The Waiting Game

Since we graduated and finally finished school we have felt like the waiting game is taking way too long. I especially have felt like the last week has been a month. Graduation was really great. Thursday nights commencement was really nice and it was so fun for Sam and I to walk in together and sit together through it. It was so exciting to move our tassels to the left and be graduating with each other. I felt so grateful for him supporting me being in school and was just so glad that we were finally done! Friday night we each had our own graduations with our school so it was nice to see Sam first and be able to watch him walk in and accept his diploma and then have him watch me right after. It was such a great experience for both of us and I am so glad that we decided to walk even though it was extremely difficult being 39 weeks pregnant. It was so worth it! After graduation was over I was feeling really, really ready to have Addison. The last week has felt so long and has been so emotionally difficult for me. I feel like a ticking time bomb. I hate the anticipation of everything that is about to happen and just not knowing when it is going to come or how I will know it is here. I am really grateful though that everything is well with Addison and I, and I know it is coming soon enough. My due date is the 8th and my induction date is scheduled for the 15th, so either way I only have a week left. She will be here soon. :) It has been such a blessing to have my mom here with us as well. She has done so much for us already and has kept me company while I'm waiting. Ive been grateful for the time we have had to spend together before Addison arrives, and I know I will be so grateful for her help when we bring Addison home. A lot of changes in the next little while, its all so exciting and so scary. We cannot wait to have our little girl with us. We are so ready for her and can't wait to love on her!!

Babymoon

We just returned from our one night babymoon and man was it nice! I was really wanting to do one with Sam just to get away and have a nice night of just being together. We have been so busy with school and work that it was nice to just not do any of that for one night even. We went and stayed at a really nice hotel in Salt Lake and went to the new City Creek Shopping Center, Outback Steakhouse for dinner, Sweet Tooth Fairy for dessert and then went swimming in the hotel's heated pool. It was so nice and really relaxing and fun!! Dinner was amazing and I was really enjoying the medium rare cooked steak which I never eat, I like my steaks cooked all the way through (Sam thinks I am craving it since I have been anemic) and then for dessert we got some cookies and cupcakes. SO DELICIOUS!! We got Addison a couple little shirts at the H&M store and the pool was amazing, it felt so nice to be in the water and to not feel so heavy. :) We both had a really great time and I am so glad that we took the time to do this little trip, it was so worth it. We've had our alone time now and we are excited for our little family to grow now. She should be arriving anytime.

37 weeks....Full Term Now

We finally got the time to get some pregnancy photos taken. My friend Ashley was kind enough to take them for us. I really wanted to make sure to get some at the end of my pregnancy to show Addison when she is older how big she made me. :)

I am 37 weeks along now and really feeling like she could come at any time, but with my luck throughout this pregnancy I will go to 41 weeks. I have been having a lot of braxton hicks contractions though and some of them are very uncomfortable. I am just really hoping that they are actually helping with moving me further along, we shall see at my appointment tomorrow how I am progressing. Addison seems to be doing very well. She still seems just as active here at the end so I'm not sure if she just doesn't care about her lack space and still finds room to move around in there or if she is just really small. I can't wait to hold her and find out.

We had our third prenatal class this week and it was all about taking care of your infant. We loved the class and it started getting me even more excited for her to be here. My favorite part was when they show you how to properly do a sponge bath for the baby. I kept thinking about much I am going to love doing that with her. They show you how to clean them and then put lotion on them while massaging them and keeping them swaddled still since babies hate bathing. The teacher talked about how she used to heat up her sons towel in the dryer before giving him his sponge bath so it would be all warm for him and I thought that is so cute. I want to make everything so enjoyable for her!!

Next week is graduation so I am really hoping to get through this next week and then I will be ready to go whenever. My mom and dad are coming up for graduation on Thursday and Friday and I can't wait to have my family here, it will be so great.

So everything is going well for us, we are just anxious to have our little Addison with us. Everyone pray she comes on time or a little earlier. :)

Prenatal Class

Well last night we completed our 2nd out of 4 prenatal classes. The classes are great and Sam and I have really felt like we have gotten some good information that will help everything to go more smoothly when the baby is coming. We have learned of a lot of things that we had no idea about either, which is really nice and comforting. It's just nice to know what you would do just in case. I am such a worrier so knowing more about different things that could happen makes me feel so much more at ease. Next week in class we learn all about how to take care of the baby after coming home from the hospital and our last class is on nursing. I am really excited for both of those classes. Last night's class was probably my least favorite since we watched the Miracle of Life and I don't handle that stuff very well, I have such a weak stomach. Good thing I don't have to watch my own delivery. :) The only two parts of the labor and delivery that I am excited are the flavored ice chips and our little Addison arriving. I just keep trying to focus on those two things. :) Tomorrow we have another doctor's appointment and this will be the one where they find out if the baby is head down and if everything should go well for a normal delivery. I am a little nervous, but am also really excited to see how she is positioned. Sam and I have been guessing for weeks but since she is moving around constantly we can't ever figure it out. We could not be more excited though for our little Addison to arrive. We feel like we have pretty much everything ready for her to come, except for needing to move some things out of our room to make room for her baby cradle, but that will be about it. I am a little nervous for how it will all work having Addison in our little apartment until we move, but I am sure we will work it all out. I doubt I will really be bothered with space when I have my little girl here. I cannot wait!! I'm 36 weeks so we are really close. :)

A perfect name...

The past few weeks Sam and I have really been thinking hard about a good middle name for Addison. We have really struggled with names and were so glad that we both agree on Addison as a first name but finding a middle name was proving to be really difficult. We had been going back and forth between a couple in the last week or so that we liked, trying to decide which was the best name for our little girl and we finally decided.
On Sam's mom's side of the family all the girls have the middle name Marie, so it's a special name. We really liked how it sounded with Addison but wanted to make sure that it was the name we liked the most and last night we finally agreed that it was the best name for her. I think she will really like it as well. :) Can't wait to greet our little Addison Marie Wang.

Presents for Addison

This week I have definitely been feeling the effects of Nesting. I am wanting to get everything ready for her that I can, especially since I can't get a nursery ready for her. We decided to go through all of Sam's toys, books and stuffed animals and pull out everything we want to have for Addison. We found a whole stack of great books that I think she will love, a ton of adorable stuffed animals and a really cute baby toy for her. I am so excited, and love that they were Sam's when he was little. We are really having fun getting things for her and getting all her baby gear ready. We received her highchair yesterday and absolutely love it!! It will be perfect and it's so cute. Getting all of her baby gear ready is really just making me anxious. I am so excited for her to be here.

Last night we were really seeing Addison move. You could tell that it was her little heel that she was moving across my stomach. Sam loved holding his hand there on my stomach and feeling her move so much. It was such a neat moment for Sam and I and during it all I just felt so close to Sam and so grateful for Addison and the blessing she already is in our lives. We love her so much and cannot wait to hold her and kiss her. Ready or not, we are excited to have her with us!!

34 weeks....

All I can say about how 34 weeks feels is very heavy, huge and tired!! I am so grateful to not be feeling sick today, but I am exhausted. Addison is so active still and recently I have been having a lot of dreams about after I have her that she is just moving all over the place. Am I being told something or is my mind just imaging that if she is this active in the womb she's gonna be crazy when she's out? Who knows! I am so excited to find out though. I know when she arrives I won't care, i will just be so glad she is with us!! Yesterday she kept stretching out all the way and I could see a bulge on both sides of my stomach and it was going oblong from how far she was stretching. :) She definitely is feeling crowded in there and needing more room. Good thing she will be here in just a few weeks.

We have just about everything ready for her arrival, now we just need to take our classes to prepare for her delivery, which I am still really scared about but just trying not to think about too much. I keep just having dreams that it all goes well and that she arrives healthy and happy. I think Heavenly Father is really blessing me and comforting me so I don't get too scared. I know everything will work out and we will just be happy to have our little girl.

This week Sam and I have really been working hard on trying to think of a middle name, and man oh man we are struggling. We have found some cute ones but nothing yet has really stuck out to us. We want to make sure that it is a really special name for her. Luckily we knew we liked the name Addison for a girl when we first got married so its a lucky thing we are having a girl. Boy names were proving to be way more difficult.

We have just about a month left of school and I am just praying that I do not go early and that I can finish and graduate. After I accomplish that she can come whenever she would like. I have a feeling that I am going to go over and Sam feels that I am going to go early, we shall see who is right. With my luck I will go over a week and they will have to induce me. I am just so grateful that my mom is going to be able to come up for our graduation and then stay with me until I deliver. That has been a huge comfort for me. She is a pro and has done it 5 times so I know she will be great with helping me get through my delivery. I am not too worried. :)

Well with just a few weeks left I expect that I will be getting a lot bigger as she is supposed to double in size just about before she comes. I will keep everyone posted and take more pictures as each week comes.