Wow, that seems to be a running theme in my life right now! I can't seem to keep up with anything!
I was just thinking it had been a while since I did a blog post and was surprised when I logged in to see how really far behind I was. Instead of trying to catch everything up, I think I'll just go with what's going on right now.
We had a great Christmas with my family, and then spent the following weekend with Travis' family in Yakima. We got to see the house that Trav's parents are building which was really fun! Those trips were kind of our last big traveling trips until after the baby is born.
This week was hard. I don't know why, I've just had a hard time dealing with anything lately. I don't know if it's crazy hormones from being pregnant, or just feeling overwhelmed with things in life right now, but it was not a good week. I was having a lot of mommy guilt from not doing enough with the boys and thinking, how am I going to add another little guy to the mix? So right now I am just praying through getting those thoughts OUT of my head and focusing on taking it one day at a time.
I am currently 30 weeks and only have 10 more to go! Funny in the beginning it seems like you will be pregnant for SO long, but when it gets to this point, it seems like the baby will be here so soon! Little man is still breech and very active! I keep telling him to flip over and trying little tricks, but so far he is content right where he is. My midwife said he has until 36 weeks to flip over before we need to worry about, so he has about another month and a half to get where he needs to be for delivery. I had no clue that carrying a breech baby was so uncomfortable! It feels like he is trying to push his head out the top of my stomach and it is so painful! I can't really bend over and sometimes it's hard to breathe. Other than that though, this pregnancy has been great and I'm feeling really good. I am definitely more exhausted at this point than I was with my other pregnancies. I get worn out really easily and after a day of doing a lot, I feel like I need a day to recover! I am just so grateful for another healthy pregnancy and baby. I know it sounds cliche, but I think the older I get, the more I hear of friends having issues that I didn't even know could happen with little ones and it just makes me SO grateful we have 2 healthy children and another healthy one on the way.
Up until this weekend, we hadn't really done anything to get ready for this little guy coming. It's funny how different the 3rd is from the 1st, but there honestly just isn't as much to do. It is kind of weird not having a shower or anything, not because of the gifts, but it feels like the babies themselves don't get celebrated as much. Again, probably pregnancy hormones, but it's been making me sad. So this weekend we decided to start doing some work on the 3rd bedroom. This is the room that Brenner's crib is in, but we have always planned on the boys eventually sharing a room, so we've never really done anything to that room. But now that we know it will be used for a baby room for a longer time, we decided to actually finish it. So we went and bought paint, priced out trim for the chair rail, painted the closet and made a plan for where to put things. Travis even bought me this thing that hangs from the ceiling that I have honestly wanted since I was pregnant with Kameron, but it didn't go with the room we were doing for him. So we went in to our favorite baby store and it was being discontinued, but they had one left, so he splurged and got it for the baby room! I can't wait to see the room all come together. I was kind of tired of blue and green after years and years of it, so this room will be dark brown on the bottom, tan on the top with a white chair rail and then red accents. We made a mental list of the things we still need before the baby comes and I was surprised, it was a little longer than I had realized!
We celebrated Kameron's 4th birthday last weekend and he loved every minute of it. On Friday, his actual birthday, we made him his favorite breakfast of waffles with strawberries and whip cream and bacon. Then Travis played some games with the boys, and we went to Subway for lunch. The boys had never been into Subway to sit down and eat, so they thought this was very exciting. Which was funny to us that just going INTO Subway made it a really exciting lunch. :) We played around here for the afternoon and Travis and Kameron baked chocolate cupcakes for later that night. The Howlands came over that evening and we had pizza, all the kids did a scavenger hunt together, they decorated the cupcakes and opened gifts. Then on Saturday, Trav's parents and brother and his family came up for the weekend. We spent the afternoon playing, and then all loaded up to go to a hockey game in Everett! We met up with Wes and Leanna and the girls and my parents and had a little party at a pizza place and then went over to watch the hockey game. It was free jersey night for the kids, so they were all really excited to get those. The game ended up not being that exciting, but everyone had a great time and Kameron had a blast, which is what matters! Since we bought such a big group of tickets, they put "Happy 4th Birthday Kameron" up on the reader board in the middle of the arena for free! I just loved seeing Kameron sitting there with so many grandparents around him. I would have given anything to have a grandparent around for my birthday, so it's so special to me that this is just normal for him to have 2 sets of grandparents come for his birthday and all go to a hockey game together. I hope that he will understand when he gets older how amazing this is. Then on Sunday, my mom came up to visit for the afternoon! She brought a whole bunch of gifts and the boys had a blast playing with her. So overall, he had an amazing birthday weekend!!
Next month, Travis will have a night class in Bellevue on Tuesday and Thursday nights, so the boys and I won't see him those days and I know that is going to be REALLY hard. I'm already nervous for him to be gone so much. But the good news is that this is his last quarter and at the end of March, he will have earned his degree in Fire Science! I am SO proud of him for going to school full time for 2 years now, working full time and still being a great husband and dad. I honestly don't know how he does it.
