Tracy, Kelly, Hannah, Haley

Back when I had my maternity pictures taken I left out the part of Tracy being there with me because we wanted to surprise our Dad with some of the pictures for Father's Day.  I'm just now getting around to adding them to the blog!

Since Tracy is due with Haley just a week before I'm due with Hannah I thought it would be fun to get some pictures together.  I think they turned out pretty cute  :)

Baby bumps!

Us with our girls!

Oh, having a belly that small seems sooo long ago now!

I love this picture :)

I think we will love having these one day when we can look back on being pregnant together!  Haley and Hannah both will be here VERY soon!!

Hannah Pics

Thursday morning Austin and I had our 36 week ultrasound to check out Hannah one last time before her debut!  It was so neat to see her in detail and so BIG!  She was as usual a little wiggle worm the entire time and the tech said that's the best way to see everything.  She even kicked the ultrasound wand once, I guess she didn't like it there.  Excuse us Miss Thang!

Here is a picture of her arm, the long whitest parts are her bones, so cool to see!

A front view of her chubby little face.  It's cool that you can see her umbilical cord above her head.  Check out those cheeks!!!  So big and chubby!

An upside down view of her foot

Check out all that hair!!  That was by far the biggest shocker to me during the entire ultrasound.  Austin and I were both baldies for quite a while so to see that Hannah has lots of hair right away was pretty surprising!  We also were both little towheaded babies when we did get hair but we both think she's going to come out with some dark hair.  My hair is so dark it's almost black, so if we didn't have pictures of me as a baby then I wouldn't believe my hair was ever that light to begin with!

Hannah waving at us!

Her pretty little profile

This is Austin's favorite picture because she's puckering out her lips.  Such a little cutie!

After the ultrasound tech was done she entered all of the measurements into her fancy little computer and told us the estimated weight of Miss Hannah.  When she said she was 7lbs 4oz I about fell over!  Austin said "that's good, right?  That's the weight for when she's born?"  Um, no, that's her estimated weight RIGHT NOW!  She still has about four weeks to go and given the estimated weight gain of babies at this stage is 1/2 lb a week we're looking at a 9 lb baby at birth!  My doctor warned me ahead of time that this was just an estimate and the tech told me that she could be up to a pound off so I'm hoping and praying that she was!  That's a BIG baby especially for a not so big person to deliver...

The next time we get to see our little girl will be when she's born!  Just a few weeks away!  We can't wait!!!

36 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 36 Weeks 

Size of baby: Hannah is about the weight of a melon, around 6 lbs and about 18 1/2 inches long (this is according to BabyCenter.com) the ultrasound tech today said something MUCH higher!  Hannah is estimated right now to be about 7lbs 4oz!!!  Oh.  My.  Gosh.  She did say give or take a pound though so in my mind I'm going to go ahead and TAKE a pound away!  ;)

Total Weight Gain: 23 lbs

Maternity Clothes: All maternity clothes

Gender: GIRL!!! Hannah Lee Townsend

Movement: Lots of movement!  She showed off all her moves to the ultrasound tech today too, she was a wiggle worm!  Last night for the 1st time she was moving around so much and in such a way that I was just UNCOMFORTABLE!  Luckily she moved around some more and I was able to sleep comfortably.  I even told Austin that this was the 1st time I actually felt ready to have her, most of the time I get a little sad thinking she won't be with me all the time anymore.  I can't wait to meet Hannah soon but at the same time I've really just loved being pregnant with her so I will be a little sad once it's over.  But I'm sure I'll be over that in about 2 seconds once she's actually here.  :)  Our little wiggle worm is moving all around in there right now as I type this actually!

Sleep: I'm still falling asleep super easy but I'm waking up several times throughout the night and sometimes I have a hard time falling back to sleep.  Luckily I'm not having to get up to go to work anymore so I can relax in the mornings (I'm still waking up super early like I'm actually going to work) instead of getting ready and driving to work.

Cravings: Sweets

What I Miss: Moving around like a normal person.  I am SLOW!!  I also feel HUGE!!

Symptoms: Heartburn daily, absent mindedness, swelling, shortness of breath, lots of BH contractions and now I'm losing my balance more often, it's weird.  I'm definitely more achy now than before.  Since I started my "home" rest my feet swelling is SOOO much better!!  They usually look pretty normal everyday now!  My BH contractions are still going strong daily though.  

Best moment this week: Seeing our sweet baby girl this morning!!  It was so much fun to see her moving around and she's SO much bigger than the last time we saw her!  She put on a good show for us too, I'll do another post with some of her pictures.

Babysitting Big Girl!

Friday night Austin and I babysat Leah while her parents went out and boy, did she have fun!  She was so excited to play with us that she didn't even say bye to Mama and Dada.

She and Uncle Austin worked on her Mickey Mouse puzzle for a while.  Over and over and over....

Then Leah explained to Uncle Austin all the important things that the celebrities are doing in US Weekly.  

Then she got out her stuffed snake and it kept biting our knees saying "PPPSSSSS!!".  

She thought that was SO funny!

Clearly, Uncle Austin was a hit both with Minnie and Leah!  She kept running into the corner and playing "ready set go" with Austin.  He would say "ready...." and she'd say "set!" and then he'd say "GO!" and she'd run over as fast as she could and he'd pick her up in the air and she'd just laugh and laugh.

Before bedtime we compromised on Leah watching JUST ONE Mickey Mouse show.  That's her new thing now, holding up her pointer finger and saying "Just one Mickey" to try to squeeze more Mickey time out of you.  So, when she said "Just one Mickey Aunt K" of course I had to let her watch it!  She's so cute, she can't say her Ls yet so I'm Aunt K for now and her Lainey is Yay-nee. 

  

It was a great night with only one upset when we made her get out of the bathtub.  She wanted to stay in longer and play but it was bedtime.  When we put her in her bed she said "night night Aunt K" "night night Uncle Austin".  Sooo sweet.  :)  We love our little Leah bug!

35 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 35 Weeks with 35 days to go until her due date!!

Size of baby: Hannah is about the weight of a honeydew melon, around 5 lbs and about 18 inches long

Total Weight Gain: 22 lbs

Maternity Clothes: All maternity clothes

Gender: GIRL!!! Hannah Lee Townsend

Movement: Lots of movement! Our wiggle worm likes to keep me on my toes with all her movement.  She did give me one hard kick the other day into what I think was an organ or something because of how much it hurt.  She's strong in there! 

Sleep: I'm still falling asleep super easy and early but I'm waking up before the alarm every morning.  I also get up anywhere between 2-4 times a night which is annoying but usually I can fall back asleep quickly.  I now have several pillows around me when I'm sleeping for belly and back support.  If we didn't have a king size bed then Austin wouldn't be able to fit in there with me and all my pillows!

Cravings: Sweets

What I Miss: Moving around like a normal person. It's getting harder and harder to move around these days.

Symptoms: Heartburn daily now, absent mindedness, LOTS of swelling, shortness of breath, lots of BH contractions, etc. I'm definitely more achy now than before.

Best moment this week: Going on the maternity ward tour at the hospital and seeing everything we're going to be experiencing VERY soon!  It was pretty informative and I'm so glad we went.  I also got to see Hannah at the Dr today, Dr J said she has cute cheeks and she's doing perfectly!  I wish I could say the same for her Momma.... I got put on modified rest today.  My heart issue has gotten to the point where my cardiologist and OB expected as Hannah gets bigger so they just want me to rest more especially since I'm having so many BH contractions on a regular basis and getting light headed at times and more short of breath.  No more going to work (I can still work from home for a while), going to the grocery store, mall, etc.  I can go short distances in the car (about 30 mins at a time) and still do anything like going to dinner or the movies since those are relaxing activities.  But no shopping?!  Sadness.  Good thing for internet shopping. ;)  I'm even sad I can't go to the grocery store anymore, I like picking out yummy food! 
When I got out of my car at the far end of the parking lot this morning to go into the drs office a man who worked there picked me up in his maintenance golf cart and gave me a ride to the front door and then when I was in the waiting room some woman told me she thought I was very pretty pregnant.  It must have been 'be nice to pregnant Kelly day' today I guess, so sweet of them both, they made my morning. :)  Trust me, after stepping on the scale at the Drs office and literally gasping when I saw how much I gained in two weeks I was NOT feeling so pretty!  The nurses got a kick out of my response because so far I've been pretty lucky on the weight front but they said it's all water and completely normal for this stage of my pregnancy.  Yeah, still made me gasp...
Austin is also officially done traveling for work for the rest of my pregnancy, woo hoo!       

This Little Piggy Got Painted

About a month ago I told Austin I was going to have to get regular pedicures now because I can't reach my toes easily enough to paint them.  His response was "I can paint them!".  Um....ok!  I said yes mainly because I wanted to take pictures of him painting my nails because it just sounded funny to me and is SO not an Austin kind of thing to do!  I figured I'd end up just going to the nail salon the next day if they turned out how I was expecting them to look. ;)

Taking my nail polish off.  I should have taken some video to how vigorously he was removing the polish.

I was guiding him along on how to paint but I guess he needed a really close look.  It's all about attention to detail, right?!  

The finished product!  Look at those fat little piggies toes!  You can even see the indention from Austin's fingers resting on my foot under my left big toe.  That's what happens when you touch my feet these days.  They.  Are.  Swollen.  Austin literally pushes all the water out of my feet each night when he gives me foot rubs.  It's crazy!

Ok, so it's not a professional job and I had to do a little touch up on the skin but I'm pretty proud of him!  I told him I was going to have to get some of the paint off the skin and he said, no lie "I can get my pocket knife out and get that paint right off".  Thanks for that awesome offer, but I think I'll pass. ;)  A Q-tip and some polish remover will work just fine.  Ha!

I've said it probably 100 times throughout the pregnancy but Austin really is the best "pregnant husband" ever!    He's so sweet to me and little Hannah with our slow ways and high maintenance/weird needs.  After he painted my nails he even went to the grocery store for the week and made dinner so I could put my swollen feet up.  :)  Lucky girl!

Why Going Private

Since I posted that I am making the blog set to private for a while I've received several emails asking if everything is ok, why am I going private, etc.  First off, everything is fine but I'm not comfortable with giving too much information out about the situation but basically a person (who I do not know personally) has expressed an unhealthy level of interest in me and has been trying for the past several months to get into contact with me through my family.  The police suggested that I make my Facebook page as well as my blog private to avoid this person finding out any more information about me than necessary.  We do not think he knows about my blog but I need to take precautions anyways, especially with Hannah due to arrive soon. 

I'm sorry for the inconvenience because I know it's a hassle to have to set up an account and log in each time you want to just read someones blog but it's necessary for the time being.  Hopefully once everything is in the past I can open the blog up to everyone again.  If you know someone who likes to read the blog please just have them send me an email at kelly.townsend@yahoo.com and I will happily add them to the readers list.  Unless they are the person I am avoiding...  ;) 

Thanks so much for your understanding!