Sean's Green Belt Black Stripe Test

Sean tested for his green belt black stripe Saturday. Since I was in the hospital with our newest family member, Andrew, this is the first test I didn't get to see. Michael took plenty of pictures, but this one was most impressive to me. He has gotten so good at his kicks over the last 2 years. I can't wait to see how he continues to improve as he approaches his black belt.

Andrew's Coming Today

Glad I prepared last night... woke up a few times and had contractions, but I was able to go back to sleep. Woke up this morning around 5am contracting. In my usual OCD fashion of wanting to be prepared I figured I'd go ahead and take a shower (just in case) and go about my morning. Finished up Sean's laundry so Michael would have all of Sean's uniforms for school and Tae Kwon Do set out. Made Sean's lunch for school and finished packing my bag.

Once everyone left for school and work decided to buy Burlesque on pay per view and start timing my contractions (found a cool app on my Android phone to do it)... every 6-8 minutes for 2 hours!!! Finally decided to call the doctor's office. Fortunately the on call doctor saw no reason to keep me pregnant for a couple more days and now I'm waiting for Michael to come get me so we can see Andrew today :)

Counting Down to Andrew...

Three more days... I can't believe he is almost here. Had my last OB appointment today and I must be contracting and not feeling it because I'm dialated to 1cm. Nothing to write home about... however, it's making me wonder if all the pressure I think is Andrew pressing out against me are really contractions. Tonight before dinner I was having some of those that were a bit more uncomfortable, but they were only 7-10 minutes apart for about an hour and went away. Of coarse I have NO idea if I'm really contracting since I've been dealing with round ligament and sciatic pain for the last 3-4 months.

In either case he's coming Monday... worse case I go into labor or my water breaks and he shows up sooner. Washing my laundry tonight, just in case ;)

More Minky Blankets for Andrew

I think Baby Andrew is going to be set on blankets... I still have 2 more to finish :)

Sean's Rock & Roll Quilt

Since I was making a quilt for Baby Andrew and Sean has since outgrown his baby quilt I made him a new one with some of his favorite things. Sean was VERY excited to have a new quilt and couldn't wait to use it.