Exciting Times....

It's been awhile since our last post, but not much has been happening. We've been having two week check-ups with Dr. Suba and everything has been great. Being back in school has been more tiring than I ever imagined, of course as many of you have heard the AC has not exactly been working in my room and with 29 students and me in a classroom with no air, things have not been pretty some days. Hopefully with the weather beginning to cool off, it will get better.

We had our first baby shower a couple of weeks ago and it was wonderful. We got so many great things and are looking forward to Jackson's arrival in just 7 short weeks so that we can start using all of them. Here are a couple of pictures from the shower.

This week at school was Homecoming. Our football boys are allowed to give their jersey's to a teacher to wear on game day. Here is a picture of me with one of my students from last year, Kendray. He is one of my favorites and look at that smile!

We also had more exciting news this week in our family, Jackson's cousin Luke Wesley was born on Monday, September 21 at 3:10. He is absolutely beautiful with lots of blonde hair! We can't wait for Luke and Jackson to meet. Of course, as soon as Luke was in my arms Jackson decided he was going to start kicking, I apologized to Luke!

So things are moving along and time it passing very quickly. We are getting very excited to meet this little person that's keeping me awake all night!

Week 30

So we're finally less than 10 weeks away from the arrival of our baby boy. I have now gone back to school and though it's exhausting, it is nice and is making the time fly by even faster. I saw Dr. Suba last Thursday and he thought Jackson was between 2 1/2 and 3 pounds, although as we all know this is a guess. Everything is good, we're both happy and healthy.
This coming Sunday, September 13th will be our first baby shower. It will be in Cleburne with lots of friends and family. We're excited to get to see everyone and visit about all that has been happening with us.
Guess that's pretty much it, nothing new to report. We will be seeing Dr. Suba every 2 weeks for the next 6 and then once a week.

Ready and waiting....

So the nursesry is DONE!!! Here is another look, though not much different than the last ones other than that we added my grandparents rocking chair. It matches our furniture nearly perfectly.

As we mentioned, Aaron and I spent an entire afternoon registering at Babies'R'Us a couple of weeks ago. It was very overwhelming, yet still so much fun.

Today, I went to see Dr. Suba for a check-up. I also had to drink the disgusting glucose drink to then have my blood drawn and checked for gestational diabetes. No matter what anyone tells you, that red drink is NOT anything like any "fruit punch" I've ever tasted! UGH!!! However, Jackson and I are both doing great, according to Dr. Suba. Jackson's heartbeat was in the 150's, which is just right for a baby boy.

It is hard to believe that we will now start seeing the doctor every 2 weeks! I've been growing and growing, so much so that my belly button has finally flattened out. Here is my "belly picture" from week 28. As you can see, Jackson is sitting VERY high, usually in my ribs (or at least it feels like it), but I'm not complaining, I absolutley LOVE feeling and watching him move!

Jackson is also going to start is "formal" education next week as I start back to school. With budget cuts in progress across the district looks like Jackson and I will be meeting about 170 new friends on Tuesday! Hopefully, Jackson will sleep and I'll be able to stay awake!

More Nursery

Tonight we hung letters spelling out Jackson's name above his crib. We also hung the boat pictures that match the boats from the bedding. Here is what it looks like all together.

Nursery

This weekend has been a lot of fun for us. Aaron finished all the touch-up painting in the nursery and we went and picked up our furniture. Once we got all the furniture together and in the room, we put the new bedding in the crib. We think that Jackson will love it. I have attached pictures of the room with furniture and some close ups of the bedding.

As this is my last "free" week before school starts, we are going to register at Babies R'Us and Target on Wednesday. So look for us on the registries after that.

So much fun stuff is going on and we can't believe that we are only about 3 months from meeting our little man! The count down is on....

Fresh Paint

This week we (when I say we, I mean Aaron) have been painting Jackson's room. The room went from 4 white walls to 2 kaki and 2 red walls in just a week. Thank you to Behr Paint and Primer (we highly reccommend)!

Here are the before pictures from the room.

Now for the after photos, we still have some touch-ups to do this week. Then we are planning to go get the furniture this weekend.

As far as Jackson goes, he has been really moving and grooving the past couple of weeks. We watched him move across my belly for the first time which was fun. He really moves when I lay still, yet has been moving more and more. I went to see the doctor last Thursday, everything was perfect. I will do a glucose test next time to check for gestational diabetes, then I will start going to see the doctor every 2 weeks, time is going by so fast and we are ready to meet our little boy.

More picture of the room to come after the weekend.

NKOTB with Jackson and Jaxon

Last Friday, a group of girls and I braved the heat to go see our favorite childhood boy band New Kids on the Block. The group of girls included our friend Candice that is also pregnant and expecting a boy, Jaxon. Here's a photo of the pregnant girls with Jackson and Jaxon in the bellies, of course we're sitting while everyone else stood most of the time, I think that we still had a great time.

We have still been planning for our Jackson and getting the nursery ready. I will go to the doctor again next Thursday just for my regular check-up, then it will be off to Possum Kingdom for an end of summer getaway.