31 Weeks!

September 5th!

Baby girl is the size of a small clawed otter this week! So cute. She's close to 17 1/2 inches long and weighs over 3 1/2lbs now. She keeps piling on the cute baby fat she'll have and her immune system is nearly ready to fight all on it's own! 

How's Mama? I've been pretty tired this week. Lots of naps when I get home from work. I can also tell that she's up squishing my lungs now because it's a lot harder to catch my breath when I go on walks. We've started to be able to feel little body parts poking out of my belly and she'll continue to play back with us some when we poke her. lol. I thought I *might* be having Braxton Hicks contractions this week and that was confirmed at my appointment this week. Crazy! They dont hurt- well most of them dont. They mostly feel like the top part of my uterus is getting tighter in a band. I usually starts to feel like she's poking her butt out but then a whole band around my belly will get hard. Only every now and then are they uncomfortable. It is definitely getting harder and harder to sleep. Lots of pee breaks in the middle of the night and overall discomfort. So I'm just tired a lot more. That's okay though :D Honestly, I'm just thankful my back doesnt hurt anymore- that was probably one of the more annoying pregnancy problems I had for awhile.

How's Daddy? Doing good! Still working on projects around the house when he gets home from work OR he takes care of me. Sometimes both. He's an amazing husband and we are so lucky to call him ours. He gets to feel baby girl a lot now and pokes at her to get her to play. Sometimes she's shy and other times she'll play back. I cant wait to see them interact when she comes out :D It might be the most precious thing ever. Work is super busy for him. They are still trying to complete the renovation project in his auditorium at work and he has a ton of other video projects he's working on. I know he's overwhelmed in every area of his life right now, but man he sure is a trooper and I am beyond thankful for him.

This week: This week John and I both got our hair did. LOL. Which meant we got to spend some time with the lovely Kala :D We also had a baby appointment Friday. Unfortunately, John didnt get to make this one either- so it was the first one I went to by myself. It was totally fine and took all of 20 minutes. haha. I got kick count instructions to keep an eye on how baby girl is, my blood pressure was perfect! YAY! I didnt gain ANY weight- in fact I lost a lb. I was very proud of this because I had kind of overdone it and dont want to be too much bigger than I have to be. I was also measuring a week ahead- which I was told is normal at this point to measure a week or two in either direction. Finally, baby girl seems to be head down- I had them check even though it was still a bit early- but my doctor thought she was head down. We'll know better next time! Oh! and her heartbeat was perfect. Y'all dont even know how big of a blessing that was to hear :D Why? Well....

That morning on my way to work, I was only about 2 miles from our house getting ready to turn right onto HWY 42 from a back road. I saw a big box truck/large moving truck (not really sure what to call it) pull out of a gas station that was not too far from where I was. Usually they are going so slow you can pull out in front of them. This guy gunned it and then proceeded to turn onto the back road I was on. I remember thinking he was rude because he didnt use his blinker, otherwise I could have gone if I had known he was turning. Then I realized he was going WAY too fast and I watched as his truck tipped over. THE ENTIRE TRUCK WAS FALLING OVER. I thought for sure he was going to hit me. He didnt, but I heard a loud crunch behind me. Y'all there were no words for how panicked I was. I jumped out of the car as fast as I could. Nobody else had pulled over to help yet, so I waved at a truck I saw on my way to the car behind me, while I was trying to dial 911. On my way back to the car I froze thinking- oh no. Whoever is in that car, could be dead. I might see a dead person. The truck had landed on top of the car and slide off. I just knew I was about to see the worst sight of my life, but I ran over anyways. Miraculously, the man driving was fine. I asked him if he was okay and if he was alone and he said yes, so I proceeded with my 911 call. I got so lucky and had waved down an off-duty volunteer fire fighter and EMS guy (same person). He might have been stopping anyways, but I'm not sure. I was in full blown panic mode. We decided later that I had a panic attack. I called John after 911 and couldnt get words out. I was hyperventilating and just couldnt process everything fast enough. Y'all. I was driving the mustang. Do you know how close I was to dying. The truck would have for sure crushed me and my little girl. My roof would have provided no protection. I was literally feet from it being me. The fire fighter that stopped came over to me and did his best to calm me down. He was like, you cant have this baby today ma'am. You need to calm down. Between him and John, I was finally able  somewhat. The guy in the other truck ended up being completely fine too. Talk about a miracle. So many miracles in this morning. I had so many of the fire fighters come up to me and tell me how lucky I was to be alive (I dont know why they thought saying that to an 8 month pregnant lady was a good idea) but it's so true. I was so lucky and so incredibly blessed to not be hurt at all. To not have witnessed someone else pass from this earth and to be able to help however I could. The Lord definitely had me and little girl wrapped in His arms that morning. Needless to say my blood pressure had to be through the roof and I was worried about how my panic attack impacted her. Luckily, I had my doctor's appointment that afternoon and everything was perfectly fine. Praise the Lord. :D

Over the weekend, John and I KNOCKED OUT SOME HOUSE PROJECTS! I was so proud of how much we got done! John did some incredible work in the garage and got rid of the cabinets we didnt need! We can even park a car in there now! Almost both!! We also got the power washer up and running and both worked on power washing the house some. I cleaned out our entire laundry room and organized it. It's not exactly what we want, but it's exactly where it should be right now. What we want is an entire other project that will have to be completed another time. Right now it just needed to be cleaned and organized. John also added a top to the washer and dryer so stuff stops falling behind! It's very useful! I cleaned the bathrooms as good as I can without bleach and John took care of the yard. It was incredibly productive and we were both pretty proud of ourselves :D 

Office closet was a hot mess. And now our dining room is even more of room as well as the whole entire office. :D You gotta make a mess to clean a mess, right? 

 Left side before with all the crap in the middle

 Right side before

 SO much better and there is a car in there! I'll try to get another picture in the daylight :D

Saturday night we went out to celebrate Mitch's birthday. The whole JoCo crew went to Deep River and got to spend some time together. I got to meet the Northrups baby- Nick- and held him for awhile. Afterwards, some of us went back to the Weavers house for a fire and s'mores! 

Yay!! for a productive weekend, good week, and healthy baby!