So close!!!!

Holy Cow!! We are 38 weeks today!!!
I can hardly believe that we are only 2 weeks from the end! Our Doctor's appointment went well today. Brooklynn's heartbeat was good and we are 1 1/2 cm dilated and she appears to have dropped. I am happy that the cramps and back labor I have been experiencing the last few weeks finally have something to show for it! And I am definitely excited and ready to get this party started!! If only we could get Brooklynn to understand that she can't push her way out through my right side!! We keep telling her that she has to go down in order to come out!
Don't mind my gross face and nappy hair (it was bugging me and I had just thrown it up!)

Yesterday I went shopping to get the rest of the things that I felt like we needed to have right now. So I am feeling pretty good about being prepared, or as prepared as we can be since we really don't know what we are getting into!! It's so funny because I have wanted to be a mother and have children of my own for as long as I can remember, but the closer we get to Brooklynn being here the more nervous I become! Some days I wonder what the heck I was thinking and seriously question whether or not I am ready and capable to have a baby. And some days I am just scared out of my mind. Can I really do this? Man, I sure hope so because it's a little too late to back out now! Fortunately for me I have an amazing and wonderful partner (who is probably more scared than I am!) and I look forward to stumbling our way through this whole parenting thing with him.

Speaking of Eric....he completely 100% touched my heart tonight. He created a blog just for Brooklynn so that he can share his thoughts and feelings about her for her to read about. How sweet is that?!?! He seriously made me cry when he showed it to me.
Thank you, love, for being an amazing husband and companion and for already being an amazing father. I love you so much and I know that Brooklynn is going to love you too!!

The Newest Compton

Nope.....not ours!

Eric's brother Jacob and his wife, Alissa, had their baby girl on May 5. We headed over to Ellensburg last Saturday so that we could meet little Chloe.

One of the rare moments of Chloe being awake while we were with them on Saturday. If you're thinking she looks small, it's because she is! She was 5lbs 1/2 oz when she was born (and probably isn't too much bigger than that yet)! She is just a precious little thing.

Uncle Eric with Addison and Chloe.

Eric loves his nieces (and his nephews) and he took every opportunity that he had to hold Chloe. I love watching him with them. He is going to be an amazing father and I can't wait to watch him with Brooklynn!

It was a beautiful day on the East side, so we took a little field trip to the park. Addison was so funny, she didn't want to play unless Bryson was right there with her! So Nicole, Bryson, and Addison had some fun!

Bryson is still the big boy in the family! Can you believe he is only 5 months?!?

3 weeks to go!!!

OH MY GOSH!!!
I can NOT believe that Brooklynn is so close to being here!
We are due in 3 weeks (well 3 weeks on Thursday) and I have no idea where the time has gone. Seriously, the last 36 weeks have flown by faster than I could have imagined!
Brooklynn's arrival is becoming more and more real each day, especially has we are preparing our home for her.
And how do you prepare a one bedroom condo for a third member of the family?
However you can!
We've turned our dining room into Brooklynn's "room". We've taken out our dining table (which was really only being used to put things on!) and replaced it with a dresser and changing table. Brooklynn will be sleeping in our room for the first months and hopefully by the time we are ready to move her into a crib we will be in a bigger place!

I am so ready to have this baby! I want to hold her and love her so bad! I know she is going to come until she is ready and it's her time, but I'm ready now so she can come anytime as far as I am concerned!

I also decided that I needed more "baby friendly" hair. My hair was getting really long, which I love, but it was so long that it was constantly getting caught under my purse strap or in the seat belt as it realeases! I absolutely did not want to have to worry about my hair getting caught in a diaper bag strap while I am holding Brooklynn. So I pretty much chopped it off! What do you think?

"Bedrest" must be doing something right because my blood pressure was good at my last appointment. I have been having some braxton hicks contractions and also what my mom says is "back labor" but as of last Thursday I have not dilated any (I know it's probably still early, but I was really hoping that we were getting this party started!). Eric wont let me walk very much right now because it really gets my back labor going! We went to Pike's Place on Saturday to get flowers for Mother's day and walked around for like 20 minutes or so when my lower back started to hurt. As soon as I told Eric he said "Ok, you're done!" and back to the car we went! Good thing we'd already picked out our flowers!!

(Eric thinks it's a little ridiculous that I make him take a picture of me every week, but I told him he still had to do it!)

A Party Week

Despite being put on bed rest the beginning of last week I still managed to have a pretty eventful week with two baby showers!

I had a shower on Tuesday night with the ladies in my ward. I was so proud of myself for remembering to grab our camera on the way out the door and then when we got there Ali told me that my memory card was full. It was then that I remembered the I left the memory card in the computer from the last time I blogged! What a dork. So despite not having any pictures to prove it, the shower was a lot of fun. Brooklynn got a lot of really cute clothes and I can't wait for her to wear them! Our friend Maria found an amazing outfit for us. It's a blue sleeper that has "Brooklyn" across the front of it. As soon as I opened it I knew that Eric would love it. He was so excited when he saw it and he says he wants her to wear it until she is 3o!

Jennie and Sophie flew up on Thursday to throw me a shower Saturday morning. It was great to be able to spend some time with Jennie (she babysat me while I went grocery shopping~which is on the doctor approved activities list!) and to see Sophie. The shower on Saturday was a lot of fun as well, I got to see a lot of friends that I haven't seen in quite a while. And Brooklynn got more super cute clothes and some all important gear (like a pack 'n' play and a bouncer and a baby monitor).

Couch Potato

So as of this morning I am officially a couch potato....
I had a follow up appointment for my blood pressure this morning and my blood pressure was high again! My doctor decided that if I come in and my blood pressure is high and then when they have me rest and then retake it and it is normal then it means I need to be resting.
So I am now on bed rest! I am allowed 1 outing a day (which, according to the nurse, does not mean going to the mall all day!) and I can still make dinner (lucky Eric), go grocery shopping, and do light housework. But I need to spend most of the day with my feet up.

So as we speak I am at home hanging out with Ali watching TLC. Gotta keep my baby girl safe and healthy!

What a week!!

I am so glad that this week is over! It was quite the crazy one!
It started out by my putting in my notice at work. I was really nervous to do that, mostly because my office does not always react kindly to people putting in notice! I was nervous that I would be treated like a pariah for the remainder of my time there. But my supervisor took it really well and it seemed like he completely understood my reasons for leaving. So I didn't end up getting any of the reactions that I thought I would, which is definitely a good thing! So I now officially have just 2 more weeks of work and then I get to prepare for my baby to come and to be a stay at home mom!!

I also had my 34 week appointment this week. My Dr. was out of town, so I was seeing the on call doctor in the practice. (Just like in my weird dream a week or so ago). So anyways, my blood pressure was a little high, which really isn't a new thing and hasn't worried my doctor yet, but the doctor I was seeing decided that it needed to be looked at further. So my 15 minute appointment turned into an hour long appointment. I was privileged to be able to lay down for 45 minutes while they hooked me up for a stress test! Brooklynn had the hiccups for like the first 10 minutes or so which was kind of funny to hear (and feel). Because of the hiccups and Brooklynn's position the monitor wasn't picking up her heartbeat very well, so with one hand I was holding down the monitor and with the other I was holding the button to push whenever Brooklynn moved. Let me tell you, it was quite comfortable! I also had the joy of getting my blood taken (again!) while I was laying down and from the arm that I was laying on as my free arm didn't have any good veins. Once the doctor came in to check out the results she didn't see anything that worried her, in fact she said "Oh, this is a beautiful baby!" My next scheduled appointment was 2 weeks away, and the doctor decided that that was too far away, so I get to go back on Tuesday so my doctor can check my blood pressure again.

Yesterday we went up to Woodinville so that Eric could by his motorcycle. People think that I am crazy for letting him get one, and I think my sister is more worried about him riding it than I am! But Eric is a smart man so I know that he will be smart about riding it.


The best event of the week is that Ali is home!!! We haven't seen her since Christmas and I have missed her a ton! I am so glad that she is home for the summer. And this will be the first and last time that she comes home for the summer because she is getting married in August! I can hardly even believe it! My little sister is getting married! I am so excited for her and can't wait to meet her fiance when he comes to visit the end of May (maybe we'll have a baby by then!).

Monkey Pancakes

I was at JoAnn's the other night and found a monkey pancake mold for $.97 cents and just couldn't pass it up! So Eric and I had monkey pancakes this morning!

FUN!

Eric getting ready to enjoy his pancakes in all of his morning glory!

Our little Monkey baby is continuing to grow (as I think you can tell)! It's been somewhat of a rough week for me. I have had a really hard time finding comfortable positions at work, or when I find one Brooklynn decides to push on my ribs or kick me! Not to mention not being able to breath! Good times! Luckily the end product is totally worth it!!!

6 1/2 weeks to go!! Wahoooo!!!!!