Other random updates

Let's see...the only other big news I have is that the girls at work threw me a surprise baby shower at work last week (the same day as the Mraz concert!!). I work with an awesome group of people, and it was really sweet of them (and a couple other friends who came!)! We got to have Olive garden for lunch, yum! And then they had the break room all decorated, complete with safari baby decor and cupcakes, yum again! We got really nice gifts from everyone; thank you, thank you!!

We also got a baby gift from Tony's coworkers. They got together and gave us a card and a very nice gift of cash! :) We used it to help buy a glider/ottoman for the nursery. It is a fantastic chair that we have both already napped in. :) Thank yous to all the people who helped with that gift!

My parents also sent us a present: they bought the stroller/car seat travel system we wanted! Thank you so much!! It's already assembled, we just have to install the car seat bases. :)

I had my first Mother's Day this weekend. My mom sent a 'bouquet' made of fake flowers and baby clothes. Too cute! Tony (even though instructed not to) bought me roses. :) Gotta love that guy! I have a hard time thinking of myself as a mother yet, but as my hubby points out: do you feed him, shelter him and love him? Then of course you're a mom! Point taken. :)

As I am getting bigger and it is getting harder for me to do some things easily (stupid shoelaces!), I decided Quinn should know that it was getting close to time for him to come out. So we had a conversation (albeit, a decidedly one-sided conversation) in which I told him he has until Father's Day to be born. That gives him a couple days past my due date, which I think is perfectly fair. :)

Well, I think that's enough posts for one day. I will really try to update again soon. :) In the meantime, here are some pics for the day.

All the baby shower presents sitting in our new glider chair!

My baby clothes bouquet from Mom on Mother's Day!

Have a great day, everyone!

Early Anniversary

Tony and I celebrated our 5th anniversary last week. I think I wrote about it before, but our anniversary is a week after my due date, so we decided earlier would be better. :) We don't go out very often, and generally find it hard to spend money on date stuff, but we splurged. :) We went to the Jason Mraz concert here in KC at the Starlight. It was fantastic! The tickets were general admission, so we left early and stood in line for about 2 hours. It was hot, and uncomfortable, but worth it. We got some really good seats, bought a couple T shirts (even though I won't be able to wear mine for a couple months!), and waited for the show to start. The girl who opened was OK, I didn't really care for her. The Plain White Tees were next, and they did a pretty good job. But Mraz!!!! He (and the band) were, as expected, fantastic. No one sat down the entire time they were on- well, I sat down a couple of times, but my feet, hips and back were killing me! The show was great!

If you ever get the chance to see Mraz in concert, go! I highly recommend it! I do not neccesarily recommend going when you're in your last month and 1/2 of pregnancy, however. I was so sore, tired and swollen from standing, but it was so worth it!!!

Pregnancy Update

Wow, so I'm bad at updating lately! I've had two doctor visits since the last update. The first was completely, measuring normal, normal weight gain, etc. I then got switched up to every 2 week visits. The last visit was good as well. I was measuring big again, though. So, they did another ultrasound which showed that little Quinn is doing just fine, he's just...well, I think he's going to be big. :) He was measuring two weeks ahead and had an estimated weight of a little over 5 pounds (with me at 33.5 weeks)! The doctors don't seem at all worried, just told me that I'm probably going to have a big baby, which we always suspected anyway. :) I go for my next visit in a week, then I go every week until the kiddo comes!! Only 5 1/2 weeks left!!!! That seems really crazy!

Overall, I'm doing pretty well. I don't have tons of swelling, which I am thankful for. I am achy, and tired, and feel huge, but good. Most days. But everyone has bad days, and I think all the hormones and carrying around the equivalent of a bowling ball or two in my abdomen make me entitled to a few more than other people. :) Quinn moves around all the time, and now that he's running out of room he has taken to pushing more than kicking. He does get the hiccups several times a day, which is a pretty weird feeling. He actually woke me up this morning because he had the hiccups. :)