Baby Shower for Emma Madison Powell!

October 9th, 2010 - my beautiful sister Shannon and her Hubby put on a great baby shower for me. Some great friends and family came. I will be forever grateful to EVERYONE who participated and those special memories will be stored for our baby girl to see. Another development, as you may have seen in the title of this post, Matt and I have decided on a name...finally ;) Emma Madison... we have many people telling us that may change once she is born; we'll see but for now we really like this name and of ALL of the names he and I have considered, this is the only one we've agreed on yet haha To me it seems classic and soft. 

Here are some pics from the shower...

This is the cake made by Alma... Had to include the Gecko for "Geico" (for those of you who don't know, Matt works for Geico and it is his running nickname/alter ego ;) 

Matt trying to "introduce" the cake haha gotta love him! 

Matt and his dad - Grandpa Powell

Grandma and Grandpa Powell - Emma is one lucky grandchild! :)

Auntie Jenny, Grandma Powell and Daddy :) 

Grandma P, Mommy and Auntie! Emma finally moved for Grandma at the baby shower... she decided she'd not be so stubborn anymore on her special day ;) 

Emma's beautiful cousin Kylie! 

Some random pics of people at the shower... 

 Buddy, Alma, Yvette and Aunt Jenny    Grandpa Nelson is in the far left (back) standing :)

Uncle Jayson and Aunt Amber doing the "Diaper" Game... 

The boys doing the beer bottle game - Jason (far right) bit the nipple and won! Slick move...
Uncle Chad is the second one from the left... then Uncle Jayson, Grandpa Nelson and Daddy :)

Auntie Alma and Auntie Yvette

The girls doing the beer bottle game... Alma got the bit nipple! 

This is the only pic that we have of the hostess and beautiful Auntie Shannon with Zackary (making a funny face), Kylie and Me... opening presents 

Unfortunately I also didn't get any good pics of Grandpa Nelson, Grandma Nelson, Uncle Chad and Uncle Greg but they were all there and I appreciate them just as well! I'll have to post pics of them in a later post if I can ;)

Baby Emma, Matt and I love you all!!

Third Trimester... the final lap!

It's been a while since the last post so here goes! This third trimester has been a busy one!! Aside from the regular hussle and bussle of getting everything needed for the baby, we also moved into a new house - a bigger place to bring baby home. A month later and we are still trying to get the house set up! So much to do...

Other than that, this trimester has gone off without a hitch! Migraines are non-existent, yay!! Aside from the normal aches and pains that comes with a human growing in your belly, this trimester is so far the easiest :)  I have, however, been feeling the fatigue. Being that it is hard to get a good night's sleep from the discomfort it is really hard to get out of bed in the morning and drag myself in to work haha then after a 10 hour shift I am pretty much useless by the time I get home. Hence the length of time it has taken us to get set up in our new home. Oh, and of course, the swelling of the ankles! I can't see my feet too well these days but flintstone feet have surfaced...so much so that some of my shoes don't fit anymore! As often as I can, I wear sandals, even in the rain we've been having :)

Matt and I also started Lamaze classes. When we signed up they said it is for five Tuesdays, 2.5 hours each class. My first thought was how much can they really talk about breathing?? So going in to our first class I was curious as to how they would be stretching this information over five weeks...little did we know, they actually teach you a lot more than just breathing! Not only do they teach the moms pain management, breathing and what to expect before, during and even after labor but the instructor is tough on the "coaches" aka dads! haha She has a few lessons for them to fall in line during delivery to save their lives from what could be an irate mom ;) I thought it would be a tough sell to get Matt to go to these classes but he seems to like them. I think they are somewhat of an eye opener and may give him comfort in knowing what is going to happen once that day comes. He and I are both increasingly excited and anxious for her to come.

Not only are we anxious for her to arrive but so are friends and family.... and sometimes I think she is eager too! Lately she has been moving sooo much! It feels like she doesn't have any more room to move in my belly. When she moves, sometimes, it's like she is literally trying to crawl out of my stomach through my belly button (which is pretty much non existent these days). Matt will tap on my belly a few times and then pull his hand back... a few seconds later she starts hitting/kicking the spot he was tapping. And she is most active in the morning when I get to my desk at work. Her every movement is very obvious with my belly being deformed in various shapes. Here is a picture from my angle sitting at my desk where it seems she is stretching her leg out or maybe sticking her butt out ;)

Lucky for me, she is usually only awake and moving when I am awake and when it is time for me to go to sleep, she stays pretty still. Good girl! ;) Let's see if that habit continues when she arrives...

As of today we have 6 weeks, 3 days left! That is if she stays in there until Dec 6th - myself, as well as majority of everyone else thinks she is coming early! I have a little anxiety over delivering but I am way more excited to meet her which overshadows that nervous feeling.

More to come!