38 Weeks

38 weeks with #2

38 weeks with X

Please excuse the completely tired look of the top picture! Holy cow, pictures really do speak a 1000 words! In my defense it was at the end of the day on Sunday!

I think I look pretty similar.......maybe a little more out there or pointier now and rounder with X.

I don't know but the good news is if he or she doesn't want to come out on their own this time he or she will be here on Wednesday July 6th, 2011 at some point. So 2 weeks and counting!!!

I am already 2 cm dilated and 50% effaced though which my Doc says is a good thing. Considering it took 12 hours of Cervadil and extra night in the hospital to get to this point with X, I consider this progress! Yesterday I was a little NQR (not quite right) but it poured down rain all morning and X and I never got out of our JJ's. I did do some nesting and resting though so that could have added to my fatigue feeling all day. I had some different "pains" last night but not contractions. I am ready to be done using the potty every 2 hours though, that is FOR SURE!!! I think I buy a 12 pack of toilet paper every week at the store.......

Xavier knows there is a baby in the beanie/belly. But I am not really sure he fully understands the concept just yet. It will be interesting to say the least what happens when Baby arrives!

Xavier has also been sleeping in his big boy bed for a week now! It has been a slow transition and of course I have to start back over with getting him to go to sleep on his own again....I have laid down with him each night until he falls asleep. He wakes at various times each time and I usually just run in there and lay back down with him for a few minutes and he is out. I have a feeling I am going to need a gate at his door to keep in his room once I start letting him go to sleep on his own, which needs to be asap! :)

Okay, we have a fun day ahead of us with GG, Sha, Caden and Chloe!

Happy Fathers Day

Caden and Chloe asleep on the couch at Sha's

Xavier thought it was fun to watch them sleep. He was quiet for a few minutes! :)

Little Miss Entertainer! She could see me through her shirt so she thought it was hilarious to walk around with her shirt over her head. Needless to say the neck is pretty much stretched! Good thing its Polo, it will probably shrink back to normal!

Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of dad on Fathers Day! Oops!

It was a pretty lazy day until we went to Aunt Sha's house and the boys all played golf. Jake and I slept in until 9:30 and X slept until 10! Cleaned up around the house from the party and stayed in due to the rain!

I hope everyone had a Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Belated to my wonderful husband and almost Father to 2! We love you!

And Happy Belated to my Father-Opa! :)

Happy 40th Anniversary Grandi and Pops!

The Bickerson's-Pop's running/workout group

(Billy Bob, Hardcore, Coach, The Mayor, The Pope)

Grandi and X

X was exceptional all night!!!

The Cluck-Cluck's

Grandi's school friends

Pop's gift from the kids. A HOT PINK Javelin!!

Nancy (MOH), Pops, Grandi and Yellow-Dog (Best Man)

Uncle Walt, Aunt Shady, Uncle Jim, Aunt Manny, Grandi and Pops

(Jim and Manny are Grandi's brother and sister. Really it is Aunt Maggi, but X calls her Manny!)

Nancy and Grandi

Be-Be, Ya-Ya, Pops, Grandi, X, Me and Jake

Be-Be "borrowed" the wedding album and scanned in some pics. I had them printed at a local camera shop and made a little collage.

Grandi was such a Beautiful bride! Aunt Manny STILL had her Bridesmaid dress from the wedding and made Grandi a pillow out of her dress. She also used buttons from their Mom's dress she wore to the wedding.

Even though Grandi and Pops showed up to the party 30 minutes early, I think they were still surprised!

We are so thankful to the many friends and family who could make it to the party and I know G and P appreciate it too. We had the MOH from Texas, BM from St Louis, lots of Lafayette and Peru friends and family from Bloomington and Valpo.

Happy 40th Grandi and Pops! Here is to many more years!!!!!

Jaclyn Wedding Shower

Mimi's Pretty table settings

Bride cake! So cute and more importantly, so delicious!!!

Baby Kate, me, Bride to Be Jaclyn, Jenn and Ash

Sister Friends

Deb, Nita, Bon and Debby

Beautiful Bride to Be and her cake!

Month of May

It is hard to believe that the end of May is next week! Officially due 6 weeks from yesterday. I start getting checked weekly next week!

I haven't posted much about what has been going on, only pictures but Xavier has been talking so much lately and has said some funny things that I thought I would put some of his "quotes" on here. I am happy to say he not only goes to bed at night without a fight but he SLEEPS through the night! If only I could stop my bladder from waking me up every 2 hours, I would feel rested for a short while!

He came down with Walking Pneumonia last weekend which isn't as bad as it sounds! Since he doesn't go to day-care I am sure it is from our many trips to Chik Fil A in the last few weeks or his visits to Monkey Joes. He loves going to jump around in Monkey Joes, but that has become an outing with Daddy as I just can't go in and rescue him or help him in the big jump houses and longer!

He is definitely a long and lean kid. He has skinnied up lately but I think he has gotten taller (I know, I should just measure him!) He is still a Mama's boy (for now) and it will be "interesting" to see what happens when the new baby arrives!

We have lots going on in the next 6 weeks, so I am certain the time will FLY by and July 4th weekend will be here before I have time to finish my Baby To Do list! 

We are super duper excited for Jimmer and Kate's wedding in July (just about 2 weeks after baby arrives probably!) And super duper excited to meet our new nephew/cousin Carson sometime in September!

Okay here are some fun quotes by Xavier in the month of May

"Mommy, I so happy to see you!" (of course, my favorite)

We were taking a walk last week and I broke out in song.....he said, "stop singing mommy!"

Every morning he usually says, "daddy at work, daddy make money."

Last weekend with all the thunder storms going on, we heard daddy walking around downstairs in the kitchen and he said "ooohhh thunder!" I said no, that is just daddy (he's a little heavy footed sometimes)

We have to be careful with upper body parts around Xavier as he is quite inquisitive! He points out moles, boo boo's and nippies! :) A man was walking his dog and happened to be shirtless and X said, "ooohh he Nakey!" The man started laughing.

And just yesterday, he took a drink of GG's iced tea and said, "ummm tea, I love it!"

Thanks for checking in on us! Have a great day and a great Memorial Day weekend!

Mother's Day 2011

X and Grandi

I believe X just got some money for his piddy bank!

Muscles!

Eating cupcakes, or the icing if you are Xavier and Charlie. Caden ate the whole thing!

X might not have even eaten the icing, only the M&M's

Grandmother's pretty cake for her 93rd Birthday!

Char and Caden helping blow out the candles, X wouldn't cooperate.

Pretty Little Chlo-Bug in her sparkly Tom's!

Daddy and X

Golf cart ride with Papa

Ash, mom and me

Ginger-snap, Mimi, GG, Ash, Chlo, Me and Grandmother

Opa and X in their matching shirts! Not even planned, I didn't notice it until half way through the day!

Although it has passed, Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful mothers out there! Especially my own, my sister and my mother in law!

Opening Day at the Derby

Jennie, me and Ash. The Preggos! We still had a lot of fun but a cold drink would have been nice! 

 Ryan, Jake and Brady

Me and Ash. We didn't keep our hats on long! It was actually pretty windy early in the afternoon so it was hard to keep them on outside. 

Jake and I with one of the spires in the background.

A little blurry but that's okay!

Overall we had a fun day. We certainly did not win any money but maybe next year!!