31 Weeks, Baby Shower, Moving, Hospital Trip, OH MY!

I will NOT slack on my blog again! I am horrible at this, I know! I have so much to update that I don't know where to start. Okay, lets start at the baby shower held on July 27th!

It was FABULOUS. We had an awesome turn out and were extremely blessed with everything we recieved. We have the big items we need thanks to my mom, dad/stepmom, and other family and we have more than enough clothes, accessories, etc. I feel so blessed that everyone was sweet enough to be so generous. I owe a huge, HUGE thank you to my mom especially. She is so amazing to have put together such a beautiful shower for me and Ian. Not only that but she bought all the furniture I just "had" to have including the entire Dwell Studio line - crib, changing table/dresser, bedding etc + a rediculous amount of clothing and other things for the baby. My sister, aunt, grandmaw and stepdad were a great help as well with putting everything together for the shower! The food was amazing, we did some fun games including measuring my belly, and some of the other classics, had door prizes, etc. Raine is such a lucky baby! Below are some photos taken before the shower and photos of some of the small things we recieved - not pictured are the big items because most are in previous posts on the blog.

The cake <3

Ian with his dad to be ribbon on!

I can't believe its now August 8, and I'm over 31 weeks pregnant! Raine is so active, he keeps me up all night at times, he always is up at 4am and kicking. Often I'll have to switch what side I'm laying on because hes knocking/kicking the side of my stomach thats resting on the bed and it feels very strange! I am so thankful he is active and healthy though.

We have some big news, we are MOVING! We didn't think we would be but it turns out we are! There is a house available next door to my mom (literally next door). We toured it and decided to move in. Its a cute house, older but has been redone. There are 4 bedrooms (small bedrooms, but still 4 of them), 2 stories as well as a basement. Two of the bedrooms are upstairs, 2 are on the main level along with a large living room and the kitchen. It has decent hardwood floors, and in general seems like not such a bad place to be. We have to paint before we move in - basically we will be completely moved into the house by September 1st. We are getting started painting right away and have already picked out the colors (well I won't obviously be doing much painting, but my Mom and everyone is being very gracious in helping). I wasn't sold on the house when I looked at it, because its not as modern as I would have liked.. but the location being as it is will be perfect since my mom will be watching Raine while we are working and of course I want to have her close by. Its also very close to my sister and her family's house and my grandparents house - and they are getting up in age so I want them to be able to see and spend time with Raine. Ian also really wanted to move into a house because I think the apartment drives him nuts. With the amount of animals we have the apartment really just doesn't work even though its large for an apartment. We have a nice yard at the new house, its just all around better for our situation. I am SO excited to be able to start on the nursery! It has driven me crazy not being able to start. I actually got impatient one night before we had seen the house and decided to move in, and hung some of Raine's clothes up in the closet, now I'll have to take them all back down! hahaha. Oh well. Heres a picture of (some) his clothes.

And here is a picture of the over 5 foot tall wired, stuffed giraffeI bought him, yeah I know, I'm crazy. But his room is going to be a zoo theme! This thing is my height!

Last but definitely not least, we ended up at the labor and delivery floor at the hospital last night/this morning. For the last few days I've been having some fluid leaking but passed it off as watery cervical mucus. Then I started having very bad back pain and a ton of pressure in my cervix/lower abdomen. I'm famous for putting things off concerning my health but I decided to go in and have it checked just in case something was going on. So we went in, they hooked me up to a fetal heart monitor and monitored for contractions for a couple of hours. No contractions! His heart rate was pretty stable around 138-145. He was moving so much that the heart rate monitor would lose track of him for a few seconds, typical Raine behavior! Hes always such a little booger when being monitored or looked at! They checked me for amniotic fluid leaking but didn't see any evidence of it - so what I'm leaking is probably normal leakage that happens later in the pregnancy. They checked my blood pressure and urine which both looked good as well. They also did a short ultrasound to see if he had enough fluid around him, the fluid looks great! We learned a suprising bit of news when the tech was doing the ultrasound - he has a significant amount of hair on his head! That was very unexpected, she said its hard to see hair on ultrasounds so he probably has a good amount. Monkey baby! Hahaha! He looked very cramped in there, poor thing! I am so glad everything is okay though, and I'm glad I went in instead of worrying and not knowing. I am going to follow up with the doctor soon and keep an eye on the back pain. The pain could be being caused obviously by all the extra strain on my back with me being a small girl and having a lot of weight in my belly. I haven't gained any weight anywhere but my belly, so I'm grateful for that. My weight gain is still half of where it should be, but since I'm eating healthy and hes measuring perfectly for his age there isn't much cause for concern. I can't believe its less than 2 months until my due date! I could very well have this baby in a month, less, more, AAH! Its so uncertain! I just want him to wait till at least 37 weeks.. so hes considered full term (and so his nursery is ready! LOL). My main concern of course is his health. I love my little Rainey so much already!

There is likely to be many more updates since so much is going on. I'll post photos of the new place once we get the painting and everything done. :)