33 weeks and friend's new blog

Whelp, I had my 33 week appt today.  Things went SUPER well! Blood pressure was completely normal!  Who'd have thought? I was super happy and so was Dr. Askew.  I also had an ultrasound before my appointment to see how big "baby Beff" is (how Bruce refers to her).  She's apparently not wanting to be shown up by her big brother.  She weighed in at 6.5 lbs...and she's breech and I still have technically 7 weeks to go.  The breech part is no big deal since I'm having a csection anyway...it just explains A LOT in terms of what I'm feeling.  It also explains the enormous amount of pressure I'm feeling and why its so dang hard to bend over.  The 6.5 lb part is pretty par for the course for my babies, but still...yeah.

Dr. Askew said as of now she wants to let me go to 39 weeks.  I did then remind her that Bruce was almost 11 lbs at 37 weeks and told her I did not want to be setting any new San Antonio records for huge babies.  She laughed and agreed that we could consider going earlier if we needed to.  That being said, I am officially on the calendar for a c-section March 2nd.  I like March 2nd, the birth date being: 3-2-11.  Kind of fun.  I think I might not be so fond of it in a few weeks...may be thinking a date starting with a "2" sounds a lot better!  Oh well, we'll just see how it goes.  I also showed her the picture of my "hotdog feet" from my blog back in the day.  That was only a few days away from where I am now...and I am no where near that this time!  Yay!  Overall, a great day and great appt.

In other news, my friend from high school started this fun blog: http://dinnerparties101.com/.  She has lots of cute ideas for dinner parties, decorations, food and such.  I'm excited to see where it goes.  She also has a fun giveaway for you wine drinkers out there.  Feel free to go look around!

Update

Life is going well, we've all calmed down a lot since the holiday's.  The pregnancy is still moving along fine.  I'm 32 weeks tomorrow so only 7 weeks until c-section date!  I had a slight scare the other day when I hadn't felt the baby move all day.  I drank a Dr. Pepper, waited a while longer and called the dr.  They told me to head to labor and delivery...it is kind of annoying that that's their default response for everything.  My former dr would at least just have you come on in and not do the emergency room route.  Oh well, we got Bruce dropped off at my mom's and headed towards the hospital only to have her start putting on a big show...belly moving all around and all that...so all the panic for nothing.

My blood pressure was actually only in the high "normal-ish" range the other day at the dr...so the pre-eclampsia is still holding off.  I also haven't had nearly the swelling of hands and feet like I did with Bruce, but I guess there's still time for all that!  I'm still measuring 3-4 weeks ahead so I have an ultrasound next Thursday to get a size estimate.  I do have to laugh a little at those...they never seem to be that accurate.  I mean I know they tell you there's a variance of up to a pound, but they notoriously seem to be really wrong.  I mean they were really wrong with Bruce...had him a whole pound and a half less than he was the day before he was born!  Oh well, still happy to get to have another U/S...it seemed like I had tons with Bruce, but not nearly as many this time.  That's okay though, I'm kind of enjoying the lower level of panic this time around.

Things around the house are good, Bruce is so funny.  The things he comes up with crack us up all the time.  He got a new Little Tikes truck (like the Cozy Coupe, but a truck) from my brother in law for Christmas and it is definitely a hit in the house.  The other day he told us he was going to "pick up chicks" in his truck.  We know where he learned that, but still funny that he associated his truck with his "Uncle" Tom's truck... Poor kid is being hit hard by this crazy cedar we're having, we went to see Dr. Gulde yesterday and he was cracking me up.  First, he's been asking to go see him for a few months now...I told him we had to at least wait until he was sick!  Then he was so excited when he came in the room, you'd have thought it was his long lost best friend.  Ran right up and climbed in his lap, I joked with Dr. Gulde that we were working on his shyness... Well turns out he has an ear infection, but after our long string of ear infections this is the first one in a long time, so that's good!

Other funny things he's told us recently: "Mommy, I spilled my boogers"  referring to his dripping nose.  "I just don't wike (like) it..." referring to whatever it is he doesn't like (socks, carseat, food, the couch, and other random things). Putting on his "wobble goggles" to "take a closer look" like Scott in Imagination Movers. Greg telling him they should call Auntie "L" and Bruce yelling out "Ohhhh Toooodles" to bring a tool.  And there are more, but I wanted to get down a few so we don't forget them someday!