32 week belly pics

The belly looks much smaller with clothes over it right??
This one was taken a week before the others though

Hi all-

I've been getting some slack lately about not updating my blog...so here ya go! I guess to me it just seems like the movie Groundhog Day, except that the scale keeps seeming to change on me. haha
Nash is doing well. He seems to like the head down position and is comfy with staying there. I like the fact that his karate kicks are not on my bladder anymore.

We had an appt last week. Just the doc listening to his heartbeat and measuring my belly/his size. Apparently he hasn't decided to slow down growing any, so we will get another sonogram next week to see if he continues to be about 2 weeks big or not. He is definitely showing me more of his personality. He does not like certain positions that I lay in and lets me know until I finally move and then he settles in again. He averages about two bouts of the hiccups per day. I find myself already trying to soothe him when he gets them because it seems to agitate him so much. The Mommie mode is kicking in already I guess!

Eric has been keeping himself busy hunting as much as possible. He says he has to squeeze as much in before the birth since I decided to have this baby right in the middle of hunting season! I reminded him that he had a little something to do with it too which got no response from him!

On another note...since when did I move to Seattle and not even know it?? all this rain is becoming a bummer. I know its good for nature, but man am I tired of cleaning mud off of doggies paws right about now!

By the way...the countdown ticker is really starting to freak me out. That 47 day thing is scary! especially when I am fairly certain I will have a 1-2 week old by then! yikes!!! Maybe I should just gestate for the length of time an elephant does???

Devi

HUGE baby

the above picture is him looking right at you. the top of his head is to the right and you can see his eye sockets, nose, mouth and chin

this pic is the same with him looking at us. To me it looks like he is smiling with his mouth open (:

We had a sono on Thursday because our Dr. thought that Nash was continuing to measure big and he wanted to get an idea of just how big. Well....he's huge! The sonographer guesstimated his weight to be 4lbs 3 oz and said he was almost 18 inches long! Most newborns are somewhere around 18 inches long! She said he was really tall and lean right now but he definitely has some fat cheeks. She also said she could tell he already has some hair. Very cool considering I was bald until I was 2.

So we just continue on for now and worry about what to do and when to do it later. He's very healthy and I continue to feel well and am healthy for now.

update and more baby showers!!

opening my bumbo seat

sweet onesies

Sara and I

beautiful yummy coconut and lemon cakes

awesome place cards

beautifully set table

yummy cake and punch in Granbury

me with my Mimi and Eric's Mimi

Lyn measuring the belly with toilet paper

First off..the best news--I passed my diabetic test! whoo-hoo! Best news ever and just in time for the baby showers that we were blessed with having this past weekend. On Saturday my Mom, Mimi and I traveled to Granbury for a wonderful shower that happened to be during a rain shower that day as well. Then on Sunday my sweet friends in our Lifegroup had a very fancy little shower/luncheon for me and Sara who is due within days of me.

Nash's room is filling up quickly. This little boy doesn't even know how spoiled he is yet! Hopefully we can teach him to always be gracious about how blessed he is. Plenty of pictures this time and more talking soon after our sonogram and appt tomorrow. We will find out just how big this kiddo is. I am so excited to see him and even more excited to see Eric's reaction after he sees how much he has changed since the last time we got to take a sneak peak at him.

baby showers!!

Eric practicing for his Daddy duty diaper changes!

one of the many Longhorn themed outfits for the day

Eric w Nash's silver glove and crystal baseball

we received many sweet gift baskets.
( I like seeing all the kids in the background still in their towels from swimming)

Daddy may wear it more than Nash

more burnt orange attire

Eric's daddy apron the girls made for him

awesome diaper cake! the bat has his name engraved on it

other side of the diaper cake

sweet napkins for the shower.

very cool cake! appropriately baseball themed!

Hi all--

We had a very busy week last week that ended on Sunday with our very first baby shower! It was thrown by Eric's 11 year old baseball team. We had a family shower at one of the parents house and it turned out fabulous. The kids swam, the guys ate and watched football and everyone even got together to watch us open up all of our wonderful gifts. We are so blessed to have such good people in our lives.

I'm currently sitting up at the hospital being tested for gestational diabetes. I failed my initial test last week by 3 stinking points so now I have to sit here and get my blood drawn 4 times in a four hour period! blah! on top of that you have to be fasting for 8 hours prior, so basically I'm starving right now! ha. Hopefully all goes well and this will be the end of this journey.

Nash continues to do well and is very active. Especially after I just drank 100 grams of sugar!

Eric's parents came last week and stayed the night with us in our new house. They recently got back from their summer vacation in Colorado and it was good to finally get them out to see the new house.

There are two baby showers this coming weekend. One on Saturday in Granbury with Lyn and her friends and another on Sunday with our Lifegroup! This baby is so blessed already!

28 weeks!!

The front of the latest flip house.

awesome master bathroom shower

totally gutted and updated the kitchen

beautiful hand scraped hardwood floors throughout

28+ weeks. (no comments please about the hair--it was early morning)

blowing out the candles to 31 years!

Wow! I just looked at the countdown on the top of the page and saw 82 days left! I almost fell out of my chair! It seems to be flying by and I don't see it slowing down any time soon.

Biggest news--we are settled in our house!! yay! We love it out here and I think Maggie and Sosie love it more than we do. They are in dog heaven. We recently finished having the ENTIRE backyard fenced in...which adds up to well over an acre. They went from having a 12x12 patch of grass to this and now they don't know what to do w/ themselves! We are having a lot of fun making the place our own. Eric's next big mission is finding a riding lawnmower. It only took him push mowing the front yard once(about 2 hours worth) to figure that one out. He told me " I can either by a riding lawnmower or be skinny again!" ha!!!We sit out on the back porch almost every night like an 85 year old couple just enjoying the surroundings and quietness.

Eric also just finished up the most recent flip house that he was doing and it was under contract within days of being on the market! yay!! I think he did an excellent job and I will post some pics to brag on him. When we started on the house it was a 1950's house that had NEVER been updated. That will help you appreciate the after pics even more.

Mr Nash or Nash-man as Eric already calls him is doing great! he moves all the time now. We recently found out he prefers the breech position so we are talking to him daily about pros of turning head down in hopes that he is listening to us just this once!

Lots of baby showers coming up! I'm getting very excited to start putting his room together.

Talk w you soon

Devi

25 weeks and counting

Eric and me in Maine for Matt's wedding
Matt and Adria
Eric, me, Matt and Brett

Eric Wakeboarding
beautiful sunset in Sag Harbor, NY
Sarah and me
in New York
fabric for the nursery
The almost finished new house!


Wow! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by! A lot has been happening around here lately so I will try and catch everyone up. We officially move into our brand new house tomorrow!! yay! It has been a long and stressful process but we are at the finish line. My mom came over today and helped us pack..fyi..if anyone is in need of some assistance packing just ask her...she came in here today and whipped us into shape. We literally had to kick her out the door before she started packing the dogs in boxes! ha.

We recently got back from a well deserved vacation to New York to visit one of my very oldest friends Sarah Warren-Birdsall. It was so wonderful to spend some time w her and I hope to do it sooner than later next time! After our visit we jetted up to Maine to attend Matt and Adria's wedding. Matt is Eric's little brother. We enjoyed all our time we spent with everyone.

Not a whole lot to share in the baby world. Nash continues to be very active. He also continues to make his mommy gain a lot of weight. (it is totally his fault!) He continues to measure large, but I can't complain about that. It is a blessing that he is healthy and continues to thrive.

Hope you all enjoy the pictures and I will catch up w you all soon!

Baby Nash--22 week update

So we finally have a name finalized for this little one. His name will be Nash Tomlinson. Eric has made the decision to not have a middle name given so I guess if he doesn't like his name he's pretty screwed huh?? ha! I myself find this decision pretty funny considering we both have fathers who don't go by their given first name! Many of you know Lyn doesn't go by her given name either!

Anywho...things are smooth sailing around here for now. The next month will be super busy for us though. Eric is out of town basically off and on for the next 3 weeks. We leave for Matt's wedding the last week of August and then come home only to move from our house and move into a brand new house that hopefully will be done by then! We are moving to Royse City--just east of Rockwall. We will be approximately 20 mins from my parents with this move. We just finally decided there was no reason to stay this far away from both sets of grandparents during this exciting time and I won't have to change jobs this way!

Thats pretty much all for now. I will post some updated big belly pics for your viewing pleasure!