Carson says "ollie"

Stats: 36

How Far Along?  36 Weeks

How Big Is Baby? The size of a Coconut

Total Weight Gain?  +3 lbs. Weight 177 

Sleep? Not great. Up a lot to pee. Ready to be up with a newborn instead of up for the toilet

Best Moment of the week? Packing my hospital bags. Makes it just so much more real

Food Cravings? Banana's, and cottage cheese

Food Aversions? Nothing really...

Symptoms of Labor? Lots of Braxton Hicks, and painful contractions. Lots of cervix pressure as well

What I'm looking forward to? Dr. Appt tomorrow, last ultrasound tomorrow

What I miss? Sleep. I'd rather be up with a newborn than up with back pain and pee. 


Exercise? Yoga, Squats, lunges and walking 

Hospital Bag Check List

Towards the end of every pregnancy the one thing that weighs on a mama's mind most (besides her baby) is what to take to the hospital when its time to bring baby home. As most mama's I wanted to get my bags packed early "just in case" but I hate the idea of packing and repacking. I think I packed my hospital bags 5 or 6 times waiting to go into labor with Carson. Only ending up being induced. I took a lot of crap the first time. Probably a lot of first time mommy junk I didn't know I wouldn't really need.  I wish I could remember what all I took. I remember I took my own wipe warmer. (okay we totally used that for ever, just not in the hospital) 

Labor Bag

1 - I love my Victoria Secret tote, its nice and structured

2 - black nightie, I plan on wearing this through labor. I actually wore it while I was in labor with Carson, it never got "gross" and it looks so cute. Its got this really pretty lace trim

3 - Bikini to wear in and out of the Jacuzzi tub. I know I won't be wearing the bottoms but I want to wear them in the hall way on my way to the tub.  - its old and I don't care if it gets ruined -

4 - Tennis balls for back labor pain relief for Chris to rub my back with

5 - Video camera

6 - Chapstick

7 - Socks to wear to walk around 

(Not pictured)

Camera

DVD's 

Laptop and Power cord

Toiletries Bag 

1 - Bio Oil ~ you don't want to stop your anti stretchmark routine or they WILL pop up after delivery

2 - Facial Cleanser

3 - Victoria Secret make up bag

4 - mini loofa

5 - Shampoo/conditioner/body wash

6 - Natural color eye palette

7 - Make up brushes

8 - Foundation and powder

9 - Water proof Mascara and curler

10 - Assorted Hair clips

(not pictured) 

Ponds face cleanser pads

Hair brush

tooth brush and paste

Post Pardum Bag

1 - 8 pairs of old cheap underwear

2 - Monster Pads (I hated the feel of the diaper pads at the hospital)

3 - Luna Bars for snacking

4 - Cotton robe and a nicer shawl for guests

5 - Pajamas from Motherhood Maternity 

6 - 4 Tank tops/Nursing Tanks

7 - Victoria Secret Nursing Bra

8 - 2 pairs of black yoga pants (Victoria Secret and Nike) 

9 - Probably my favorite find in the Target 1$ section, is this bag to take all this in. Its zippered!

10 - Breast pads

(Not Pictured)

My own towels and pillow and blanket

The Baby Bag! 

1 - Fuzzy Blanket and Swaddling Blanket

2 - Skip Hop Bento Bag

3 - Wipes (Hospitals do NOT provide wipes. They give you paper towels WTF?)

4 - Hand Sanitizers pads and gel

5 - Shout Stain removers in case of over spillage onto any of my clothes

6 - 2 pairs of newborn Jammies so he doesn't have to wear ugly hospital clothes

7- 1 preemie onsie in case he's smaller and 3 NB onsies for day time wear

8 - 2 hand knit hats for photographs

9 - Socks to protect his face from his fingers

10 - a Bink for the ride home 

I still have yet to pack the husbands hospital bag, since he'll be coming home to sleep he doesn't need much. He'll probably hang out a bunch at the hospital but come home at night so he doesn't need much. 

I am going to pack him:

Flip flops

Swim trunks 

these are in case I need him in the Jacuzzi with me or in the shower 

Mommy Saves Money: Swaddling Blankies!

I never swaddled with Carson, he slept with us and all that jazz. This time my main goal is to keep Oliver in his own crib/pack and play.  So I figured, I should buy some swaddling blankets. But then the ones I wanted, These ones are not cheap. 

I still wanted swaddling blankets, even if they weren't going to be cheap. Well today while I was at Joann Fabric (I hate this store with a passion but they have a HUGE selection of fabric) I had a 50% off coupon so I wanted to purchase a nice thick piece of fabric for a backdrop for Ollies newborn photos.  I ended up getting a really big nice fluffy brown blanket material type fabric 

I think it will make a nice backdrop. They had a TON of colors I might go back and buy a few more colors as I snag some coupons.

Back to todays project. 

I wanted to "test" out my stamp. I didn't want to ruin the Muslin if it didn't work. So I ran and grabbed a cheap plain onsie and well, it turned out pretty stinking cute

Here are my homemade stamps. Just hard felt spray glued on to styrofoam board. Super cheap.  I free handed and cut these out myself.
I love owls and elephants

Ooops its a shirt not a onsie. I painted the fabric pain on to the stamp. I think a little foam roller would have worked a bit better, but I have tons of little brushed from all Carson's artwork

BAM! I put a bird on it! 

Now that I new it worked. I washed and dried the Muslin. It washed up SO soft. I love these already. I am going to make like four more. 

Its so boring all plain

I finished the first one in about 20 minutes. I love the owls and Elephants! 

This is the second one. It got even easier and faster.

Over all this was a really fun easy picture. If you aren't artistically inclined you could die the Muslin fabric. I might do that with Carson. Get a tie dye kit and let him go to town making brother some swaddlers. 

For $3 a piece I got organic, unique swaddle blankets for Ollie 

Cuteness

I'm not in trouble? right!

35/35

STATS: 35 weeks!

How Far Along?  35 Weeks

How Big Is Baby? The size of a Honey Dew! 

Total Weight Gain?  - 3 lbs I was down to 174.7 which is just 14.7 lbs gained total. WTF?

Sleep? Not very good anymore. Up 5 times a night to pee is no fun, especially when you can barely make it when you stand up and Ollies weight shifts to my bladder

Best Moment of the week? hitting the 35/35 week marker for sure! Also knowing that if I go into labor, I can just go into labor

Food Cravings? Oranges, honey dew, lots of yummy healthy foods! 

Food Aversions? Anything that might give me heart burn

Symptoms of Labor? Lots of Braxton Hicks contractions some are really painful, so maybe its early labor? 

What I'm looking forward to? Last ultrasound of the pregnancy on 1/31! 

What I miss? I miss having my body be MY body. I'm really looking forward to getting back into working out HARD and seeing results. Exercise while pregnant is a good thing, but its really hard to put in a lot of effort and still get bigger 


Exercise? Yoga, Squats, lunges and walking 

Nursery Progress

Super long Nursery Project post! 

Here is probably the final nursery update (since its FINISHED) before we put a baby in it! Best piece of furniture EVER! lol. I was very excited to get the decor up. I posted a bit about the decor I was planning on making Here in the first nursery post. I think everything I wanted to get done (besides that damn rocking chair) is done. the rocker isn't going to happen, I can tell ya that much. I don't live in lala land. It actually "matches" the carpet. I'm not one for "matching" things to the carpet. Especially in our apartment. If I had my way I'd rip all the carpet out and put laminate flooring down (lets face it I wouldn't pay extra for real hard wood in a rental) but I'm pretty sure that would lose us the security deposit. =P

Mobile:

My AMAZING mother in law was able to make the cutest little cut outs for Ollies room and for the mobile I talked about in my last nursery post. 

I totally "stole" the idea from an etsy store. This one with the help of my MIL I was able to make the mobile for under $5 

Wall Art: 

Again I was able to do some really awesome DIY and use some of the great tractors my MIL made while I was at it. 

You'll remember I posted about the sign I was making. Well here it is above the changing station! I love it. I think it turned out super cute with the tractors. 

The blue sign got repurposed from Carson's old Nursery. I put it by the door, because its such a lovely saying. 

The Gear:

After Carson had grown out of his bouncer and swing we got rid of it. At the time we were living in a tiny 2 bedroom (500SQFT) house and didn't have space and the "what if" of having more kids. So we needed a lot of "gear" not the big stuff, I was smart enough not to get rid of a basically unused Crib, and matching changing station.

I personally think the Crib/Changing station look nice like this. Ollies room is the smallest room because it will eventually be turned into a play room for the boys and they will get bunk beds. 

I love having the changing station all set up. In the baskets under the changing table are onsies, and sleepers all NB size. and socks and hats and a place for binkies in the little drawers. 

In the hanging Basket beside the changing table are NB diapers, wipes, hats I haven't put away and bottles.  (My mom snagged this at a moving sale for like $5 WAY back in August. I was going to put it in the bathroom but its the perfect size for diapers and wipes and other baby necessities. I'm going to take the hats and bottles out of the top and use that to store my extra pumping parts and pump. 

This Vibrating Chair

I'm kind of at a weird point with the Bouncer and the Swing right now. I have them set up, I've let Carson test them out, and now they are put away till Ollie is here.  I got the vibrating chair for like $15 at BRU with a coupon and it was already on sale! SCORE especially since you never know if a baby will like it.

This Swing

I snagged this swing on 70% off at Target recently for like $30 not bad if you ask me. Again I didn't want to spend a ton of stuff Ollie might not really like. It also folds really flat so we'll be taking it with us places like my parents so Ollie has a safe place to hang out 

Nice little Touches:

Loving the Sleep Sheep

One of my really awesome friends gave these to Ollie for Christmas! I love them they have little planes on them! 

The Mobile 

The monitor. We have this one from amazon, it was cheap and in color and has night vision. We used it in Carson's room when we moved him from Crib to Toddler Bed. If I feel so inclined I might buy a second camera to keep in Carsons room. But we haven't used it in his room in forever. 

I am pretty proud of all the work we put in, in such a short amount of time. The pack and play is sitting in the doorway still waiting to go up in our room. I'm not really sure if we'll put Ollie in the PnP for the first few weeks or if I'll just treck it to his room every feeding. I'll still put it up for naps while I'm showering, or when ever. I like options.