Week 40

How far along? 40 weeks
Size of Baby: 6lbs 13 oz 19 inches
Total weight gain/loss: 40 lbs
Maternity clothes? some of my old clothes fit but I'm most comfortable in maternity clothes still
Stretch marks? yep still there
Sleep: happy to sleep on my stomach again
What I miss: feeling her kick (sometimes I think I feel her)
Movement: she's really good a picking her head up to look around
Cravings: rasin bran
Symptoms: none
Showing: nope but tummy hangs a little funny
Gender: Molly Ann
Mood: Learning something new about motherhood and my girl everyday!



Things I love...

Playing with Daddy...






going for walks...



and my swaddle blanket!

Gettin' Crafty~ Family Frame

I finished a project recently that I've been contemplating for a while now. I'm excited to have a halfway original idea (at least I think it's original) First I saw this...



at Baby Depot a while back but ended up passing on it. I thought I could just get one online somewhere. When I started searching for it I found this...



which gave me the idea to do this...



It took me a while to find a white frame with 3 openings that I liked but I finally found one at TJMaxx for $7. Then I cut out the captions with my Silhouette and had Wal-Mart print the black and white pictures (in less than an hour, thank you very much). The first is a picture of Rustin and I and says "First we had Each Other". The second is Molly's sonogram picture and says "Then we had you". And the empty spot is for our first family picture and says "Now we have everything". It turned out better than I thought and it looks great hanging above the changing table.


**EDIT**
Here it is complete

Paging Dr. S

On Monday we went to Molly's first check up with the Pediatrician. Dr. S (a new Dr. S) was very sweet and made me feel very comfortable. Molly has gained back all but 3 ounces and grown 1/2 an inch since coming home. She's got "a lot of brains" code for big head and is in the 50th percentile in length and weight.

The best news of all is that the heart murmur the pediatrician from the hospital heard was gone. Thank the Lord!!


Mommy and Molly


Dr. S giving Molly the "all clear"


Daddy and Molly

Date Night Club

I saw this idea on Everyday Celebrating and thought this would be a great way to make sure that Rustin and I keep date nights a regular event after Molly gets here.



The Red envelope is the intro letter for our subscription to the Monthly Date Club, a "gift" from Molly. The green envelopes are "Bonus Dates". These are 6 stay at home date nights. Anything from watching a sporting event, to a movie with candy and popcorn, to making homemade icecream. The manila envelopes are labeled with the month and have a letter from Molly telling us where we're going that month. Some of the dates are simple like dinner and a movie or a trip to the new Drive In here in town. Most of the manila envelopes are pre-paid dates. They have a giftcard or coupon/groupon so that the dates are semi paid for already.

I look forward to opening these envelopes each month because even though I put them all together I closed each envelope and then mixed them up before I labeled them so they won't be a surprise for just Rustin.

A Molly Story Part 3- Meet Molly

Thursday morning Rustin woke up early to leave for work. He had to be in San Antonio early so he could move a family to Oklahoma. This would be his last out of town job for a while, but he'd be back late Thursday night. When I woke up on Thursday morning I was having contractions but my water hadn't broken so I wasn't going to worry. I went on about my day running errands until about 9:30 when I realized my contractions were getting really close together (5 min.-ish). I called my mom and had her come over just to sit with me for a little bit. By the time she got here about 15 min. later I was throwing up and my contractions were only about 4 min. apart. So she tossed me in the car and we headed for the hospital.

Rustin was about halfway through his job and drove the load on to Brownwood where his sister, Elisa, and brother and law, Clint, live. Clint hopped in Rustin's truck to finish the job and Elisa brought Rustin to the hospital. By this time I'd- had my epidural and things were going ok. Rustin got to the hospital about 2 o'clock and there wasn't much wait time after that. We spent a few min. visiting with my parents, my aunt Terri, his mom & sister and my grandparents before things really got going.

I moved along rather quickly and by 4:30 Dr. S had been paged and my wonderful nurse Brandy was getting me ready to push. According to my mom Dr. S came busting out of the elevator and flew down the hallway toward my room. 5 pushes and 9 min. later (4:58pm) Molly Ann Mahan entered this world.

Clean Up in Frozen Foods

So back here I told you all about the meals I'd made for after Molly gets here. Which is great in theory but every time I went out to the deep freezer in the garage it made me cringe. I didn't even know what all was in there or where it would be. So I looked for different ideas on how to organize a freezer.

I liked this one but it wasn't practical for a deep freezer.


These freezer totes would work but they were super expensive.


I thought about using these file trays or stacking trays but wasn't sure if I could fit as many as I needed.


So this is what my mom I came up with.


I put all 45 of the meals in 3 laundry baskets. (chicken, beef, other)Then I put 5 meals into each grocery bag (2 chicken, 2 beef, 1 other). Next I labeled each bag with what was inside. The plan is to take one bag from the freezer in the garage and put it in the inside freezer each week.



I know there are 7 days in a week and I only put 5 meals in each bag but I wanted to keep convenience meals like fajitas(3), pizza (2), turkey, ham, sausage wraps, hamburgers, and hot dogs separate from home cooked meals.

39 Weeks

How far along? 39 weeks
Size of Baby: watermelon
Total weight gain/loss: 39 lbs
Maternity clothes? of course
Stretch marks? yep
Sleep: mostly 2 hour stretches
What I miss: picking up heavy things, my crossfit workouts
Movement: now that shes head down the kicking is mostly in the ribs
Cravings: waffles
Symptoms: def. nesting.
Showing: for sure
Gender: Molly
Mood: Impatient