Labor?

As of midnight on Tuesday night (41 hours ago) early labor started. Since then contractions have been anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours(in the middle of the night last night I had a 2 hour sleep...I may or may not have had contractions). We made a trip to Cedars at 6am on Tuesday about 5 hours into labor and I was 3cm dilated and 80% effaced but contractions had stopped so they gave us the option to stay or come home. We decided to come home which was a good idea b/c we ended up getting a LOT of sleep last night in between contractions. This time my contractions are both in the front and the back whereas with Sophia I had strictly back labor. They're both pretty painful as expected! Nana has been over all day cooking and wrapping presents for us and helping in any way she can. We're all so excited to meet our new addition already! We might just have a Christmas Eve baby...to be continued!

37.5 weeks preggy

Thought we'd post a belly pic that goes with the season. I feel as big as a house(the horizontal stripes don't help one bit) so this might just have to be the last "belly pic" unless I'm feeling brave. Oh and a few favorite new words this week of Sophia's are: "Bunini"= Blueberry and "Banoo"=Balloon. "Bunini" makes Nana laugh really hard so Sophia likes to say it a LOT! When you say "I love you" to Sophia, she'll reply "I love Me"...close enough:)

December fun!

The boxes are empty and the tree is up...now it's just time to have a baby! I've been feeling very sluggish the last 2 days and my right foot has swelling near my toes and feels bruised(I might've dropped something on it) and lastly I have a VERY bloodshot left eye(no idea why). Enough complaining though...it's the homestretch and we're so grateful for our new house and new baby!

First Christmas in our new house!


The Tees family attempting to get a decent family picture!

Drinkin' and driving...

All wrapped up in lights

Our lil' bug in piggies:)

New House!

Today we found out that we are officially proud homeowners! We both really wanted to buy a house in our current gated community so it was just a matter of waiting until one came on the market. Brian has worked so hard and put in a lot of time to make sure this went through(it wasn't such a smooth ride)! Our favorite things about the house are: the backyard for bbq's, the upstairs laundry(my personal fav),and the community pool(so we don't have to maintain it!). It's 3 bedroom plus a loft that we plan on making a 4th bedroom in the next few years. Here are a few pictures of where our kids will grow up(furnishings are the previous occupants):

35 weeks and we have progress!

Yesterday we had our 35 week baby appt and ultrasound. We were so excited to see our lil monkey! First thing I told the doctor was that I'm feeling a LOT of pressure so she decided to do an "internal" to see if I was dilated yet and to all of our surprise I'm already dilated 1.5cm and 80% effaced!! She generally waits until 37 weeks to start internals but we were all so happy she checked! With Sophia I was dilated to a 1 at 37 weeks and I delivered 11 days later so if that's any indication of Baby#2's arrival....then we should have a baby sooner than later!! Doctor said he already weighs approx 6lbs right now and estimated (if I go to 40 weeks which she didn't think likely) he'll weigh 7.5lbs(which made me soooooo happy). Hopefully her estimates are right:) She also checked the babies amniotic fluid level and said it's right on at 15(apparently under 10 is too low and over 20 is to much). We're still slated to move into our new house next Friday...just hoping this baby can wait until then! We'd like to have his nursery all set up for him. We might just have a baby in our arms before Christmas...HOW FUN!!!
Thought I'd include a picture from last week of a lunch with some good friends in Orange County...3 out of 4 of us are preggy!!

35 weeks preggy and 35 days to go!

I'm very behind in posting so Turkey Day festivities pictures still to come. Can't believe we're 35 weeks along. We move into our new house next week so BT has been packing away! I feel like I'm "waddling" rather than walking. We've been feeling baby's hiccups VERY VERY low now so we think he's in position! We have an ultrasound tomorrow(first one since 20 weeks!!!)..we were sooo spoiled with Sophia where we had so many ultrasounds. We're both so excited to see our lil' monkey!! Here's a self portrait of me from this morning since daddy wasn't around to take a picture: