Our newest addition

He's finally here!!! We are so excited to announce our newest family member is here safe and healthy. Cannon _____ Crow made his debut at 7:26pm weighing in at 6lbs 5ozs and is absolutely perfect. We are beyond excited that he is here safe and sound. Everything went well - epidural works wonders....lol. We are still trying to decide on a middle name - I think we may be getting closer...finally! Anyway....here are a few pics of our new son :)

Here we go.....

Well I am officially Full Term today....37 weeks!!! Can't believe its here already.....I have been really starting to feel the days flying by - knowing its getting closer and time is running out. I finally got around to washing all his clothes and blankets last weekend...so that was a huge weight off my chest. Everything else is pretty much ready - maybe just small things. So what are we going to do with all this time now while we are just waiting for his arrival? Well lucky for us, we won't have all that time to sit and wonder how to keep ourselves busy. Guess where I am right now?!?! I am at the hospital in labor!!!! My water broke this morning as I was just waking up. Talk about confusion.....I never experienced this with Brookie - they had to break my water for me. I was really hoping this is what it was - either that or we have some other bigger issues to deal with...hahaha. Anyway.....that was around 7am so I just kind of got up and decided I guess now was the perfect time to pack my bags for the hospital...(like I said...I procrascinated way too much this pregnancy). Then I threw in a load of laundry in the machine, took a shower and just took my time getting ready. I had absolutely no contractions so I still wasn't 100% sure what happenend. Then we finally made our way to the hospital around 10:30am. What a change from last time - its amazing how much easier it is to get ready and out the door with no painful contractions.

Its now just after 1pm...they started my pitocin about an hour and a half ago - feeling some contractions now - nothing too bad. Just nice to know I can get my epidural whenever I am ready - I won't have to go as long without this time and get to the same degree of pain as last time....so thats a nice thought.

Anyway....here is my last pregnancy pic taken today as we were about to walk out the door.....we were planning on doing one today anyway....just didn't realize it would be our last.....but believe me Im not complaining - I am READY!!!! He is full term so its all perfect timing for everyone :)

The Home Stretch

It's hard to believe but I am in the home stretch of pregnancy #2.....we are now within a month of my due date - 4 more weeks! In less a month's time we will have a new person in our house......can't wait! I really need to get on the ball and get everything in order - wash all the clothes, blankets, etc. I just don't think it has hit me for real that we are so close - just doesn't seem possible. I am down to weekly Dr's visits so that makes the time fly by even more. My weekly appointment was yesterday morning and so far I don't show any signs of going into labor. I think it will really hit me once she starts telling me I am starting to dialate....can't believe I am to this point already. We also had another ultrasound yesterday to verify how big this 'little one' is going to be. At our last ultrasound at the end of January, he was mearsuring a couple of weeks ahead size wise...so of course I am a tad concerned about how big he will be when the day comes. I was spoiled by Brookie - she was nice and tiny (of couse you would NEVER know that by looking at her now) but baby boy is anything but. Right now he is already about 5lbs 6ozs with a month left to pack on the pounds. So if he goes by the average weight gain of 0.5lb per week, we are looking at around 7.5lbs - Im ok with that. But we all know how wildly off they can be with these measurements - in either direction. So hopefully that is pretty accurate...but I guess time will tell. What we did confirm though was that he has a big head.....ouch! We noticed that last ultrasound too and so far he hasn't changed yet....so that should be interesting. ;) Here's a close up face shot we got of our little guy.....he has his eyes open and he looks like he has some CHUBBY cheeks....

In other news, Brooklynn is doing really well with potty training. She loves being a big girl and using her potty. She made it pretty easy on us and trained really fast. We haven't started on the night training yet and probably won't for a while, but the daytime training is off to a great start. We'll see how it goes once the baby is here b/c I have heard that a lot of kids will go backwards for a bit to show jealousy.....so we will have to wait and see how that goes. Last week at her preschool, they had picture day on a pony to celebrate Go Texan Day.....her pics turned out so cute. She loves anything to do with animals....love it! Do you think she was excited or what?!?!

Sorry for not posting any recent belly pics - I'll try for this weekend. I've had a horrible cold again this week so I'm not really loving the idea of catching my look on camera...lol. I've definitely got a basketball in front now...hahaha!

33 Weeks

The days are just flying by. Seems like just yesterday I did the post about having 100 days left until my due date. Now here I am with only 49 days left....seriously??? If these next 49 or so days go by as fast as these last 50 days...I am in trouble!

We are still working on the baby's room. The weather is really being a pain in the you know what and is interfering with finishing the painting of an armoire for the room. It has been so cold and damp for ever that it is basically leaving us 1 day per week to paint. We are doing it in the garage so we need the temperatures to be at least 60 degrees in order for the paint to dry properly. Normally for Houston this isn't a problem, but this winter its been rare for us to be that warm. I thought I was finally done with the painting today and was so excited to move it indoors so I could begin to organize everything (my nesting is in full swing and its killing me to not be able to get it all in order). Well the final touch ups revealed my pregnancy brain in full swing - I was doing a couple of very minor touch ups on the armoire's doors and when I picked one up to work on it..I realized that the other side still needed to be painted!!!! AAAHHHH!!!! Of course I had already thrown out the rollers so we didn't have one left to paint it. And then of course within the hour, the next cold front blew through...so here I am stuck waiting until the end of the week for the next decent painting day. Not easy for a hormonal pregnant woman to deal with...hahahaha! We did move the armoire into the room tonight though and it looks great with the rest of the furniture - now just need the doors :)

Pregnancy wise - everything is going well....moving right along. I am feeling VERY pregnant now...all the fun (thankfully normal) stuff - trying to find that comfortable position while trying to sleep, 3+ trips to the bathroom during the night, 3am snack time b/c I am starving, wonderful heartburn and of course fatique have all hit with full force. I didn't get to this point with my pregnancy with Brookie until maybe a month out at most...so this is definitely an adjustment. Of course its all worth it in the end...but its just more challenging this time around. I am more than happy to have a 'normal' pregnancy at this point after everything that happened earlier. Anyway, here are a couple pics from tonight - I am officially 33 weeks today.....and definitely have grown since my last pics :) I decided to post them as black and white as I was looking a little rough...hides a little more...lol!!!

In other big news, we have now officially began potty training Miss Brooklynn. They have been working on it for about a month now at her school and we did it here and there at home, but it was more just to get her used to the idea. So this week we made the change and she is doing really well. The 1st day she had one accident and now the rest of the time she is all about being a big girl. She goes right to her little potty like she has been doing it all along - so I guess she was ready - it was more like mom that wasn't ready. I'm not going to lie - I know I could have/should have started earlier with her, but honestly I wasn't up to it. You have to be on the ball all the time with them during this time and being 8 months pregnant isn't exactly a motivating factor. But she's made it pretty easy on me now and having Grandma here to help too is definitely an advantage. So hopefully it continues on like this and we will be fully daytime trained a lot faster than I thought. We'll tackle night time training down the road a bit....