If Your Happy & You Know It!

So I just had to keep Grace up a little bit longer to get theses videos for you. Normally getting ready for a bath and bed is always a struggle because she knows bedtime is coming. Although whenever I lay her down she snuggles right in and doesn't act up. So tonight I had her bath all ready and was getting her undressed for it and I started singing, If Your Happy and You Know it. Apparently she knew this song already and it was so cute because for once it was an easy diaper change and quick bath.

Also in the one video you can see my pregnant belly and since I didn't post anything for 36 weeks that is what you get. I think its kind of funny though that you can't tell I am pregnant when she is sitting in my lap. She has no idea either that my big belly doesn't move when she sits there and she is constantly sitting down and trying to scoot back against me. (Not comfortable let me tell you). My next prenatal is 3 days away and I will be 37 weeks I can't wait! I have been having some crazy dreams lately too! Which isn't unusual for me because I tend to dream really vividly, but these dreams are all about babies, babies, babies.

Well I hope you enjoy these videos I certainly enjoyed singing with her and yeah for Wednesday tomorrow and the middle of the week already!

Just hanging Out

Grace loves finding her own shoes and getting my shoes and Daddy's shoes, taking them here and there.

I took a video of her walking in Daddy's sandals. We had a 3 day weekend this weekend and it was great. Today I hung out with Grace and Daddy had to work so we tried to stay out of his way. We did laundry, lots of laundry and I also did some baby laundry too! I have been meaning to get that ready forever. So my newborn clothes are pulled out of the box and washed and folded now. (Granted they aren't put away yet) Also I had daddy pull the bassinet out from under the stairs and I still have to wipe that down and wash the linens for it, but at least its out.

Friday is my next prenatal and I can't wait! Part of me wants to have this baby now and part of me figures he can come on his due date! I will let everyone know if there are any new updates in the mean time.

Oh and tonight Daddy made the yummiest homemade spaghetti with tomatoes and herbs from the garden! Delicious!!!!!! He froze half of the sauce so we have one meal for when lil brother comes.

Hope you all had a great weekend and enjoy!!!

Singin in the Shower

So I don't know what happened with the video. Sorry everyone, I think it may have to do with me recording while on vibrate. Thats what I get for being sneaky, I suppose. When I watch it on my phone it plays sound, but I text it to daddy last night and he couldn't hear it either. My actual due date is Nov 5th and tomorrow I am 36 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wha Hoo!! I have been feeling a lot of tightening lately which I only recently assumed was Braxton Hicks. I don't know why but I thought it was the lil man pushing against me, and then I read something and thought, "Silly that must be contractions." I had a lot tonight while at dinner, and for the most part I usually don't even notice them unless they are lasting a longer period of time. Of course you can have those and they don't mean you are any closer to going into labor.

Daddy came home tonight! Yay! We are so glad to have him back! I think I am especially glad this trip just because I am so tired and Grace can be so persnickety these days about changing her diaper and wanting to do things herself. So between trying to get to work on time and have a unruly toddler just wears a pregnant mommy out! And despite the fact that each night I tell myself to go to bed early, I just don't end up doing that when Daddy isn't here. But he is here now! We went to a new restuarant called NYPD Pizzeria, its supposed to be authentic NY Pizza, but I wasn't super impressed with it. Plus poor Grace was over tired and hungry and it seemed to take even longer then to get our pizza.

I am so glad that tomorrow is Friday even though I have to work on Saturday, but we do have Monday off because of Columbus Day. I love bank holidays!

The following video is not one I posted yet, although I took it a week ago. She used to be freaked out about our shower but she has gotten used to it and now she can reach the handle. So I wanted to catch her singing in the shower. She was happy as a lark in there just singing along!

Halloween

I had to get gas on my lunch today, so on those days I try to run more errands, instead of take my usual nap. One of the things I did was head over to Kid to Kid a second hand childrens store that sells mostly clothes but toys and beds and such as well. Last year I got Grace's Moo Cow costume there for 5 bucks and I scored this Tiger costume today. Only 6.99, it feels brand new and should be warm for trick or treating. I may have mentioned before, but I am hoping this baby comes early so that I can take Grace out trick or treating. I am fine with him coming after Halloween too (I suppose...) but just not like the Friday before, I don't want to be stuck in the hospital! LOL! I was thinking tonight, that if that is the case Memaw and Daddy might have to do the duty and record video for Mommy! I was sneaky tonight and turned my phone on vibrate before I started slyly videoing Grace coloring. She says, "Color" so cute that I had to record it! And she just loves to color color color!

Some silly Pictures

I tried taking a video of Grace saying hi to daddy but then she wanted to just grab my phone from me so instead we started playing the, "lets take a picture of mommy and then Grace game". Here is where she took a picture of mommy, being silly.

Then here she is trying to mimic me!

She was hilarious!

Our Little Ham

I got the camera out and Grace wanted me to take her picture of her. Then she started being silly.

I said, "Stick out your tongue!"

Then I said, "Show me your teeth!"

Tonight we made a Rachel Ray receipe, a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich. With grilled onions, anaheim peppers and sweet peppers, skirt steak daddy cooked so good and a provolone cheese sauce. It was pretty good, next time we make we'll a few adjustments.

Grace has been so funny lately. Saturday night we got onto YouTube and showed Grace videos of horse back riding. She LOVED them!! So tonight before bed Daddy put some horse back riding and jumping for him and Grace to watch. I was trying to fold some clothes but Grace kept patting the pillow and giving me her Gracie smile of encouragement. So I laid down next to her in our bed and the three of us watched the equestrian videos. She kept saying, "Wow!" and yelling and exclaiming when the horses would jump or trot.

Then after the last video Daddy tried to get a goodnight kiss, but she was being a stinker pot. So then daddy and I kissed each other and then quickly kissed her and she busted out laughing! After that she would put her hands behind our heads and make us kiss each other and then we would kiss her right after! She thought that was hilarious!

What a blast we had this weekend with our sweet lil girl!

35 weeks

I did a pic of both sides of the belly this time!

I am 35 weeks today! Exactly 3 weeks from her 35th week Grace was born! The lil man is about 5 1/4 pounds and over 18 inches long! Most of his physical development is complete and he is gaining weight. Speaking of gaining weight, I have gained 18 pounds total so far which is good. I think it must be all in the baby, because my stretch mark is getting redder and longer, about an inch. Which aint to bad either! I don't feel like I have gained 3 pounds since last time. I am feeling more and more achy and tight and creaky all the time. More pains and muscle/nerve pain whenever I walk. And when I stand a lot my back hurts more, so I tend to sit a lot. Luckily at work my chair is pretty comfortable and I don't notice the achiness unless I am standing at the teller line. So I had my prenatal appointment this morning and I have to say I am super pumped. The dr did the Group B swab and will send that in for analysis of course. He also checked to see if he could feel the baby's head and he believes the baby's head is down and near the pelvis or something like that. He also said that I was 1-2 centimeters dilated and 50% effaced already! Woo Hoo, my next appointment is on October 15th. (I had previously thought that we were going to weekly appointments but I was wrong). He had just scheduled todays back to back because he does the Group B test at 35 weeks. After the 15th then he said we would be going to weekly appointments. Start making your bets folks! I don't know about you but I am so glad that it's Friday. We don't have anything going on at all, probably just some relaxing and laying around. Grace has been so cute lately and her vocabulary is just increasing all the time. She loves to color and we have been working on saying the names of the crayons or different colors. She also loves reading the book Goodnight Moon and its almost like reading Where's Waldo because there is a tiny mouse on a bunch of different pages and she finds the mouse every time now! She thinks she is hilarious too by the way and she loves saying, "Ha Ha!" Daddy's leg is healing nicely. He has a new prescription for his excema, he is suppose to use that in addition with his other and cover his finger with like a glove thingy just for his finger overnight in order for it to really soak in. I told him I think it is stress related how he has been getting multiple "break outs" on that hand and how that finger won't heal. Hopefully he won't lose that fingernail. The dermatologist said she might have to give a cortisone shot in that fingernail so he doesn't lose it, if the new prescription doesn't work. So hopefully that won't happen. Daddy has to go out of town next week so hopefully that goes smoothly for him and he has a safe trip and everything goes smoothly for us as well. Hopefully you all have a nice weekend!