Almost time!

Me & Andy at 39 weeks:


Yesterday I packed what I should need at the hospital, and I think I've now finished everything on my "to-do-before-Andy-arrives" list, so I guess I'm as ready as I'll be to go have this kid! Less than 2 days until he's here!

Couldn't resist

If Kaylee naps too late in the day, bedtime seems to come too early, so we usually wake her up by 4/4:15. This is what I found yesterday when I went in to get her. Couldn't resist taking a picture of my sleeping "baby."

38 weeks

Me & Andy at 38 weeks. 9 days until we get to meet him! More like 8 1/2, since it's late now and he'll be born early in the day... Guess I should probably get that hospital bag packed soon!

15 days left!

I had another checkup this morning, with 2 more scheduled before the big day. Everything still looks good. Andy's heart rate was 148 beats/min, last week's group B strep test came back negative (that's good; no antibiotic/IV needed for that at delivery) and I'm already 1cm dilated, though I think I was 1cm dilated with Kaylee for about a month before she was born, so I don't think that means much! I'm definitely feeling more Braxton Hicks contractions this pregnancy than last time, and have been for a few months, but still think this kid will hold out until we're scheduled. Just 15 days now!

New haircut the next morning

Here are photos of Kaylee's haircut this morning. She's still excited about having it cut and I think it looks so much better already!! Even Jamie said, "it makes a bigger difference than I'd have thought." It was just so uneven, with longer pieces that wouldn't curl the same in the back and hung down/stuck out crazy. I'm glad she likes it, too! She keeps saying she's going to tell everyone about her new haircut!

First haircut...finally!

Jamie finally agreed to let me trim Kaylee's scraggly curls in the back. Not that they weren't cute, but very uneven and crazy looking. :) So after her bath this evening, I trimmed somewhere between 2-3" off. We'll see how it looks tomorrow! She was excited to get it cut; I told her I'd cut it last night and then ran out of time. As I was leaving her room at bedtime, she said, "Mommy, wait! You didn't cut my hair! You have to cut my hair!" :) I told her we'd do it tonight, and she reminded me about it a few times today. So there was no getting around it!

Of course while she was really good and tried to stand still, she kept trying to look and was squirmy, so it took a few tries to trim it straight. Or at least mostly straight! With it being so curly, though, I wasn't too concerned about a precise straight cut. Here are some photos of the cutting...

Before...During...


And After! The last photo was after we towel dried it a little bit and it curled up. Within a few minutes it was even curlier and fluffier again. I'll try to remember to take and post a photo tomorrow of it all dry and hopefully less crazy than before!

37 weeks

Someone asked yesterday if I thought I was carrying lower this time or if maybe Andy had already dropped. I haven't really paid attention to how I've been carrying him, but I had taken a photo yesterday and I looked at the photo I'd taken at 37 weeks when I was pregnant with Kaylee. Looks like 1-this is apparently my 37 week pregnancy photo sweater (I didn't realize it until I checked the old photo later, after I'd already taken the new one!) and 2-not sure if I've been carrying lower the whole time or if he's dropped (though breathing has gotten easier and I've had to pee more lately, so that could be), but my belly does seem to be lower this time.



2 weeks and 2 days until Kaylee's a big sister!