Bummed Out

Sorry to leave you guys hanging for a few days. It is really uncomfortable for me to be sitting at the computer, so I limit my time to about 2-5 minutes a day on here, not enough time to blog. I did want to update everyone though. I went to the doctor today, thinking that my due date was this coming Saturday, but low and behold, I was WRONG all this time! My due date isn't until the 19th, which is only 5 days later, but its 5 DAYS LATER! When you are this miserable, everyday seems to be worse than the last. She pretty much told me that since I was overdue with Adriana, that I will probably be overdue with this one (even though every pregnancy is different and I'm not going based solely on this information). She told me that she would not induce before Thanksgiving but that she would the Friday after, if he still hasn't come yet. (I doubt I will go that far past my due date, 8 days late, but still, not the best news!)
I will try to write about something else besides waiting around everyday hoping and praying that today is the day. I have some pictures and stories I would like to post, but like I said, its hard for me to sit here too long, so maybe tomorrow, I can post something little.
Thank you to all who have asked about us and are praying for us. We will keep you posted.

The Waiting Game

I am due a week from today, and we sit here and wait. I woke up last night with contractions, waiting and counting them, but still not sure if they were the real thing. I woke Ryan up and told him it might be time and went to call my parents, so they could come and watch Adriana, but the more I was up and moving around, they went away. So we wait....

While we wait, I wanted to post some pictures of activities that we did while we didn't have the internet, and get those pictures posted.

About early/mid-October we went to a little town, Republic to a fall festival. Fall is my favorite season, by far, and so I LOVE going to town festivals. We met up with my parents there and had a good time, just walking around and looking at all the booths with all the "homemade" items people had for sale. It was a great, crisp fall day and we really enjoyed ourselves. We forgot our camera that day, but did buy some things from the booths. Here's what we bought that day.

Name Plate for Adriana's Door to her room

Paxton's name plate for his door to his room

The next weekend, we (my parents included) decided to make the trek down to Mt. Vernon to the bigger fall festival around here. There was so much more to do and see there. The food was good and again, they had great booths with a lot of homemade items. We also took Adriana on a carriage ride, which she LOVED! We had a great time and really got to get out there and enjoy the fall season.

Our Carriage Ride

Getting ready to leave for the carriage ride.

The people who took us on the ride, were

so sweet.

Adriana getting her face painted. She did this

at both festivals.

Not the best face paint job, but what do you

expect for a $1?

Got these little pumpkins that are made out of

stumps of wood. I thought they were so cute

and original.

We will keep you posted on any news as it comes. Don't get too anxious, Adriana was 5 days late. Hope everyone is having a great weekend! We are having great weather here, its in the upper 70's, almost hot!

Getting Anxious

Well due date is one week from tomorrow. It is getting close! You have 9 months to prepare mentally, for a child, but it seems to hit you all at once when your due date is all of a sudden here! Me and Ryan, both are getting anxious about having two kids around. Its funny, with the first one, you really don't know what to expect. You can have a pretty good idea, but until you are up with colds, feedings, diaper changes and just plain fussiness, you really don't know what you are heading into as a new parent. Well, with the second, you know whats coming. I often wonder if he's going to be a fussy baby or a happy baby. Adriana was a good baby and was sleeping through the nights at around 6 weeks old. I don't think I'll be that lucky twice, but you never know. Its sad to us to think of Adriana not being the only child. She gets all our attention, all our love, all our time and gets spoiled with little things all the time. Its sad that now, she is going to have to share that with someone else. Its sad to us that we may not remember this time very well with it just being her. Its the end of a chapter for us and its a scary one that we are about to start. I know our hearts will be overflowing with the love for 2 kids, but again, its kind of the fear of the unknown. We have been a good team, the 3 of us, but I know Paxton is going to bring so much to our little family and we are anxious to start the next phase in our lives.

New Belly Shots

I feel bad, I'm due in 9 days and have only had 2 "belly" shots. With Adriana I had 4, not very many, but still, I am bound and determined to have a lot of pictures for Paxton too. Anyway, I always think of this when I'm in my PJ's or by myself, well today, I was still by myself, but at least I put on my thinking cap and thought about putting the camera on timer mode. Don't mind my messy house in the background, the nesting phase has yet to kick in. I'm really don't feel like cleaning after unpacking and decorating our house. Plus, its getting harder and harder for me to get around. Well, anyway, here are pictures of my belly. This shirt isn't the most flattering, I tend to look like Barney (which would make Adriana very happy) but still nothing like feeling like a big purple dinosaur when your due any day.

Adriana giving Paxton a kiss

Paxton's Room

I am under strict orders from my best friend, Susan, to have pictures posted of the baby's room, by tonight. I just finished it minutes ago and wanted to get pictures of it before it got too messy. I still can't find my mattress pad and sheets to go on the crib, but other than that, I think we are ready for him. The theme of his room is "Monkey Around". I need to give a special thanks to my mom who sewed pretty much everything in the room, except the curtains. She also painted the room for us too. Thank you mom for all your hard work and time you invested in his room.

Me and my mom came up with the

idea to have a monkey hanging off

a branch over his changing table.

The blanket above the bed was our

inspiration for the room.

A toy box from when I was growing up,

my mom made the cushion for it.

I made these little picture frames. I liked how

they turned out and they were super cheap to

make.

A Breakfast Funny

This morning I made me and Adriana some muffins for breakfast. I was cooling Adriana's off, right after it came out of the oven. I was holding the hot muffin and blew on it and it blew all the heat out and hurt my hand pretty bad. My instinct was to drop it to the plate and say "hot mama!". I didn't think anything of it, but when I handed the warm muffin over to Adriana, she touched it and said "hot Ana" (Ana is her nickname at school). It was so funny! Of course, she saw me laughing at that and went through the name list, "hot daddy", "hot Zoe", "hot mommy" and so on. I just thought it was so clever of her to pick up what I said and "personalize" it.

Halloween Night '09

Well, we had a great weekend. It was so nice and relaxing. Friday night me and Ryan had a rare "date night" and went down to Branson. We had a nice dinner and tried to do some Christmas shopping, but didn't have too much luck. Nevertheless, it was nice to be out on our own. Adriana spent the night at my parents house, which was nice, because we got to sleep in until about 9:30am, which isn't all that late, but about 2 hours later than we normally get to sleep till. We had a child free day on Saturday too. Mom and Dad kept Adriana all day and let her take her nap over at their house so we could get some things done around our house. They brought her out to our house that evening with some pizza's. We ate and then got Adriana all dressed up in her Cinderella outfit. She had such a great time! My plan was for her to get dressed up and hand out stuff to kids that came to our door. She doesn't know any different and she doesn't need all that candy. However, Ryan felt bad that she didn't get to go trick or treating, so after we handed candy out for a little while, we took her around to a few houses in the neighborhood and she got to trick or treat. She had a BLAST! However, she wanted to come home after going to about 10 houses. She got the best of both worlds that way.

We had a great time and Adriana LOVED to dress up. She had a great time seeing all the kids in their costumes and handing them treats. Here are pictures from that night.

Our little Cinderella

Loving being all dressed up!

Loving on a monkey that is for baby brothers room

Trick or treating

Her Candy stash

Our little family

No, I didn't intentionally dress

as a huge pumkin.