Baby K....Number 2!

My mother-in-law is such a sweetheart and even though she is recovering from a really horrible case of mono, she took some time to take 36 week maternity pictures around their house.

It snowed for just the few minutes we were walking down the driveway...perfect timing!

I just had to put this picture here. This was us (just dating then) on the same driveway in 2009...feels like so long ago!

 

Waving at "Gama"

"Baaaaybeee!"

"My baaaaybee!"

"Hi baaaaybeee! Hotbee!" (heartbeat)

Something about being in the last month of pregnancy makes me snarky...I have such a hard time not being rude. Sigh...to the woman who said "Woooooow....you're ready to POP. You must be SO close to your due date!!!", I WANTED to say "Actually, unless I'm in the 5% of women who give birth before 37 weeks, I probably have 4 weeks left...but thaaanks for reminding me that I have 4 more weeks of waddling left!" Instead, I smile and say "yeah...I'm getting there." Haha...then I tell Nate all the rude things I wanted to say. I know she was trying to be nice...but still...

Thankfully, this pregnancy has been MUCH easier than Joel's. Baby is officially headfirst, and we're almost ready to meet him/her. Just a few more small projects and need to blow up the birth pool and we're ready to go!

More Nesting Projects

I wanted something simple and blue that didn't cost an arm and a leg to hang in our master bathroom. So, I found this piece of wood at the farm, mixed a blue acrylic with a clear glaze until it matched the blues in our bathroom, and painted it.

I saw a painting of some type of flower on pinterest, and I really loved it. This was my first time working with acrylic paint, so I wasn't sure I could pull it off, but it worked out and matches our bathroom well. I didn't put much time into the actual painting part, but the drying in between layers seemed to take forever. Give me a pencil over paint any day!

Another pinterest project. An old window (again, found at the farm).

Some spray adhesive glue and scrapbook paper.

Cut the paper to fit the glass, sprayed a tiny bit of glue on the glass, and pressed the paper down.

You can write on it with dry erase. Some of the names of God would be awesome.

First Haircut

Joel finally got his first haircut. Maybe it's just because I'm pregnant, but I got embarrassingly emotional about it: "Sob....I'm cutting off the hair he was BORN with. Sob. Sob." Nate reassured me that there would soon be another baby in this house with brand new, just born hair. So we snipped away.

And really, I didn't cut all that much off (partially due to the fact that I didn't have any hair cutting scissors at the time)....just enough to help his hair look a little less like a mullet.

This is his new favorite hang out spot. It's kind of nice upstairs because he sits on the back of the toilet looking out the window the entire time I'm in the shower, and I don't have to keep hopping out with sudsy hair to make sure he isn't getting into something dangerous or destructive. It's a little annoying downstairs because he gets soaked....but....he has sooooo much fun, I can't resist.

Gotta keep those pacifiers squeaky clean, you know. 

First time watching Veggie Tales....he thought it was awesome.

This was taken last week when I was almost 36 weeks. We were about to head out on what might possibly be our last date before we are the parents of kidS (gasp...as in plural!). I'm definitely getting extremely uncomfortable (as in, every step feels like my pubic bone is going to snap), but until this week, I've been more comfortable than I was with Joel (and measuring smaller)....so maybe this baby will be smaller (please, please, please). It's nearly killing me to not eat sweets...as soon as this baby is out, I'm going to the ice cream-3-times-a-day diet.

Sometimes Joel likes the "baaaybeee bellwee", but most of the time it annoys him. He tries to push my belly out of the way when we cuddle. I hope this baby is a tough one, because he/she has a very busy big brother.