Month of the Flower Full Moon

This month's full moon is called the flower moon. The names comes from the fact that in most parts of the country, flowers are in full bloom. Well, now wouldn't that be nice? We have tulips and green fuzz on the trees. We're only 2 months behind the rest of the country (other than Alaska haha). Anyway, tomorrow night is the full moon. I'm hoping it'll have a strong gravitational pull and help this little baby come. It always helped my rabbits...we'll see :)

37 Week Checkup

Had a good check up today. Will be very nice not driving to Evanston all the time though...the gas is ridiculous! She said the heartbeat sounds perfect and checked me for dilation. Said I'm not quite 'there' yet, but my body is working on it and I am starting to dilate, just not at a 1 quite yet. Should be by my next appointment though and I must be progressing enough because she told me she'd see me next week or sooner if I needed her. She said that regardless of what happens with me, I'll have this baby by the end of the month! I'm very excited!! I also asked her what 'medically necessary' meant as far as epidurals are concerned, as our insurance will only cover it if that's the case. She said she considers labor in and of itself to be medically necessary, which I thought was funny. At least I won't have to worry about insurance not covering one if I get one.

Well, that's about it for this week.

My Epic Baby Shower

The full room

We had my baby shower on April 30 at 2:00. It was great! My mom found a great room at The Holiday Inn and not only was the staff incredibly nice, they did an amazing job setting up the tables too. My mom and Diana Metz hosted it and the three of us planned it, we had great fun! Starbucks is such a fun place to have meetings :)

There were probably about 20 guests that came, so it was the perfect size. They all seemed to have fun and everyone found tables where they knew someone else. We even had what I called The Western Table - everyone sitting there was from WWCC, it was kind of funny actually. There were 5 Western employees (plus two of their kids) at my shower, that's even more than we had at the 'Family Table'.

Thanks to one of Diana's friends, my cake was absolutely to die for! It was not only incredibly adorable, but it was one of the best cakes I've had. I opted for a vanilla cake with raspberry filling and butter cream frosting. Mmmmm! Needless to say, what I did take home was gone in about 3 days. I had to freeze my sister's piece right away to avoid it disappearing too.



Isn't it awesome?!

We played three fun games. The first one was a matching game about how well everyone knew the parents (weird thinking of Derek and me as parents). It had questions like when were we both born, how much did we weigh, things like that. The second game was trying to remember all the items in the diaper bag. Everyone was given 20 seconds to look in the bag, and then they went back to their seats and wrote down everything they saw. The last game was guessing how big my belly was (stole this one from Angela's shower). Everyone had to cut a piece of string and then come measure me to see how close they were. Dayna Folks was literally right on, it was impressive!



Derek's Grandma Willa and McCreary playing the matching game.



Diaper Bag for the game




Dayna measuring belly

 I got a lot of great presents too! Some clothing, which we don't need so much but was still just as cute as everything else we have, and then some great practical things like nursing pads and diapers and baby tubs and car seat covers (hand made!).

Bath tub, bath set, and clothes from my mom

Dress from (Great) Grandma Davis

It was also nice seeing friends I hadn't seen in a long time along with just being with friends I see more often.

Me and Angela



Me and Diana




Me and Mom




Me and Sandy DaRif




Candace Dove with Creed

 All in all, a great shower!

3 Weeks and 3 Days

Just because I like the number 3 and because 3 weeks and 3 days ago it was April 13...and it seems like it was just here!

I'll do a baby shower post soon :) So for now, I'll just include the one maternity picture we've gotten back so far. Angela did an outstanding job! Seriously, don't know why she doesn't do it as her profession.

Me and Derek
April 28, 2011
35 Weeks, 4 Days