Urban Maternity Photos

We did an urban maternity photo shoot downtown Asheville with Colleen Hannah on Sept 10. She did an amazing job and we cant wait for her to do Taygan's newborn photos!! I know most of you have already seen these, but I plan on cheating and just printing out his blog to do a scrapbook so I needed to do this blog post ;)

Still being showered...so blessed!!

We are just over the 35 week mark! Where is the time going?!? I am starting to feel some spells of the uncomfortableness that everyone has been warning me about. The little guy is definitely getting bigger and as he stretches and rolls around he is stretching my belly to the max. You can usually see which side his back and butt are against because he keeps them sticking out and my belly stays un-even. His little butt stays up in my ribs, which keeps me sitting up straight most of the time and when I do slouch he will roll around and sit me straight up. He gets the hiccups several time each day and has started to get aggravated when he gets them. I will often feel a hiccup and then feel him squirm. This is cute as long as it isn't at 3am, ha ha! I am also starting to feel some braxton hicks contractions. They seem to happen later in day and evening, my belly will contract and get super hard, but no pain with them....YET (as Dr. Councell so nicely reminded me of on Friday) I had my 34 week check up (I was actually 34wks 5 days) this past Friday, we are still healthy and growing as we should be :)
Weight Gain - 15 pounds
BP - 102/62
Belly Measurement - 35 weeks
Taygan's heartbeat was good and strong. We are so blessed to have had such a smooth road up to this point and pray that it continues :)
We have had two more showers since my last post and gotten so many wonderful gifts!! We can't thank all our friends and family for everything!! The pic below is from our family shower here in Asheville. Lisa had this cake topper and cupcakes made by Tiffany's Bakery in Candler, it was amazing and a perfect design for Kyte and I!! It had all our little puppies along with Taygan's bed, the detail was insane and it was all edible!

I cant wait to put him in this hat for some newborn pics!!!

Below is a pic of one of the most beautiful diaper cakes I have ever seen! Reid, Kyte's cousin made it for us for our shower in Rock Hill.

Kite cupcakes made by Marilyn :)

More "burrito blankets" to swaddle him in when he arrives.

BaBy PaRtY!!!

We had our first "shower" on Saturday, August 27. We decided instead of having a "baby shower" to have a c0-ed "Baby Party". How do you get guys to come to a shower? Call it party and have beer and tequilla. The pic above sums up how much fun we had :) The gift was adorable little car socks given to us by the Parkers who own Skyland Automotive, so fitting! The party was thrown by Candace, Jamie and Mate and they did a wonderful job with everything. The spread included a margarita bar, with precious drink recipes by Candace, virgin so we could partake in them as well :) Of course there was also the good stuff for those of us not expecting, ha! There was also a delicious Taco Bar catered by Kytes Catering :) And our AMAZING cakes! They were so beautiful that we didn't even want to cut into them. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect evening with all of our friends and we got sooooooooo many great gifts!!

32 Week Check Up

32 weeks!! Here are the stats from my check-up yesterday at 32 weeks and 4 days:

Weight Gain - 11lbs

BP - 100/60

Belly Measurement - 32 weeks

Taygan's heartbeat was between 140 and 150. While measuring my belly, Dr. Pestoff said "You are just full of baby!" Oh yes, how I know! He is definitely in cramped quarters in there and as everyone always reminds me, he is only going to get more cramped. I think I feel and see every move he makes, which is A LOT. He is still very, very active!! Sometimes he will move a certain way and I will have to adjust him to get his weight off my bladder or get him out of my ribs. We both continue to be very healthy so we will have our next check up in two weeks, on Friday the 16th. After that check up we will go for the 36 week check at which point the doctors will begin checking my cervix. I can't believe are almost to the end of this amazing journey!! I can only hope and pray that the next 7 (or less!) weeks are as enjoyable as the previous 32 :)

We had our first baby shower last Saturday and I will post a blog with pictures as soon as I get them. We had an amazing time!!