Tucker Thompson Lange

T-minus 2 weeks and counting...

Actually, if you want to get technical, we have 11 days until Tucker's scheduled appearance! That is a week and a half from today! We have become quite impatient around here, going on walks hoping to entice him to make an early appearance, but no such luck! The house is clean, all his laundry is done, and his room is ready! Now we're just waiting on HIM!!! Even though I know I should get over all of my impatient anxiety and enjoy these last few days of just Taylor and I, I really just want to have him here! So for now, we will just wait until our next doctor's appointment on Wednesday and see what he has to say!

Tucker's Room

The lovely Lawson ladies threw a shower for Tucker this last weekend in Midland and it was AMAZING! So much good food and Tucker got lots of great stuff! We are very blessed to have such great family and friends. I was so excited to get everything all set up that we came home late Saturday afternoon to get it all unloaded amd put away.

Now all we need is the little guy and it will be complete! :-)

Speaking of waiting for Tucker to get here, I went for my 37 week appointment today (even though I'm officially 37 weeks tomorrow) and I am 2 centimeters dilated and 50%. That's an improvement over last week's 1 cm so at least I'm not going backwards! Which is good because we're ready for him to be here! So if he's not here by his due date, November 5th, then we're going to induce. I'd rather not have to induce, but since he's a pretty big guy, we may have to. But at any rate Tucker Thompson will be here 3 weeks from tomorrow!

33 Week Ultrasound

Thursday we had our 33 week ultrasound at Dr. Hales office. Unfortunately it wasn't in 3D and we didn't get any good pictures this time, but little man is still doing good - he weighs 5lbs, 8oz. (he is in the 53rd percentile, surprisingly! I would have thought that would be a little higher!) and apparently has a little bit of hair! I had no idea you could see hair on an ultrasound, but apparently you can! 46 more days until D-Day! (But I think he'll come earlier!) Can't wait!

Project weekend

I have been in project mode this weekend. I am currently waiting between coats of paint on our bed-side tables.

So far I have:

• Spray painted all the fixtures in the master bedroom (each fixture was a different color - the towel bars were brushed nickel, the toilet paper holder and the cabinet door handles were glittery black and the hand towel rings were a funny red-ish bronze color)
• Made some bibs for Tucker
• Decorated a lamp shade for the lamp I got to go on the nightstand in Tucker's room
• along with all the regular weekend stuff, laundry, cleaning, yada yada yada...

Now it's back to the furniture painting. When I finally get done and everything straightened up, I will post pics of the house! :)

Finally settling in!

This last week has been a busy one to say the least! Last Wednesday (the 2nd), was Taylor & I's 2nd anniversary and also happened to be the day we closed on our new HOUSE!!!
YES! I did indeed say CLOSED! we are now homeowners! This one actually stuck! And are we glad it did! Since closing day we have been quite busy. We had lots to do with all of the moving, cleaning and unpacking, not to mention all of the things that needed installed/fixed/etc.! But luckily we had a long weekend and Taylor's whole family came in town on Sunday and helped with all of that nonsense! It was a HUGE blessing! Lisa, Heidi, & Mindy unpacked all my decor and hung/placed it all around the house while Taylor & Bob installed the new over-the-range microwave and garage door opener (YAY for getting to park in a garage!!) and Colter and Will hung stuff and pretty much did whatever Lisa told them to do. :) And it looks AWESOME!

Besides all of the perks of moving into a new house, I actually get to start working on Tucker's nursery! So far I only have his dresser/changing table and nightstand in there, but I have hung up/folded all of his 0-12mos clothes in his closet but I have yet to get any projects started because I wanted to get everything unpacked and situated first, but I'm hoping to go into Tucker Project mode this weekend!

That's pretty much it for now! Tomorrow I will OFFICIALLY be 32 weeks pregnant! That means only 8 more weeks (56 more days) until Tucker's supposed to be here! :) WE CAN'T WAIT!!!

30 weeks - Tucker's newest pics!

We caught him yawning :)

So far, so good! I am officially at 30 weeks today, but of course, little man is showing to be slightly ahead of the curve in size (what can I say, he's built like his dad!). :) After they did all of his measurements yesterday, they said that his estimated weight is 3lbs. 12oz. so he's measuring 2 weeks ahead of schedule. We go back to our regular doctor next wednesday and on Sept. 17th we go to for another 4D ultrasound.

ANDDDD!!! We are SUPPOSED to close on our new house SOMETIME next week, so hopefully we will be moving everything next weekend! We will see though! I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Free gift with membership.

So, Taylor and I joined a new church on Sunday. We've been going there for a while, but finally became members this Sunday. In an e-mail to me last week, the pastor said we would come and stand at the front of the church and they would recognize us and give us a gift.


As it turns out, we are now the proud new owners of (drumroll please).......

Yes, a toaster. Kind of made us laugh.

"Thanks for joining our church, here's a toaster."

You would think that if they were going to give you a thanks-for-joining-our-church gift (because no one really expects to get a gift for joining a church, or at least I didn't) that it would be something "churchy" like a bible, or a book, or even an inspirational calendar or something. But that's what I like about this church.

And yes, this is the same church where when the pastor was saying his opening prayer one Sunday morning and someones cell phone rang he said "And Lord, thank you for the many forms of communiction you have given us..."

Love it.
:-)

Third Trimester!!!

So we are officially in the 3rd trimester! Actually, to be specific, we entered the 3rd trimester last Thursday, the 13th which just happened to be Taylor's 25th birthday! We didn't do much to celebrate, just went to Outback and had some Cold Stone afterwards. Unfortunately, I was too tired/busy to make him his usual birthday cake.

Last wednesday, I had my 28 week appointment and gestational diabetes/anemia test and we heard Tucker's heartbeat which is always fun, still in the 150's. If nothing else he's a consistent little guy! My tests were fine, turns out my hemoglobin levels were a little low, but nothing an iron pill a day won't fix!

A week from today we go for our 3-D ultrasound! I'm really excited for that! I can't wait to see his little face!

And in the house-hunting department, turns out we had to cancel our contract we were in on the blue 2-story house. It's okay though, because we found another one that we are now under contract on (this time, I'm not posting pictures until after we actually close!) and we will hopefully close by next friday the 28th (happy birthday to me!)! And in case you were wondering, I will be accepting moving help in lieu of birthday presents ;-)

HILARIOUS!

Why I didn't do this at our wedding...
Oh wait, no one in my wedding had any sort of rythm :-)
Okay, so I wouldn't have done it, I'm not that brave! But kudos to these people! Cracks me up!