Nikson Troy Thornton

Nikson Troy Thornton was born October 16th 2011 at 5:37am. He is 6lbs 5oz and 20 inches long and cute as ever. He is tall and skinny just like his daddy. I will post more of the details later but right now the whole family is doing great!

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Due Date # 2

Today is Oct 14th, the second due date my Dr. gave me, after my ultrasound. The first due date was Oct 26th and my third and final due date is Oct 20th (right in the middle of the two).  I was always secretly hoping he would come by today, but things would have to get going pretty fast to get him here today.

My last Dr. appointment was on Monday.  I had only progressed a little tiny bit but he seemed surprised and told me that he wouldn't be surprised if the baby was here in the next 7 days (that kinda freaked Josh out).  But not really something you tell a pregnant lady that is 9 months along, unless you can guarantee it.   My Dr. might get kicked in the face if I am back in his office on Monday.  After my appointment on Monday I was up most of the night throwing up and having contractions so I thought for sure he was right, but nothing else happened.  I have pretty much had little contractions since Tuesday and felt kinda crappy.

I want everyone to put their guesses in on how big you think he will be... Post in a comment, on facebook, email, text, whatever :)

On Monday the Dr. said he thought he was still in the 6lbs, not quite 7lbs yet.  But he doesn't have the best track record when it comes to baby weight!

October

(I wrote this post about a week ago :) The picture is from today)

I felt like October would never get here, but at the same time I can't believe its here already. 13 days until my due date. Absolutely crazy. I am so ready to not be pregnant anymore but I am also not quite used to the fact I am pregnant and I think I might actually miss being pregnant in a weird way. But having a cute little snuggly baby will be so much better.

Let's do a little prego catch up. I am now 38 weeks, only 2 weeks to go. No progression yet, which is kinda a bummer to me but Josh and I need as much time as we can get to get ready to be a family of 3. I am feeling pretty good, I changed my heartburn medicine to Prevacid instead of Prilosec and I swear by it. My stomach feels great and my appetite is better. My pregnant brain is just getting worse and worse. I can't remember anything for longer then 5 mins. I have started to feel like there is a bowling ball stuck in my pelvis, which make any little movement hurt and makes me need to pee every 5 mins. Everyone said that once the baby drops your ribs feel so much better and you can breath better, but my baby must be 3 feet long already because he has dropped but still is in my ribs (I swear that yesterday he was sticking his toes between my ribs) and I still have a hard time breathing.

As much as I love summer, I am excited for fall this year (it might have something to do with having a baby) but other then snow and cold season, I am so excited for:

- sweaters (especially cardigans)

- boots

- moccasins

- jackets (cute ones not practical ones)

- hot chocolate

- yummy soups

- snuggling with warm blankets (and with warm babies)

- hats

- midgees (vanilla tootsie rolls that are a Halloween special edition)

Look How Cute We Are!

Its been so fun being pregnant at the same time as my sister, Megan.  I am so exited for our babies to be best cousins and only a month and a half a part!  I wanted to get a few more pictures of Meg and I together before she's not pregnant anymore. 

Lately

I have some catching up to do... 

I am now 32 weeks and down to my 2 week Dr visits (which seems absolutely crazy).  I am starting to get pretty uncomfortable.  He is not head down yet, he is still all over the place.  My back hurts really bad at night and sometimes if I sit too long.  Still no weird cravings.  I have some pretty bad heartburn that my daily heartburn medication can't sometimes handle.  I am pretty sure everyone thinks I am due tomorrow and when I tell them I still have until October they say "wow thats still quite while"... Tell me about it.  And being pregnant in August brings a whole new definition to HOT.  I am definitely lucky it has kinda been a mild summer, but the last few weeks I've been too hot to be alive.  Glad our air conditioning finally works!

I had a baby shower a few weeks ago, not a very big turn out but still very fun!  My really good friend from Texas was just coincidentally in Utah at the same time.  I am so glad she came!

sorry the pictures kinda blurry.

Very cute decor by Megan

And my diaper trike that Collette made me

And the "butt load" of blue white chocolate popcorn I 

made for the shower!

Megan's friend Melissa's Husband (wow thats a mouth full!) offered to take some maternity pictures of me because he needed some more maternity pictures for his portfolio.  Here is his blog so you can look at how cute they turned out!

http://jsmithdigital.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/ashlees-maternity/

There is this awesome double-decker bus parked in some lot in Draper, that happens to be a part of a haunted circus (yikes) But I had Josh take a few pictures of me by the bus.  I like how they turned out!

I made this sign for the nursery!  I am very proud!  It is not all the way done in this picture but I wanted to show everyone.  I want to distress it a little more.

I went on a walk with the Gainers, to help Megan walk her baby out!  The things you can see on a nice sunday evening walk in Draper. a T-rex, a baby zebra, a family walking their pony, a very cute little deer eating leaves off a tree, and so much more.  

Brinlee named him Rex-y!

Trying to solve the bookmarking problem with my blog...

I know I have heard a couple people can't bookmark my new blog because it takes them to my old blog... WEIRD.  So I tried to delete my old blog to see if the solved the problems I was having with my blog, but then people couldn't find my new blog without the link from my old blog.

I am trying to find a solution.  I have a link to this blog on my facebook that takes you to the right place.  I wonder if you "FOLLOW" my blog by clicking on "FOLLOW" on the top left corner of my blog, then when adding a blog to your "blog list" click on "add to list" then on "blogs I follow" Maybe that will work but I can't follow myself so I can't test it out.

3rd Trimester!

Holy moly! I can't believe that I am in my 3rd trimester already, 2/3 done.  WEIRD.  I can't wait for my little baby to get here, so I can hold him.  He is going to be so cute!

Funny story.  I was at work last night and I was checking on one of our residents and he wanted to talk, so I sat and talked with him for a little.  He was saying something about my cute little baby and I said back to him "I sure hope he is cute because I won't know what to do if he isn't"  and he got very serious and took me by both my hands and gave me a big long speech about how my baby will be cute because he will be MY baby!  It was very cute!  Just a couple minutes after that he was put his hand on my tummy and then pulled it off really quick and said "excuse me, sorry, I don't know if you want me to do that but I just can't help myself." I sure will miss seeing those people every week.  

I am 28 weeks pregnant! Only 83 days to go.  He is about 2 1/4 pounds, equal in weight to a Chinese cabbage :) The baby has dropped a little within the last week. My back, hips and ribs have started hurting really bad lately.  I took my Glucose test at the Dr this week and passed it! I have started on projects for the nursery, the room is not quite ready to move stuff in yet but I am almost finished the mobile and started the bunting I am going to hang around his room.  I have the fabric I am going to use for his bedding, I just have figure out exactly what I am going to do and start on it!

I have another baby shower tomorrow and then another one next weekend... this baby is going to be spoiled!!  I will keep everyone updated!