Doctor Update

As of 3:00 yesterday afternoon, I am now dialated to about 1-1.5ish. At least now I know the contractions I've been having since mid-January are doing something. I am almost 38 weeks along and Riley was born at about 38 weeks...almost 39 weeks...so I would guess sometime soon there will be Baby Boy Schuster news to post. I have given both my sisters access to post on my blog so updates will come ASAP when we have news. In the meantime, Happy Groundhogs Day!

Daddy's Girl

Ok, since I've been lacking in photo posts, I made an effort this weekend to take some pictures. I am going to schedule a few posts if I can because we really don't know when this little wiggle monster is planning to arrive, but my feeling is sooner rather than later. I will have my sisters update my blog and Facebook pages with photos and details when the time comes.

This bunch of photos was actually not planned. Riley must have noticed that I haven't been taking pictures much lately because I was in the bathroom getting ready on Saturday morning and Josh was standing outside talking to me. Riley got her bench, put it in front of Josh, grabbed the camera and gave it to me so I could take pictures of her and Daddy and she posed like a ham for about 10 minutes. Do ya think she's a Daddy's girl?

January Birthdays

Benihana has a GREAT birthday deal where if you sign up online for their Chef's Table they send you a coupon for up to $30 off your b-day dinner. A bunch of our friends have January birthdays, so we took advantage of the coupon: 5 of the 8 of us at the table were birthday discounted. Thanks to my mother-in-law for passing that website on back in the fall sometime. It was a great deal and especially since this group of friends is already a huge fan of Benihana! The only downside is that the tables only seat 8 people, so we had to exclude the non-January birthdays:( But I think the shrimp sauce made me feel a little better...

TIGF

I almost forgot to post this one today, but I'm glad I waited. I need to say a huge thank you to my hubby for doing the grocery shopping with Riley tonight. I've had a day of contractions and just being really uncomfortable and he has been great giving me time to rest, and if you know how much he really hates grocery shopping you'd understand how big this favor was for me. LOVE YOU Josh!

So any bets with the full moon this weekend? I'm not due until the 18th officially...How early do you think I'll go??? I'm shooting for maybe Super Bowl Sunday...Groundhogs day might be interesting...

Blog Lacking

I know that I have been posting fewer updates recently and even fewer with pictures. I should update where I am with my pregnancy by way of a lame excuse. Similar to when I was pregnant with Riley, I am having early contractions, which makes me wonder how soon this little guy is coming. On Monday I spent the whole day counting how close the contractions were, only to have none on Tuesday and just a few yesterday. We're at 37 weeks today so anytime he comes should be fine, but that means I'm staying close to home and leaving my camera near all the packed bags so I don't forget it. Not much to blog about, I guess. We have had a few play dates (or they have come to our place mostly), don't get me wrong, but we're not going on any grand adventures for a while.

Hospital Update: Many of you know we are hoping to deliver at the new Maple Grove Hospital. Originally there was some concern that the hospital was very understaffed and there was a chance we would have to go to North in Robbinsdale again. We had a great experience there with Riley so that would be ok, but I REALLY wanted to go to the new place. No paid parking for guests, and everything is so nice, not to mention if my delivery goes as fast as my sisters' second deliveries did, I want to go to the closest hospital possible and this one is 20 minutes closer than North if you hit the lights wrong...I won't go into all the other perks to this hospital (there's a lot!), but it is now sounding like they have hired more staff and things are looking better that we can deliver there. Stay tuned for updates on when and where we're headed!

TIGF

I'm thankful that were are starting the very last week of January:) I'm not a fan. Once we hit February, winter seems to be winding down, even if we get more snow, you can feel that it's close to over. Baby Boy will be here then, and I'll be too distracted anyway to notice a little slush and mush:)

Play Date Fun...

We had a lot of play dates this weekend. Friday we played with my college roomies Maureen and Sarah and their boys, Saturday my roomie, Jess and her little boy (Riley's boyfriend), and Sunday we went to my friend Jenny's place for the Vikes game and a little playtime with her liitle guy...Riley was the only girl in all this play date fun! I didn't bring my camera for all of them, but I did bring it to the indoor play park on Saturday with Jess and Noah. Being almost 9 months pregnant, and totally afraid of heights anyway, I don't do much climbing, but Jess, being just 7 or so months pregnant and a former gymnastics coach, she's way more flexible and braver too...she did a little climbing with the kids. THANKS Jeca! Sorry I'm a fat chicken! Riley even took a nap that day!