Week 34

We're 8 1/2 months along the way and the end is getting near!! :)  This past week has been great but this coming week is what I'm super excited about!  We are set to close Friday at 1 PM so our fingers are crossed very tight that will happen for us.  There's still a few things they need to fix but Andy's staying on top of everyone to try to make it happen!  As promised, here's a few pics of the new casa :)  Please excuse the dirty floors... the painters had been in and tracked in a ton of dust!

 So excited about finally having a green kitchen :)

 Other side of the kitchen where the table will go

 Living room, fireplace goes thru the wall to the kitchen on the other side, and deck off the back

 Formal dining room

 Harper's sweet little pink room!

 The other side of her room :)

 One of the extra bedrooms

 Living room again

 Entertaining area of the basement

 Our bedroom

 From the front

 Had to take a picture of Harper in her room :)

I left out all the bathrooms and the other bedrooms... not much exciting going on in those yet.  Maybe I'll take more pictures once our furniture is in and it's all decorated.  It's going to be a work in progress for quite a while though!  We've got so much more space in this house and not nearly enough furniture so we will just add as we go :)  There are so many things I'm excited about for this house!  There are a ton of silly little things such as: 2 trashcans in the pull out cabinets, front loading washer dryer!, a garage!!!!!!, an ice maker in the fridge.  What I'm really excited about though is how much space we'll now have so we can entertain as much as we'd like!! I can't promise you a real bed if you come visit me (yet) but I will gladly pull out our air mattress so we can have as many people stay with us as would like!  I have to brag on the Andrew - he's done so, so much getting this ready for us and I'm so proud of how hard he works to provide for our little family!! He's the best :)

As if moving into our big grown up house this weekend wasn't enough excitement, we also have two baby showers!  On Saturday it's a joint shower hosted by Aunt Mary, Aunt Sherriann and cousin Isabel with the Hamilton ladies for my cousin, Liz and myself.  I'm looking forward to visiting with so much family at the farm!  And then on Sunday we've got another hosted by one of our sweet friends, Becky and my Aunt Carol Ann.  I can't wait for both of them!  Currently, the things I have for Harper consist of a crib, dresser, glider, toybox, a bunch of cute outfits, and a clothes hamper.  Lol.  I did also order all the fabric for her bedding, curtains and some pillows.  I am looking forward to going out and getting normal baby things like diapers, bottles, pacis, etc. :)  It will calm my little soul to be more prepared for her! 

I have felt a wave of motivation this week to get crap done! haha.  I finally finished our wedding scrapbook because I told myself if I don't do it before Harper gets here, it will literally never get done.  This is really pathetic because Olivia made me the scrapbook and all I had to do were print and glue in the pictures.  So, thanks to Olivia because without her doing 98% of the work, I would definitely not have such a sweet scrapbook!  I've also been trying to get school stuff in order and got great news about that this week! They are going to let me take one of my finals in June... the one that was originally supposed to be on July 13th.  I have another on July 9 and July 12.  I don't think it will be any problem getting the July 12th exam moved which means Harper is now going to be allowed to come as early as 5PM on July 9th!!! haha. I can hope, at least :)

When I went to check the mail today, I was saddened by another Victoria's Secret catalog filled with cute bathing suits.  I've definitely saved some money this summer by not purchasing any cute swimsuits but I am pretty freaking jealous of those who are enjoying being little pool rats!  I am also especially envious of all those people getting married this summer and posting all their fabulous honeymoon pictures online!!!  I am dying to go to the beach and am wondering how young is too young?  Since we have to go to Atlanta for me to take a test in the beginning of September, I am hoping to talk Andy into driving just a few more hours and making a little beach trip out of it.  She'll be about 7 weeks old then... too young??  I figure she could sleep on the beach as well as she can sleep at her house ;)  We will see.  It's kind of sad when all the kids in your family get older and schedules get so different cause it cramps the fun summer vacay schedules!  Last summer it was our wedding, this summer we had David and Carries plus Harper's arrival... so fingers are crossed that somehow between all our crazy med school/residency/soccer schedules we'll get to do another big family vacay next summer :) (Is it also weird that I just realized I still refer to myself as one of the kids - I'm going to be a MOM soon! haha... I'm a kid at heart though :))

I'm afraid my expectations might be a little too high for how quickly I am going to spring back into my normal self after delivery.  We are going to borrow the Insanity workout dvds from a friend and hopefully do those together.  I'm also anxious to see exactly what this sleep deprivation is like... I'm sure all you current moms are cackling at me right now.  I'll have to write another post after a few weeks of sleepless nights and we can all laugh at my current naivety. :) 

Well we are headed off for a little walk... here's a weekly update! :)

How far along: 34

Total Weight Gain: 24

Stretchmarks:  Nope... but my skin is looking kind of translucent?? :(

Sleep: awesome

Best Moment This Week: starting to get my life a little more organized before this move :)

Movement: all the time!

Gender: Baby girl!!

Labor Signs: some braxton hicks occasionally 

Belly Button: innie :)

What I Miss: bending over without feeling like I'm squishing something

What I am Looking Forward to:  Moving and baby showers!! :)

Milestones: If she were born now she would more than likely be fine after a short stay in the NICU... but I would prefer to just stay tight for about 6 more weeks :)