Pregnancy update

So I had my weekly doc visit this morning just thought that you guys might want to know what was going on...

Last Friday I was 1 cm dialated and 20% effaced, this Friday I am 1.5 cm dialated and 50% effaced! Woohoo....so not a ton going on. I did feel some slight contractions last night, unless it was just gas but I am 75% positive that it was contractions.

The doc said that I should start the ball rolling so he told me to have sex, sex and more sex! May sound fun to you but at 9 mo pregnant it is a big task and frankly I am out of practice lately also.

Hope you enjoyed that little tidbit. If nothing happens then I will be going in to be induced on 10/13....just wait and see!

Misc. stuff from the past few weeks!

Last weekend Harper and I decided to go out and watch Daddy mow the lawn because we were board inside and it was a great cool day. Harper was following Danny back and forth on the lawn as he was mowing his rows. When he got closer Harper would start to run back to me in the back corner of the yard sitting on my lawn chair. It was really cute. However when Danny turned off the lawn mower and turned his back to do something else Harper would approach the lawn mower himself and try to move it. Yet again really cute. Danny helping Harper
Harper helping himself
Harper on the potty, He likes the tp
He just looked so cute!
This is Harper snuggling up to me tonight. I got him to kiss my belly which he never does, and when Danny got out the camera he wouldn't even dare pose for us so this was the next best thing. And look how freakin' huge I am! My tummy is spilling over, or muffin topping if you prefer. Sorry if you think this pic is too reveling, but I don't really care what you think!

My Non-Mormon Baby shower

This past weekend I had what I like to call my "Non-Mormon Baby shower", it turned out to be really fun even though many people that were invited/rsvp'd didn't show. I would like to blame the lack of attendees to the horrible weather that we had that day. Anyhow Nichole and Ronie who are pictured next to me threw me the shower and did a really great job. And they also provided 2 kinds of spiked punch that looked very good, everyone seemed to enjoy a drink at 11 am.

We played baby bingo in which they laid out many baby products on a table and we had 1 min to memorize as many as we could, then we had a bingo sheet we had to fill in with the products that we remembered from the table. Afterwards they selected random pieces of paper with a product on it and you got to cross it off. Since everyone got to fill out their own bingo card it made it so a little bit more difficult, anyhow I called Bingo first but let the others continue for the prize.

We also played guess the baby food, I'm sure that everyone knows that one. The 6 jars were passed around and everyone could either taste or smell or both to determine what they thought the baby food was. I was the only one there that had dealt with baby food in the past 5 yrs and I lost badly, Sue (bottom left) who was the oldest (but very young at heart) won the game and she doesn't even have grand kids!

Last game was the toilet paper game....my personal favorite and my choice. The most pieces of toilet paper that were selected to represent my pregnant belly was by Marie (top left), she guessed a whopping 17 squares! She lost! Liz (bottom middle) got the correct number of squares which was ONLY 13 squares...not to horrible. You can try and do it yourself to get an idea of how big I am right now.

I was given many great presents and all of them were so girly. It was very different from Harper's baby shower. Having a girl is just so much fun, every thing is pink and fashionable and of course adorable but I have so many 0-9mo clothes I don't know what to do. Side note, my neighbor Theresa (bottom right) was sweet enough to bring Harper some little cars so that he wouldn't be left out.

All in all it went very well even with the lack of ladies and I just want to thank Nichole and Ronie for a great shower and all of the great presents they got me, it meant so much to me!

Harper is an old lady magnet

I totally forgot to blog about Harper's latest granny encounter so here it goes.

Danny and I went out to Sizzler on Friday because he finished his training (ya!) and because I was craving a big juicy steak. Anyhow we were sitting at a table and Harper was in a high chair at the end and we were feeding him off our plate. I got up to go back to the salad bar for another plate and when I came back a few minutes later Danny informed me that a elderly lady was leaving and when she passed Harper she stopped to say how cute he was. I guess she said a few nice things and flirted with the boy and walked away, then she came back with a dollar bill and said that she used to do this to her grandchildren and gave it to Harper.

How freaking' sweet is that? It just made me laugh...so we are going to start a piggy bank for Harper and see if we can start making some money off of his good looks and charm.

Some recent events.....

My last blog was about Harper going pee on the potty but I didn't have a cute picture to go with it, so I took one the other day... As far as his progress I put him on the potty a few times a day and he usuall goes. He averages 2 times a day right now. It is so cute because I tell him to push and he makes straining sounds and we usually get a toot out of it too. He likes the candy part after he pees, so hopefully he will catch on and learn how to tell me he has to go. Seems the all he is talking about lately is 'poo poo' and potty, good topics!
Mr. Harper and Me

Friday my Dad took Harper to run arrons while I went to the doctor for my check up. Side note for that I had high blood pressure for the first time ever in my life, he said nothing to be worried about yet. And I have officially gained 16 pds over my pre pregnancy weight, I wish I could say that it was weight lost but when your pregnant what do you expect?

Any how he went out with my Dad and when I got back my Dad said he still had some things to do and would be out a little longer so I took advantage of the no Harper time and did something that I had the itch to do but was scared out of my wits to do.....as you can see I cut off all of my hair....This is the shortest it's been since about middle school I think, But I am really liking it. As far as the color I did it myself out of the box to avoid spending 30$ to go to the hair school, well big mistake! I know have blondish/orange roots and I hate looking at it, I don't know what to do.

So here are some pics to give you an idea of my new me.

From the front

From the back

From the side

Full frontal Delaney included

Pee Pee in the Potty

I am so excited today because Harper went pee in the potty today....Oh my gosh he is just having all of these firsts all of a sudden, I just can't believe how much he is growing up.

Harper and I were getting ready to take a shower and I got him undressed and just happen to put him on the potty for the first time, I mean he has never sat on the toilet before...He has a habit of peeing right after I take off his diaper (on the floory) before a bath or a shower so I gave it a shot today not really thinking anything would happen. Sure it was only a stream for like 1 second but that is a big step for him, so now I am on the look out for a potty chair to try and start him, my luck having this new kid will just delay his potty training but I guess I should try, right?

Now you all know about my child's potty experience, I hope you enjoyed and will pass it on.