King of the World

Tristan's new favorite thing to do is to climb on top of this bin that is temporarily in the kitchen/breakfast room and proclaim his territory! He likes to sit on top like it's a throne and eat his snacks and drink his juice. Once he gets up on top he will throw his hands up and say "yay" as if he just climbed a mountain...I guess it's kind of like his own little mountain!

Pulling himself up

Almost there

Only he can eat on his throne

Loves to dangle his feet off the side

Hahahaha...the world is mine!!!

This is my kingdom!

Eating Practice

I still can't seem to keep Tristan out of the dishwasher, so I am constantly finding him in the kitchen with the dishes out of the dishwasher and him pretending to eat. Maybe he figures the more he practices with spoons and forks, the better he will get!

Okay, pick up the spoon

Scoop up some pretend food

Put food in mouth

Running away...he knows he got caught playing with the dishes

Nursery...Still In Progress

As promised, I am posting pictures of Parker's nursery, but it is still a work in progress! Some of these pictures are a little old since I hadn't been able to download my camera, so don't look at the first few and get worried that we don't have a room for Parker in case he decides to arrive in the next few days! As you scroll down, you'll see it is a little more finished than it appears at first glance.

The only things that aren't really finished are the walls...they look pretty plain right now! I have a few different people making some custom wall decor for me but I haven't received any of it yet. The canvases I had painted are supposed to arrive tomorrow and I'm not too sure on the other things, but I expect one of them within about a week and the other stuff probably won't make it here before Parker. Once all the wall decor is up I think the room will look much better.

Check out the progress so far!

Most of the furniture moved and carpet pulled up...just a little to go

All the carpet pulled up and ready for the wood to be installed

Other side of the room

The floors are done!

Looks pretty good

Parker is going to love this

All the cardboard and stryofoam from Parker's furniture

Putting the crib together

All of these screws came for Parker's bed...once we were finished putting the crib together and still had 3/4 of these left we realized they were for making the bed convert to a toddler bed and full bed! Whew!

The furniture

Tristan decided he needed to play in Parker's room instead of his

A plain wall without the decor

Painted canvases that spell out Parker's name are going to go above the crib (hope they arrive tomorrow)

This wall will look better when the memory board is hung up and the other wall decor arrives

There is a back cushion, it's just not on the chair in this pic

Just the crib

Bedding close-up

Baby Shower

I had a beautiful baby shower 2 Sundays ago. Thanks so much to Victor's mom, her friend Lourdes, my friend Melanie and my Mom for working together to put together such a great shower. In addition to all the "normal" baby shower things they came up with some really neat ideas.

Mildred's friend Ama wrote a poem about Parker which they printed and handed out to everyone and they made CDs with Spanish lullabys to hand out as well. Lourdes brought back a lot of the table decorations from her trip to Puerto Rico and Melanie had the cutest cake and corsages made, all in blue and brown! Even the edible arrangements had the chocolate dipped fruit in blue and brown chocolate...how cool is that??? Oh, and my Mom put together the super cute invitations in blue and brown with blue and brown grosgrain ribbon...I don't have a picture of one to post, so you'll just have to trust me that they were really cute!!!

A big thanks to everyone who helped out with the shower, came to celebrate the future arrival of little Parker and the wonderful shower gifts. Enjoy the pics below.

Lourdes, the hostess kind enough to open her home for the shower

Table decorations

The CAKE!!!

Delicious edible arrangement with chocolate dipped fruit in blue and brown

Yummy food

Napkins folded in the shape of a shirt...how cute is that?

Ready to hand out some party favors

Me displaying the poem for all to see

The poem written by Ama

Mingling

More mingling

My Mom had to take this picture...look at that stomach

Oh, the toilet paper game...there were some rather long strips torn off

But the right answer was actually only 12 squares...not too bad!

Interesting prize Melissa won for her correct guess

The oohhhss and aaahhhhs begin

Checking out the card

Parker is going to be stylin in all his new clothes

Hmmnnn, what's in this box?

Cake time

Me and the Grandmas (why is my Mom always looking the wrong direction in pictures??)

Week 38...Not A Lot of Change

Another Tuesday, another doctor's appointment. Went in yesterday for my 38 week check up and not much has changed at all. Still dilated to 4 cm, 80 to 85% effaced, at a 0 to +1 station, tummy measured to 38/38.5 and Parker's heartbeat is still going strong at 132. Parker could be two weeks away or any day now...the only thing my doctor said is she thinks I am going to have a fast delivery, which is just fine with me!

I told her my Mom was dilated to 4 cm with me for about 4 weeks before I arrived and she asked me if she had a short delivery, to which I responded "extremely short, the nurses were telling her to wait for the doctor to get there". And that's when she told me I would probably have the same and I tend to believe the pattern will hold true. When we were pregnant with Tristan I asked her how big she thought Tristan would be and she said that you tend to follow the same pattern as your mother (although, not always true for everyone). Well, my brother was my Mom's first child and he weighed 7lb 4oz and measured 20 inches long and Tristan ended up weighing 7lb 3oz and measured 20 inches long. Pretty darn close if you ask me! Now, the scary part is I was my Mom's second and I weighed 8lb 11oz...I don't know if I'm ready to have that big of a baby!

As for any further explanation/clarification for my wet bed Saturday morning, none whatsoever. She just said that it happens to a lot of women and they aren't real sure what it is other than some type of fluid (or urine)...not real comforting, but at least I know it wasn't my water that broke.

My next appointment is Tuesday, the 29th, unless Parker decides to debut before that.

A Side Profile

It's been awhile since I'd taken any profile pictures of my expanding stomach, so I made Victor snap some pics last week. Actually, I think it was almost 2 MONTHS ago when I posted the first real "belly shots" (click here to see that post). I guess I have been slacking a little bit...gee, I wonder what could be causing that?!?!?! Anyways, enjoy these shots taken last week at 37 weeks!