This is it folks!

We enjoyed our last day today as a family of 4. I picked my mom up from the airport this evening, so everything is in place for tomorrow. I'm feeling anxious and very excited. It's such a surreal feeling planning your day around having a baby, surreal and of course, not very easy, since we have no idea when he will come and what the day will bring. I'm sure I won't sleep a wink tonight. Carly will be updating my blog (for the 2 of you who really read it) as she gets updates from us here and hopefully, we will be able to get some pictures up.

I'm off to do a little last minute packing. Here is my last preggo picture...

Monday it is...

I learned today at my Doctor's appointment that I've progressed all the way to a 1! Yipee. That's a little crazy for my third baby, 4 days from my due date. Dr. P even said that and then told me I was just really special, to which I replied...I'm a little sick of being special! :)

The good news is that, no matter what, we will see Luke's precious little face sometime on Monday.

Today was a super crazy day. We woke up to gross rain and everyone knows it's a big pain in the you know what trying to get kids anywhere when it's raining. We made it to school on time, but not because I was nice about it. Then, after my appt, I had to go pre register at the hospital and ended up having to walk forever...in my tall, heavy black boots...got lost...got found...got registered...and had to walk all the way back to my car. I thought I was going to die! THEN...I went to lunch with some dear friends I haven't seen in forever and right as I finished my delicious Chicken Tortilla Soup, I got a call from Gabe's teacher at school saying that I had to come pick him up because the weather was so bad they were closing all Metro schools early (it was raining for crying out loud!!!!). So, I had to skip out on the last 45 minutes of freedom and some serious good dessert (we were at the Puffy Muffin) and book it to school to get the boys, so all the teachers could go get their kids.

Inevitably, it's days like this when your kids decide to go deaf and not hear a word you are saying and are as slow as Christmas!

Tomorrow is a new day - thank goodness!

Pregnancy Update

I really don't have much to update, other than it's looking like they won't induce me until Monday the 14th. I go back for a check up tomorrow morning, so I should know more then, hopefully I will have dilated some! When I wasn't dilated last week, Dr. P changed the induction to Monday to give me a few more days, so if he doesn't decide to come on his own, we will be having him sometime Monday. My mom has already made her flight arrangements to be here Sunday night. I don't think he will decide to come on his own because I sure don't feel like my body is getting ready to have a baby. I'm barely even having Braxton Hicks contractions, which I was expecting to come on in full force with the third baby. Maybe I'll have more info tomorrow!

Grab a girlfriend and a box of Kleenex and go see it!

Can you say obsessive?

I'm so obsessed with Photoshop Elements. I'm going to go cross-eyed from all the time I spend in front of this computer staring at the screen. I'm having so much fun though! I'm actually going to make it to bed before midnight tonight. Yes, my new obsession has kept me up well into the night. I need something to be obsessed with this last bit of pregnancy!

Stupid Doctor's Appointment

The title says it all. Today's appointment was one of those terrible visits where you walk in with high hopes and leave with them all crushed. That might be a little dramatic, but hey, I'm feeling a little dramatic right now! I'm not dilated at ALL! He already has me on the books to be induced Friday the 11th, but I'll go back in Thursday to be checked again. If I'm not progressing at that point, I don't know when he will do it. The one thing I know for sure is that I'll have him this month! I've never gone past my due date with the other boys, so I feel pretty sure that I only have 2 weeks left, but you can just never be sure, can you? Now, I just need to get myself through these next two weeks without losing all my friends and making my boys and my husband crazy, and myself for that matter! :)

Happy New Year!

Nothing like a pregnant picture of me to wish you a Happy New Year - but this picture was taken on New Years Eve, so there you go. This is me at 38 weeks...and yes...I'm wearing a dress...a real dress, not a "tunic". Neal's boss's son got married last night, so Neal and I got dressed up for the wedding. Me in a dress and Neal in a suit! That NEVER happens around here! It's been awhile since I've been to a wedding, so it was fun to go and be reminded of our wedding day and how far we have come! It was also great to spend some time with good friends. My friend Stacey watched the boys for us, so after the wedding (and after we ran home to change back into our normal clothes) we went over to her house and hung out the rest of the night with more friends.

We have enjoyed our last lazy day at home for the holidays. Neal goes back to work tomorrow, and I go to the Dr for another check up. I'm hoping that I'll leave his office with a date set for induction. I know that it will be sometime in the next two weeks, it all depends on how far along I am. My official due date is two weeks from today. If we get any news I'll be sure to post. I finally had some motivation today to get some stuff set aside that I know I'll need to take to the hospital. I got the infant car seat out and all cleaned up and I even pulled out the dreaded breast pump (ugh!) to see if it's still working from 2 years ago. I don't feel like I'm ready, but I don't really know what else I can do, short of actually packing up my bags, so I guess I am ready. Scheduling the induction (they want me to induce, rather than go into labor on my own so they can monitor his heart rate from the very beginning) will probably send me into a tizzy of activity...or panic...

I woke up from a nap this afternoon to see that it was snowing outside! It stuck, but didn't snow long enough to go out and play in it. It was sure beautiful though, a nice treat for the first day of 2008. It's supposed to be 28 here tomorrow!

Happy 2008!