32 Weeks

I had a request for a new belly picture, so just for fun I put together a little graphic with pictures at 24, 28 and 32 weeks. It's amazing how huge I felt at 24 weeks, little did I know... and I don't even want to think how huge I will feel at 40 weeks!

(If you click on the image you can view it larger, and yes I am a dork and purposely wear the same sweater every 4 weeks.)

Finished Shelving

We finally finished the shelving in the baby room! We debated between painting and staining, but finally decided we would paint them. Chris did a great job cutting them and getting them all hung. He even put all of the stuffed animals on the shelves! What a good sport!


Before all of the animals...


After all of the animals (obviously the short one of us took this picture)...


Somewhere in the process we lost Toby.

Snow Update

For those of you wondering, the snow pile in our front yard continues to grow. At this rate, we are hoping that it is melted before June 1st!

Don't let Chris' short sleeve shirt fool you, it wasn't that warm out!

The Empathy Belly

On Thursday we had week four of our five week prenatal class. We went to class early, so Chris could wear the Empathy Belly. I think after wearing it for only a few minutes he better understands my issues with shortness of breath and aches and pains :)

Today (Sunday) we went on our private tour of the hospital where we saw everything from the NICU to the birthing suites, and the Cesarean Operatory and recovery to the postpartum rooms. They took us through a couple of scenarios and what we could expect. It took away one unknown from the process and made us both feel a little more comfortable knowing what we can expect (at least generally speaking).

The Baby Furniture

Well today we picked up the baby furniture and it looks great. The room is a little small but we have a lot of stuff in there also. All we have left to pick up is the glider rocker that will be placed on the first level. The recliner in the photo swivels, reclines, rocks, and I think a little more. Well we are getting closer to the little one arriving and we can't wait. Tomorrow we go for a private tour of the delivery suites and hospital and I am sure we will be getting a few other things for the little one and the his/her room. I did put the crib together with a little help from Lora and so far it did not fall in on it's self. Enjoy the photos and thanks for reading. Chris

Another Trip to the Hospital...

Well we haven't posted anything in a while. This doesn't mean that we haven't been having any new things to say just that we have been too busy to say them. We took another trip to the hospital on the 29th of January. Lora woke up with some spotting and she couldn't feel little Coopaddy moving at all after sitting down in the chair. All of this after we had gotten ready to leave the house at 5:30 Friday morning. We had borrowed a blood pressure measuring device from my Mom and Dad and Lora checked it. The first time we checked it was at 135/95 and we were skeptical so we decided to check it again and it was 135/95 the second time. So we decided to wait a couple of minutes and verify the measurement. We then measured her blood pressure at 165/95 and we were a little concerned. Lora went to the couch and laid on her left side for about 10 or 15 minutes. We checked it again and it read 136/95 again. After all of that we decided to call the doctor and wake him up after they said be concerned with a bottom number of anything above 80. Well we woke him up and he said "you shouldn't be checking your blood pressure at home but since you did you better go get checked out." Needless to say we went to the hospital and once again the blood pressure went right down. The doctor released us to go home after a couple of hours and told us not to check her blood pressure at home anymore. We had our 30 week appointment on Monday as well and we finally asked the Doctor all of the questions we did not get a chance to on Friday. The Braxton Hicks contractions that Lora is having are normal and not real contractions as the nurse thought at the hospital. We are looking forward to seeing Coopaddy and getting all of the over with. Here is the 30 week picture. Thanks for all of the well wishes and thoughts.