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37 Weeks - Waiting game begins!

I am starting my 37th week and I am feeling pretty good considering she is the size of a watermelon. Or so they say! It is very surreal that she can come any day now - and the fact that I am "full-term" is a little weird for sure. But alas, the waiting game begins and Steve and I are just trying to enjoy our final days as a "kid-free" couple!

This weekend is St. Patricks day and if anyone knows Steve and I - its the holiday that is even more important than Christmas, or at least on the same scale!! We are planning on going out - only to Pearl St, somewhere close to home on the just in case factor - but nonetheless, we are still planning on having a fun St. Pattys day! Crazy to believe that this time last year, I was doing a handstand contest with our 6'5 friend Josh and yelling at everyone, "YOU WHORE!" ... but times have changed and I guess the drunk St. Patty's day will be behind me! At least for this year! HA!

This past weekend, I had some of the girls over to help me put up a tree decal ... it was one of those things where I bought it, got it out of the tube and immediately said - HELL NO. So I had some friends over to help me! (lets be honest - I just did not want to do the work!!) So ... slowly but surely - the nursery is getting completed!

But everything is still going great, we have a doctors appt. on Friday and we will see how that goes. We just cannot wait for Emerson to get here!!

And now - some random pics!

Jess, Ash and Alicia working on the Tree!

Emerson's Closet that Daddy made!

Baby Shower Cake!

Lizz planned a party for us and made this awesome diaper cake!

Mr. Bo not too sure what to think of this new bed ... 

Crib!

Pregnancy brain .... Oh and I am 34 weeks already.

So I completely forgot that I had a blog - I even said to myself the other day - Man, I wish I was blogging about this pregnancy. Oh wait ...

So this week - I am at 34 weeks. Its been going by so fast and I am starting to hit a wall. I am starting to feel uncomfortable, starting to get little smokies for fingers and toes - I am just starting to feel like I am ready to not have all this extra weight on me!! I have been very blessed with my pregnancy thus far so I hate complaining, but it is starting to get hard to walk, hard to get up from a laying down position and the heart burn is unbearable at times. But again, I have been very lucky so far.

Since my last post - our friends Alicia and Darren had their baby boy, Lincoln. I think once we saw them with a newborn - the reality of having a baby soon set in! But again, I keep thinking - if they can do it, we can do it! And they seem to be doing great. Steve and I ask them all the questions that none of our other friends are asking them (how is breastfeeding, are you sleeping, how long does he sleep, is there a shit ton of shit .....) so it is really nice to have people that are ahead of us in this adventure! And its really great that Steve has a male friend that he can go to!

The nursery is slowly getting there - I am still in the process of putting away stuff from my baby shower and all the clothes that Jess had for me that does not fit Maycie anymore. Its so overwhelming - and of course I want to keep everything because all the clothes are so damn cute!

I have a doctors appt. on Friday and I hope they tell me if she has moved head down or even how much they think she weighs at this point. I think we are both just really excited to finally meet her!!

B is for Boy, G is for Girl

There is something about starting your day off knowing that you are going to find out big news. Nerves are going through the body, but mostly excitement. We are on the way to the gender reveal party and we are so excited. We all meet at my moms house and my mom fixes a great big breakfast and of course since this is the Sunday after Thanksgiving - she went above and beyond! But hey, we are the Keyser's, Price's and Herbert's - we like to eat! 

Robin drops off the cake and it is better than I had even thought it could be. "Baby Herbie - He or She?" I mean, come on! It does not get any better than that! Both families are there which I do not think has happened since we got married so it was nice to have everyone together. The Herbert's are super excited since this is their first and my mom is probably just as excited and it's her eighth grand kid!

The time has come to cut the cake and I am shaking like a leaf. We use the same knife that we used to cut our wedding cake, ahhh we are so cute! One slice in the cake. Nothing is indicating either way if there is blue or pink frosting in this cake. I am still shaking and Steve is standing right next to me with a big smile on his face. Next slice in, still nothing. I know have to take the piece out to find out what the frosting is. The anticipation is too much!!! The newphews are jumping up and down - they have NO idea what is going on. I pull out the cake and there it is. PINK frosting! We are having a girl!! Everyone hugs and cheers! Jacob comes up to me and says, "Andi, How do you know it's going to be a girl?" The nephews still have no idea what is going on but they are just as excited!

So there you have it .... we are having a girl. I cannot believe we are having a girl. Later that night, Steve looks at me and tells me how excited he is to be having a little girl. Daddy's little girl ... that is what she is going to be. The next morning we wake up and Steve turns and says, "How are my girls doing?" Its official. Baby Herbie is a little girl!

20 Weeks Means - WHAT WE HAVING?!

This is the appointment of ALL appointments. This is what you have been waiting for during the whole pregnancy!! So being the creative creatures we are - we decided to have a "Gender Reveal Party" also referred to, "Sex Party", "Sex Toy Party", "Sexy Party" ... The last 3 are thanks to my mom and my sisters... A Gender Reveal Party is a party where you get everyone together to find out the sex as a big happy family rather than in the hospital OR calling my favorites first to tell them the news. To do this, I decided to have a cake made with blue or pink frosting in the middle so once you cut the cake everyone finds out at the same time. I get Ashley's friend to make the cutest cake ever so now is just the moment where we get the sex into an envelope to give to Robin. So here we go.

We get to the doctors office and sign a form that we may or may not find out the sex today but we are feeling pretty positive. I have not a clue - there are no signs either way. The way this baby is moving, I could guess that we are having a monkey so I am clueless. Steve is definitely thinking girl because HEY - Herberts have girls. (To think out of all those Herbert men - Pat is the only one that can produce a boy!)

I am excited to get our name called for obvious reasons, but also to go pee. I have been holding it in and I am about to burst. I inhaled a PB and J before coming to the appointment as well so you know I washed that peanut butter down with some H2O! She calls our name and we go into the room. I am too excited to remember that I am about to pee myself so I will just wait. Maybe.

She asks if we are finding out - I tell her our major plan of finding out and she could really care less so once we got through to her that she just needs to put it in an envelope that would be just grand, we start the fun! I lay down and Steve grabs my hand ... The GOO is nice and warm - its going to be fun to see what this baby looks like. She moves the wand around the GOO which is making me REALLY have to pee.

We pretty much get to see everything but I was glad that she was telling us what we were looking at. In my head I say, "oh man - look at baby herbie's face - So Cute ..." and then she says, "This is the butt...", I will say in my head, "OH man - that's a cute hand!" and she will say, "this is a foot...." ... I say in my head, "Oh look at that belly!" she says, "this is the top of the head .." So I stopped even guessing what I was looking at.

About 45 min pass and we are looking at every craves of this thing and I am about to pee all over this chicks table so at this point I am ready to go. She kept saying, "Man - I really want to see the legs but baby is on the move and won't turn over - this get it moving!" I am not sure what that means - but apparently it means that she is now going to shake my belly and press the wand down hard over the GOO (not to mention I have about 8 bottles of GOO on me) ... so now I am really about ready to pee and at this point I would not care. She finally see's what she wants to but not for long before baby herbie moves around again. But before that, baby herbie says, "Stop bugging me bitch!" and the baby gives the doctor the finger. For real! That's my baby!!! She stops and says, "See that? yeah - thats the middle finger..." HA! Now I know for SURE this baby is mine!! After MEN AT WORK come into the room to remove the 80 extra pounds of GOO on me (not really but this chick does not even hand me anything. I have to use the toliet seat cover material that we all lay down on in a doctors office that makes more noise that construction on Colorado Blvd and is not that cottony feel like Charmin has but more like sandpaper - which at this point this shit has dried all over me, I need extra sandpaper to get it off of me ...) .... we are done.

All in all - this baby is perfect. 10 fingers, 10 toes and the most beautiful black and white picture under a sea of darkness that just consistest of lines and now arrows saying stuff like "Foot" I have ever seen.  Best appointment ever - and the best part is, I don't care if it has a penis or a  .... va...vagina. (hate that word). I just know this is MY baby and I love every little part of it!!

Now - we wait.

Look closely - Yeah - baby is flipping us off!!

FEET! 

This is the best pic! Look at her nose! 

Baby Bump!

16 weeks equals 4 months. I smarted.

Today was our 16th week checkup - Steve had meetings all morning so I went on my own. I love my doctors office - they are quick and to the point. Its like faster than a fast food joint. You pee, you get weighed, you get your blood pressure taken, questions are asked, heartbeat as heard ... THANK YOU COME AGAIN!

Everything checked out great - I have gained one pound which I am happy about! Baby Herbie's heartbeat was nice and strong.

As I am making appointmets for into next year - There is this chick that needed to do a urine sample. She goes into the bathroom as I am looking at a calendar and then all of a sudden she comes out holding her pee cup!! She was walking all around the office with it!! Finally a nurse saw her and was like, "Oh no, you need to put that in the silver cabinet in the bathroom." She still looked confused!! Awww shit, it made me laugh. What is it with urine samples?!

And here is my baby bump ....

12 week checkup ...

The 12 week appointment is already here and after I told Steve that we may or may not hear the heartbeat - he was already telling his work he would be working a half day so he could be there. We meet at home and head down to Rose. I love days like these - its fun to go to the doctors for once to see how baby herbie is shaping up. I just wish the doctors appointment weren't so far apart!

We park and start walking in - there is a smell of hot dogs in the air. Steve gets excited and says, "mmmm hot dogs!" and I immediately start searching my purse for my Preggo Pops. My stomach has still been nauseous and the smell of hot dogs is not a good thing for me to smell right now. I just hope getting out of the 1st trimester will help this go away!!

We sign in and the receptionist tells us we owe them money ... this baby is already expensive! Steve is looking at me shaking his head. He goes on to say, "I think that those pops really don't do anything - I think its all in your head. I bet I could buy you Dum-Dums and they would still work ..." Since Steve is the type of person that needs to know why or how something works - I say, "Bring it. Ask the doctor if these work ... I bet she will have my back!" He replies with, "Fine!"

My name is called - I do the urine sample thing - but this time I am more confident that I am suppose to pee in the plastic cup. I jot down my name on the cup, put it in the cubby hole, wash my hands and meet the nurse in the hall. Time for a weight check. GREAT. I get on the scale and I am closing my eyes yet I have one peeked open to see how fat I have gotten. Wait, whats this?! Down a pound! Ok! I will take it! I follow her into a room where Steve was sitting.

"Ok, I have to ask ... do those Preggo Pops even work?!" Steve decides to get this off his chest right away. "Oh yeah, are you feeling nauseous right now?" the nurse is looking at me ... "Yeah, I smelled hot dogs on the way in ... " She laughs and continues with, "Yeah - these pops have a ton of ginger in them to help settle the stomach. Another good alternative is Canada Dry Ginger Ale." I am just staring at Steve waiting for him to realize that Dum-Dums was a Dum-Dum idea!

My doctor had to go and deliver a baby so I see her back up. She asks the normal questions, asked if we had questions and decided to move on to listening to the baby's heartbeat. It sounds like something from outer space - pretty sure it was ET's family trying to get a hold of him. "Listen - you can hear it in the background ... that noise. That's the heartbeat ..." Now - many of you reading this has experienced in enjoying the sounds of your baby's heartbeat - it is the most surreal things I can think of. On one hand you think, "Wait you crazy bitch! that's MY heartbeat!" because its so weird. Then on the other hand you hear this beating and you are like, "WOW I have a human inside of me ..." Its the best thing you could ever hear in your life.

The nurse comes back in, gives me a flu shot - swipes my mouth for something (I think she is doing a DNA test to see if this baby is really mine) and sends us upstairs to get blood tests. Once that was over - we got in our car and just talked about the heartbeat the rest of the car ride home! I just cannot wait for the next appointment!