Ready of Not...He is Coming!

36 Weeks (4/5/13)

I am starting to feel a little panicked that our baby boy is coming anytime. I have all of these "what ifs" in my mind:

• Will Jenna love, be interested and not hit her baby brother? We have been continuing to prep her the best we can. She has been reading a big sister book daily and we explain how she will be so important to him and be a big helper to us. She loves helping!

•  Will I be able to give them both equal attention? Then I think of my mom with newborn triplets and a 3 year old and I know if she can do it. I can too!

• When will labor start? The doctor says anytime. I was dilated to 1cm last week. Irregular contractions started yesterday. I feel prepared...mostly.

• Will Jenna be a good girl while we are away? Please god I hope so!

• Will my natural instinct kick in on how to care for a newborn again? I've been brushing up on my newborn book.

• Will we decide on a name before he is born? Not looking good. It has been challenging this time. The only thing we can agree on is that it probably won't be a "J" name. We don't really want to continue that theme and didn't want to be restricted to just "J" names.

Hoping everything will go smoothly and all my worries will go away when I see his face and hear his first cry. 

Other News:
This pregnancy has gone by so fast and pretty smoothly compared to the end with Jenna. I have had no health issues (thank goodness) and feel pretty good. My doctor has told me several times how much better I look than last time..not sure if this is a compliment or not :) As of 11:04pm last night, this is the longest I have ever been pregnant (37 weeks, 1 day)! Can't imagine waiting another 3 weeks, we shall see!

My friend Lindsay and I took a few pregnancy pictures last week. She is 4 weeks behind me and we thought it would be fun to have a belly pic for the future BFF's (like their sisters).

Left: Lindsay (32 Weeks) Right: Me (36 Weeks)

Current BFF's: Addie & Jenna playing last week

Last week we decided to sell my car (the civic is not ideal for a family of 4) and to our surprise it sold in 1 day! I was a little sad to see her drive away with new owners. Before we left I told the girl to please take care of her. She promised she would :) It was the first car that I bought on my own and I loved her. But with everything in life there is change. We ventured out in the rain and wind last Saturday planning on buying a Honda CRV. We had done all our research and that is what was the plan. On our way to dealership we decided to go to the Acura dealership just to look at what they had. My mom has an MDX and I LOVE it and had mentioned that I wanted one someday. We ended up looking at a used RDX (a little smaller). It didn't have a lot of miles and was in great condition. We left and continued on our way to the Honda dealership. We spent a few hours with the most annoying salesman ever (probably my hormones interfering my judgment but even Jeff agreed) and then drove off headed to another Honda dealership seeking a salesman we had talked to before to buy a CRV. For some reason that RDX kept coming up. We decided that we better test drive it to see. After we both drove it we decided it was the car for us (plus the salesman was so nice). Next thing you know we are signing the paperwork and driving home! Not exactly how our day was supposed to turn out but I am happy it did and I LOVE the car.