Baby P and Cousin Sam's Church Shower

We had our last and final shower this last Sunday at my parents church. I have known many of these women since I was a little girl. One was my kindergarten church school teacher. Another was the nurse who handed my mother me as a baby for the first time. She said, "Here's your peanut." Others have been supporters through church sports and other activities. These women are so wonderful to my family.

I know, I know we had a TON of showers! Russ and I are so appreciative of everything we received and cannot thank you enough for all your generosity.

There were a couple of SUPER cute cakes, one with a monkey and one with a hippo. Plus they were super yummy! i think I got my fill of sweets that day because after that I headed down to Westport to Kyla and baby Austin's shower. Here's a pic with 3 aunts and 3 grandparents.... Aunt Sharon, Emma & Janice, Grandma and Grandpa Passman & Grandma Sue.

We got SO many wonderful presents! A few homemade blankets and burb cloths, toys, books, clothes, bottles, diapers, bath toys, picture frames, etc. Baby P is so spoiled already! Thank you!

Today marks 3 weeks until our due date. That means we are 37 weeks and officially full term. Yahoo!

Ending our 36th week

We are now officially to our weekly Dr appts until Baby P arrives. My Dr said she doesn't like to let her patients go past 41 weeks. She is predicting we will have this little guy somewhere between Oct 10-18th. Whoa, that is not very far away! Although I think babies have a way of determining their own birthday. Everyone keeps asking, are you ready? Mostly but not all the way. We still need a few things. We are having our final shower this Sunday so we were waiting until that's over to finish up the last minute shopping. Our stroller will hopefully either by here by the end of this week or beginning of next. I'm anxious to get it!

Our valance is done and now hanging up over his window. Here is a picture. I think it turned out pretty darn cute!

Presents keep trickling in which is always exciting. A friend of mine from Korea (I met both of them while doing the WSC in Seoul) and Russ grew up with Robbie in Cali. (how small of a world is that!) sent us a couple of cute outfits. Baby P officially has his first Halloween costume! So, cute.... a little lion. We also love the outfits because they are organic. Thanks Robbie and YukYung!

I think I am nesting/getting ready because I cleaned the upstairs like a mad lady today. Now I don't have the energy to do anything! We'll keep you posted on our progress!

Semi- Nursery Reveal and Update

I'll include a couple of pics of Baby P's nursery but not all of them since the name is a secret. Sorry! We can't wait to show you the name project we worked on. We also got some cool little metal letters for his initials a long time ago in St. Louis but we will not show you those at this time either. We are waiting on our valance for the window being hand sewn by our bedding lady and quilt by Russ's mom. We are so excited to add those items to the room! He has an armoir and dresser in his room but I can't show those pictures at this time. Aunt Carolyn was laughing and saying what baby has an electronic center in their nursery! Well, Baby P does since that room houses all the surround sound for the house. We got the armoir to hide all the wires and cords and just had to add a little flat screen TV for the mama. :) PS: The pictures aren't the best because they came from my I-Phone. Russ showed me how to upload them last night and decided to use them for the post. The lighting is a little funny and grainy. Oh well.

Last week we put together his swing, bouncer, and monitors. We had fun testing out the monitors by one person standing in the nursery and pretending to cry. :) A super nice co-worker of mine, Whitney let us borrow her bassinet. I washed all the bedding and pieces and we moved it into our room last night. Hard to believe that in give or take a month we will have this little guy! We have finished all of our baby preparation classes and pre-registered with the hospital. Next week we have a final meeting with our doula (birthing coach), final ultrasound before I start going to the Dr weekly and we go for our car seat fitting.

We have so many fun and exciting showers coming up to celebrate the upcoming births and weddings of other dear friends. Oh and not to mention birthday parties and baby blessings. Busy, busy times! We just hope we get to attend all of them and aren't in the hospital ourselves! I just want him to finish baking another couple of weeks minimally before making his grand arrival. Thanks for checking up on us!

2nd Wedding Anniversary

Tuesday, 8/25 was our 2nd wedding anniversary. We really didn't get to celebrate on the actual date because we had our last childbirth preparation class. Not sure that either of us thought we would be doing that on our anniversary! We just ate a home cooked meal before heading down to St Lukes. At the end of class we got to tour the Labor and Delivery unit. Wow, small rooms is all I can say! I keep reminding myself we are not going to be there long and we keep hearing that the care is good there. Good thing since the room is about the size of a closet! We came home and did our sentimental traditions such as reading each other our vows and watching our engagement and wedding videos. Can't tell you how much I love this man and can't wait for him to be the father of this little guy!

Friday we went to dinner at Fogo De Chao on the plaza. So, much yummy food! I think we both rolled out of there. Just to make the evening more romantic we went to Target to return some baby things and finally purchase our car seat. I know, we really know how to celebrate! We headed back down to the plaza and saw the movie, 500 days of Summer. Good movie.

Saturday we ran around town finishing up more "baby" errands. We got some curtains for the nursery and ordered our Bob running stroller. A lady stopped us at the running store and told us we just had to get the Bob stroller. We were sold!

Sunday we celebrated my Dad's birthday out in Indep. Russ got in some good video gaming while I made some burp clothes with my mom. I think they turned out pretty good for me not being a sewer. We had some extra fabric leftover from the bedding and I didn't want it to go to waste. So, there you have it. Just getting ready for our little man. We only have 6 weeks left!