35 weeks on Thanksgiving Day.

I have felt the energy drained out of my body this week. I have had more nausea, heartburn, exhaustion, and shortness of breath in one week than in the whole pregnancy, I have done a lot of sleeping.  I even called in to work for the first time this pregnancy on Monday because I was soooo exhausted Sunday night but was up till after 1am and couldn't sleep a wink.  The combination of nausea, peeing 100x, shortness of breath had me laying in bed frusterated, but at the same time thanking the Lord for how blessed I have been this entire pregnancy, up till now it has been a piece of cake, and it truly still is an amazingly easy pregnancy, I just have to slow down and decide that all the extra stuff I want to do doesn't matter, growing a baby is much more important.  And growing is definitely what the baby did.  My fundal height two weeks ago was 32 (I was 33 weeks) and today it was 35 and  little more I think, so apparently baby went through a huge growth spurt which took a toll on my body.  I knew my belly felt bigger, my ribs felt more squished, and little one rotated to the other side of my belly, but it was nice to see in number that baby had grown.  It's nice that my symptoms meant something productive was happening inside. 

I am not usually a fan of heart shapes on the belly but for some reason displaying all my rings and knowing there is a little life under there makes me LOVE this picture. :) Oh and my belly button is flat, not popped out, just stretched totally flat, so weird! 

As tired as I have been I managed to make 23 frozen burritos the other night.  I usually only make about 10-12 at a time because that is the amount of ingredients I usually prep, this time I decided to make a little more of everything so that I could build a stock of them in the freezer before the baby came.  Pinto beans made in the crock pot (an unmeasured amount), 2 lbs of ground turkey, 3/4 lb shredded cheese, two onions and two green peppers diced and sauteed all put together in a bunch of tortillas. So glad to have good food readily available in the freezer! 

Now this is not all that impressive of a picture, in fact I really don't like how blah the baby's closet it, but I am loving that the baby's closet is now actually "baby's closet".  No more Christmas presents, no more random furniture, it has all been cleared out for baby.  I want to do baby's closet like this  but I want to make sure it will be in a home baby is going to be in for a while, meaning we need to know if we are moving for Paul's job or not before we reno a closet. :) 

Ok I wasn't going to post these pictures before thanksgiving, and I had no intention of decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving, but I actually had energy on Saturday, and knew it was my last 2 days in a row off that would happen before December.  Since I want to take down all the decorations the day after Christmas and I really wanted them to be up for a whole month, I decided to decorate.  I even got Paul's permission to which he said yes, as long as I don't take pictures.  Well I am sure what he meant was as long as I don't put pictures on facebook because then everyone would know he had a crazy wife, so girls, here are my pictures. :)  It took me probably 3 hours to do everything which is way longer than I originally expected, but I move a little slower these days. I love seeing the tree and all the presents every time I walk downstairs, and a huge wave of relief that I am all ready for Christmas washes over me every time I see everything. 

Simple decorations this year, I didn't make anything new, just used what we had. 

Belly, Belly and more belly. This shows I got dressed not once but twice this last week, kinda impressive if I do say so myself, haha. 

On Sunday after church I did a few errands before crashing at home.  I dropped a pile of stuff off at goodwill, ran to target to buy a wipes case (I got a package of wipes at my shower but I had never bought a case to put them in and this one was only 2.39 and it was adorable...and full of wipes) and our first box of diapers.  We are definitely going to be doing cloth but I wanted the first few weeks to be disposable and then to have some just in case I wanted a break from the cloth. :)  

I can still see my tippy toes and I like that, though I am pretty sure baby is making more room for itself under my ribs, so I definitely am not feeling "small" even though there are still toes to be seen. 

Baby is lopsided all day every day. 

Steve and Kathy got back from their week long hawaii vacation this last Friday and they brought us some awesome presents. Paul got a shirt, I got a lava pot holder, and baby got this amazingly soft American Apparel and decorated onesie, I know little one will love it because I love it! :) And baby wont be old enough to care about what baby wears when this fits, so excited! 

On Monday (the day I called into work) I laid in bed ALL DAY basically. Paul was off too so we watched an embarrassing amount of netflix and fiddled on our phones, I knew it was what my body needed though.  We did install the carseat though in our 15 minutes of productivity and I love looking back there and seeing it.  You wouldn't thing installing a carseat would be hard, and it's not if you know what you are doing, but we finally got it right after one youtube video, the car manual and the carseat manual.  It just wasn't tight enough at first but now it hardly budges a centimeter. 

Tomorrow marks 35 weeks.  I think Eric knows his days of being the baby are dwindling.  Every morning when he knows I am awake (I must move differently because I wake up without an alarm on my days off grab my phone and he is there in seconds cuddling and asleep). I love our morning snuggle sessions. 

I now have weekly visits with my midwife which is insane and awesome! I can't believe I am to the "weekly visit" part that seemed so far away at first! 

I work on Thanksgiving but am hoping for a cut. Then I have Friday off, then I work Saturday-Monday and then Paul and I are going to Leavenworth for Tuesday, Wednesday, and have a baby appt Wednesday at 5pm that we will swing into on our way home. I am so excited to go to Leavenworth in the winter with all their awesome holiday decorations. I hope I remember to take my good camera and not just my phone. 

Love to all!