34 Weeks Pregnant!

Hey everyone!! I have been enjoying having my husband home and blogging hasn't been on my mind... I apologize! Things have settled down pretty good so I'm back and ready to fill you in on everything:)

We spent a week on the Outer Banks right after Thomas got home! It was such a nice vacation! We changed our minds about Florida at the last second since gas is so high and what not and decided to give the Outer Banks a try since neither of us had ever been even though we've both lived in NC our whole lives!! We stayed in a cute Inn and saw all the historical sites, ate at great sea food places every night, saw some wild horses and just enjoyed being with each other all over again!

We ended up coming home a day early because I was pretty uncomfortable with the swelling I've been having in my feet... so we figured we would just cut the trip short a day and be that much closer to being back home! We spent the weekend in Jacksonville dog sitting for my parents while they were at a softball tournament for Hunter and we spent some time with Thomas' family! Then it was back to Fayetteville, early Monday morning for my doctors appointment!

The monitoring is going pretty well!! Monday morning the nurse thought my Amniotic Fluid was low so we sat around forever waiting for a doctor to come in and redo the U/S! She came in and checked it out and everything was fine! Thursday, everything went smooth! It's pretty annoying to have to do all this extra monitoring... but really it's just 30-60 minutes at a time and all I have to do is lay on a bed and chew on ice chips... so I guess there really isn't anything to complain about! They are taking care to make sure that Lily is doing ok and so far, so good:):)

We started the nursery on Monday and worked on it all week! I still have to wash all of her clothes and blankets and stuff and we need to hang up her shelves... but everything is put together and in it's place! It was really fun to work together to get it all done! Thomas worked so hard to get all of her furniture put together and he was so willing to shop with me for everything that we still needed for her!! Having the room ready makes it so much harder to wait for Lily to get here!! Once Thomas got home I was pretty much fed up with being pregnant! It hasn't really been that rough, but I am just ready to make him a daddy and to be a mommy!! So now that we've got the nursery ready I want her here to make it real!! But we are enjoying our time together as a childless couple!

Thomas has been doing pretty good with me being pregnant! He's not too terribly insensitive about my size or hunger level or mood swings:) The biggest thing is our eating schedules!! I usually need to eat something every few hours and he can go with eating only once a day!! So he does get pretty annoyed when I ask for food! But I think after I went off on him the second or third time for not taking me to eat on vacation, he picked up on the importance and has been getting better!! He doesn't like Hungry Heather very much and I don't blame him!

Now we're just going to be hanging out around Fayeteville until he has to go back to work at the beginning of August! We start Childbirth Classes in August! The course is 7 weeks... so there's a pretty good chance we won't make it to the end of the class without going into labor first... but it is pretty exciting to think about how close we are to Having the baby!! The past few months have just flown by! I can't wait to see her:):)

WEEK THIRTY-FIVE
The average baby weighs almost five and a half pounds now.
Most babies born now will survive and without many long-term problems.
Fat accumulations plumps up the arms and legs this week. These layers of fat will help him regulate his body temperature. They also provide those cute little dimples on elbows and knees!
Her hearing is fully developed, so be sure to talk to your daughter. Do you find yourself speaking in a high-pitched tone? That's okay since some studies show babies respond better to higher pitches.
It's getting crowded! Your baby is now taking up most of the uterus and you may even feel like your chest has run out of room! Soon enough though, baby will move down and you'll be able to breathe easily again (just not walk so easily! Ha!).
Your baby is 18.2 inches (46.2cm) long and weighs 5.3 pounds (2383gm).