Last Month

This is officially my last month of pregnancy! I'm anxious for it to be over and sad at the same time. I have always enjoyed being pregnant and although toward the end I am ready for it to be over I know I'm going to miss it. More than likely this will be the last pregnancy for us. Although I said this with Micah...I really can't imagine having four kids!

I'm so anxious to kiss her little feet but sad that I won't be feeling her kick inside me. I'm anxious for Hannah and Micah to meet their little sister but sad to see how much they have grown. I'm anxious to hold a newborn baby again but sad because they don't stay little long enough. I'm anxious to see her wear all those adorable clothes hanging in her closet but sad because I know she will outgrow them so fast. I'm anxious to meet this new little one but sad to have this phase of my life over. I'm trying to enjoy every last minute because in a few short weeks....I won't have her all to myself anymore!

36 weeks....almost

I had a Dr's appointment today and I am 1 cm dilated! Now of course this probably means absolutely nothing since I could walk around for weeks being 1, 2 or even 3 cm's but at least it's progress. When they checked me at 33 weeks I wasn't dilated at all so that means in the last 3 weeks the contractions have been doing something! It probably won't be anytime soon but I'm getting anxious! My baby shower was Saturday...I got lots of great stuff and we pretty much have everything we need. Now I just have to wash all of her stuff, install the car seat, pick up a few last minute things, and wait till the big day!

Spring Break and other excitement

We had an Easter Egg Hunt again this year. We had about 60 kids which was great. This year we had it at the park that is right across the street from our new building. After the Easter Egg Hunt we went back to the building to work on it some more before Sunday. Lisa , Sandra and I decided to paint the other kids room. Probably not the best idea considering I am 8 months pregnant and Lisa is pregnant too. We managed to get the whole room painted but I ended up going to the hospital later that night. I started having contractions around 7pm and I noticed that they were pretty close together but I just figured they would stop on their own. Well around 11 pm I decided I better start timing them and I realized they were five minutes apart. I woke Philip up around midnight after I called the doctor and she said to get to the hospital. We we got there and they hooked me up to the monitors my contractions were 2 minutes apart! They gave me some IV fluids and a shot to stop the contractions. We were able to go home around 4am. Needless to say we were very tired Easter Sunday. I've tried to take it easy since then but last night it happened again. Around 8pm contractions started and they were immediately 2 minutes apart. I really didn't want to go to the hospital again so I drank some water, took some Tylenol, got in a warm bath to try to get them to stop. Around 11:30 I just went to bed. They were still around 5 minutes apart but I figured if they got any worse I would wake up. They must have stopped sometime during the night because this morning I was fine. So needless to say I will be shocked if she doesn't come early.








Hannah and Micah had Spring Break last week. We were hoping to get to the beach somewhere but the flights were too full. So instead we did some things around here. We went to the movies one day and Stone Mountain another. We were also really busy getting things ready around the new building for church. It's looking really good. Our grand opening service is this Sunday. We are hoping for around 200 people.

31 Week Ultrasound

Saturday we got to see baby Sarah one more time before she is here. The 4D ultrasound is so detailed. We saw her frown, smile, stick out her bottom lip, and open her eyes! Seeing her open her eyes was a little freaky but still really neat. It's so amazing to see her eyelashes, eyebrows, toenails, and even a little bit of peach fuzz on her head. I can't tell if she looks like Hannah or Micah but she was sticking out her bottom lip which Hannah used to do all the time. The ultrasound tech said she's weighs about 4lbs 6oz which seems a little big to me but she said it was about average. I just don't want her to be 9lbs!

Profile of her pretty little face. You can even see her eyelashes and eyebrows.

You can see the toenail on her big toe in this picture.....





Here she is looking at us


Here she is smiling



In this one you can see the tips of her fingers



Here she is with her knee bent and her hand over it.


Me at 31 weeks! Sometimes I still don't feel very big but then I see a picture! I still can't believe I have 8 more weeks to go. Maybe it will be less....a week or so early would be nice. I'm feeling pretty good other than the normal third trimester complaints. I have heartburn all the time! Even drinking water seems to give me heartburn especially if I try to lay down after drinking it. I'm still working...which is another story for another time. I only have two more short trips left and them I'm done until December! I can't wait...I am so ready to be home.

Third trimester....the final strech!

The third and final trimester! I can't believe it. It seems like the first few weeks go by so slow and now I can't even keep track of what week I'm in. Good thing for the ticker on my blog! I'm really trying to enjoy these last weeks while I have her all to myself. Soon enough it will be sleepless nights and trying to pry her away from Hannah. I'll be lucky if I get to hold my own baby! Here are the pictures from my ultrasound at 27 weeks. As you can tell from the second picture she is still a girl. I can't believe how good the 4D picture is. You can really tell what she looks like! In the post below I put up the video that Lisa took at the ultrasound.






New belly pictures. The first one is me at 27 weeks and the last three are 28 weeks.

Baby Sarah

What a difference a week makes!

What a difference a week makes! This is what it looked like last Sunday........





Today it's a beautiful sunny 75 degrees. The weather here can be pretty crazy sometimes. Of course I had to work in that crazy weather. The Atlanta airport or AirTran for that matter is not prepared to handle this type of weather. So needless to say there were about 150 cancleations with just our airline and pretty much outright chaos. Regardless Hannah and Micah loved it. School was closed on Monday so they got a day off. The snow even stuck around for several days...the last of it just melted two days ago.