It is pretty amazing to me how big my belly has gotten - I certainly don't feel THAT big, but I suppose that is because I have somewhat become accustomed to it? :-) I have noticed that I outgrow maternity shirts in a matter of 3 weeks; that being the reason I have only been buying one or two at a time! ;-) haha
I have two doctor's appointments this week; unfortunately Nolan will miss both because he is out in California for his ground job (which he happens to be awesome at, so I am glad he was able to go, and he was able to go home one last time before Baby Dean makes his grand entrance! YAY!).
The specialist appointment is on Wednesday and my "every 2 weeks" OB doctor appointment is on Friday. I really have no expectations for either appointment... just to see and hear that Baby Dean is continuing to thrive and that I am doing well! :-) An Aggie friend, Laura, is going with me to see the ultrasound at the specialist appointment, so that should be pretty cool - especially for her, as she doesn't have any children yet!
At the end of the week, Nolan will be back! WHOOP! and on Saturday, we will be taking maternity photos...
A while back I attended an Officer Spouses Club event; I don't attend too many base wide spouse's events, I mainly stick with the squadron ladies... but I was killing time so I went! The "tea"/membership drive itself was nothing to write home about, however the raffle was! Nolan's squadron's CO's (Commanding Officer) wife purchased 4 tickets for each of the wives that were present from our squadron, and obviously let us choose what we wanted to try to win... Well, I put 2 in a photo shoot drawing and the other 2 in different ones, that I can't recall. And... believe it or not, I won! a photo shoot (and so did the CO's wife). I think we were the last ones to drop our tickets in and they didn't do a lot of mixing them up I suppose; hey whatever works! The best part about winning this photo shoot was that come to find out, it is with the girl I was planning to use for my maternity and newborn photos! WHOOP! :-) My good friend, Inga, whose daughter was born in July used this photographer and the photos are too cute. So, by "winning" the photo shoot we are saving $50 off of the package.
This is a link to her website.
The photographer, Megan, recommended doing the photos at 32 - 34 weeks, so we planned accordingly and now here we are at 32 weeks and I am at least 38 weeks big! LOL There will be no doubt that they are maternity photos!
I am a little nervous since A) I have no fashion sense to begin with and have even less clothes to choose from being that I am pregnant in Jacksonville, NC (a city with no vision, but that is another post) and B) I don't really feel like Nolan and I are incredibly photogenic/know how to take pictures and maybe that is simply because we have never had formal pictures taken, aside from at a our wedding, but I am sure Megan will get some great shots of the 3 of us! ;-) And when we get home, I might try to get our neighbor to snap a few shots of us with Sandi...
You might wonder how Nolan's Bell's Palsy is doing... it is still, slowly but surely improving... his smile is almost all there and his eye is getting better and better at shutting on it's own!
As long as he doesn't blink (with his left eye) the pictures will be great! I only mention that because I took ONE (you should always take 2 right?) picture of him on his birthday last week, with his DQ Ice Cream Cake and he must have blinked because one eye is open and the other is closed! Rats!
Have a great week!!
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