*** 37 Weeks Pic and EXCITING News ***

Well here it is my friends- 37 weeks preggo pic! I look like a huge barn- ouch :/ Still on the same target with weight at this point that I was with Eli- so that makes me feel better for sure :]

And of course my lil man wanted a pic with me too! He always loves to touch my belly or “the baby” :] It just melts my heart!

Noah and I asked him if he wanted to get in a pic with me and baby brother and so the first photo is of him trying to pull my shirt down to see my belly… he was pulling on my collar- yikes bud not the entrance to see my belly/your baby brother- too funny!!! He makes me smile and laugh so much <3

AND some news my friends. I don’t really know how to take it for now- but it’s news for sure! I woke up in the night feeling icky and had bad cramps like I was going to start my period (sorry if TMI ha) and was awake for a straight hour with contractions and cramping. It went away after an hour, so I said “to heck with it- I am making myself go back to sleep… if I go to the hospital they will just tell me it is a false labor!” Noah was leaving for work and I told him all about it and he was like “OH BABE we could have Zacary today” all excited! I am not against that since I am ready to meet my lil guy- but it was soooo cute to hear Noah go on and on… he’s a great Daddy for sure!

So I wake up and get in the shower before Eli wakes up and feel blah and not myself. I still have the annoying cramping in my lower belly all the way to my lower back so I called the Dr to be safe. She told me I needed to come in asap, get my blood pressure checked and to see what’s going on. I rushed to finish getting Eli ready for the day and out the door we went. I do have a friend here in Newnan that could have watched Eli, but I was in too big of a hurry to get there since they told me to get there asap before Dr Moeling was gone for the day. Eli did so wonderful the whole time. He played with blocks and puzzles and did so good I am so proud of him once again! He kept bringing up all the puzzle pieces to me and saying “Mama mama CIRCLE” and he was right- it would be a circle. I would ask him where to put the circle on the puzzle and he knew exactly where! I am so stinkin proud of him!! :]
Anyway to make an even longer story short- Dr checked me out to see 1- blood pressure is great… 2- baby’s heartbeat sounds wonderful (and the whole time she was checking the heartbeat Eli was yelling up up up up for me to pick him up out of his stroller because he was concerned for me awww and then when he heard the heartbeat he yelled BABY BABY BAAAAAAABY- it was the cutest thing ever!!!) 3- she then checked me to see if I was dilated. AND my friends- after thinking I wasn’t going to be at all… I am almost dilated to a FOUR! I almost fell off the bench. I yelled “holy moly a 4!?” Haha and Eli jumped a mile and bout dropped my phone on the floor since he was watching Mickey Mouse on it- oops on my yelling part ha!

What does it mean I am dilated to almost a 4? This is what it means- she said if I was pregnant with first child right now she would send me to the hospital asap. BUT since it is my 2nd- I could be dilated to a 4 for up to 2 weeks! SO she said to keep continuing what I am doing with trying to take it easy here and there (beings I have a toddler she knows I am not gunna stay sitting all the time) and she said the cramping is because I am dilated and if I get cramping and contractions that go on for an hour and a half to two hours to head straight to hospital. She said they will not stop my labor since I am at full term. This is very exciting- but at the same time I’m like woooooah what is gunna happen and when haha!? I called Noah immediately when we got back to car and he is very excited as well. We are going to the Cardinals games this weekend still in Atlanta and I will definitely keep you posted on if anything changes for me. I go back to the Dr on Tuesday for my appointment- so we shall see my friends! I can’t wait to meet my sweet baby Zacary- as well as seeing Noah and Eli with him too… how precious it will be. I just wish I knew when I was gunna have him haha- this “not knowing a date” thing just killlls me ha! It will happen how it's meant to be though!!! :] In the meantime- these cramps are so annoying... guess it could be worse and I could be in much more pain. So I won't complain I spose :] For now I am going to try and get a quick nap in while lil man is still sleeping... we shall see how far this goes.