Yay for Monica getting me pictures!  Here are some more pictures from the baby shower she hosted.

Pretty much, I'm thankful for everything so far today.  It has been a pretty good one :)  So we're combining a general - this is what's going on today - with the thankful post. :)

1) Even though I woke up just before 6am (ugh, but at least it wasn't 3:30 like a couple of nights ago!), the kitty came and snuggled with me.  Usually he'll snuggle for a few minutes, and then be like, "Time to feed me now! Get up!"  But not today.  Today, he cuddled and let me pet him until I couldn't stand to lay in bed any longer.  He also let my tummy sort of rest on him, since the pillow that is usually there had fallen off of the bed.

2) Going back to sleep :)

3) Waking up with still enough time to shower and take care of the animals before going to the doctor.

4) Matt waking up and taking the dog outside so I didn't have to :)

5) Matt going with me to the doctor.  The doctor's visits have gotten pretty routine and boring, so usually he just goes to work.  However, today I knew I was getting more thoroughly checked, and I'm excited he opted to go with me.

6) The doctor's visit was very informative.  He measured me and listened to Henlie's heartbeat (standard), and then also checked me and her out, and did the strep swab.  I'm dilated to a 2.  He did an ultrasound (and even though I have a long list of pictures, none are very exciting since he was measuring everything).  The fluid around her looks good.  She's measuring pretty small, but still okay.  For how far along I am, she's just above the 30th percentile.  He figures she's about 5.5 pounds right now.  Her head is down and super low (huzzah! looks like I'll get to have a natural birth after all :)  For the record, I was breech and lazy and came 4 days late by c-section.  I'm glad I'm not likely to follow in those footsteps.)  He doesn't think I'll make it to my due date.  I was told to take it easy.  We're hoping for at least another 2 weeks.  We are to weekly visits now.  Assuming I don't have a baby before the next two weeks, he'll measure everything again at that point.  Pretty crazy, but pretty exciting!

7) Since we're right next to the hospital and could have a baby any day, we swung in to pre-register.  We found out that since I went to have a test done there (glucose screen - so boring), we don't necessarily have to do anything beforehand.  When we come in, there's a consent form I'll have to sign for me and for Henlie, and they'll want to make sure they have current copies of our insurance and my ID.  Ta-da! Done.

8) Since we were at the hospital (lol, sensing a theme?) we swung by the medical clinic where the pediatrician's office is that we want to use . . . since I never got around to calling them.  The office staff was nice and told us what would happen when we gave birth.  Then they asked if we had a preference on the doctor (there are four there), and I told her who we had been referred to.  She asked if we wanted to meet Dr. Fullmer, so we decided if he was available, that would be cool.  So we essentially had another doctor's visit (in terms of waiting - why do you always have to wait so long?) and she gave us a little tour of the office. 

9) Dr. Fullmer came in and met us.  He told us about the doctors there and their availability, practices, approach, etcetera.  I left really excited to use their office.  I'm very pleased with our choice.

10) Matt and I stopped by Arby's for lunch.  I love hanging out with him.

11) I talked to my Daddy on the phone (in part because the DMV is retarded and has his address as our address, so we got another renewal notice on one of their vehicles, and in part to let him know what the doctor said) and found out that they're coming back up this weekend to return Grandpa Erdmann's truck that they borrowed, so I'll get to see them tonight or tomorrow morning.

12) My sister was able to get the shower pictures to me - I'll post in another post.

13) My cousin let us know who we have for Christmas.  Now to figure out what to get people!

14) Since I'm going back to editing for a few weeks, I had to arrange schedule stuff with my boss.  At first it didn't sound like I'd get many hours because she was confused about my due date and wasn't planning on having me back before January, but with the way things worked out for next week, she has me scheduled for 32 hours.  Even though I'm excited not to work as much, it's good that while I still can, I can get some more hours in.  Also, I don't work on Monday - making my weekend a 5 day weekend.  That's pretty neat.

So there you have it - and update, and at least 14 things to be thankful for today :)

I was just reminded of this meme by a friend who is doing it on Facebook.  Since I was reminded on Nov. 1st, I think we'll give it a go again.  Each day, I will attempt to log into Blogger long enough to post at least one thing I'm thankful for.  Go Thanksgiving, right? :)

So today, I'm thankful for my maternity pictures! Sarah mentioned she was going to either bring them by last night or this morning.  This morning when Matt went to leave for work, he found the package at our door and brought it in.  I'm super excited about it.  Also, I'm glad Sarah thought to include a written print release with it - because I just had an argument with Walmart when I tried to pick up a photo.  Sigh.

Anyway, I'm super excited and they turned out way cute, don't ya think?

Also, today I'm thankful that I get a really long weekend.  Work doesn't need me today, and I'm pretty sure there won't be a shift tomorrow.  Yay for lazy days - although I need to return the car and I want to stop by Shopko to look at some things.  It's nice to not necessarily have a schedule.  Although, with only a few weeks before the baby, hours would be a bit nicer to have.  Oh well, I already have more than what I'll be getting after the baby comes, so we should still be fine. :)

Since I don't work tomorrow either, hopefully I remember to come back for Thankful post 2 :)

My friend (and sort-of, almost relative :)) has her own photography business.  On Oct. 13th, we did a maternity shoot.  I've always wanted pictures with the fall leaves :)  After we went up Payson canyon, we came back down to Main Street.  Check her out: Sarah Dixon Photography.

Here are a few of my favs :) (I'm about 33 1/2 weeks in these pictures.)

Yeah, we've had lots of baby showers :)  One more to go this Saturday!

Anyway, my work had a shower for me on Saturday, Oct. 10.

My sister, Monica, wanted to host a shower for us, so on Friday, Sept. 28, Gloria and I headed to St. George to party.  Our drive was pretty uneventful.  We chatted and watched the scenery.  On our way down, we also stopped at the hospital in Cedar City because they sell (pretty decent) breast pumps at cost.  Since I was heading south anyway, we may as well stop :)

Friday night, we hung out with the family.  We had some dinner, watched a movie, and picked up some things for the shower the next day.

Saturday, I relaxed while Monica continued cooking up a storm :)  I also finished the movie from the previous night.  (Mirror, Mirror - I'd never heard of it, but it was really good.)  I also did some stuff for the primary program and read in my book.  And of course, I snapped some pictures of the preparations and decor :)