2 Weeks Away!!!

I had my doctors appointment this morning and after talking for awhile, we decided that if Baby Seeman does not come before, that we are going to schedule an induction for Thursday January 29th!!! For some reason that just made things so much more real and it's kinda scary at the same time. At first I wasn't too keen on the idea of being induced because I've heard that labor can be quite a bit more intense, but these past couple weeks are making me re-think that I for sure don't want to go much past my due date. We talked about the pros and cons of inducing and my doctor just thinks that sometimes with first time moms that if they go much past their due date that they run a higher risk of having a c-section.
I kind of like the idea of having it planned out and knowing when I'll be going in, but who's to say that he won't come before that!?! Some days I feel like he could come at any time, but then other days I'll think that he could just stay in there forever, so who knows!
Even though I'm super nervous, we are also getting SO excited. We got our car seats in stalled yesterday, and now Nick feels like a big dork with the car seat base in the back seat of his car...haha! It is very weird to have a car seat in the back of your car, especially when he's not even here yet.
Hopefully I'll get a couple more blog posts up before the big day, but please pray for us....mostly that he is healthy and that the delivery goes smoothly!

Pictures

Here are a few pictures from this past weekend...

This is a picture of me at 33 weeks....Ok, the one on top I hate b/c once again my belly looks like a torpedo.  So later on in the day once I changed clothes we took another one and this one seems better to me!  

These are the funniest things ever.  Nick's Aunt Judy got us the "Pee-Pee Tee-Pees".  We laughed so hard when we saw them!

Me and Nick at my birthday dinner at the Melting Pot.  

Big Baby

I had my regular doctors appointment yesterday, usually when I go in I'm in and out of the office within a few minutes because I've never had any issues, baby always seemed great, etc.  Well, yesterday was a little more exciting!  

First off, since my last appointment 2 weeks ago, I only gained 1 pound!!!!!  I couldn't believe it, especially after Thanksgiving!  So that was kind of exciting.  Then....as I'm getting measured by the doctor, we come to realize that my belly had not grown any since my last appointment.  Uh, that's not normal is it?  I normally wouldn't have worried, but you have to realize that EVERYONE that I come across says to me, "you are due in January, you are small!!".  After you hear that day after day you kind of start to wonder.  So....when my measurements came back questionable, the doctor decided that doing an ultrasound would be the best thing so they could take some measurements.

So at this point, I would just like everyone to know that baby is BIG!  As the lady doing my sonogram said to me, "I'm just not sure where you are hiding this baby".  I'm almost at 33 weeks and he should be measuring at about 4lbs, not our little guy, he's about 5lbs right now.  She said he has a big head (oh joy...ha!), and long legs.  I told her that when one of the grandpas is 6 ft. 8in tall, that is to be expected.  I was so thrilled to hear that he was on the larger side because I started to worry a little bit that he wasn't growing enough.  He's just compacted in there pretty tight.  Yay for good news!!

Thanksgiving

Here are a few Thanksgiving pictures...

This is a picture of the Seeman Family AND all the dogs!  We definitely have our hands full...5 dogs!!  They definitely keep us all entertained though.

This is our Thanksgiving Day pre-meal.  Yummy chili!!

Here is me and Nick at our Sushi night...yeah yeah, I get california rolls...blah!!!  We figure about one more year till I can eat sushi again, I don't know if I can wait that long!  

I am also having my last baby shower this weekend, my mom flies in today and is staying for the long weekend.  Nick and his friend Beau are getting all the husbands together the day of the shower and they are going to play Top Golf (basically a glorified driving range).  I'm glad the guys are doing that...having fun while the girls are eating good food and yummy mimosas.  (Not me of course).  

All our baby furniture came in last weekend so we went to pick that up.  I love the furniture!  We got everything set up except the crib which won't be able to be assembled till after Christmas.  I can't wait to get everything up!

Less than 2 months left....YAY!!!!

Dumb Dogs!

This is a readers digest version of this story.....

Saturday, we take Benson to the vet because he tried to jump on the couch and missed, Benson hurt his leg and we get pain medication for him.  Sunday night, Nick and I come home around 10:30 to find that Roxy swiped everything off of the counter and got into the prescription bottles that had the pain medicine in them.  Benson and Roxy eat entire prescription (which is intended for Benson to take over a 2-week period by the way).  Nick and I call ER vet and they say, "bring them in asap".  We get there, both had their stomachs pumped and luckily Roxy had most of the pills in her system, otherwise it probably would have killed Benson.  

I still don't understand why Roxy is hungry all the time, I mean, we feed her like normal dogs...why does she have to eat everything??  

So $400 later and us still camera-less...we are glad they are ok, but bummed because we were going to use that money to BUY A NEW CAMERA!!!  Dumb dogs!!!

(They are still cute though!!!) :-)

New Picture

Nick and I decided that we were going to do the 3D sonogram, mainly because I won't be getting another sonogram till I'm almost due and I kinda wanted to see what our little guy is looking like.  So, we went to the sonogram and literally got ONE good picture!!!  Not because the lady didn't know what she was doing, but because baby had his hands in front of his face the ENTIRE TIME!!  I mean, I was put on my side, feet up in the air, and he would not budge.  Apparently he did not want his picture taken.  Besides him being stubborn, it was still cool to see everything.  He was head down with 2 hands and 1 leg by his head.  That's a pretty talented position if you ask me!  Here is the one good picture we got.

It's still fun to see his face and nose and hand, so I guess I can't complain, isn't it a cute picture! 

This past weekend I wanted to start organizing his room and make room for the company that we are going to be having in the next month, so I decided to wash all the baby clothes so we could put them away till he is here and so we won't have baby clothes scattered all over our house.  Somehow that turned into Nick saying I'm in my "nesting" phase.  I am not nesting yet, just trying get things organized :-)  It was fun washing the clothes though, when I'd be folding the clothes, I'd find myself just laughing at some of them because they are just so tiny and cute!  I can't wait to dress him!  

My first baby shower!

So this past weekend, I had my very first baby shower in Colorado.  It was SO good to get home and see my family and friends.  The weather was awesome and we all had a great time!  I was really sad to leave, because I probably won't be able to get back to Colorado till this spring. This was my last trip till our little guy comes because I'm not allowed to travel anymore.

Rachel, my mom and Maegan put on such a great shower, I was so impressed with everything they did.  One of my favorite parts of the shower was the awesome cake that Maegan made.  I couldn't believe she made it all by herself, and it was so yummy!  Here is a picture of the cake.

I also got to see some of my great friends from high school...

All in all, the shower was a great success and we got some awesome gifts!  We mostly got gift cards because everyone knew that I was going to be flying back to Texas, but that means Nick and I get to go shopping!!  :)

Everything else with us is great, just staying busy and enjoying our "Nick and Annie" time while we still have it.  We started our birthing class last week and I'd have to say it freaked me out a little bit, but I think that's normal.  Nick seems to really enjoy it surprisingly, he says he's learning a lot.  

Baby is doing awesome, he is very active which I love....but sometimes at 3:00 am he's kind of hard to ignore, so I am awake a lot in the middle of the nights.  I guess that's God's way of training me for those middle of the night feedings!

Here is one more pictures from the shower....this is me, Rachel and Maegan.  You girls did an awesome job hosting the party!

So sorry!!!

I know, I know....I haven't updated this in a really long time and everyone wants to see pictures of the belly. WELL....that's kinda hard to do when we can't find the charger to our camera!!! Yeah, somehow misplaced the charger and haven't been able to take pictures for the last few weeks. I promise I will keep looking, otherwise we might have to break down and buy another one. I mean, our camera is about 7 years old, so it may be time to get a new one...right?? :-)

Dispite our camera woes, everything is going great. Baby is great, I'm great, Nick's great. I can definitely tell that baby is starting to run out of room and get more squished as I am starting to get quite a bit more uncomfortable. Simple tasks like: tying my shoes, bending over, shaving, putting lotion on....these things are getting quite complicated! It's kinda funny though and I just have to take it all in stride. I really can't complain about anything so I'm just embrassing all the changes going on. :-)

This week, I am officially entering my 3rd trimester and honestly getting a little freaked out. Whenever I start to think about how this baby is going to eventually come out, I get this nervous, sick feeling and sort of start to panic. That's normal right? I think I'm just going to have to take it one day at a time and not think to much about all that stuff.

Baby showers are starting to approach...my first one is in Colorado November 9th, then a school one towards the end of November, then my big Texas one December 6th...yes on my birthday!! I'm so looking forward to them, although I do hate it when all the attention is on me, but they will be a blast and can't wait for them.

I promise I will try my hardest to get some pictures posted soon...till then, this is as good as it gets! :-)

A Bad Picture!!

Ok, I REALLY hate this picture but people were complaining that I wasn't posting enough pictures. Hopefully Nick will take some better ones and then I'll post those later on. Personally I think my belly looks like a torpedo right now...:-)

Anyway, this is me at 22 weeks. Sometimes I think, "wow, I have 18 more weeks to go, where is it all going to go?" I feel like I can't get any bigger....haha!!! Just wait right????

The day I took this picture was kind of funny. Ever since I have been pregnant, I have been drinking so much milk. Before I was pregnant, Nick and I couldn't even go through half a gallon of milk without it going bad. Now, Nick makes fun of me because I go through a gallon of milk in one week...by myself! So the day of this picture, I was kinda wondering why I hadn't felt him move all day long. Usually after I have my breakfast he goes nuts. I was trying to drink sweet stuff, eat some candy, nothing was working. On my way home from work, Nick asked if I had had milk that day. I hadn't, so I went home, had a bowl of cereal and then all of a sudden at that moment, baby became a soccer player!!! Nick even got to feel him kick for the first time and he felt it at the perfect moment because that was the biggest kick I had felt yet. Nick thought it was so cool, but freaky at the same time, like there are aliens in there or something.

I have also started going to the chiropractor and that has been a life-saver! I haven't had as many bach aches, leg cramps and have been sleeping so much better! PLUS, they have a prenatal masseuse there that does some muscle work on me and all I have to pay is my $20 copay!!! How awesome is that? Usually you can spend $100 easily on a massage, but my insurance covers this.

Everything else is great with us, we are starting to get things ready for the baby's room so that we can paint in a couple weekends. Then my parents and brother Ross are coming in 3 weekends and we are going to pick out furniture and stuff like that...and of course play some golf while they're here. Can't wait to see them!

We love Boys!!!

After seeing this picture, we are 100% sure it's a boy. This picture cracks me up b/c he is spread eagle and we are looking at his booty and "private area" ...from the bottom up. We got some great pictures yesterday and it was especially fun for Nick to see it all because last time he saw a sonogram was when he was the size of a blueberry....not much to see there!

The doctor said everything else looks great, he already has a fat belly even.

We truly did not care either way, if it was a boy or girl, but now that we know we are both just so thrilled! We are getting so excited, especially because now we can go shopping!! I even started looking at Pottery Barn and found some cute bedding. It's kind of a sage green and brown. If anyone knows me, I'm definitely not into the pastel colors, especially for boys! So finding bedding that I actually like could be tricky.

We also have not decided on any names....I think we got asked that about a million times yesterday :) We are keeping our options open, so who knows when he'll have a name.

To celebrate our exciting day yesterday, Nick and I went out for sushi!!!! Now, I know what you all are thinking...pregnant women aren't supposed to be eating raw fish. Well, I did splurge and had a couple california rolls which is just crab meat and then the others, I took out that yummy piece of meat and just ate the roll....meatless. Actually, it wasn't all that bad, it was actually a meal that I thouroughly enjoyed and that hasn't happend in a really long time. It was so worth it!!

Here are a couple more pictures from yesterday...