Baby Shower #2 - Cornwall

Baby Shower #2 thrown by the mom's up in Cornwall at Drew's on the Square on Sunday 4/26. The food was fabulous especially the DELICIOUS cake made by Alexis! Thank you! Great choice Mom H!

Once again it was so wonderful to be surrounded by people who love Tom and I so much and we were showered with more presents for baby --- the nursery is overflowing!

Me and Trisha... Lil Cabbage's God Mother

Maternity Photo Shoot

On Saturday April 11th Tom and I had Sally Sosler, a photographer come into our home and she did a maternity photo shoot! The pics came out amazing...

The one above is a little peak at the belly.
The first one below is my favorite. The second one below, I am wrapped in a blanket that was made for us for our wedding by one of Tom's great aunt's... Thanks Aunt Sis!

Baby gets the hiccups!

So I was just sitting around and then the baby got the hiccups and was moving around a little bit -- I was able to capture a little bit of the hiccups! This is all so cool!

Baby Shower #1 - Brooklyn

Wow! Tom and I are so blessed! The mom's threw the Brooklyn baby shower yesterday and it was amazing. The room was filled with people we love and I did get to spend a little time with each table and say hello and talk for a bit which was nice but there were A LOT of presents to be opened! So as soon as I was finished eating I was told I had to get right to work!

The nursery is now filled with stuff that I have to go through --- but it is even more (wonderfully) overwhelming now that they are all unwrapped! We are so very lucky and so very blessed to have such wonderful family and friends surrounding us!

Savoring all those kicks...

A friend of mine today, Robin, told me to 'savor all those little kicks.' It is not the first time someone has told me it but today it struck a cord (thank you heightened hormone levels). I was talking to Tom and said 'as much as I am looking forward to meeting this baby... I am going to miss this' as I rub my belly. I have enjoyed this vacation so much... just having time to watch my belly as baby moves all around to get comfortable or whatever lil' cabbage is doing in there. I actually had tears in my eyes --- and said I want to do this again. Haven't gone through the joy of labor yet --- but this is such an amazing experience I would not give up for the world. I am so blessed to be given the opportunity to carry our child and feel baby move and grow.

Tom told me that soon that little one is going to be on your chest trying so hard to lift it's head to look at you... Wow, our baby is coming soon.

33 Weeks!

Wow where does the time go?! I can't believe I am already 33 weeks! Still feeling good. I was talking to the fam over the Easter weekend about how interesting this all is. Like trying to get out of bed in the middle of the night to go pee. Something we all take for granted has become quite the process for me (and I am sure all preggos out there!). I sleep on the left side of the bed and if I am sleeping on my right side, therefore not facing the edge of the bed, I have to flip (sometimes it feels like throwing) my body onto my back then onto my other side and then kind of roll myself out of bed b/c I can't just sit up since there is a person preventing me from doing that...ha ha. All this time I kind of lose my breath and start coughing. How weird right? This isn't something I am complaining about mind you --- I just find all these oddities amazing and interesting.

And the lil' cabbage is moving more and more all around in there! I see hands or feet pushing across my tummy like waves usually a few times a day! There really is a person... a human being growing in moving around in there! HOW MAGNIFICENT!