't get me started on the things I am looking forward to)

Top 5 things I will miss.

#1. Feeling him move- I really will miss this. It's become my very favorite thing.

(this goes along with hearing his heartbeat- sweetest experience ever)

#2. I won't have an excuse to go to red mango almost every day.

#3. I will miss having the excuse to eat for two

#4. Eating pizza and fruitloops whenever I feel like it.

#5. Having an excuse to not do ab workouts.

hahaha notice 3 of the 5 are geared towards eating.

That has been a definite joy in this process.

In all seriousness,

I'm just ready to hold my baby, and kiss him a million bajillion times.

Happy Friday Everyone!

I don't know about where you are,

but here it's a whoppin 96 degrees (which I'm convinced feels like 128 degrees being pregnant)

with high percentages of humidity,

which means date night tonight will consist of getting in the pool, and ice cream...

(and probably cheese pizza haha- with lots of red pepper in hoping it will send me into labor)

Could be our last Friday without a little one!? ahhhh

crossing our fingers he decides to come soon!!

xoxo

37 weeks!!!

I shed a tear or two or three yesterday.

It's part of the pregnancy cycle I guess.

Yesterday was Aaron's first day of his 2nd year of law school.

(meaning we only have one more year to go after this! ahhhh)

I was having separation anxiety and didn't want him to leave ha
so I wouldn't let him get out of bed in the morning.
(it's ok though, soon I will have a mini him that I get to play with all day long)

We began the morning with a little P90X.

so glad you can see us in our finest hour- aka 6:30 AM

Which by the way, I think it is so much harder to lift at 6:30 in the morning,

rather than in the afternoon? My muscles were still asleep.

We made his lunch, (awww)

got his books together, and he took off to the bus stop.
I felt like a mom getting him all ready for his first day of school.
The first tears of the day were shed when he kissed me goodbye (as if I'm never going to see him again)
Thanks to him I have no first day of school picture.
What a little punk.
He just wasn't cooperating with me. haha

(P.S. He rides a charter bus downtown Houston each day. It takes about 45 minutes to get there.

It's the cheapest way- gas wise, and also the most convienent so he can study on the bus-)

As soon as he left, I took my massive basketball and I on a walk.

I attempted to run, but only ran about 2 miles of it.

It was a 6 mile route, and I'm just not even going to tell you how long it took me,

because then you will compute it in your head, and average out how slow I waddled along.
It made me teary eyed when I finally made it home.

I made it back just in time for my "time slot" for pottery barn kids to deliver my baby's bed.
Lesson learned.-
They never come within the "2 hour period" they tell you they will.
I stressed myself out thinking it would never come-
and I would go into labor and my baby would have no where to sleep haha
But FINALLY after shedding some tears,
a massive truck pulled up to our house.
Then tears of joy. - It was just a day of tears I tell you.

They set up my beautiful crib & changing table-
and I am in love!

I took off to Pottery barn to get the very last item on the list- the Mattress.

Then headed straight to my OBGYN for my 37 week Appointment.
Ok, not straight there..
first stopped to get red mango-
(Time to get a new manicure I know)

Because we all know I can't even pass that place without going in and getting a big yogurt parfait-
It turned out to be perfect timing because
All the sugar made the baby go crazy in the appointment haha

You know your getting close to delivery when they all know your name when you walk in the office.
Then when you leave- they say "see you next week! - unless you decide to go into labor!"
I was trying to compute how many urine samples I have given in the last 9 months,
but decided to stop haha.
Weight good, blood pressure good,
baby's heartbeat was loud and strong.

She checked me-
I am now dialated to a 2!
Little one has completely DROPPED!!
I can breathe, I can eat! (not that I couldn't eat before haha)
But he is offically out of my ribs and killing my lower abdomen.
Just when you thought bathroom breaks couldn't get any worse- they do!

I got back to our place and attempted to get the mattress out of the car.
Karina Fail.
Sometimes I forget I have a torpedo poking out of my body.
Belly got in the way and I dropped all of my stuff including the mattress
And I heard a big shatter-
There goes my phone. :( (It even had the case on it!)
But the front is completely shattered.
More tears.

Aaron came home and rescued my tears
and my sweet inlaws came over and brought dinner and helped finish things in the nursery.
They are the absolute BEST.

Everything is just about ready. YAYY
So I will put more pictures up soon!
Needless to say, An emotional day for the babes and I.

But sneak peak on how it is coming!!!-
We still need to put everything on the walls and finish decorating-
he has lots of animals! but it's coming!

Tuesday Tangents-

#1. Don't ask why I spent sunday after church at my in laws house in a swimsuit.

I am in the process of making the baby a big sign for his room door to welcome him home haha.
(my husband says "good thing he will be able to read it honey")
regardless- I am welcoming him home.
It will be done- hopefully before he gets here and I will show you.
It is my project while Aaron reads his law books at night-
I'm a coloring fanatic so it will keep me from distracting my husband from homework.

#2. My mother in law and I picked out a tree we wanted for the babes room
while we were out shopping.
So we had told Aaron that he needed to go pick it up at our lunch break at work.
This tree is MASSIVE!
It makes the baby's little nursery look like a jungle along with HERBERT (our life size giraffe)

You should have seen Aaron's face when I showed him which one we had picked out.
hahaha he goes "Wait, honey I have to fit that in my car?"
I just give him my little smile and he knows it's what I want him to do.

My husband is such a trooper and good sport,
So we drove home like this.
I couldn't even see his face from the passenger seat. haha

At least it looks so good in the room!!!
Haha Thank you sweetheart.

#3. I know what will make you go into labor.
I accidently thought that the red pepper flakes had a stopper,
turns out it doesn't,
and I poured half the bottle on my piece of pizza.
This was last weekend and we didn't have the crib yet-
so Aaron wouldn't let me take a bite and risk sending my body into shock and labor.
However now that we have the crib and the baby has somewhere to sleep
- I may or may not try it this weekend hahaha

#4. So sad olympics are over.

#5. Did anyone else feel the urge to clean and scrub every little corner of your house when you are pregnant?? Our house will not have one ounce of dust when this baby gets here.

#6. Ever tried mixing Fruitloops and Apple Jacks together!?
It's my new favorite combination.
In fact, I'm eating an overflowing bowl of them as I'm typing this.
Good to know every fruitloop I eat is going straight to the babes haha.

#6. I'm in the process of packing my diaper bag and hospital bag!
Aaron told me it needs to be ready by tonight. haha little worrier!
Any must needs or "wishes they would have had" for the hospital!?
Thank you all for your sweet comments and advice!
I love it all!
Happy happy tuesday!

36.99

36 weeks and 6 days.

I am 37 weeks tomorrow!

We went in last Wednesday for our 36 week ultrasound!

Oh my goodness it was so good to see him!

I started to tear up when I saw his little heart bouncing up and down on the screen!
Ahhhh it's such a relief to see that everything looks good and ready!

The doctor checked me, and I am dilated to a 1.5 and 75 % effaced.

That made me so happy.
(regardless of if it really means anything yet.)

The baby was in the perfect head down position,

and is measuring approximately 6.4 pounds!

Oh my goodness! What a little chunker!!!!.

The nurse said he is beyond squished in there.

Which explains everything-

I will be out somewhere and someone will double take my belly because it is literally moving up and down-

he is going crazy in there. I see every little move 24/7.

haha no idea how he is 6 pounds already! (of course it's not an exact approximation)

She said if I go the full 40 weeks he will be close to 8 pounds - they think!!

My mom had all around 8 pound babies, and Aaron was over 9 pounds!

haha so I was destined to have a good size baby. So lets hope he comes in the next couple weeks!

The doctor said if my cervix looked good at 38 weeks,
that they would schedule an induction date, for sometime within a week before my due date..
if he hadn't come by then. (lets just hope he comes on his own)

Say hello to me and my basketball.