May 4th

Braden Pierce will be here May 4th. He has insisted on being breech and so I have a scheduled c-section Wednesday morning!!! Can't believe he will be here in 4 days :) Guess I better get the bed ready!

Flood of Emotions

So, I was already having an emotional day (these seem to be coming more frequently these days...dang hormones!) And so the following experience only made my emotional day more emotional, however it was all the emotions during the day and more combined into about a 30 second time period.

There is nothing like the panic of seeing your toddler running towards a street...
 Why was she running towards the street you ask? Because we were at the "little park" and she wanted to go to the bigger park across the street, so while I was talking she started to sneak off (she's VERY sneaky, another story for another time)

Its even worse when you are 36 weeks and 3 days into your pregnancy (meaning I am considered full term in 4 days...)

Why does this make it worse? Well let me explain. I felt like an elephant while running...except elephants can actually go fast...I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere!

Emotion #1: Panic
Emotion #2: Fear
Emotion #3: Frustration, because I couldn't move as fast as I knew I needed too, and despite my yelling at her to stop she continued to pick up speed, and in that moment I felt as if she was the fastest 2 year old in the world!
Emotion #4: Relief, because I didn't have to watch her get run over!
Emotion #5: Embarrassment, because I can only imagine what big, fat pregnant me looked like running across the park...

Then I'm not sure what emotion to call it...but because I am pregnant I cried...go figure!
And now...well just PAIN! pulled a muscle and literally can barely move, thankfully Chris has been helping...

Needless to say I don't think Savannah and I will be visiting the park again anytime soon...
I just pray Braden doesn't try to come now because he is still breech and that could get complicated!

"Hiding"

Chris and Savannah were playing "monsters" (Chris chases Savannah around while making growling noises and tickles her when he catches her.) Savannah took off running as fast as her little bitty legs would take her. Chris came around the corner after her to find this:

He hears her giggling and asks, "Where are you?"
*More giggles* Then a little voice from inside the toy cube: "I hiding! In here!"

Update

So a LOT has been happening, ... We just moved back in with my parents. Chris's work situation is less than ideal (can't go into detail about that). And we were a little nervous this munchkin was going to come early when I ended up in the hospital with contractions that were 5 minutes apart (at only 34.5 weeks). HOWEVER! The baby has not come yet, thank goodness! BUT...he is breech. Or at least the Dr is 95% sure. I will have an ultrasound Monday to be 100% sure, then if he is still breech on Wednesday the Dr. will try to flip him around.
Which apparently is a very uncomfortable process. I will go to the hospital into labor and delivery where the Dr will literally push the baby around by pushing on my stomach...then they will monitor the baby for 4 hours to be sure everything is alright. If everything is alright I go home and we proceed as normal. IF my water breaks during this process (or at any point while he is still breech) they will have to do an emergency c-section...and if he doesn't turn around, or stay put after being turned around then I will also have to have a c-section. According to the internet this "flipping" process has a 65% success rate...we'll see what happens. I am praying he will turn on his own before Monday...

Count DOWN!

Out of the hundreds people! 74 days till due date! AND I think he will come early...but we will see, you never know. But still, excited that its less than 100 days AND I can still wear my wedding ring. With Savannah I had problems with swelling and at like 4 months couldn't wear my ring anymore. NOT this time! :)

AND!!! Last night, because my husband is awesome, we bought the cutest little boy crib bedding. Its perfect, powder blue, and brown with touches of orange. Its very simple and if Savannah and Brayden have to share a room their bedding will look ok in the same room together :). Chris laughed at me when I told him about that bonus of the bedding. He said only I would think about that...SO not true, but whatever :P I almost want to set the crib up already :) Maybe I will, if I can get Chris to get the big Christmas box out of the corner of our room. Then I will take cute pictures so you can all see it. 

"Pay wif me!"

Today Chris went into Savannah's room to go play with her when he woke up. I came in a few minutes later to talk to Chris. We were chatting and decided he would go to the grocery store with Savannah so I could get some cleaning down around the house (something that DESPERATELY needs to happen). I asked Savannah if she wanted to go to the grocery store with Daddy, expecting her to be excited. Instead she quickly replied, "No! Daddy pay wif me! Uh shut the door." She then ran to her bedroom door and shut it in an attempt to trap him in the room so he had to play with her.

Potty Training Secrets

Savannah is currently OBSESSED with Dora the Explorer. She especially loves Dora's monkey friend, Boots. Recently, I bought her Dora pull ups because she was complaining that her diapers were hurting her legs. She has kept them on a lot better than the diapers. AND a bonus is she can potty train at her own pace without me cleaning up my carpet every 30 minutes or so. With my crazy schedule due to classes, I decided I didn't have the time to devote to potty training. So the pull-ups allow Savannah to use the potty when she wants, without me having to commit fully to the potty training experience just yet. Today while at Target, Savannah and I ran across Dora panties. We bought them and brought them home. She immediately wanted to put them on and proudly showed them off to Daddy. Then for the next hour before bed she ran to the potty every 5 minutes because she was so worried she was going to pee on Dora. It was hilarious!

These panties may turn out to be my magic tool in potty train :)

Sharing Peas

We were all sitting at the table eating dinner. Chris finished his food. Trying to encourage Savannah to eat her peas I said, "Savannah look, Daddy ate all of his peas!" Savannah quickly said, "More peas daddy?" as she started putting her peas on Chris's plate. What a goober!

Sophie Troubles

Savannah loves playing on our porch. She especially loves to blow bubbles out there. This works perfectly for me because it keeps her entertained for HOURS and I can sit at the kitchen table where I can keep an eye on her and at the same time get some school work done.
The only problem is, she doesn't like to be out there by herself; she usually makes the dog go out there with her. One day she brought Sophie out there. But then Savannah started chasing Sophie on her bike, which Sophie did NOT like. First chance she got Sophie came running back into the house. This upset Savannah who preceded to try to convince Sophie to come back out on the porch. First she tried standing outside with the door open trying to coax Sophie out. Then she tried commanding her out, "SOPHIE! OUT! OUT!" When that didn't work she tried pulling Sophie out the door by her collar. That didn't work either so Savannah got behind her and started trying to push Sophie out the door. Sophie just sat down. Savannah let out a few frustrated, very exaggerated huffs, gave up and went outside without the dog. I only wish I had gotten it all on video.

Piggy Squeeks

Savannah was playing with her stuffed animal pig (Thanks Gma and Gpa Cluff, she loves it) and anytime she talked to the pig she would use this very high pitched squeeky voice. No idea where that came from... I got the camera out to capture her squeeks on video, and when she noticed I had the camera out came up to me and requested a picture of the pig. "Picture-a-pig?! CHEESE!" What a goof. Listen carefully to hear the squeeky voice.

Click here to see the video!

A little while later Savannah decided to share her water with the Piggy...

Here are the results:

Notice the puddle next to the blocks lid...she was trying to share water out of the big green cup...