Thirty-six weeks preggo

We got some wild news this past Friday during my regular doctor's visit. The doctor was doing her regular checkup and noticed that my belly hadn't grown since last week's visit. She explained that sometimes that means the baby has dropped and proceeded to see if that was the case.

Well her reaction of "Wow - this baby is really low!" told me Bean had definitely dropped. The doctor explained that this means the Bean will likely arrive sooner than expected. Although she couldn't say how soon - it could be a week from now, maybe three weeks from now. Either way that news set a fire under my nesting instincts (Dan's too). So we've both been busy wrapping up our last minute To Do items.

Other than that everything was fine during this last visit, the Bean has a speedy heart rate of 148 and is head down and ready to go.

Our little Beaner is also moving around a lot - and these are some big movements that make my whole tummy move in waves. It's pretty amazing to watch so we're trying to get some video of it to post.

Hope you like the new belly shot - 36 weeks preggo - and hot all the time.

This weeks' favorite food - blueberry muffins. Mmmmmmmmmm.....

Everything Must Go!

We held a garage sale today - in an effort to free up storage space for some of The Bean's things (and some of our stuff).

It was a HUGE success. We knew it was going to go well when our first customer came knocking on our door at 7:30 a.m. - despite the 8 a.m. start time on all of the signs we posted. And the fact that we hadn't opened the garage door or put anything outside yet.

By the time 10:30 hit we were pretty much cleaned out. Hooray!

Now we're off to enjoy the 31 degrees of glorious heat! Enjoy your long weekend.

PS The Bean and I had our regular check up yesterday. Beaner is still head down and had a heart rate of 154. And the doctor says my belly is measuring at exactly 34 weeks. Yay!

Nap Time!

It's been a while since our last post - and the reason is twofold. First, we had a busy weekend last week. Gary and Kathy came out for a fun visit and a we hosted a big BBQ and jam with some friends. There were lots of guitars, an upright base, a violin and some serious fiddlin'. The music lasted until about 1:30 a.m. which I'm not sure our neighbors loved. But we had a great time!

Then, for no real reason (other than the fact that I'm in my 33rd week of preggersness) I was hit with a giant wave of exhaustion this week. I've napped every evening for the past four days -which is unusual for me. But today I seem to be coming around, I even made it out for a quick walk.

Before my tired phase kicked in Dan and I went for a walk on Sunday afternoon through Edworthy Park since the temperature got up to about 20 degrees. The park is pretty close to our house and is a great area with a giant dog park, lots of pathways and some pretty steep hills.

As you can see we took advantage of the scenery and played around with our camera again.

Oh and since I'm updating I'll fill you in on last week's doctor's visit. As usual the belly is measuring the right size, Bean had a healthly heartbeat of 150 beats per minute and my blood pressure was perfect. So things are going well. The Bean is still moving tons and had a rare case of the hicups this week.

Only a little more than 7 weeks to go until we meet our little beaner.