Updates, Updates, Updates!

Well, I know that I have not posted in awhile, but I haven't really had much to update. My last appointment we officially scheduled my induction on February 29th. So Judd will be here on Leap Day or before if he decides to make his own entrance, which is very possible!! I have been having occassional contractions already and can barely sleep due to pain in my hips and lower back when I lay down, and the fact that it is so hard to turn over in bed, so I wake up about every two hours on the dot to go to the bathroom and turn over! I go to my next OB appointment tomorrow and will then start going every week until he comes, so if he lasts to the 29th, only what four more visits? Next week is when I go back to the Perinates to get another ultrasound to make sure his weight didn't spike over the last month. Everything else seems normal, he is just itching to get out and I am now finally at that point where I am anxious for the end too! I am SO anxious to have my body back and not feel so restricted in my physical ability.

Enough about me...this last weekend I decided to move my preschool/playroom from our basement up to the guest room and switch them. This way it is now on the main floor and there is no more running up and down the stairs and the kids use it alot more. Already this week all seven of them have spent nearly the entire day in the playroom playing. It turned out really cute and actually had more space then I thought it would. My reasons for moving it upstairs were because I couldn't go up and down the stairs all the time checking on the kids with my pregnancy, I also don't want to just sit down there and stare at them when they play when they are all old enough to not have me watching over their shoulder the WHOLE time, Owen and Raymond never used it after daycare kids went home because they are still at an age where they like to be on the same floor as mom and dad so they were watching alot of t.v. and I wanted them to play more at night, and because once Judd is here it will be easier when I am nursing him and taking care of him upstairs to have all the kids on the same floor as me and him to ensure safety and no fighting.

So this is really our only updates. I will keep you posted as time gets even closer and will DEFINITLEY post pictures of Judd and the boys when he comes! Happy Groundhogs Day! ;)

Coffey house

Well, just a little tidbit update...since Christmas we have barely gotten back into a routine. We have all been recovering from sickness and I had a case of bronchitis which lead to a probable cracked rib, which has left me couch ridden for the past week and a half. It has been literally the most pain I probably have had in my life that I can remember (including childbirth!), I can't lay down to sleep either. However, I can tell the last two days that it is slowly healing. So Tony has been in charge of everything at night and our house is not nearly as "put together" as I normally keep it.
Tomorrow I go to the Perinatologist (spelling?) for my ultrasound, so will have an update about that soon. Then my next OB appointment is Friday the 18th with my midwife, so am anxious for that as well! So this is my little update. I will have a bigger post hopefully within the next few days!

Christmas

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was busy yet fun and relaxing. The boys are at a fun age for the Holidays because they are old enough to start to understand and be excited for Santa - so that was fun this year. However, Raymond was horribly sick on Christmas Eve night and morning with a high fever and throwing up, so he wasn't too into the whole Christmas scene.

Both boys got what they wanted though and Santa ate their cookies, drank their milk, left a little chocolate treat, and the reindeer ate their food in the yard (oatmeal with glitter).

We spent Christmas Eve at Holly's husbands house for a Coffey tradition of a pancake dinner. Then Christmas morning we hung out just the four of us, opening presents and following a Sears family tradition of making omlettes. After playing with our new "toys" we headed to Holly's house for our Christmas with her and a Christmas dinner. It was nice to be home this year with just the four of us on Christmas morning, because it's the first year we've done it.

Then this last weekend, my family came to our house for Christmas and another little Christmas dinner. The one thing I regret was not going to Church like I wanted, but since Raymond was so sick it just wasn't feasable. It would have been horrible to try and take him there.

In the aftermath of Christmas I now need to find a place for all the boys' new stuff, but some of it might just get put in their room until after Judd is born, because I don't have the energy to be in my normally highly organized and motivated self.

UPDATE: I go to my next appointment on Friday, so will see if Judd's position has changed but I don't think it has. It seems to me that I still feel his head in the same spot it was a week and a half ago. I will keep you posted.