Another week and another GREAT Baby Shower!

My Mother-in-Law (Sandi), and Sisters-in-Laws ( Kim and Ines) hosted a shower for me. Again, it was at my house and they did an amazing job. Attendees were, family and church friends. This shower was super emotional for me.
 
Kim had everyone write down a blessing for me when they got there and pick a special bead out of a tray for me. Before I would open the persons gift, they would read the blessing to me and add there bead to a string. I cried..... my hormones are running a bit strong this last week and each person had such wonderful special blessing for us. Kim made a book of blessings and the beads that were strung were made into a necklace that I am going to wear while delivering. It is a symbol of love, strength and prayers from all the women in the room of the shower. It was beautiful!

Ines was in charge of games!

We played four fun games:

1) Cut a piece of ribbon guessing the circumfrence of my belly. Some people are too kind and some not so nice. However, my niece Annalise got it exactly right!

2) The "BABY" word game...... say the word baby and get your clothes pin taken away. The person with the most clothes pins won. The kids were brutal with this one!

3) Create a baby out of playdough.... I got to be the judge who made the cutest baby! Aunt Paula won this one and she wanted to give up. I think she is an artist! It was cute and small in a little crib.

4) Guess the baby food..... 4 foods.

It truley was a special shower that I will never forget. I think I am tearing up just thinking about it!

I had my weekly appointment with the OB/GYN. She is a bit concerned with the drop of size in Lucas. We talked about what the Perinatologist said and she was a bit more cautious. She says there are several reasons it could be happening one being stress. Guess she shouldn't have sent me back to work! I only have two more weeks left and am going to finish them. She thought that work stress could be it too. UGH. Oh well. She also talked to me a bit about my birth plan. I am getting the feeling that she is a bit jaded by her recent experiences with women wanting to give birth naturally and taking a long time. I stress my importance of wanting to go natural but his health comes first. I also stressed the importance of her getting an informed concent before doing anything. I tend to buckle and not stand up for myself as much as I like. Thankfully, Dan will be there and he won't have an issue being an advocate for me as long as Lucas and I are doing fine. I also will have my Acupuncturist there too. She has delivered a lot of babies too.