37 Weeks

1cm, station -1, 60% effaced... Woohoo! Could be like this for weeks... Last week 0cm, station -2, 50% effaced.

Tried to talk to my OB today about "non-directed pushing" during labor... not what I hoped... There is a reason I totally try to stay home as long as possible. I tried from the time AV was born to talk AL into a homebirth for the next one... Just too scary for him. My OB said that the hold your breath and puch method is the perfered method... blah blah blah... She also said that this method had nothing to do with my freak hypertension during the actual pushing which led to pre-eclampsia which led to me on MAG after AV arrived... I am not convinced... Don't get me wrong, I love my OB just not the common methods that OB's are following.

Baby Celebration

I absolutely love my Mommies Group! They are the most thoughtful and loving group of Mom's I know! We had so much fun having a Mommy brunch to celebrate the coming arrival of four new babies!

Missy took the Photo, left to right - Michelle, Naomi, Joy, Crystal, Shoko, Susan, Jenny, Crissy, Helen, Aimee, Denise and Cyndie! We missed Ruth and Courtney.

Shoko, Joy, Denise and Naomi

If I took off my heels we would have been all the same height! So funny!

Denise - due May 19th with a surprise

Naomi - due May 20th with a boy

Shoko - due June 24

Joy - delivering a little girl May 21st

FI on a Beautiful Cali Day

Just had my first REAL contraction - Grant it, I only had one the whole day.

Owen, AV & Colin watching the pop-up fountain while Mommies enjoy some Pink Berry

Who says that Adults cannot use strollers too?

Although I am about 60 lbs over the weight limit...

36 Weeks

We are 36 weeks! Yea! I am 50% effaced but not dialating. I gave birth to Avrum 2 weeks after a similar measurement. Dr. Grouse said if I go into labor from here on out we will deliver the baby, who is doing great. Healthy heartbeat and already dropped into position!

I am going to miss all the kicks and rolling around in there but I am so excited to meet BB!

We hired our Doula again. I am so excited to have her help and support again!

http://www.ocdoulas.com/

OOHH! Guess what!

We have a girls name!!! And cause it is so close we are going to keep it a secret. It is prefect and I am super excited! I cannot wait to meet BB and find out if we have a boy or a girl! 10 days till 37 weeks! OMG!

35 Weeks

It is almost a waiting game... 2-5 more weeks to go. Last week I suffered from MAJOR insomnia and this week I can bearly keep my head up and eyes open. I think my body is trying to tell me to rest cause BB is almost here! I remember this is when I went on Maternity leave with Avrum and I was exhausted! Slept almost all day everyday :-) No way that is happening this time around :-)

I am not as hungry as I was before, probably because I can eat bigger meals now that BB dropped into position. I cannot wait to go to the Dr. next week and see what she says. With Avrum I was already 60% effaced at this point but with no dialation.

We better get that Hospital Bag ready!

Happy Birthday Mom/Grandma!

Happy Birthday Mom! Looking more beautiful and happier than ever!

34 Weeks & Counting Down!

The last two months have flown by! BB is head down with a healthy heartbeat. We are super excited! Just a few more weeks and BB is here! I already put on 31lbs but have perfect stats so our OB could care, Lucky for me! All I want to eat is Sweets, Jack in the Box Tacos, Mc D's Hash Browns, Cheese, Pickles, and Raw Veggies. In that order.

The Ultrasound tech wrote the gender of BB in the file they sent over to our OB, who is faithfully keeping it a secret from us! Thank Goodness! However, I had her write it on a piece of paper and put in in two envelopes. I then took it to my fav baby boutique, Bassinets & Blueberries. I picked out two outfits for each gender (making sure not to look at prices) and gave them the sealed envelope. Then I left they opened the envelope and packaged up the proper outfits in a sealed white box, which I picked up two days later! It was great. So now BB has something special and new to wear coming home from the hospital that Mama specially picked out. Alex could bearly stand it! I had to fight him off the envelope more than once!

We have another appointment April 20th where they will probably check me for effacement and any dialation, as it will be 36 weeks. Then we may get one or two more weekly appointment in before BB is here. Cannot believe this is going SO FAST!

We both love the Boy Name:

Archer       Lynn Atwater       Xagorarakis

We cannot agree on a Girl Name:

Analynn     Marie Atwater     Xagorarakis

Alysse       Marie Awater      Xagorarakis (still playing with the spelling)

Anne Marie      Atwater        Xagorarakis

Or something totally different! :-) we will have to wait and see

This is the ironic part when we were preggers with Avrum we were set with a girl name (Avery Anne Atwater Xagorarakis) and couldn't agree on a boy name until our little peanut arrived and Alex pick Avrum over Asher. So, does that mean this time we are having a girl? Still 50/50 of guessing right hahaha!

HAPPY EASTER!

AV had fun finding eggs with Dada and the doggies... Sleepy head Andrew woke up at 9:30am.

We skipped the candy this year and put hotwheels in AV's eggs!

 Best Buy and  iTunes gift cards!

Making Easter Bunny Eggs

Brother is showing AV how to dye eggs

Dada let me see the picture

Mama and a clearly annoyed teen...

Dada take a picture of this!

The X Boys

Our Colored Eggs

(there would be 18 but Mama dropped 3 - preggers reflexes)

AV's Special Eggs

He colored these himself - Beautiful!

Big Boy Eating Breakfast

Basketball Star

Phone video - so super bad quality I will try to get better video's tomorrow.