Week 39

Your baby's waiting to greet the world! He continues to build a layer of fat to help control his body temperature after birth, but it's likely he already measures about 20 inches and weighs a bit over 7 pounds. (Boys tend to be slightly heavier than girls.) The outer layers of his skin are sloughing off as new skin forms underneath.


My poor back is aching and it pretty much hurts to move! This pregnancy has been very rough on me...the baby got the hiccups pretty much everyday, at night, I have been nauseas throughout the entire pregnancy basically, and my body has been aching! I feel that at this point, I am entitled to complain EVEN MORE! LOL....of course, Peyton is definitely worth it and it's not his fault he's number 3! I am so ready to see our little man!!! I am nervous, anxious, and excited all at once! Wow....he's almost here...literally!

Here are the pictures of Peyton's room that we finished on Wednesday!!!

3 days left!!!!

Doctor Appointment at 38 weeks

I went to the doctor today and everything looks great! I actually lost a pound...wow...that has never happened before! Not like it matters though with the rest of the million that I put on! Oh well, the one pound difference is due to all the fluid which can fluctuate up and down.

Thank you so much Charmaine for watching the boys for me!!!!

Only 5 days left!!!!

Paul's first day of preschool!

Paul started his 3 year old preschool this morning! He was so excited that he put his school bag on about 30 minutes early and he was begging me to go to school! I had to keep telling him it wasn't time to leave yet! When I dropped him off, he started to have second thoughts though....the teacher came and got him out of the car (a wonderful thing when you have another one and soon to be another two in the car also) and he had a nervous look on his face. Awwww! I kept telling him Nicholas was right there to make him feel better! (They are in the same class too!)

On the way home Mommy cried and Preston cried too (literally he had tears in his eyes)! He said "Where bubba go?" then he said "Go back!" It was so sweet! He missed his bubba already! Preston did not know what to do with himself...it was like he was lost without Paul! He wanted a million hugs at first and then he seemed to do ok! He really missed him though! Charmaine walked over (she had dropped Nicholas off at school too) and we, or I should say she, finished hanging everything in Peyton's room! Thank you so much Charmaine.....that was so nice of you to do! After that, I went to pick up Paul from school!

He was quiet at first, like he really didn't want to tell me much about it, but then he got more talkative after he ate some lunch! He said he painted, colored, and played outside. He said he had fun! Yayyy, hopefully he will be excited to go back!

Thank you Maw Maw Toni for coming over this evening to watch the boys for me! I'm glad they took a nap for you!

Peyton will be here in 7 days!!!

First Time Skating!

When Paul got home from work today, the boys went outside with him to try and skate for the first time! They had on their helmets and pads and they just looked so cute! Paul LOVED it and did pretty good with it too! Preston wasn't so sure about it at first, but he eventually had fun! Preston was squatting down and letting Daddy push him down the road!

Week 38

Your baby has really plumped up. He weighs about 6.8 pounds and he's over 19 1/2 inches long. He has a firm grasp, which you'll soon be able to test when you hold his hand for the first time! His organs have matured and are ready for life outside the womb.Wondering what color your baby's eyes will be? You may not be able to tell right away. If he's born with brown eyes, they'll likely stay brown. If he's born with steel gray or dark blue eyes, they may stay gray or blue or turn green, hazel, or brown by the time he's 9 months old. That's because a child's irises (the colored part of the eye) may gain more pigment in the months after he's born, but they usually won't get "lighter" or more blue. (Green, hazel, and brown eyes have more pigment than gray or blue eyes.)

Well, this past week has been very rough! Hurricane Gustav came and knocked out the power everywhere, including our house. We stayed at my mom's house for the storm and for the week after because we had no power here. All there was to do was eat, so basically I'm a cow! I really can't walk too much at this point because I get so many Braxton Hicks (the painful kind) and I really am struggling to walk, or waddle I should say! I also do not want to go into labor, so I don't want to push myself! I have been sleeping a lot and I still feel tired, so this week was definitely a good reminder that Peyton is ready to make his arrival! Anyway, we finally got power back Friday night and we came back home yesterday. We have been cleaning, unpacking, and trying to organize everything while making sure everything is in order for the baby!

Thank you so much mom for letting us all stay with you and for watching the kids! Thank you Kyle for giving us your room for most of the week and for letting the boys play with your cars! Thank you Amy for watching the kids for us all day Friday while Paul worked and I had a doctor appointment and for helping me with them all week.....you were all a big help!!!! I am very lucky to have to such a wonderful family!

10 days left!!!!

Strange Pregnancy Issue

Last night we were at my mom's house where we have been staying and we were all sitting on the sofa watching TV. Little Peyton decided to kick, punch, or hit (whatever) my stomach out into a hard ball on the lower side of my belly! It felt very weird and everyone was feeling it saying how weird it was. Well, eventually he decided to leave that area so that it was no longer a hard ball right there, but instead it was a soft area that stayed there. We didn't think much of it and Paul and I came back to Baton Rouge to our house so that I could go to the doctor today and he could go to work. Well, not long after we got home, I felt that area and freaked out. I felt a soft ball hanging down from my very large swollen and pregnant belly! Gross! How disgusting is that!?! Anyway, I won't go into it anymore except to say that I showed Paul where it was and he goes "I can see it!"

That was enough for me....we called the doctor and headed to Woman's Hospital! Needless to say, we spent a good portion of the night in the labor and delivery unit and we were both exhausted! Not one nurse in that area had ever seen such a thing! Wonderful! After an ultrasound that showed there was nothing abnormal going on in there, the doctor came in an explained that most likely what happened is that Peyton pushed something around (could be b/c it's baby number 3, I have had 2 sections already and there is plenty of scar tissue also) and may have somehow shifted my uterus around and made something come out in that area! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! That is really gross! So, we went home and finally got to sleep! Even weirder, when I woke up this morning, it was GONE! Not kidding...I couldn't even show my doctor because it does not exist any longer! Very strange, but at least the baby is OK!!!!

I have been having plenty of Braxton Hicks contractions so much so that it is getting difficult to walk because I get them so often! The good news is that while we were at the hosptial, the nurse kept saying that I was having a lot of contractions. I didn't know they could see Braxton Hicks on the monitors, but I was glad that Paul could see how many I was having! Not that he didn't believe me, but you know, I was glad he could see it with his own eyes! I sure hope Peyton doesn't decide to come out early since

we are now officially scheduled for a section on my dad's birthday....September 17 at 7:00 am!!!!!!!!

The doctor is going to do the section before he goes out of town that day!!! I love my doctor! The nurse called to tell me this today after my appointment and she goes "I've worked for him for a long time and it's the first time I have ever scheduled something for him on a Wednesday....it's his day off!" Yayyyyyy! He probably was thinking it was easier to just do it for me since I've been driving him nuts for the entire pregnancy!!!!

Only 12 days left!!!

Hurricane Gustav and September

Yayyyyyyy! We are finally in September, so now the baby should really be arriving soon:) It seems so much closer now that we are in the actual month! Exciting!

We are in Slidell at my mom's house for Gustav since Baton Rouge was closer to the eye and we knew mom wouldn't flood. We were only worried about tornados at our home, here in Slidell too, but at least we are in a larger house here, with other people! It has been very windy and rainy of course, but we're doing well. The power went out around 5:00 am this morning, but we had generators so we managed. The power is now back on already, it came on around 6:00 this evening....we did not expect it to come back on so soon, so that was exciting for us! It is pretty miserable being pregnant without power, even though we had the generators! I had a fan on me, but not having air conditioning was really terrible! We are still here waiting to see when it will be safe to go back home and make sure our house is ok! Hope everyone is safe!!!!