Saturday

Saturday was busy, I got to take Ada to my cousin Whitney's bridal shower. Ada dressed up as a princess and told me she loves showers.

Then we high tailed it out to her best friend's baptism.  They were so cute. I love seeing their support for each other.

Pros and Cons

Pros and cons of this pregnancy...

Pros: 
-I was able to get pregnant and carry him this long
-My acid reflux is soooo much better than the last three times
-My SI joint hasn't gone out... it's gotten sore, but hasn't been so painful that I can't walk



Cons:
-Polyhydramnios
-Pneumonia
-Worry about if he'll be healthy when he's born

Sunday afternoon

Lunchtime princess

Forgot to mention

I completely forgot to mention that we went to How to Train Your Dragon 2 with my family... Ada was so cute, she cried at the sad part.  Sam was beaming at the end of the movie.  And Evelyn has been talking about Toothless and how much she likes dragons ever since.  I had contractions all throughout the movie.  I was still having them after we went home, so I started timing them... I was having them about every 10-15 minutes.... for about 3 hours.  While baby is measuring big, I wasn't sure if his lungs would be ready, so I drank a ton of water and laid down on my side while Jer and I watched White Collar.  Eventually they stopped and I haven't had many since (this was Monday night...) That was weird for me though. 

Well, it's official #1

Well, we're having a baby within a week... so I thought I would need to get caught up on several things... like my blog before we did.  Let me start with the baby.  I've been diagnosed with polyhydramnios, which is extra amniotic fluid in the sac.  They want to induce me early so that it doesn't cause the placenta to rupture.  He's healthy, big and boy does he kick.  I just hope that his lungs are ready to be outside instead of in.  We'll see I guess.  I am excited to be done being pregnant though.  Just saying.

Ada and Sam had their last T-ball game.  They liked it, but I think they mostly liked hitting the ball.  We've got bats, maybe I can remember how to pitch well enough to help them out with that part at home. 

We had lots of cousins here for a while... Marg's family, John's family, and we now have Amy's family here.  We also had Anne and Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Robertson here from Arizona again.  They came because Grandpa Jay's brother, Bert, gave into his cancer and they were here for the funeral.  I love talking to them.  Judy has a gift at asking just the right questions to get Grandma to story tell.  Did you know that she wears blue and white because that was the color of her school uniform growing up... so she just has worn it ever since.  I could see Kate doing that.   Fun fact to remember.... Grandma told me that Ada was her great-grandbaby #50... and now our new baby will be her great-grandbaby #94 and they are both 94 years old this year. 

The #94s

 

Our nephew, Joey turned 5 too.  He's such a sweet kid... he loves to be involved in anything you're doing.  Loves to pretend, and I LOVE that he smiles every single time he sees me. 

 

We've had the Pass of all Passes forever now, and honestly we've been awful at using them this summer.  I wanted to use them at least once on Seven Peaks water park, so we went.  Jer took the day off after Pioneer Day and we went swimming.  Evelyn was so confident in the water with her floaties on... she didn't want my help at all.  The big slides with Jer scared her a little though.  Ada and Sam both LOVE the big slides and talk about which ones they're going to go on next time.  They saw lightning while we were there though, so we all had to get out of the pools and off the slide towers.  When it started raining, we decided to go home.  Poor Rachel though, she waited in line for 3 slides... They told her she was too little for the first two (even though she's 8), and the lightning forced everyone out of line for the 3rd one. 

 



#2

Jer and some of the nieces and nephews got to hike Mt Timp this last week too.  It's so fun to see them grow up and be capable of something difficult like this.  They left at 4am and got home at about 2pm... They're thinking of starting a "I hiked Timp with Grandpa" club... I went down after the hike and hung out with  everyone chatting until it was a good time to take Johnny and Adam home.  Then we hung out and visited up there for a while.  We seem to be chatting a lot lately... I rather like it.

Jer, Mariah, Adam, Johnny, Aubrey, Amy, and Grandpa

Evelyn and Amelia have become little buddies too... so cute to watch.

Mariah, Ada and Jonathan

 

Sunday, Ada wanted a girls night before school started... So I took the girls and hung out with Nella and my mom... and we had Seth and Grandpa as guest girls.  Jer took Sam and hung out with Jonathan and Grandpa Robertson.  They all had a blast.  Ada painted my nails and Grandma's nails (luckily she doesn't know that both of us hate painting our nails...) and Evelyn volunteered to paint my nails.  For a 3 year old, she did great.  Then we turned on music and danced, watched Scooby-doo, and gave Seth and Grandpa foot massages.  Sam "helped" with the irrigation, made a hot cocoa with dad, played games with his cousin, and they just had a blast.

For fun, we met up with cousins again before Amy's family leaves to Arizona and went to the wood park... Love that place.  I sat and held Susan while everyone else did the heavy lifting... she's so cute, that's for sure.

Evelyn's bugs

Evelyn has been attracting earwigs for some reason... she's had them crawling on her several times in the last week or so.  My favorite was on our way to Ada's dance class... Evelyn started just bawling... not her fake cry but a real panicked cry.  I asked what was wrong and Ada said there was a bug.  Ada couldn't reach it, I couldn't reach it, and Evelyn wouldn't touch it.  When we parked the car, I pulled Evelyn out of her carseat and found an earwig.  I squished it and Evelyn said, "Mommy, you made it DEAD!"  She was soooo glad that she talked about mom making the bug dead for the rest of the day.

playdough mess

pregnancy

I'm getting to the end of this pregnancy and I wanted to write down some current goings on and thoughts before the baby comes.  I'm so excited to meet this guy.  He's active, strong and loves to hear his brothers and sisters talking to him.  He's measuring 4 weeks ahead of schedule, so the doctor did another ultrasound on him.  He was measuring 6 lbs and has lots of hair... I'm kind of hoping that he decides to come insanely early because I'm already feeling uncomfortable and ready to pop.  (Which makes sense.  I'm 34 weeks and measure 38... yeah, I feel ready.)  I've been scheduled to be induced August 19th.  I'm excited, but I wish the doctor would induce me the week before.  Ada starts school the 18th and Sammy starts school the 21st.  Small conflicts there... They are both super excited for school to start, I just hope I can find a good sleep schedule for them and the baby to coincide so that I can help them get up and ready for school in time. 

Yesterday

Yesterday I got to hang out with these awesome people... I wanted to go visit, so they invited us up to go swimming with them in their pool.  Let me say that it couldn't have been on a better day.  It was 105 degrees outside when we left our house... The kids swam like fishes and I enjoyed catching up with Sophie and McKay.  Thanks guys!  A fun break for me.