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Ch - Ch - Ch - Changes!

It's amazing how much a baby changes in a week. His sisters are getting bigger too :)

"Those fit PERFECT"

Rilee is our fashionista. She has a very distinct sense of style. She's known for her various crazy pants that she pairs with a shirt that is just as awesome. She knows what she likes and wears it proudly.

Over Easter weekend we headed to Portland. This trip included a stop by the Nike employee store for new shoes. Jason took Taylor and found some super cute shoes that she wanted. They have stars on the bottom, the selling point for Taylor. Taylor's shoes are white running shoes with a pink wave on the side.

I took Rilee. I figured she'd be pretty easy. She likes lots of different things, so I figured I could get her set up and do some shopping for myself. Boy was I wrong. I must have gone through 5 or 6 pairs of shoes. I made her try them on even if she said she didn't like them. I thought maybe I could sell them to her by saying how fast she looked. Nothing worked...they were either to big or to small, or so she said.

Well, these shoes were my last resort. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the shoes, but I had a hard time figuring out what they would match with. Well, I showed her the shoes and the first thing she said was "Those fit PERFECT". She hadn't even tried them on. Needless to say, she's worn them almost everyday since :)

Our Little...BIG Man!

He's finally here. Alston Jamaal was born April 3, 2009 at 11:37pm. The inducing process began at 8:30am so it was a long and boring day for me. The girls had preschool and I had scheduled Jason some patients in the morning, so I watched al ot of TV and read magazines while we waited for my body to respond to the potocin. LONG story short, Alston was born weighing 9lbs 10oz and 21.25 inches long. He won the prize for biggest baby that day :)
Currently he is out of the newborn size of clothes and is stretching the 0-3 months...and he's only 1 week old!
My mom was here helping until last night. What a blessing she is! Not only did she take care of me and my family, but she took the night shifts EVERY night. I was one rested mama!! Last night was my first night of getting up with Alston. It went better than I had expected. There's so much anticipation of the unknown when it comes to a newborn and sleeping during the night. Such is life :)

Cute Pics of the Girls

I thought I should post some cute pictures of the girls before this blog becomes over run with Alston pics! Speaking of which, I'm scheduled for induction at 7:30am tomorrow morning!

The girls and I headed up to Salem a couple of Thursday's ago to surprise Jason and go to dinner. He teaches at the Oregon School of Massage on Thursdays, so that was fun. Wendie, one of our fabulous massage therapists treated the girls to a carousel ride. They LOVED it! :)

Then we played there at the Riverfront Park.

Just a crazy pic of the girls at the zoo last month. We've really enjoyed all the chances we've gotten to create memories with my mom and dad while Jason does his CCSP classes.

I just had to include this one of Rilee. It's SO her!

Looks like April 3rd!

Today was our ultrasound. It was so neat to be able to see him this far along. I never had any "growth" ultrasounds with the girls, so this was new for me. He is so cute!! This kid has HUGE cheeks. He's also got his daddy's black people lips! His head and chest area all measured "pretty big" the ultrasound lady said and his leg bones are "really long". Currently he's weighing in at a whopping 8lbs 3oz plus or minus 1.5lbs. He's 90% developed, so we are really close to the end.

I'm pretty sure that they will wait to induce me until the 3rd of April given that he's not weighing in at like 11 lbs or anything outrageous like that. I think we are okay with that. It kinda hit us that we only have 2 weeks max left before we have a BABY! So the lists of things to get done before he comes have begun. You would think we would have had those running alot sooner, but I think we were in denial :)

Well this Young family is super excited to have our baby join us. He's cute, healthy, big and a boy. What more could we ask for?!

Okay, so I guess I am a little big.

We are closing in on the final stages of pregnancy. There are a lot of emotions that go on in this stage for me. There are lots of things to be excited about. Not be pregnant, to hold our baby, to see how happy and helpful the girls will be and for Jason to finally quit telling me how excited he is to watch ESPN with is son. Fear is another strong emotion. I am such a routine and schedule person. I know that Alston is going to require me to change up most, if not all, of my little routines that I have down for me and the girls. Sometimes I'm nervous about the delivery. Given that I've delivered two 9lbs+ babies already, I'm not too worried about it. I just hope that all goes well.

With all that emotion stuff out of the way, let's talk about how BIG I really am. Last week I scheduled an ultrasound to check the growth and weight of the baby. While scheduling the appointment, I was told that I was HUGE compared to the ladies daughter who is only a week behind me. There were several references as to what he would come out doing...shaving, playing football, walking, you get my drift. I just kind of laughed it off. These ladies were just ultrasound receptionist, what did they know?! Apparently more than I thought.

Today we had another appt (I'm on the weekly schedule now). When the nurse came and got me from the waiting area, she commented on how big I was looking, then double checked her chart, only to say very surprised "But you still have 4 weeks left girl." Then promptly asked me to get on the scale...great timing, don't you think. Anyways after the usual checking of blood pressure and listening to the heartbeat, Dr. Curtis had me lay back to measure my belly. I was looking up at the cool little mobile they have hanging from the ceiling, noticing that she was taking a while to get the measurement. I look at her and she has this nervous/confused look on her face. I asked her what the number was and she just grinned, tilted her head and said 41!! FORTY-ONE? Are you kidding me, I'm only 36 weeks and I'm measuring 41? So I ask, what was it last week...38! I grew THREE inches in a week. I could not even believe it!!! No wonder I've been so tired and having to get adjustments on a daily basis. Jason, having watched Dr. Curtis's face the entire time she was measuring said that she had to do a double take of both the measuring tape and my chart given the amount of growth and the fact that technically I still have 4 weeks to go.

Well the ultrasound is scheduled for Tuesday at 11:00. We will have a guestimate as to how big he is then. I guess it gets within +/- 1 or 2 lbs. So we should know more next week.

Stay tuned...:)