Pregnancy Weeks: 27-34

Wow! Alot of time has passed since I've updated the baby blog but in my defense-we finally got the house and moved so it's been crazzzyy to say the least.  Moving in your third trimester-not recommended! You feel so inclined to do too much and you're just not physically able to. So here goes...

Week 27 (April 23rd-April 30th):
This week we have been waiting to hear back from the lender on the house.  They keep delaying with all sorts of weird requests.  Even the sellers' lawyer finds them unprofessional and frustrating.  BUT on Monday, the 29th-we became first-time home owners! It was down to the last wire as we sat at the title company with the lawyer and signed papers over and over and poor Robert had to sign them 3 times because they didn't want any part of the signature underneath the line.  We've been packing the apartment as we waited to finally "sign our life away"! But thank the Lord, we got there and what a relief! Now-we just have to move our stuff-Moving: part 2. 

The baby's been active as always-doing karate or tae-bo, not sure!  But Robert is like the baby whisperer-everytime I ask him to put his hand on my belly to feel how much the baby is moving, the baby calms down. I should have him follow me around all day doing that.



V for Victory!!



New House Address (Private)



Not "For Sale" anymore! Whoohoo!

Every new place we move into, we have our first meal on the floor: McDonalds 2 Cheeseburger Meal won this round

Week 28 (April 30-May 3rd): So the moving/packing continues..wowowweewa! This is definitely challenging physically! Robert's been moving most of the bags/boxes into the car.  I'm helping packing and manuever the hotel cart we are borrowing from the office.  But every moment we have free, it's either packing or moving and then unloading into the new house.  At this point, we are just putting it all into one room upstairs.  On Saturday, a bunch of our friends came over to help move the big stuff-many thanks to all their hard work! My mom came Saturday too and poor thing barely had time for lunch before I put her to work on cleaning the new house.  She's the best! It was a terribly hard and busy day-everyone worked so hard and helped so much.  The apartment looks weird now without all the furniture and it's sinking in that we won't be there much more!  My back and legs were killing me this whole week-it's hard to do all this with like a sack of bricks on your belly :) Baby Busan probably was not a happy camper this week-he got bumped and moved for hours as I tried to push myself to get as much done as I could. 
(Sorry with all the craziness, no belly picture this week!)

Cats are clueless about the move

Week 29 (May 7-13) is an insane week! We would go all day and clean and work on the house.  This is the week of the baby shower and the rest of our family will arrive this week as well.  My mom spent many days working on refinishing our cabinets in the kitchen-seriously she is an energizer bunny.  Definitely has more stamina than I do.  Robert is quickly becoming a handy man-and fixing up a bunch of random things we find need to be repaired or changed.  We hit the ground running that's for sure!  We spent a lot of the week cleaning and arranging the house and also moving more things.  Seriously-how do you accumulate so much in an apartment!? I can't even imagine packing and moving an entire house!

So Crina and Eloise came very early Thursday and my dad that evening and we started right away on the planning and prepping for the party.  Aww, so awesome to have the entire family back together again. It hasn't been like this for years.  On Friday,  my mother-in-law and Kristen came and it was great! So everyone right away jumped in and worked on preparing for the party.  Val came by too and we all went shopping.  Full house and it was awesome! Dad and Robert were working on a bunch of stuff in the garage and Robert mowed the lawn in the rain hehehe. 

On party day, Saturday we woke up and were running around doing a ton of last minute stuff! So much to do and so little time-we were exhausted before the party even started but it looked beautiful! I had a wonderful time with all the guests who made it a very special day :)

Great group of girls!



The Siblings



 

Awesome Candy bar



Love them!



Soo glad Mom & Kristen were here!

My darlings!

Week 30 (May 14-May 20th)
Things have finally settled down, everyone has left and the house seems so quiet now.  Robert and I are exhausted, but we still have some more moving, cleaning the old apartment and finalizing all that.  Monday evening we moved the cats to the new place and put them in our room.  Of course they were scared and hid.  It'll take a while for them to adjust, I'm sure. On Wednesday we finished moving the last of our stuff and closed the door to our apartment of almost 4 years! Kind of crazy to think that we won't be returning there anymore but it's a nice feeling we are finally done with this back and forth and can begin to settle in our new home.  The baby seems good despite all the physical toil-I can't imagine he likes all the constant moving and being on my feet but what can you do? He gets me back by kicking nice and hard and often! I had to take the long diabetes test this week because I didn't pass the first one a couple of weeks ago, but thankfully no diabetes and no anemia!





30 Weeks

Last meal at apartment

Week 31 (May 21-27th) was spent mainly unpacking and settling in-alot of work left. The cats are doing better-they feel comfortable now in our room.  We let them out in the hall a little to explore the other rooms-they generally go around sniffing everything and then hear something that scares them and run back into the room! Mr. Squeakers is a little more brave, even coming down by us a couple of times. Gizmo has come down but she gets scared super fast and runs back up! Poor kitties, they've been apartment cats for so long they aren't used to all this space!

 

We bought a fire pit and have been enjoying it a couple times in the evening.  We are burning up a bunch of wood from the cabinets in the garage heheh (don't tell anyone!) and making some smores with the marshmallow Peeps left over from the party.

We went to Door County for our last trip-just the two of us -over Memorial Day weekend.  Door County is a beautiful place in north Wisconsin-we've gone there twice before for our anniversary and had such a good time.  We went to a fish boil, visited a bunch of shops, sat and read at a pier and walked around a trail and lake near the inn we stayed at.  The weather was really pleasant and it was nice to get away and relax.  Ate some great Wisconsin cheese the day we headed back home.  It's definitely bittersweet, knowing it'll never be just us anymore (as it's been for sooo long). Totally carefree-going away for a weekend trip whenever I'd catch the traveling bug.  But instead soon we'll have a third person in our little clan-that we'll miss whenever we go away AND worry about the whole time.  Well, I do always worry about the cats even now so I guess it's not all that different :)

Best friends forever!

31 weeks



What? How is this possible? Two place at once?



Famous Door County fish boil

Baby craving a giant cookie

Beautiful day for reading at the pier!



Drive-in movie theater

Week 32 (May 28th-June 3rd) was pretty busy as usual.  Still settling in, working on repairs, cleaning up the yard while trying to fit our jobs in there somewhere...  My good friend, who was due 3 weeks before me had her baby 6 weeks early on Monday-so we got nervous that the baby's room wasn't ready so Robert put together the crib and I washed and arranged all the clothes.  It is definitely pretty challenging doing all this stuff around the house; my back and feet hurt alot after just a little time on them. I think all the pressure from this sack of bricks :)


Week 32



Week 33 (June 4th-10th) was pretty similar to week 32, just working, arranging things in the house, putting the baby's stuff together. We both caught colds this week so it was really rough-especially the first few days of runny noses, sneezing, and not sleeping well. The baby seems the same, although I think my coughing annoys him.  He's moving around alot as usual, sometimes giving me the impression he may make an early appearance-but so far all is fine, thank God!



A little sickly at 33 weeks

 

We've made it to week 34 (June 11-17)! This week was busy with work and getting the house arranged still. On Saturday, we had some friends come over to buy painting supplies and paint the downstairs living and dining area, the stairwell and hall upstairs.  They did a great job-looks really good and they were able to do it all in one day.  So this was one of the major projects we hoped to get down before the baby came.  That evening we relaxed after a long day and had wings with our friends Chris & Sarah and their kids. 

The baby's room is almost ready, just need to put up one more set of curtains and that should be it!  I'm still working on my hospital bag but the baby's bag is ready to go.  Our colds are better, although still pretty congested but sleeping much better this week. We're heading down the last leg of the race! Having mixed feelings of relief and fear!

Week 34