Sydney Paige Thomas

Welcome lil lady. You're beautiful!

WHEW Finally!

Word on the street is she's comin out tomorrow! WOOP WOOP!! Had my appt this morning and things pretty much are the same. Seriously. What is THAT about? Anyways, Ryan and I will go to the hospital tomorrow morning at 7 and get the ball rollin, and HOPEFULLY she doesn't decide to take as long as the boys did (31 hours) and will come out and meet her parents MUCH MUCH sooner than that. =) I am kinda sad to say that she will miss my gma's bday by a day, since it's today...but I guess the day is only 1/2 over and there's still time! SOOO, stopped at the grocery store, stocked up on a few things, bags are packed, laundry is going, and the boys have no clue. HA. Hopefully tomorrow night we'll have more news for you, like maybe a PICTURE or two (hundred). That's all I have for today, see ya tomorrow!

Hello Everyone.

Well, sorry for the not very exciting news...but I'm still pregnant. HA! Which means one week past my date. Anyhoo, here's what I know:

I have an appt tomorrow morning.
A non-stress test is in store.
From that info we will decide when to induce.
Our options at this point seem to be Tuesday or Friday.
A simple pros and cons list tells us that Tuesday is our best pick.
HOWEVER, we respect our doctor's opinion, and will decide after we receive more info.
No amount of 'home techniques' seem to work to put me in labor.
We need to pick a name. HA

There you have it folks, stay tuned for more information!

On a different note, I REALLY REALLY wanted to be able to watch Ry play in the Lakeshore Alumni bball game against the varsity team last night, Meet the Team Night, if you will...and I WENT!!!! WHEW!!! I had so much fun, maybe even more then Ry. I could watch him play any day. AND, they tied 59 to 59. Pretty great. Schoony played too, even though he's not a true alum, he was recruited for a reason. (someone can TEAR IT UP). Heather and I were great fans, that's for sure. Anyways, I was really hoping all week that I would be able to go to that, so thank you God for keeping me pregnant so I could watch my man. =) And now she can come out whenever. Anytime really works for me.

Another update....

I'm afraid this isn't that exciting of an update, but I had another appointment this morning, ANNNNDDDDD, nothing has changed. haha. YES! Now 2 days OVER due, I scheduled for next monday, and at that appt if I'm still around (or just round - ha) then we will decide which day next week to be induced. My favorite thing. At least I know it will end in less than 10 days! But I LOVE my midwife who will be delivering the lil lady, which is good, so hopefully I have a (much) shorter experience with this whole thing than last time. I personally think that the girl just keeps getting bigger and bigger- cause it's not like that space didn't already hold an almost 13 pound kid. SO, she's not cramped at all. DAAAANG. Anyhoo, now that she's heard the word 'induce', maybe she'll get the show on the road. HAA

At any rate, here I am ON my due date.

And the boys havin fun with my tum.




A little fun fact, if this were my first pregnancy, the boys would be two weeks old tomorrow already!! woah!

tick tock...

well...due date is rapidly approaching....THIS SUNDAY! Come out already. =) To keep it PG for those readers who don't really want to know, the doctor says nothing's happening. haha. DANG. SO....we'll just keep waiting.

In the mean time, the boys and I are having a lot of fun during the day to pass the time before Ry gets home...play dates with friends, last minute grocery runs (seems to be a lot of those, maybe I should make more lists...)naps for all of us, play dough fun, coloring, building blocks, and this morning, our first ever Parents as Teacher's play group! It was a blast! Look at how cute the lil guys are just sittin there listening to the lady read a book. =)

Anyhoo, we'll just keep at it until she decides to come out, whatever makes the time go by!!

The ROOM.

Well, I didn't really do much to the girl's room, but it definitely got cleaned up/out after being full of toys and storage stuff for a year. Erin called me out on not putting up pics of the room yet, so I just ran upstairs quick and snapped a few for ya. Here we are standing in the doorway. It's the room above our garage, so that's why there's that weird shaped part.


AND, since she doesn't really need that much space and I'm not ready to move toys to the basement yet, most of the toys stayed upstairs, in these bins and in the boys' room.

and here is the BEAUTIFUL blanket my girlfriend Brie MADE for her, had to use it as wall art to show it off. =) Thanks Brie! Love it!

And here's another shot of the crib - totally exciting, but you can see the little flowers I painted on the wall a bit better. Hope the girl likes flowers, cause I do. hehe

Staff Outing! Woo!

After work today Neal and Trish planned a fun evening for the office to go to this cute lil shop in Bridgman and have a flower arranging class! We had a blast just hanging out and getting to be creative. Ryan and I did a joint arrangement, which you can see at the end, and all the ladies said they were going to bring their flower basket to the hospital for the girl when she's born. haha. At least my room would smell good!! Anyhoo, it was pretty fun and I'm glad I was invited, even though I'm not really staff. =)