Finley's Arrival....Still in a Holding Pattern

Here it is noon and we are in a holding pattern. Alle has a great labor and delivery room with space for the whole family, and then some. She looks great and is getting a little impatient. She has a wonderful nurse, Ruth and doting husband Beau ( you knew that)

She is feeling some contractions, but not the ones her parents, husband and friends are expecting. Her mom and dad and Beau are trying to be supportive. She cannot eat, so we are eating as much junk food as Kim could bring. Alle wants us to eat it around the corner so she cannot see us. HA!

Good news from Henry. His first day of school went great. Not fights, crying or poking the girls. Only two boys are in the class. We hope he does not start playing with dolls!

Hopefully next post will show Alle in major contractions!  It is 1:00 pm now and still holding!

Update

So......it's me....the one who is supposed to be in labor. Well, just to update I am having contractions that are regularly 3-4 minutes apart, but I am not in pain so that tells me I have a while. I was 2 cm this morning and -3 effaced. I think I have to be at 1 or something like that. My ob is coming soon to check me and hopefully I will have made progress. Someone....hopefully not me....will update again soon. Thanks for all of the prayers!!!!

Henry's First Day of School

Henry's first day of school is going to be on a special day. His little brother Finley Alexander hopefully will be born on this same day. His grandparents, Jan and Bill took him to school as Alle and Beau went to the hospital to look for Finley. We hope he comes today!
Henry wants to drive to school, or at least be pushed...

Once he got to school, he bravely stood at the front door and waved. We do not know if he let his grandparents kiss him in front of his classmates, but I am sure they did. I understand that most of his classmates are girls. I am sure he will charm them all!

Henry's Papa Bob is posting Alle's blog while she works on finding Finley.
Stay tuned for more information about today's events!

38.5 weeks and some room changes.....

I will be 39 weeks preggers on Wednesday, August 17th and and getting larger by the second.  Fin is moving like crazy and I have had a couple changes to update.  I went to the doctor on July 22 and found out I was 1 cm dialated....well, I got a little excited but for no reason!  I have been back twice and have had no changes.  Oh well!  He is just not ready to enter into the real world! I go back to the doctor in tomorrow (Monday), so I will update as I know what is going on.
We have been super busy around here getting Henry's big boy room ready and Finley's nursery ready and I can say I have pretty much finished both rooms.  There are a couple of things I need to do in each room....get a rug for Henry, put up some pictures of Finley....but those things are on hold right now.  I am posting some pictures of their new rooms, their new playroom (we lost our guest bedroom) and my huge stomach!  With the kitchen changes, the room changes and the new playroom, we have a completely different house and I love it!

The playroom is connected to the kitchen...it is wonderful to be able to confine him to one place that I can actually see while cooking!  I love the new playroom!

This is the same theme Henry had when he was little.  However, we rearranged the room to make it different for Fin and am hanging a few new things.  It is a completely different room.  Click here to see what it looked like before.

Across the hall is Henry's room.  It used to be Beau's man room, but now it is an inviting toddler's room.  Henry absolutely LOVES his new room and is doing excellent sleeping in his big boy bed.  We (knock on wood) could not have asked for an easier transition!  I was extremely nervous and did not give my sweet boy any credit.  He has slept better in his bed than he was sleeping in the crib!  I love his new room too.  Big Dad and Betty painted him some Thomas the Train pictures with him in the actual train and they are awesome!  We also put up a chalkboard, some new pictures and his Thomas tent.  He is in heaven! 



35 weeks and counting!

I am 35 weeks preggers as of yesterday!  Finley is moving and looking great!  I went to the doctor on Tuesday and had a "growth ultrasound" and the ultrasound tech turned on the 4-D for a minute!  It was great to see his little face and hear that his measurements were good.  We are in the process of putting together Henry's big boy room, making our guest room a play room, and changing Henry's old room into Finley's new room.  We have been busy with paint, bedding, moving...etc.  I will post some pictures when we are done. 

Unfortunately Finley had his hand in front of his face the whole time.  We tried getting him to move it, but it was not happening!

It's About Time!!!!

After 3 long months of our house being under construction, our kitchen is finally done and we LOVE it!!!!
To see the before pictures, click HERE

Here are the after pictures....

Happy Fourth of July!

We had a busy 4th of July weekend.  We went to the lake, the pool, saw fireworks, went to the Peach Festival and tried to relax in between.  We did all of these fun activities with our good friends TSOBP.  Carlilse is one of Henry's best buds and since they are only 4 months apart so they have lots of fun together!  We started the weekend off by going on the boat and then going to the little beach area near the house so the boys could swim.  They loved every second of the water that day.  I think the lake had some sugar in it because we have never seen them so hyped up!  After all of that play, they got baths, ate dinner and we watched the fireworks.  Henry was not overly excited about the noise from the fireworks, but sat and watched them for 30 minutes!  Since that night, he has told EVERYBODY about the fireworks going "boom, boom, boom."  SO, he must have liked them a little.....

The boys just wanted to run into the water over and over again.  The puddle jumper life jackets were lifesavers for us!!!

Carlisle thought it would be fun to put the sand in his hair?????

Here we are at the Peach Festival and it was interesting to say the least.  We only stayed a couple hours because it was SO HOT!!!  Everyone was drenched and exhausted when we left!  They did have a ton of tractors kids could get up on and that was the highlight of the trip.  They boys loved driving the tractors and thankfully they were in the shade for us.  It was fun!