35 weeks and counting....

+/- 5 Weeks Left!  Eek!  So not feeling ready for this new baby yet, but time is slipping away from me quickly.  We haven’t gotten out any baby stuff yet.  We still have some time (hopefully) and I don’t want Evie trying to climb in the baby swing.  I bought a few gender neutral newborn clothes and I’m cleaning out some drawer space in the dresser in Evie’s room for the baby’s clothes.  Pat started painting Evie's new room and I'm hoping to get the new furniture for Evie’s big girl room soon.  It's not that important to have it all done before the baby comes, but we do need to make room for baby stuff so Evie's stuff needs a place to go! I'd forgotten how much stuff a baby brings!  RIght now, Evie isn't very happy when we tell her that something is for the baby.  She wanted to wear the baby clothes and was upset that they didn’t fit.  When I was changing her diaper the other day, she managed to rip out a handful of baby wipes out of the box.  I asked her hand me a baby wipe.  She said “No.  Dis Evie wipe”.  That made me laugh!  Boy are we in trouble when this baby comes home.  Somebody is going to be jealous!

Outside of starting to get ready for baby, we having our house painted sometime soon.  We picked out the paint so now we just need to schedule it.  We can’t really do any yard work before that because we don’t want everything trampled.   I’d like to get the patio cleaned up so that we can sit outside and enjoy the weather, but flowers and mulch will have to wait until late May or June.  Luckily Adam said that he would come up and help Pat (thank goodness for little brothers!) since I won’t be much help at that point.  He’s also going to help Pat tear down the poor excuse for a fence that we have going on in our back yard.  It’s an eyesore and I really want it gone.  I’d love to get a new fence, but that’s not in the cards.  I’m hoping that all of the things that  we are doing to the house helps us when we go to sell, which I hope happens soon.  I want to move badly. 

Our girl loves pickles!

As for Evie, she’s her usual crazy self.  We’ve had a few weeks or so dealing with another ear infection.  I had a pretty good idea that’s what was wrong when I had to sit up half the night with her in a recliner because she cried every time she laid down.  She took a new antibiotic which will hopefully kick this infection once and for all.  If it doesn’t work, the doctor mentioned antibiotic shots (which I am not crazy about at all) and after that, a referral to an ENT to talk about getting tubes.  I am REALLY hoping that it doesn’t come to that, but I want to do what’s best for her.  She hasn't been sleeping well which has been hard on all of us.  Other than restless nights, Evie has been her usual playful, talkative self.  She literally never stops talking and it seems like the more words she learns, the less I understand.  Sounds strange to say that, but she will talk in sentences and I will only understand half of what she is trying to tell me.  I’ll ask her to repeat herself and she’ll say the same thing again and again.  Sometimes I get it, sometimes I have to tell her to show me what she wants.  She love sing and dance.  Right now, one of her favorite movies is Frozen.  Everyone kept telling us what a good movie it was so we let her watch it for the first time a few weekends ago.  Now, as soon as she hears a song from the movie, she stops whatever it is that she’s doing and just starts dancing around the room.  When she’s not singing or dancing, she’s busy being a little diva.  She loves to wear dresses now and she is obsessed with her shoes.  She loves to wear bracelets and hats, and she won’t go anywhere without her sunglasses.  She also likes ponytails more and will keep bows in her hair a lot longer than before.  I love it!  It’s sort of funny because, while she is a girly-girl, she is not dainty at all.  She is loves rough and tumble play, getting dirty and playing with her tools.  It’s so much fun (and so exhausting) to watch her these days!

As for  Baby #2, times a tickin'.  I found out last week that the baby is BIG.  After an ultrasound, my doctor estimated that the baby could be close to 7lbs already!  I'm scheduled to have another growth ultrasound when I'm 37 weeks to see how much the baby has grown.  There is also an issue as to whether or not I will allowed to have an epidural due to my low platelet counts.  They have to be around 90-100 and mine are at 77.  I had this issue (gestational thrombocytopenia) last time too, but my platelets never dipped below 100 so I was able to have the (blessed) epidural.  I'll have another blood test next Friday to see what my levels are.  If they are still low, my doctor mentioned trying a medicine to bring them up.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed the my levels are higher!  But I'm also going to watch a few Lamaze videos just in case.  I am really not prepared to have a med-free delivery, but I guess I may not have a choice.  I would like to avoid a C-section if possible.  From what I've read, if my platelets stay low, I will most likely have to have general anesthesia so I would be completely asleep when the baby is born.  I have waited 9 months to hear "it's a boy!" or "it's a girl!" - I'd like to be awake when he/she is born thank you very much!  Everyone keeps trying to reassure me that things will work out in the end so I guess that I just need to trust that they will.