Week 30

I can't believe we are already to week 30! We made it through the holidays and the baby is doing well and I am too. I feel good...I am getting tired throughout the day, but if I push through it, it's not so bad. We had a lot of fun seeing friends and family over Christmas. We got some really nice things, but so did our little guy. He got a blanket made for him by Grandma Slingerland, a lot of cute clothes from cousins and aunts!

We are working on the nursery. It should be done mid January so we can start getting other stuff organized for his arrival. We ordered all the furniture and it should be here sometime next week as well as his bedding. We are doing a brown and green theme with elephants in his room. I am still on a search for a good chair I can use to feed him in, but I am pretty confident that we will find it soon. We are in the process of finishing the basement so he will have lots of room to play with his trucks, toys, and a special place to watch sports with his dad.

We are looking forward to having Jay, Alisa, Kara and Steven down on the 16th of January for Daddy boot camp at Bronson hospital. The class teaches first time dads how to change diapers, bath the baby, feed them and swaddle. The instructor is a dad and brings in his baby to the class so the dads can actually see what it is like on a real baby! I would love to be a fly on the wall in that class! Kara, Alisa and I are going to get pregnancy massages while the guys are in class....it should be fun! We recently found out that Kara and Steven are having a girl as well...so hopefully he learns to be nice and play well with his girl cousins!

The baby is doing really well. His heartbeat has maintained in the high 140's for the last few appointments. I recently had my glucose test for gestational diabetes and everything came out normal. He is now measuring right on target, so hopefully I won't have to worry about having a whopper baby, but compared to Alisa, he looks bigger than his baby girl cousin!! We are now going every 2 weeks to the doctors for check ups and then in 6 weeks we go every week. It's hard to believe that he is due in less than 10 weeks, but we can't wait for his arrival!