Thrift store score!

 Manly and I went on a thriftstore "hunting trip" for several items that we had on our list.. I am not sure how many things off our list we found but we got some awesome stuff!  Probably our favorite thing we found though was the duck.   The solid, adorable, German made, little pull duck that quacks and "waddles" and turns its head back and forth when you pull it.  

We need a name for it.. ideas??? 

And for you history people,  What does this tell us?

Yep, West Germany, which means that this toy was built some time while the Berlin Wall was up... roughly 1950-1990... its obviously held up ridiculously well!!  

The brand is Haba and is still a viable toy company in Germany which makes fabulous toys! They are still making this duck too!! New its $21-$33.. we paid $10 for it and I could not be more thrilled!

This little piggy went..crazy!

Last night was one of those nights,  Baby Girl was going absolutely crazy!  I have never seen her move that much or that strongly before and it was not the most comfortable thing in the world!   (I may or may not have cried a little bit towards the end) :-P

I laid awake for a few hours while she just pummeled and thrashed around, and honestly I felt pretty bad for her!   There isn't much more room in there and as active as she generally is, she seemed a little frustrated with her shrinking environment.  Mark was out like a light and I tried getting up and walking to see if that would lull her to sleep, but no... she wasn't interested and FYI its really hard to walk a straight line with your whole gut being flung to one way or the other unpredictably!  

Finally I remembered that she likes music,  I pulled up Mathew Burtner "Hear My prayer" on my iPad (Thank you Aunties in WA for that, thank you a million times!!), placed it on my tummy and she went straight over, wiggled around a little and fell asleep.  Praise The Lord!    I could not believe that it actually worked!!  That music always puts me out like a light too, so as soon as she settled down I apparently fell asleep.  Woke up to roll over at some point and the iPad was dead as a doornail... low battery.  Oh but it worked!!

She is still pretty active this morning, but nothing like she was last night! I am sure we will have quite the parties once she is born!! ;-)  

Where's baby?

We have this game we like to play.. we call it,  "Where is the baby?"   ;-)   I'll give you one guess... 

Baby is SO active and all over the place all the time, but she often will just jab out on one place and make my whole stomach lopsided!  It is hilarious and entertains us to no end!      

I have tried video taping her rolling around making my stomach look like a "Boiling Cauldron" to quote one of her Aunties.  She almost always stops though as SOON as I pull out the camera!    I got a little clip but cant manage to upload it, so oh well! 

Setting up the Cradle and an (almost) 33 week update

Due to the fact that a Pack'n Play won't fit in our room and I really want a place for baby to sleep that is within arms reach, I have been looking for a cradle to put in our room.   I finally found one!  Craigslist, nice area of McKinney, use for one baby and in practically new condition and cheaper than any other ones I had seen!   Win win!    She also threw in the most adorable little lamb blanket (which is ironic because as little children both Mark and my special stuffed animal was a lamb!) for free! It is ADORABLE!

Daddy putting the cradle back together because we had to take it apart to fit it in the car (I miss my truck!)

 He also figured out that he can do "cradle lifts" to "rock the baby to sleep"  and work out at the same time!  ;-)  We will see how that works in real life ;-)

And here we have our obligatory 1 day shy of 33 Weeks picture!

I went to the midwife on Monday and baby girl is doing wonderfully!   She moves almost constantly but she was head down the midwife said!   They took a little blood again but it was a tiny bit compared to last time!  We will go in at 36 weeks and then move to every other week appointments! GAH!!   I have been setting up a Target baby registry and it popped up with "Only 51 days to your due date!"   I almost died.    So much to do!!  Mark better be ready for the nesting tidal wave! ;-)    

I will try to update more frequently in the future, between scrubbing everything and sewing my head off.. ;-)