Week 32 and 34

As you can see, I am getting pretty enormous now! At the rate I'm going, I'm scared to see what I'll look like if I make it until 40 weeks...

3D ultrasound

While Dwayne's family was here, we thought it would be a good time to get the 3D ultrasound that I'd been wanting. We had quite a crowd - Rachel made an appointment at the same time, so me, Dwayne and his family, my mom, Rachel, Peter, Josh and Rachel's mom all got to watch.

We ended up getting some really good still shots and a DVD as well. It definitely made it more really to be able to tell what the baby looks like when I still have 10 weeks to go. I think she looks just like her daddy and we can't wait to meet her!

Baby shower

I had my baby shower two weekends ago, and it was great! It was at Rachel's mom's house - Dwayne's Mom, sister, step-dad, niece and nephew all came down for the weekend, and Erin was able to fly down too! We got some great gifts - diapers, clothes, books, a convertible carseat, our pack and play and more.

There was great food, including a really cool lamb cake and my all-time favorite - cookie cake


Dwayne was a good sport and came to help me open gifts


My niece Savannah approved of a lot of the gifts


And my best friend Rachel is awesome for planning the shower when she was seven and a half months pregnant herself!

Bump pic catch -up

Yikes, I'm getting way behind on posting already.

Here are weeks 26, 28, and 30!

No more soda!

I found out a week ago that I have gestational diabetes! I was really surprised since I am extremely low risk (low weight, no family history or anything like that) , but on the three hour glucose tolerance test, my second two readings were high.

I met with a diabetes counselor and a dietician at Sinai Hospital on Friday - I have to cut out my much loved regular sodas (as well as other sugars and carbs) and test my blood four times a day with all this fun stuff:

It has only been a week but has not been too bad so far. I am just thankful that it will only be for a few months and is not a lifetime diagnosis - and of course wanting a healthy baby is great motivation. Some things I thought I would never like have been surprisingly ok - Coke Zero and low sugar ice cream! Hopefully the diet changes I've made will keep things in check for the next twelve weeks.

My other baby

Who thinks this guy will be jealous when the real baby comes? He sure liked trying out the new glider with me...

Weekend getaway

Last weekend we went down to Petersburg, Virginia - half an hour south of Richmond - to visit my friend Susan, who is teaching 5th grade there. Other than the horrible 495 traffic going down on Friday evening, it was a great weekend. Saturday was beautiful and in the 70s, so we spent the afternoon at a place called Maymount Park with Susan, her fiancee Mike, Summer, and her fiancee Stephen.

I hadn't seen Susan since Christmas, so she was surprised by how big my bump has gotten, although the black shirt kind of hides it in the pictures!