Feeling crafty, swollen and excited

I started feeling crafty a couple of days ago and so I began with some pastel picture frames that McKenna had in her nursery when she was a baby that I had put in a box to donate to DI found them and painted them black then thought well I should add something and these are the final products to go in baby Sophia's nursery. When she arrives we will take the picture of Calvin & Kenna together out and put her picture in it and then in March we are getting new family pictures and will probably update them all. :o)
Then I decided she needed a picture of Christ in her room so I found one of my frames that I had also in the garage and painted it black and then took white over the top and washed part of it off. The other frame on the outside was light pink and blended in with the wall so I was thinking I would paint it solid black but decided that I liked the pink showing through. This frame is new and has a cute matte and slots for a picture of her every month up to one year old.

Baby Sophia can't come home from the hospital without a head band so I decided to make a few that match some of her tiny little outfits of which I still don't know which she will wear home. :o) I guess it really depends on how big she is....but they were fun and I'll be making a lot more. It's been so long since I made any I almost forgot how. :o) I can't wait to dress her up!!! :o)
I even decided to make her cute little bear that makes all of the sounds of the womb in her crib a bow to match the bedding. I also glued a little bow on the other stuff animal in her crib but you can't see it in this picture.

After working all day and doing crafts all night in a sitting position this is what I got.....a bunch of swelling....mostly in my ankles but it was my calves, feet and toes. I think my skin was stretched as far as it could possibly be stretched and felt like they would pop. I get some swelling daily but this was the worst to date. This swelling didn't happen with the other two kids...probably due to my advance maternal age. ha ha

Only 11 more days to go before I get to hold and kiss our baby girl and I can hardly wait. Iam so excited!!! I love babies!!! Yesterday I started have pretty consistent contractions though and they were pretty hard ones by 3am they were about 5-10 minutes apart and I thought about waking Will up to take me to the hospital but then thought I'd wait a little longer because of the kids and school etc. I finally fell asleep around 4am and then woke up at 5am and couldn't fall back asleep. Luckily the contractions lessened as the morning progressed. I called in sick to work because I was exhausted.

When I went to the doctor this afternoon she told me that no matter what I was going on full bed rest to avoid a rupture again and that I should go straight to the hospital if the contractions are within 10 minutes for more than an hour. I convinced her to start my bed rest on Monday, January 25th so I could finish up some lose ends tomorrow at work.

I also found out today that although my doctor is on call at Chandler Regional Hospital on Feb. 1st and will be delivering babies there all day that the hospital has over booked her with c-section deliveries and unless someone goes early or cancels I will be delivering at Banner Gateway Hospital which is about 20 more miles away from Chandler which was 23 miles away from me already and with a totally different doctor! My doctor Dr. Carrion can only schedule c-sections when she is on call and so I would have to wait too many days for her to do it otherwise. So unless I go early and on a day she is on call she won't delivery baby Sophia dang it. Dr. Baum is the doctor that is scheduled to do it if Dr. Carrion can't and from what I hear she is really nice and good. I like that she got her bachelors degree from BYU also. :o)

(Me last Sunday 1-17-2010 can't tell how big my belly really is)

We are almost done with the nursery and it is looking so darling! I can't wait to hang everything up on the walls and put the finishing touches on then I'll blog about it. SO EXCITED!!!