HE'S HERE!!!

Thomas Keith Dawson was born on Wednesday, June 15th at 8:27am. He came out weighing 9lbs even with a head full of hair. We're all doing well and over the moon in love! I'll update more once we get home and settled tomorrow.

Full Term

Well I apparently am not so good with this blogging stuff! So much has been going on that time has just been flying. I am now 37 weeks and 1 day pregnant, meaning that Thomas is considered "full term". I am so beyond ready for him to get here so I can finally see his sweet face and if in fact he does have red hair like I've thought from day 1. I am also ready for him to be here because I am soooooo OVER BEING PREGNANT! I love feeling him in me but I am sick of being so exhausted but can't sleep, peeing every 10 seconds and lately my feet look like they don't even belong on my body anymore. Swelling stinks! I went to the Dr on Wed and I am 1/2 thinned out and a "smidge" dialated as I was the week before so I think he's going to take his sweet time. On Wed I'll have an ultrasound and am excited to see him! His room, diapers, clothes, etc are all ready we just need a Thomas now!

25 weeks (almost)

Went to the dr today for my monthly update and everything looks great! My blood pressure seemed high to me (136/72) but Dr Cimino and his nurses didn't seem concerned at all. Thomas had a nice strong heartbeat at 136. Next month I'll have to do the glucose test and after that I'll start going to appts twice a month! It blows my mind that we only have 15 weeks left! I am so ready for Thomas to be here, but so unprepared at the same time. Ready or not he's coming though ha! Next week we hope to get his nursery all painted and then we'll get the crib in there. It's all coming together! Something big that's recently happened is I've started to feel him kicking! No longer just "flutters", we have jabs! I love feeling him in me and feel like I'm going to miss being pregnant once he's here. Guess I'll just have to take it all in and enjoy these last few weeks. :)

Confirmation!

Today we had our 20 week anatomy ultrasound with Dr Cimino. We are so excited that we got confirmation that Thomas is a BOY and we aren't having a 3 legged girl. Once again he was sitting "indian style" with his little hands on his knees. After some gentle poking by the ultrasound tech he opened the legs up for the money shot! Everything looks great and he's measuring 14 oz and about a foot long. The tech compared him to a Subway footlong HA! So excited!

We also let Trace's grandparents know right after the ultrasound that we had decided to name the baby Thomas after Trace's Papa Tom. He's just the sweetest man! He's very quiet, but you could tell that he was beaming! It was such a great day!!!

 It's a boy!

Thomas's little foot. 10 toes and 10 fingers were counted!

"It" has a name....part II

So....we thought we were set on Vincent. We both liked it and agreed on it, so that should be the name, right? Wrong. As much as we did like it, we never got excited about it like we did our girl name. Then today as we were talking about names with my mother-in-law, the name Thomas came up. We both LOVED it! It also happens to be Trace's super sweet grandfather's name. So now we are set, and excited, about THOMAS KEITH!

We are scheduled for our ultrasound on Wed just to clarify that he is in fact a boy! :)

Anytime now "nesting"...

I keep waiting for my 'nesting' instincts to kick in.We have SO much to do around the house and I just don't have the motivation to do it lately. We got our bedding in a few weeks ago and are slowly starting to get baby clothes for Vincent. We just have to switch bedrooms (we're turning the guest room to the master...both are the same size), paint nursery (we'd also like to paint our room), get crib in and assembled, get all other furniture ready.....AHHHH! I'm sure it'll all get done, I would just feel relief if it was done now. 

 

Our super cute bedding!

"It" has a name!

After a lot of discussion, tons of lists, advice from everyone we know, etc...we have decided on a name for Cricket! Oddly enough, it was our original name. So come June, VINCENT KEITH will be here! We are so excited we can barely contain it!