All I want for Valentine's Day....

Yesterday I had my 36 week check up and I’m so excited to report that we are definitely in the home stretch!  Blood pressure is great, heartbeat is perfect, belly is measuring right on weekly schedule of 36 cm and I’m falling right in line at a healthy 26 pounds weight gain!  The doctor said that I am 70% effaced, but not dilated at all yet.  So, Madelyn is head-down in ready position and over the next four weekly appointments they will watch to see how we progress.  So let the walking, spicy food and whatever else it takes begin!  I even looked up when the next full moon is….Friday, February 19^th.  If worse comes to worse and little miss wants to show up fashionably late, the doctor said they would not let me go beyond 41 weeks.  So the latest she will be here is around March 13^th, but she sure would make the perfect Valentine's gift!!!

Last weekend we finished the baby room!!  I had already washed all her clothes and bedding, so it was just waiting to be put into place.  The furniture was delivered, which is absolutely gorgeous.  Again, I can’t thank Grammer and Dad Tolle enough for the generous gift of her giving her the beautiful crib!  She will have it for many years to come because it converts into a toddler bed and then again into a full sized bed.  However, the crib came with 4 large white warning stickers that turned out to be a nightmare!  My grandparents came down to help set up the room and fix some shelves in her closet, but my grandmother and I spent the entire time trying to remove these stickers.  What a sticky mess we got ourselves in!  While we rubbed and buffed away, my grandfather put her closet shelves together.  As you can see, now her things and little clothes have a perfectly organized space!

January 29th we had my baby shower for friends and family back home in Citrus County.  It was so much fun and everything was planned out to the smallest detail.  So heartfelt to see all the hard work and planning that was clearly done with such love and care!  Madelyn is so truly blessed to be born into such a caring circle of family and friends.  The decorations were amazing!  The diaper cake with shoe décor (she will love her shoes just like her mommy), the diaper baby, the cupcakes, the “It’s A Girl” clothes line banner, and the watermelon carved carriage were so creative.  I am so thankful for all the hard work the “grannies”, aunts and friends put into to make my special day so memorable.  Not to mention all the generous gifts that were given, which were so many I couldn’t even get them back to Tampa in my car!  My grandparents had to bring the rest when they came down the following weekend.  Let me just say that Miss Madelyn will be the best dressed girl in Tampa after that shower!  She got soooo many adorable clothes and…shoes….let me tell you about the shoes….this girl already has so many pairs of shoes.  She has made her mommy proud!  Nona even proclaimed at the shower that if she ever sees this baby without something on her feet; we will be in big trouble!  But again, I can’t thank everyone enough for all the love, thought and generosity to make that day so special for me (and Madelyn)!  I love you all!