Showered with Love!

The theme that keeps resonating with me as I look through these photos is that we are so blessed! Our family and friends have truly surrounded Mr. L and I throughout my pregnancy and shown us the most amazing love and support. I hope I can express to Baby H one day how excited everyone was for his arrival and how much he was loved before he was even born. If you're reading this and you had part in any of these events I can't say thank you enough!

Lewin family shower hosted by my MIL and two wonderful sister-in-laws

It was a jungle theme and the cake was absolutely adorable!

My little helper was so excited to help me open the gifts

Mr. L stopped by at the end to say thank you to all the ladies in his family that came to celebrate with us. It was so great to see everyone!

Here I am with Mr. L's Mom, sister, sister-in-law and Grandma. Baby H is going to get lots of kisses in the future from these ladies!

My Grandma was able to attend the shower as well. She is so excited to meet her first great-grandchild!

Next was a shower hosted by my sister at my parents' house. Our nursery has a sports theme so she did the shower in a sports theme and it turned out great!

Such cute ice cream sundae desserts in little reds hats!

My friend Bethany with her adorable son Jett! So sweet of them to come!

Baby H's future buddies, Liam and Jett

Baby H was very spoiled!

Some of the best friends a girl could have! Quite a few of us have known each other since elementary school, through middle and high school, and even went to college together. So lucky to have them! I can't wait to see what the future holds for all of us and our little families!

My last shower was hosted by my wonderful sorority sisters in Lexington. I always have such a ball when we get together and this was no exception!

Everyone decorated cloth diapers for Baby H for me to use as burp clothes. They all turned out so cute!!

This lovely lady drove all the way from Dayton to join us!

We're never short on laughs, that's for sure!

Me with my lovely hostesses! You may recognize a few as fellow bloggers. I don't think my college years would have been the same without these girls! One of them just got engaged and I couldn't be happier about!

Beautiful Alpha Gams!!

I was very excited that my little Alpha Gam family was there. Me with my little sis on my left and big sis on my right. My big sis is a new Mommy to sweet baby E. She is so precious! Maybe a future wife for baby H!

And last but not least a photo with my Mom and Sis. They were such troopers coming to everything with me and helping me in all my preparations for Baby H. Can't wait for him to meet them!!

Ready for Diaper Duty!

Baby H...Daddy is ready for Diaper Duty...ha!

Some of Mr. L's great friends hosted a diaper party for him a few weeks ago. We were so blessed by them and have such a great supply to start out with! This get-up was one of the funny gifts that he got. I think he has everything he needs to tackle some stinky diapers...what do you think??

We're getting close!

As the end nears I get more and more excited about meeting my little buddy! Now that I'm officially full term he could come at any time and I am READY! Everything is done, everything is washed, the bags are packed, carseat installed, we are good to go. At my last two doctors appointments I've been 3cm dilated and around 50% effaced. This last time the doctor thought that I looked "big" and wanted to do an ultrasound to measure the size of Baby H. Luckily it turns out that he is an average size and they're not worried about needing to induce. My next appointment is this coming Wednesday if he hasn't arrived before then so I'm excited to see if there is any more progress. I'm definitely feeling more low pressure when I walk and many people have told me that I look like I have dropped.

38 weeks

My blood pressure continues to be good as well as his heartbeat and I've lost a pound at each of my last two appointments. I guess at this point everything I'm eating is going straight to the baby, which I can't say that I mind because I'm spoiling myself and indulging on ice cream every night before bed. I have to enjoy this while it lasts...ha! As soon as he's here it's back to watching what I eat.

39 weeks

Countdown until my due date...2 days. Pray that he comes soon because I'm getting less and less sleep each night and if I'm going to be awake to see every hour on the clock I'd at least like to have a little baby to cuddle and love on! I'm going to do my best to post photos and updates when he comes so stay tuned!

34-37 Weeks and a few words

So I know it's been a few weeks. Needless to say I've been tired! This past week I reached a really exciting milestone of getting to "full term". I'm so relieved to know that if I went into labor today that my little buddy would be ok and I would get to meet him! So enjoy the photos of my progress and hopefully I'll feel a little more like posting in a few days. I'm waiting for one more item for the nursery to come in the mail and then it will be complete and I'll be so excited to post pictures.

34 weeks

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37 weeks

Sneak Peek

Guess what was finally delivered on Saturday....

I'm so happy with how it turned out so here's just a little preview until I can get it all set up. Stay tuned!!

I may be wearing green today...

...but I bleed BLUE!!

Go Cats! Here's to a first round victory!!

33 Weeks

Not the best photo this week but oh well. Let's see...what can I tell you. I'm still feeling pretty well. My walking is now a full fledged waddle...ha! I had another OB appointment and everything is still right on track. My doc estimates that Baby H is about 4 pounds and he is still head down. I'm trying to do better a better job of taking it easy as by the end of the day most days my ankles and feet are pretty swollen. I had my prenatal massage on Saturday and it was glorious! 50 minutes of pure bliss plus a few minutes where the therapist did this little lift trick where I lay on my side and she lifts my stomach to take the weight and pressure off of my spine. It felt so good! I got a lot of other errands and little things checked off my list and Mr. L even was able to fit in a round of golf. Pretty great for both of us.

Our childbirth classes wrapped up so I guess that means I'm supposed to be ready...ha. Everything that we learned was really helpful and it definitely makes me feel at least a little more prepared for what I may encounter. I think my biggest take away was that I want to be flexible. I don't want to set myself up to expect a certain type of birth and then be disappointed if it doesn't turn out as such. All I care about is getting Baby H out as safely as possible. It was kind of crazy though this last week because when we showed up there it was evident that a few couples were missing. It turns out that one of the ladies had actually had her daughter that morning and another lady was up in triage being monitored. Wow...that will be me in a few more weeks and I can't wait!

Check out this great photo of my parents. They were able to travel to Atlanta last weekend and cheer on our CATS to an SEC tournament victory. From the sounds of it they had a great time and my Mom has little voice left to show for it...ha! Mr. L and I talked about possibly making the trip down but an 8ish hour car ride at this point just doesn't sound so appealing so we cheered them on from home. Hopefully one day we'll make it there!

And this beauty here is my latest obsession. Our amazing stroller. Mr. L put it together for me and I haven't been able to stop playing with it! It's so fun to think of all of the future uses we'll get out of it. It's great because the seat you see here is removable and the car seat pops right on. We also got the bassinet attachment which I think will be great for being outside this summer! I can imagine my little buddy boy sitting snugly in it every time I look at it.

OH! and I almost forgot. The delivery service FINALLY called and scheduled delivery and set up of our nursery furniture. We should have it all set up by Saturday afternoon and I'm so excited. I'll make sure to post pics next week. Until then...