37 Weeks!

Yesterday I started my weekly visits and had my first exam. I am 1 cm dilated and my cervix is thinning. The doctor could feel Annabelle's head so she has dropped but the doctor said she has a little ways to go still. I have another appointment on Tuesday. Just estimating the weight (by feeling) the doctor said she is about 7 lbs and if she goes to December will be an 8 1/2 to 9 lb baby. I packed her bag on Monday but we still have not decided what she is going to wear for her hospital picture. There are still things I figure I will forget when the time comes, good thing we live 5 mins from the hospital.

After my appointment we had breast feeding class. I was the only one out of 6 in the class who had been breastfed as a baby. That really blew my mind - I understand that it is not necessarily an easy thing to do but I am going to try and not give up. There are two lactation consultants at St. Joseph East so I will have someone who is knowledgable there to help.

Jason's work had a baby shower for him on Friday and we bought the glider with the gift card they gave us. It should be here tomorrow as should the message we ordered to put on her wall. We rearranged our bedroom this weekend and now there is actually room to move around in there, we have room for the pack n play, and even her crib and glider if we need to put them in there for whatever reason. I don't know who decided where our furniture should go in there in the first place, Jason said we did but I don't believe him. We have so much more room now!

Jason got his Christmas present this weekend, a new tv for the bedroom and a soundbar for the living room. Since he got to open those and play with them I decided to open my laptop and play with it. My old one was about 6 years old so it was way past it's prime. This one was soo much cheaper than I paid for the old one too. It is pretty much just a newer model of the same thing. It's probably not great but all I use it for is to listen to music and play on the internet. I have very basic computer needs. I finally got it through Jason's skull that the baby does not need a tv in her room right now so my old tv went into our guest bedroom. I figure there will be people staying after the baby is born and since we bring our dog in at 8 and have to go to bed they will need some entertainment. Hopefully though by that time we will have all our clothes folded from the basement so people can just hang out there. Since it is getting colder I'd love for my dog to be able to come in the house sooner but she still acts like a puppy and will not just sit in the living room floor. She wants to go all over the house which she is not allowed to do. I don't like dogs in the house but I don't like her being outside cold either. Jason plays with her every evening when he gets home from work and we can not do anything until he has done so. Then at night when she comes in her and Jason play for about 15 - 30 mins and then she goes into her kennel and she is off to sleep until Jason takes her out before work the next morning.

Kate will be a year old around the time Annabelle is born. Her birthday is actually the day after Anna's due date. Although she still acts like a puppy she has grown up a lot, especially in the past month or so. She wants so much to get along with the cats but they could care less about her so she just eats their food lol. Scottie used to sit in the living room and watch Kate until she went to sleep, then she would get in the bed with us. She is such a funny cat, Tuesday night I had my arm over Jason and had put her under the covers beside him to calm her down because she is the devil and she started petting my hand with her paw lol. I don't know what I would do without my crazy animals!