4 Weeks To Go!!!

I'm going totally off topic this week from my usual design/ DIY/ craft post and I'm going to talk about something that is on my mind- This Baby!!


I'm 36 weeks today- the final date is approaching! I've been trying to be better about taking belly pics- I have hardly any of The Con Man. But I just realized I only have 3!?! Lame!

But what isn't lame is I've gotten a few of the decorations for Tiny Falcon #2's nursery in this week. I had to hang them up!

I have 3 more smaller stars on order. Hopefully they'll get here soon! 

In the meantime what's really been on my mind is the whole birth process. I want to do it naturally this time. My husband thinks I'm a little crazy but is supportive. He's a pediatrician and is present for a lot of births- so he's seen the good, the bad, and the really bad.


I can't explain exactly why I want to go natural this time- a few reasons are that I want to prove to myself that I can, and I hated being stuck in the hospital bed unable to move my lower body for hours; even after Con was born.

With The Con-Man I didn't prepare myself well, I just figured I'd see how things went and I'd decide from there. Well I for Con-Man I started having contractions during the first installment of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. 

I tried sitting through the movie because I didn't think I'd be able to come back and see it (yes I love Harry Potter- did you see the shirt I made for the last movie?) but with some encouragement from the Hubs we left in the middle. At least the theater gave us free tickets to come back!! They were not about to argue with the hugely pregnant woman.

Any way by the time we made it to the hospital I was measuring 5 cm dilated. The nurse told me the anesthesiologist was on the floor- and if I wanted an epidural I better get it now otherwise they didn't know when he'd be back. 

Needless to say I went a head and got it because I didn't know what the next few hours held in store for me. It was my first delivery and since we were at a military teaching hospital at the time it was the doctors first night on the job as well!!!

This time around I'm a little older and wiser so I've been preparing myself- both mentally and physically. I've been trying to read up online about natural birth. Staying calm, having a focal point, moving around, breathing, ect. I've also been doing strength excercises at home hoping that will help me out as well. 

I keep telling myself that I can do this; that the pain wasn't so bad last time (it's convenient how your brain forgets those things right?) that I'm a strong person and that pain doesn't bother me so much.


But I do keep picturing Katherine Hiegle in Knocked Up when she yells- "I feel everything!!"

So that's what's been mainly on my mind the last few weeks. Any advice from seasoned verterans out there? Am I totally nuts for trying to do this the really old fashioned way?

Disney Trip!

Sorry I didn't have my usual Friday Feature post for you yesterday- I've been a slacker and have been trying to get settled into "real" life after our vacation. I did want to show a few photos from our trip. We had a really good time. I don't know who had more fun; me or the Con-Man! 


Before I get into that I did want to mention a few little changes I made around here. With all the talk about Blogger getting rid of the Google Friend Connect for non-Blogger platforms I went a head and added the Linky tool app. I didn't know of any other options- so we'll check it out together and see how it goes! I'm also on Google+ but have never really used it. Maybe it's time I did.... So I went ahead and added that link if you want to follow along that way. I'm still figuring it out myself so we'll see how that goes as well. 

Con-Man ready to go!

So anyway- enough boring stuff, the first day of our trip we went to Universal Studios. And that means Harry Potter World!!!! I am a huge Harry fan so this was a big deal for me. We saw Hogwarts, walked through Hogsmead, rode the rides, everything! (And of course I forgot my camera this day so all I had was my phone.)

The Butterbeer was amazing! The Chocolate Caldrons- to die for! Still have to eat my chocolate frog. (And I found a recipe for Butterbeer I have to try!)

The next day we started at Disney. Con-Man was so excited to see Mickey and Minnie! I thought he might be afraid of them but he gave them big hugs and everything.

Mickey knew the LSU fans were coming and did the flowers just for us!

He rode all the rides and wasn't afraid of any of them. And he met some more of his favorite characters.

We got that Child Swap thing down to a science and even found time for swimming.

It was a fun trip but I will say not relaxing! I needed a vacation after this vacation. I hope everyone has a great weekend!