A Baby-centered Weekend

It’s been a great, but very busy weekend! Skipping over Friday (since we didn’t do anything for the baby) and moving on to Saturday, we spent a nice/lazy/relaxing morning and early afternoon at home. Later that afternoon, we had an early dinner with Mom and Dad Fulkerson, and after that, they took us to buy the glider rocker we’d been eyeing for the nursery! It was definitely SO exciting and we can’t wait to put it together and start using it. So now, with BIG thanks to both of our parents, we have our two major nursery pieces purchased – our crib and our rocker! Did we mention how exciting this is!?!? Now all’s we need is a baby shower to put the finishing touches on everything, and then a baby. =)

All day today, we had our childbirth prep (a.k.a. Lamaze) class. It was quite the information packed class with a lot of visuals and hands-on activities. As we looked around the room (we were one of 8 couples), we noticed that Jen was the smallest pregnant person in there by far, and there were even people in there that had about the same due date as her and they were ginormous! We kept thinking that people were probably looking at us and wondering, “why are THEY here? She’s probably not due for another 6 months or so!” But at the same time, she also prided herself in the fact that she was the only one who didn’t have to get up and use the bathroom like 10 times an hour. Yes, she has a bladder the size of an elephant, and being pregnant has not changed that either...... yet. ;) Let’s hope it doesn’t. Greg did a great job learning how to be Jen’s coach, and he learned a lot about how to help Jen get through the first stages of labor with relative ease. We did however, get insane giggles at one point during the class and almost had to excuse ourselves. Yes, we were taking things seriously, but how come the giggles always have to come at the most inappropriate of times? Anyhow, it was a great day, and it made us both nervous for delivery day AND more prepared and excited.

Noah is quite the active little guy...... actually, he always has been. Lately, he moves and moves and moves and moves and moves. We wonder if he ever sleeps! They say that babies are developing sleep patterns at this stage in pregnancy, so we’ve been trying to be quiet and calm at certain times, and loud and playful at times, hoping with all hope that that will help him make a pattern and stick to it – we just hope that he doesn’t come out thinking that it’s acceptable to continue to “play” at 3 am! ;) Actually, night time “play time” has become one of our favorite nightly rituals. We like to go to bed early, have Jen lay on her back, and watch him move all around in her belly and make it morph into different shapes. Quite often, we can figure out just where his little head is. =) We also hear that he is learning (and can recognize) our voices at this stage in pregnancy too. So Greg talks to him whenever he can since he hears Jen’s voice all day long.

That’s about it for now. Another belly picture to come soon!