32 weeks!

On August 19th, Corey & I hit the 32 week mark. We were up at the cabin for the week, but still had to take tummy pictures. My belly button is still trying to hold on strong, but I don't know if it's going to last until the end or not. This baby is growing a ton right now. It's moving a lot and shaking up my belly. Everyone had a blast watching it roll, punch, and kick around in there. You can even see it's butt potrude on the left side. It seems like it favors that side the most.

Birth classes are still going well. We have our last class this coming Thursday. We're looking forward to all of the upcoming showers. We have three in September along with two weddings. It's going to be quite a busy month. All we have left to do to the house is shampoo the carpets and we should be all set.

Needing Storage!

Hi folks, Corey here. Here's a little preview of me at my finest! With the baby on the way we've been achin' to get some more storage, and for some reason they don't build these new townhomes with much of that in mind. So Heidi and I have been bugging Rob to come help us out with a little bit of construction.

Of course you all know Rob and he doesn't take any job lightly, I had in mind maybe a few shelves here, a few shelves there, and that would be it. Well, not Rob. He brought table saws, tools, Scott, and of course we bought enough lumber to add about a 1000 foot addition to our house. Our neighbors kept coming over and enviously checking up on our progress, and to tell us not to be running those saws after 10:30pm...Oops.


Here's Heidi helpin' out even against the strict advice of her father. But, like Rob says about Michelle, you can't keep a good woman down, I would tend to agree. Like mother, like daughter.

So here's the final result. Not to shabby if I do say so myself. We're happy to say with all the new storage in the garage, we are all the more closer to finally calling our old "storage" room a "baby" room. Thanks for all the hard work Rob and Scott.

30 weeks!

Corey and I hit the 30 week mark on August 5th! We started our birth classes last Thursday night, which was exciting and scary all at the same time. I think it's just making me realize how close this is. We talked about things to bring to the hospital for the labor & delivery, which I haven't even thought about yet. A lot of the class is review for me (it's taught by one of my old co-workers), but Corey was quite interested, so that was fun. I forget that he doesn't really know about what to expect.

I had my first shower on Sunday given by all of my co-workers, which was a blast. It's so fun to get all the baby stuff. This picture was taken just before I left. I decided that I'm going to need to get a few new shirts soon cause the baby is filling out the ones I have pretty substantially.

It's starting to get harder to balance with my center of gravity thrown off more and more. I've almost fallen over in the shower a few times.

I love just holding the baby and feeling it move around in there. I can't wait until I can see what it looks like!

I had a doctors appointment and I'm measuring exactly 30 weeks, the baby's heart rate is in the 140's and it's moving around like crazy. Every night Corey and I "watch the show!" That's just watching the baby roll around in my belly, but it's quite entertaining to us (well, Corey sometimes falls asleep before the show starts).

Painting the Nursery

Well, it has finally begun. We are getting ready for this baby to come since we're less than 10 weeks away! Katie & Angie came over last Thursday, August 3rd and started painting while I got the fun of hanging out with little Rowan. It was quite hot out that day, so there were many cold Izze's had by all. My parents even got to join the fun because they stopped by to visit.

Dad got stuck with painting the closet and clean-up duty (sorry dad).

Mom got to hang out with Rowan.

It looks great! We painted it 'Crisp Kacki', which matches both the boy and girl bedding that we have picked out. We got our cherry gliding rocking chair from the ladies at work, so when it arrives in the mail it will be the first piece of furniture we put in there, exciting! My dad is also coming up this week to put closetmaid in the closet. Then I can start to organize! Yay!