Mild Contractions and Talking progress

So since like 2 days ago I've been having mild contractions. Enough to take my breath away but nothing big and close enough together to make me think he's coming soon. That may change here soon but we'll see. I lost my mucus plug I think (I know gross) and that's what started it all. I hope it picks up and we can have him before Thanksgiving. I may even go for a walk here in a bit to see if it changes anything.

Gavin is making some good progress with his talking, thanks to a lot in part because of Austen and Tanner, his older cousins and Thomas the Tank Engine. He copies the boys all the time and is picking up lots of words and sentences and then he watches Thomas once a day and memorizes a lot of what they say, it makes me laugh because when he's playing with his trains he narrates his own stories and its fun to listen to. I took a video of him singing along to his favorite song in the video "The Great Discovery." I get these songs in my head and it just about drives me nuts but he's happy so I am too. I was sitting here checking my e'mail and Gavin was over by the tv wanting something, I asked him what he needed and he said "Mommy, watch Thomas Please" which shocked me and my mom has talked to a speech therapist at the school she works at and they said 3 word sentences at 3 is good so it encourages me a lot. Here's the video, he doesn't quite know all the words but sings along anyway lol. Enjoy.

Am I next yet?

Ok I know you all are sick of hearing about my pregnancy ups and downs but seriously. Only 29 days to go and I'm feeling it big time. I am 36 weeks pregnant and now that countdown is on I swear it has gotten harder. I go on a website daily for pregnant women or women with children and I share my woes with them ( I think its the main people that can understand because they are all due in December) hence why I haven't updated every day because if I did, it would go a little something like this . . . . "Today the hiccups were horrible" "Pregnancy is killing me" and so on until you probably would be like ok we get it, you're tired of being pregnant, talk about something else lol. Phew speaking of hiccups they finally stopped just a second ago. Thank you Rowan for testing your diaphram out yet AGAIN today.

We are feeling the crunch though, I am starting to get my hospital bag ready. The last person due before me (of my personal friends) just had her baby boy last night. She was 10 days overdue, oh heavens I hope I don't do that and he was 8 lbs 14 oz and all is well with mom and baby. So now I figure, its a countdown to my baby shower (November 22nd) and then its time to evict or at least try to he may have different plans. I think it would be really cool if I could have him right before Thanksgiving so that my sister Erin and my Brother in law Jason and his wife Stephanie and there kids could see him before they go back to Montana. That would be cool and I've tried to reason with Rowan that this would be great but somehow I don't think he's going to cooperate but you never know.

There's so much to do and I know I'm going to forget something, I wrote out what we still really NEED to have before he's born and am crossing off the few things (ie. breast pump, bottles, liners, breast pads, milk freezer bag storage, games to play while in labor etc.) all this stuff hasn't been purchased yet so once the baby shower is done we're going shopping! Everyone I talk to says I'm not going to make it to my due date but we'll see, I am still of the mind set that I don't want to get my hopes up because knowing me I'll go overdue lol. I did that with Gavin and he didn't want to come out. I thought to myself at the time, oh maybe I'll get the tax break for 2005 and sure enough he waited til January 5th 2006 to make his appearance. Oh well, I can dream but not hold my breath on it right? Here's my latest belly pic for you guys. I am feeling large and in charge and like I ran out of room 2 weeks ago lol.

5 weeks and counting!

I made it to Halloween! Next holiday is Thanksgiving and once that comes and goes Rowan is free to make his appearance.

So tomorrow is technically 6 weeks but I go by this ticker that shows 5 weeks 6 days. I plan to go natural and into labor on my own this time so I am probably going to go overdue but I am counting down just the same in hopes that shortly after Thanksgiving the Turkey and Pumpkin Pie will fatten him up enough to make him want to come out (perfect bribery in my opinion). That's the lovely unpredictability of having a child. When I told my friend about bribing him with Turkey she said "Wow the mental image for that is astounding . . . . You holding a turkey leg ummm . . . . well . . . .down there and calling for Rowan to come get the Turkey leg" The places people's minds go lol.

Halloween was pretty fun, Gavin is starting to get the hang of the trick or treating thing with help from his older cousins who are his greatest example of how to do things. He dressed as a plump spider and had his spider bucket in tow. We headed out at 6:00ish and walked around the block and around the neighborhood. I dunno if its just because I'm pregnant and my two year old already has a hard enough time with getting scared of clowns let alone anything else but I couldn't believe the stupidity of grown ADULTS! There was a man handing out candy at his house and thought it funny to wear this gruesome "phantom of the opera" type mask with blood. Of course Gavin turns tail and doesn't want to go near him, I said to him could you take your mask off so he can see you're not scary and he wouldn't do it! So I grabbed the candy from him, gave him a dirty look and left. The worst offender though was this house where a woman answered the door with two dogs so we were all distracted by the smallest (about the size of a rat) I accidentally stepped on it at one point. Well I was so distracted that I didn't see her son stick his head out the door with a horrible skeleton mask with big fangs until Gavin screamed bloody murder and clung to my legs. I was about ready to sock this kid until his mom did it for me and told him there is a little guy out here don't be dumb. Halloween and being scared when you know its fake is all good and dandy but when there is little kids that think its real, I think its terribly inapropriate and wish people would tone it down for the little ones. Luckily for us Gavin is resilient and didn't have nightmares. Sadly I didn't realize my camera's battery was dieing when we got to my parent's house so pictures will have to be sent to me and posted at a later time. Watch for updates. Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!