Things are going well. I do not have a Dr Appt until 3/31. Tomorrow we start childbirth classes. My mom comes into town on Wednesday.

I had my first baby shower. It was great to see people and so nice that people made the trip here. People came from Sacramento, Lodi, Napa, San Jose and even San Diego. That certainly made me feel good. I just wish I had been able to visit with people longer. People were very generous with gifts and we have a ton of stuff. One more shower to go. Thank you to everyone who was at the shower.

I am doing fine. I am starting to get the swollen ankles and feet. Drinking a ton of water and doing as they say, walking if I am sitting a lot and sitting with feet up if on my feet a lot. You just dont win. Baby has been very very active the last week. This morning I had gotten up and not felt baby move. I sat down by shannon and told him and he started talking to the baby and viola! Baby moved around.

My second cousin in Scotland had her baby a few weeks ago. This cousin is just super tiny, makes me look huge. She had a 9 lbs baby!!!! Oh goodness. I have not heard from her yet with pictures so I hope she is doing well. The baby is named Jude michael. THursday Shannons friend in MN had her baby. She is about my size probably or maybe smaller. The last picture I had seen of her pregnant she had a pretty big belly. She also had a 9 lb baby. I posted pictures of me from March 9th, I am still small, yipppeeee for me.  Not much else to tell right now. I will definetly have more after March 31. (I think)

Dont forget to go to the www.expectnet.com and go under littlemadsen1 game and post your guess on if the baby is a boy or girl and size and date of it being born.

I dont have much to update honestly. I am at 29 weeks on Tuesday 3/4. I have a doctor appointment next week so may have more info then. My hands get a little puffy while I am sleeping but I checked in to find out if I should be concerned and they said no, its normal. I really need to post some bell pictures. I will ask Shannon to take some today or Amy tomorrow. Maybe around 34 or 35 weeks I will have Tom or Mike do some pregnancy pictures. Allergy season is starting up and I am just thrilled. My friend Shari (I went to her shower last month) she goes in today for her c-section. Baby Cooper is going to be born today. Yes I will have 2 friends with the boy names Cooper now. Oh and I did an online gender predictor, which I dont believe in these things. It says its a girl. Well guess we will find out in May

The 1/2 nursery is more set up now. I will post pictures. Crib is set up and bedding in it. Bassinet has a mattress now and it set up. I put it in our room since that is where it will be and had to get it out of the way. We have 2 showers coming up. Yippeee, excited on that. Both the invitations are very very cute. Hmmmm what else can I tell you? How about you guys let me know what you want to know. (I know nobody will ask anything)

I am posting a picture of me and Shannon from my birthday, we went out to dinner. I was about 24 weeks at that point. The one of me in pink is from 28 weeks. Hmmm guess you have to go to the photos section to see them.

Not a lot to report. The baby is kicking a lot more. Baby has gotten the hiccups more also. 3 times yesterday. I will have a more recent picture to post of belly within a few days. I am also working on getting the crib set up and bassinet and such. There will be pictures of that in the next few days also. Today I have to start writing down on the kick card, one more thing for me to write down. The registry is all done and the showers are coming up in a few weeks. Thankfully I am getting some of my projects done also. I gave myself until March 14th to accomplish some projects since the 1st shower is at my house and I will have to move the photo album stuff for that. (Lets hope I am done) Don't forget to go to expectnet.com and fill in your guess on baby birthdate, size, gender and such. The game is littlemadsen1.

I really do not have any updates to post. The last doctor visit was nothing really. Shannon did not make it but did not miss anything. Things are looking fine and my next appointment is not until March 11th or something, so 4 weeks!!! I think I am   reverse of a lot of people. I think most go in around every 4 weeks and then it increases to 2 weeks. However, I think mine will increase again as time goes on. They did give me a kick count card. So Starting at 28 weeks, I have one more thing to write down and keep track of. I will let shannon do it. Baby kicks most when he is home anyway.

Showers are being planned and approaching. Yippeee. I guess that is one thing I think about. What do I need, what do I have and what will I have. Fortunately I have plenty of time after the second shower to figure out what else I will need. My mom will be here after the showers to help me to finish organizing this room and such also. Thankfully and she is good at that so it will get me motivated to finish it. Shannon put the crib together and it looks good. We need the mattress for it but that is coming from a shower gift from my Aunt. The cat seems to like to sleep under the crib now. He also has been found sleeping on the bottom shelf of the changing table.

That is about it for updates. I did a wedding over the weekend and was soooooo tired the next day. I have 2 more to do but I have others helping and I am so glad I planned that have them to help.

Now, I just uploaded a new game, an online baby pool. You can put in your guess on baby gender, size and date to be born. (I think that is how it works, try it out and see) The link is on the home page of this site and says expectnet.com  Could be fun. So start guessing.  www.expectnet.com and its under littlemadsen1 (ALL ONE WORD NO SPACES)

I had a doctor appointment today. Everything is fine. No new ultrasounds. Doc listened to the heartbeat, everything sounds great. The diabetes and numbers look great. My weight looks great. No i did not gain anymore. There is really nothing to report. I do not go back until March 10th. I have childbirth classes starting march 24th I think. 1st baby shower with group of friends is on March 15th. Family and mom shower is on April 5. April will get busy as I also have 2 weddings to do. I will get more pictures to post soon.