39 Weeks

I just had my doctor's appointment and I'm now dilated to a 3 (YES!) and went from being 15% effaced last week, to 70% this week. So YAY! things are moving along!! :D I was so happy when the doctor told me that. He also dropped (I'm pretty positive on Tuesday), so praying hard that he'll be here soon...maybe this weekend!!
Cisco's parents arrive today as well, so that's one less thing to worry about and one more thing in order. :) Cisco was able to get off his boot this week as well, and he's back to wearing normal shoes and no crutches. His ankle gets a little swollen if he's on it a lot, but other than that it seems to be healing very well. They told him to just take it slow and work back up to doing what he normally does. The boys are getting very anxious for the baby to be here, asking every day if he's coming "tomorrow". When we say "maybe, we don't know", then they're like, "Is he coming the next day then?" They just don't get how we don't know what day he'll be here! :) So, that's about it and we just continue to wait...............

38 Weeks

So my doctor checked me at today's appointment and I'm dilated 2 centimeters and hardly effaced. Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!! I've been hoping a little too much that I'll deliver early this time, only now I'm trying to face the fact that I may not. :( The baby was really high as well, so she couldn't tell how big he is. But I'm thinkin this could be a good thing and maybe he's not as huge as we thought. Because I haven't been measuring as big lately and she thought it was due to him moving down. But if he hasn't moved down very far then maybe he's not as big as I feared. Right? I still think he'll be over 8 lb.'s, but maybe not the 10 I've been terrified of. I haven't gained any weight the last few weeks either, so maybe, just maybe he's not a moose! :)
Right now I'm just trying to trust that the Lord has a perfect timing for him to come. I've really been wanting to go a little early and not be late again, it's so hard to move and do anything!! But, at the same time, Cisco's assistant is moving to Seattle tomorrow which leaves him with no paid help for the last week of school and the Pastor's Conference. His parents come May 21st and will be here until June 6th, so just as long as he's born before June, I'm thinking that's all I care about! My doctor leaves this week for vacation as well, so I'll be seeing different doctors for the remainder of my appointments. I haven't seen any of them yet, and I'm praying they don't make me wait for weeks to have this baby. A couple days late I think I can handle, but weeks?! I'll cry. I would love for his parents to be able to spend some time with him before they have to leave. And I will really need the help! So please....PRAY! For me to be patient and trust the Lord, and that he'll be born in a somewhat convenient time...does that happen? :)

I'm so excited!!

I tested negative for the GBS (Group B Strep) test!!! Now, I know this may not seem like a big deal to some of you, but it's huge to me, considering it felt like fire running through my veins every time they would hook up the antibiotics. I seriously hated it more than the labor itself. So, I'm hoping this means a different labor experience (as in, maybe he won't be late?) this time! :) One can wish...
Other than that, I'm still measuring "big" and nothing new to report! Cisco and I were looking at my belly the other night and noticing how enormous it is. It's seriously HUGE. And it's ALL baby. There's no way this kid is gonna be under 8 pounds, for sure! I can feel almost every part of him through my belly and I never could do that with the others. It's pretty crazy. And just a little scary...

Almost 36 weeks...and counting!

Not too much to report, I had an appointment yesterday and I'm not measuring "as big as I was". I'm still measuring a little bit big but the doctor said it's really not that accurate. She doesn't seem too worried or concerned about it...which I guess makes me feel a little bit better, but then again, she's not going to be the one birthing him! At this point the anticipation is killing me, I just want to get this over with and hold him already. Ugh. It's gonna be a looong 4 weeks. Please don't go overdue!!! The boys are getting really anxious for him to be here as well, it's so sweet. They ask me EVERY day if the baby's coming today. And Daniel refers to him as "HIS baby". We'll see how long that lasts once he gets here! :) So....we wait.

Elias in 3D

We had our 3D ultrasound tonight, it was amazing! We got over 100 pictures of the little (chunky) guy and I wish I could put them all on here. But I picked out some of the clearest and best ones, so hopefully that'll suffice for now! :) It was really awesome to see him so clearly. I thought he looked a lot like Daniel, but we're gonna pull out some baby pics tonight of the boys and really see if there's some resemblances. The boys are getting anxious to see him in "real life" (as Josiah puts it) and ask me pretty much every day now if we can go to the doctor and get him out of my tummy. Don't I wish...it's really getting hard to move these days! I'm noticing more discomfort every passing day.
Oh, unfortunately they couldn't tell me how big he is. Apparently they can't do that unless they have a diagnostic order from the doctor. So, we'll just have to wait and see!

Monster Baby

I had a doctor's appointment today and I'm measuring 34 weeks!!! Seeing that I'm currently 31 weeks and 4 days, that only puts me 2 1/2 weeks ahead of schedule. Yikes! Hopefully this means I won't be going over my due date this time and maybe he'll come a little early (fingers crossed!)! Also, I'm a little afraid of birthing a 10 lb. baby, so I'm praying they won't let me go too long if he's getting huge.
As for his heartbeat, it has sounded fine the past two doctor appointments, YAY!! My doctor said that it's either resolved itelf or the arrhythmia is really sporadic. Either way, they'll be able to tell when I'm in labor, so we're assuming he doesn't have one until we hear otherwise. Other than that, he's moving fine, not super active, but he does let me know he's there! I've been having contractions pretty much every night for the last week and a half as well. Nothing too bad, but sometimes I'll get a good one here and there! Never really had that with the last two, but then again, this pregnancy has been really different all around!

Silly boys

Ok, so the other day Daniel was going to the bathroom and I went to go check on him...this is what I found. That would be a Time magazine he's reading...favorite bathroom reading material of his dad's!! Pretty funny! Josiah got a good kick out of it too and decided he needed to have a picture taken with him reading one. :)

Daniel's new thing is that he thinks if he looks in my belly button he'll be able to see the baby! A couple days ago he started doing this, lifting my shirt and looking very intently into my belly button. He'll stare for a couple seconds, but the hilarious part is that he's kind of creeped out by it. It's like he can't help looking, but he'd seriously freak out if he saw anything!! We asked Josiah how the baby got in my belly and he very confidently said, "Because you prayed for one!" I thought that was so sweet. He came up with that completely on his own. :)