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So today I am 40 weeks and 3 days pregnant. No baby yet and Shawn is not pleased. I just tell him that the fact that he's late proves that he Is half my kid. It's a lifelong curse, I am always late! Plus i told this poor kid to please, oh please, dont come early that he may just be playing it safe by hanging out in there a few more days. I can wait. Late last night I started having my first Braxton Hicks and they were very mild, just uncomfortable so maybe that's my body finally getting ready for the first time because until now I was so set against him coming until we were in our house. Chandra stopped by this morning with some raspberry leaf tea saying it helps prepare you for labor and can get it kicked off, well, you should have seen Shawn when he came home. It was like a kid on Christmas morning, he brewed me a cup as soon as I would let him and literally stared and harassed me the whole time until I drank it all. I was seriously about to smack him but his excitement is so cute I just not-so-quietly drank my nasty tea. Raspberry leaf tea SOUNDS good but apparently it's all leaf and no raspberry cause man it's nasty and no taste of raspberry at all. But I am really not a tea person so I may be biased. Before Chandra's visit I was quietly enjoying my breakfast on the living room couch when BAM! something was thrown against our big living room window. Startled the begeebers out of my until I saw feathers flying. Yep, a bird komakozied himself straight into our window. The poor lil robin was beyond saving and I felt so bad. When Chandra stopped by she pointed out an old bundle of feathers. Apparently this was not the first time a bird made that mistake. Well bets are being excepted when I will pop. My money is on Friday! Dunno why but it just seems like a good day to me! Whenever he comes we are gonna be so happy to meet him, especially his dad. Xoxo

Officially Moved In

Well, it's official.

The boxes that are gonna be unpacked are unpacked. The rest of them are piled in the corner to be carried downstairs tomorrow.

Today was the first FULL day we spent in Taber. We did have a dinner date but we postponed it till tomorrow so we could enjoy our first full day as legit citizens of Taber only 9 months after we bought the house, 7 months after going to church in Taber and 1 day before my due date. Whew. Chelsey isn't quite sure what to do with all the space in her house and fridge now.

But we are finally in our house. It was a great day today.

Much to Shawn's and Chandra's chagrin, no baby came today but not to lack of trying on Shawn's part. He even took me out for spicy chinese food to try and get the ball rolling. No dice.

But after dinner we just had a good evening walk down at the Taber campsite. It's lovely really. The river curves right by the lil coulees and there's a couple trails to kill some time walking around with.

So we hunted for frogs. Perhaps our newborn baby would want one as a pet

Climbed up the coulees

Then Shawn found a fun hobby for the evening

Throwing rocks at the deer down below to scare them off

He said he couldn't wait to have a couple boys to bring them up here and 

throw rocks with them haha

Previously mentioned deer... Wasn't quite so smart, or wasn't 

too scared of flying rocks

A legit smile on Shawn's face for a picture!

A rarity indeed

Just gotta catch him when he's in the middle of scaring deer

by throwing rocks. 

Shawn finding a piece of Arizona here in southern Alberta.

Wee lil cactus. 

I think I am gonna really like Taber.

At Least I Saved Money?

I figured before the baby comes I should get my hair cut and I thought I might as well save some money since I just get trims so I went to the Lethbridge Hair School.

Bad move.

On the upside: I did save money, my haircut cost only $8

On the downside: When I asked for MAX an inch off with long soft layers I got 4 inches off with choppy layers, bad choppy layers. It looks unbalanced and BAD and that's after the instructor came and tried to fix it too.

It's not a big deal, my hair grows fast and I am sure my hair will be in a ponytail a lot the next month but still it's always sad to see your hair get butchered and you try and intervene and it just gets worse... Eep. 

On the other upside: at least a lot of my dead ends were eliminated during the sacrifice of my hair length. 

Last time I went to the hair school I came out satisfied but not so much yesterday, but what was I really expecting? They are students, can't blame her too much. She's only half through her schooling. Gotta learn somehow.  

Funny thing is, I was mortified until I saw Shawn and he didn't notice a difference haha

Gotta love guys: me freaking out and he sees no change until I pointed it out but if he can't tell then it can't be so bad since he's the guy I'm trying to look good for. Or maybe it's proof that guys can be very unobservant(:

So this is Being Pregnant....

So after 39 weeks of being pretty darn good, I thought I was free and clear....

Then tonight when I got up off the couch I looked down and saw the fattest feet and cankles. 

Those are not my feet. Those cannot be my feet.

Literally, in an hour my feet went from being my feet to being chubby, cankles with pitting edema. What the?

Add that to the feeling that the baby has dropped (so much more pressure) but him simultaneously hanging out in my diaphragm/ribs and I have started to be somewhat uncomfortable. Can't complain too much eh? 39 weeks was a good stretch.

Shawn doesn't feel too bad for me. He's just excited because he thinks this means the baby is coming soon. 

At a garage sale I found this old metal tonka dump truck
Shawn wanted to buy it for the baby, but I suspect
it's partly for him too ;)
He was rubbing my belly saying "come out baby, come out"... Me, I am still slightly hesitant to say I am ready but feeling better about the idea of him coming. 

Number one reason why I'm feeling better:

Our house is 85% unpacked! 

We bought this table for our basement suite in Saskatoon
and it was perfect for the tiny lil space.
We set it up in our new home and man does it look
funny, it's soooo little for the large amount of space we have.
I loooooove how much space we have!

We were quite efficient on Saturday, thanks to my mum and sister. Tuesday we will set up the baby's room and maybe actually make the official move-in-date Wednesday. Cross your fingers, we just might be ready for this baby to come after all! 

xoxo

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Lil Stressed out.... 

Now that I am on Mat Leave I have been out working at the house each day this week until today when I hit a lull... Couldn't due anything by myself until a few things get done or I have a helping hand to lift things...

But I learned when stressed out about not being in your house a week before the baby is due on a day you can't do much to finish the house:

-Eat chocolate chips

-Call your sister

-Have a good husband (helps a lot)

-Make lists(!!!!)

Seriously, making a couple of different list of things needed to be done/budget/other gave me a lil sense of control of the situation on a day that I really couldn't do much for the house. 

Talk to me on Monday. Things will be a lot better since we will have finished/cleaned/unpacked as much as we can on Saturday. 

38 Weeks... Slightly Stressed...

38 Weeks!

Still feeling great!

My center of gravity has begun to be a lil off and it's hard to climb up on counters and jump down (found that out when painting yesterday.... Almost biffed it off the counters just 3 or 6 times) but I am still feeling mostly great.

I am feeling pregnant though sometimes and will groan and grunt but all in all I think I am doing pretty good! No swelling, stretch marks or lil pee escaping with sneezing yet. Score!  I do miss sleeping on my back, Shawn is very good about waking me up and making me roll over if I do try and sneak sleeping on my back. Oh belly/back sleep, I do miss you! I feel like there is literally no more room in my stomach though so where this baby is gonna grow from here is beyond me.  Maybe stretch marks are just around the corner for me.

In Other News:

Shawn and I had our first sleep-over in our house! 

 We've owned the house for months and months and the baby is due in 10 days and we are just having our first sleep-over.  

Here's our car loaded up with stuff to stay the night in Taber... 

It was actually quite fun and it was nice to be able to work on the house and then just go to bed and 

wake up and walk to church....

My pregger friend Naomi...
She's 3 weeks behind me and
lives in Taber too!

But it did something else:

it made me realize how much more we have to do before we can move in.

So I begun to stress.

A lot.

Please oh please oh please let me have 3.5 more weeks to go. 

Repeat:

Baby, do NOT come in 1.5 weeks. 

Let me be a typical first time delivery statistic in that sense, a week and a half overdue.

The house is sooooooo not ready to move in yet. Maybe in a week. Maybe in 5 days. Maybe in 10 days. But not now. And being out there was fun and exciting (our own house!) but oh my goodness we have a freaking baby coming soon. That house is sooooo not ready to come home with a baby.

Bah! So last night when Shawn and I were having our second sleep over in the house I couldn't fall asleep till after midnight because all I could think was of the things we need to do and soon!

Oh dear.... This will be a busy week. 

It's a race. 

Us and the house vs. the baby.

Pray we win or I am gonna be one stressed out momma. 

Kitchen Update and A Lil Mystery...

The Kitchen

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Don't mind the plastic on the peninsula... I was touching up the wall paint.
Doncha just looooove the white panelling Shawn put up on the walls?
I just love what it adds to the kitchen... 

But, I am in LOVE with our new kitchen so far... There are still little things to add/fix like the hood fan (which I bought off kijiji.. love it!) and such but it's come a long way with a lot of work! 

THE MYSTERY

Two different times we have come to our house to work on it only to find our front yard or our back yard or both have been mowed. Say whaaaat?

The first time was just after we had raked the yard, and I'm pretty sure it was the first time that yard had been raked for at LEAST 5 years. Two days later we came and the front yard was mowed. I kinda thought that it was a neighbor that was so relieved that someone was finally doing something with the yard and they just did it when they did theirs.

But then today we came out to Taber and not only was the front yard mowed (after they picked up some left over tile from when Shawn was finishing the bathroom backsplash few days ago) but so was the back yard! What the?? Who is this mystery mower and why are they mowing our yard? 

Who knows if we ever will find out but thank-you! It's quite nice since we haven't bought a lawn mower yet: one thing at a time.

ONE LAST THING

Some of you might have read a post on cleaning our walls months and months ago with "Tough Job" which is a wonder product that is very helpful for getting out smoke from the walls. 

Well here is another product testimonial.

Our patio doors are white with gold door knobs, yellow border and gold crisscross things in the window. 

Or so I thought.... 

Um WHAT?? the border is WHITE??? Wow. Wow. Wow! Go 'Tough Job'! That stuff is a necessity for someone who buys a house that was previously smoked in (or just never ever cleaned... I believe that too). Nasty.