The Countdown Begins

Austin in his big boy Lightning McQueen underwear!

Only 2 weeks left until Connor's arrival! These last few weeks have just been flying by, thankfully I finally got all the clothes, toys, car seat, bed, etc., washed and put away. Allen has still been working hard on getting the house ready to sell. He spent most of the weekend again doing touch - up painting and working on the basement. Sunday my friend Lisa came over to hang out with Austin and I. Austin thinks she is great! He calls her his girlfriend and before she arrived on Sunday he asked me if he could hold her hand! How cute is he:) Austin took her to see the big steam engine and train car in town and to ride on the little spring horse by the trains. When Austin and I were at the little train park last week I asked him what the horses name was and he replied "Hooty Booty." So now when we go on walks he always asks to go see his "Hooty Booty Horse."

Austin and I were at the store the other day picking up some colored sand for his sandbox, it was his reward for getting all his stars on his responsibility chart (he picked out blue and purple), we walked by the little kids clothes and Austin spotted some big boy underwear that had Thomas and Lightning McQueen on them. He told Mommy he wanted some big boy underwear like Daddy so he picked out the Lightning McQueen set, which also glow in the dark! Austin has been talking about the potty a lot lately and is very adept at taking his pants, socks, and diaper off, shirts are still a little tricky but shirts don't involve potty time so we'll just keep working on that. Anyway, today he wanted to put on the big boy underwear, I was a little weary because I don't think he is quit ready yet and we wanted to wait until about a month or so after Connor is born so that he doesn't have any big potty set backs while adjusting to a new brother in the house. But when he put on the underwear he was all upset because the picture of Lightning McQueen was on his butt and he couldn't see him, so he wanted to take the undies off right away! That's that for now.

We had our Pre-Op / 37 week appointment today with the OB. Everything went well, I'm measuring at 38 weeks, Connor's heart rate was a solid 144, and I've gained 39 lbs this time which is much better than the 58 lbs I gained with Austin:) We have one more OB appointment next week and then Connor comes on June 17th! The c-section is scheduled for 9am so I'm sure he'll be born a few minutes after 9am on the 17th. We can't wait to meet him!!!!