THE Baby Shower

This is something I had been looking forward to for MONTHS.  Seriously it felt like time was creeping along as I anticipated having my family together to celebrate this new little life - kind of like when I was waiting to hit that 17.5 week mark so we could find out our little bean was a girl.  Pregnancy has its ups and downs BUT the ups far outweigh the downs.  So many big surprises and reason's for family to be together! 

My only requests were that it wasn't a ladies only shower and that we had food...  everything else was left up to these fine ladies.  

The hostesses from left to right:  Meghan Whitfield (sister and it was at her house), Toni Dueitt (SIL),  Margaret Hendrix (mom), Me (me) and Tina McDaniel (step monster mother - she loves her nickname) . 

Everything was hot pink and zebra striped.  I call this the Jersey Shore theme and it started because I am (well, was until I plastered it all over this blog...) a closet Jersey Shore fanatic.  I even went through a fake nail/eyelash phase.  Anywhoo...during this phase of my life I asked mom to make me and Danni matching blankets, one side being hot pink, the other zebra striped.  So she did and somehow this spilled into the theme for the shower.  I LOVED IT!!  Especially Tina's pink pants. 

We had Jim N Nick's Barbeque and cupcakes with zebra liners, cream cheese icing spray painted pink with pink sprinkles.  And then Tina made her famous broccoli salad and mom did her potato salad.  Meghan did the cupcakes and Toni did a choc cherry dessert. 

Tina bought door prizes that matched the theme.  We played 2 games.  One had to do with not saying the word "baby" and the other was something I'll cherish forever - everyone had to write down their own advice for raising a baby and I had to guess who wrote it.  So cute and I have everyone's advice saved in a little book.

Everything turned out so super cute I could not believe it.  I was so happy to have everyone there!  I feel like Tom, Dillon, Danni and myself are very lucky to have such a wonderful family that loves us so much!! 

Here are some more pics from the shower.

Tom and Dillon's arrival

My grand entrance.  I had not seen all of the decor...so I was getting my first glance.  So exciting!

My toes left, Tina's toes right.  Even our toes joined in on the theme!

Me and my little Memaw

YUMMY!! 

Even the little tree in the background had pink lights.

Me and my hubby enjoying the night

This is not a cute child...

See not cute at all.  Meghan's youngest with his Poppie (my daddy).

Enjoying the food - Jim N Nicks  YUMMMM.  Oh and enjoying the company too...  :o)

Off to the right you can kind of see the blankets that started this whole theme

Nastiness.

Me and my bestie - all pinked out!

Again, some more non-cute kids.  For real where did all of these ugly kids come from?  LOL Dillon and Grayson showing some love.

I will also point out that Necia was tasked with entertaining me for the day.  So we went and had mani/pedis, did some shopping, and ate at Chipotle. All I had to do was enjoy my day and show up at the shower...  kind of like my wedding day.  Funny how that works out... 

So now that I've been home I've put away all Danni's loot, washed all of her clothes, set up her play pin and bassinet, and ordered my boob pump.  I'm all set to have a baby girl now (well, after my sister gets her butt down here and gives me some lessons on bassinets, bottle warmers, pumps, etc).

It was just awesome and I'm still beaming about it. 

Katie

34 Week Update

I'm not so good at this blogging thing - it's been over a month since the last update.  WHOOPS.  Sorry kind of busy creating a human life! 

I'm just going to give a general 34 week update here, and then I'll do a separate post about my amazing baby shower...  because it really deserves it's own post!

First and Foremost:  Let's get the bump comparison photo out of the way.  Please excuse my appearance.  Hey, at least I put on mascara.

OK so that's done...  and please just focus on the belly, not the number of chins I have developed. 

As for how I feel.  Well, large.  And sick...

I have to confess here to my little Danni that I've been drugging her with codeine.  I'm sure if she is like her mama, she doesn't mind too much, but I'm sorry I could not give her the opportunity to "Just Say No".  Today marks the 20th (? I may have lost count ?) day of a terrible cough I have developed.  I have seen the OB twice and my regular doc once.  The OB thinks it's sinus drainage - but he looks at pregnant belly's and hoo ha's all day, so what does he know?  The regular doc thinks it's Whooping Cough or Walking Pneumonia but he didn't test me.  I hate doctors. SO at this point I've been prescribed Robitussin with codeine AND as of Tuesday an antibiotic.  It's not working fast enough.  I'm convinced my rib is cracked from the violent cough, and frankly, I'm tired of peeing on myself.  I think my little sickness DID help me loose a pound over the holidays...  at least it has it's perks!

Other than being sick, everything else is going great!  I start my weekly appointments next week. So he will start checking me to see if I'm dilating and how big my little whopper is.  He said no to going past 40 weeks so I know that by January 7th she'll be in my arms, but at this point I assume even that could change.  Her head is down where it's supposed to be, and I feel her move all the time.  I can feel her turn her head and flip from side to side.  She has the hiccups about 3 times a day now.  This used to be endearing, but now I feel like she is poking me and saying "Mama, mama, mama mama" with every hiccup.  Tom does not understand that this has become annoying, so occasionally I send him back to back texts "Mama....Mama...Mama...Mama....Mama..." until she stops.  This annoys him to the point of threats to withhold food from me, so at least he understands a little better I think.

Funny story:  The other night I nonchalantly mentioned to Tom that a Coach Diaper Bag this would be a good Christmas idea for me - he likes to buy me nice things, I want stuff for the baby...   easy right?  Well he gets his panties in a bunch about it and kind of stomps out of the room.  WTH?  He fixes himself a bowl of cereal and comes back in the room and stares me down and proceeds to tell me how much I piss him off with my ability to ruin a good surprise.  :o)  That same night he had been across the lake buying me said bag.  And he didn't want me to think he went out and bought me one just because I had mentioned it, you know he wanted the credit for thinking about it all on his own.  I must say, I DO love to spoil a good surprise.  Don't know why...  Anyway I CANNOT wait to use it!!  I already have it packed with some items.    

That about does it for my 34 week update.  I have 2 more posts that I need to make TODAY so be on the lookout.  As a matter of fact, why don't you just join my blog so it at least looks like I'm a hot popular blogger - links to the right I think...  :o)

Katie