29 Weeks & A Difficult Weekend!

Pregnancy Highlights

How far along: 29 weeks.

Size of Baby Pax: About the size of a butternut squash. Weighs about 2.5 lbs and measures about 15.25 inches.

Maternity clothes: All maternity shorts, dresses and long shirts.
Gender: Didn't find out!

Names: Girl- Paxley JoyAnna Golden
Boy- Paxton John Calvin Golden

Getting Ready:
  • Stock up on Newborn-Size 2 diapers.
  • Find carseat cover pattern.
  • Make "Pax" beanie for hospital.
Movement: I think this baby is transverse. I am constantly feeling a large, round, hard object in my right side and 2 boney objects on my bladder. I also feel a lot of kicking in my pelvis.

Sleeping: Woke up to pee for the first time with this pregnancy! Must be all the water I'm drinking?

What I miss: Sleeping soundly

Cravings: Orange juice!

Symptoms: This belly is getting big! Baby seems to have popped out of my pelvis for now and is hanging on a ledge. Awesome head cold (Although, that has to be from the weather dropping down into the 40's from the 100's)

Weight Gained: Gained 26 pounds.

Due Date: Scheduled the birth at the last doctors appointment. If I make it this far:
November 21, 2011

Next Dr. Appt.: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 @3:15. Start my 3 week check ups.

We had quite the weekend. Luckily, Saturday was the beginning of Football season, so Donovan spent the ENTIRE day on the couch watching game day. It was a very relaxing day. After church Sunday we wanted to take the kiddos camping. We haven't taken them camping once this summer because it has been extremely hot! We invited a family to go with us-they have two boys Chi and Haly's age, so it works out great! On our way there (about 45 mins into the trip) we smelled something awful. It's a smell that we knew all too well considering our Jeep Liberty blew the radiator in July.(Said Liberty is still sitting in the driveway waiting to be fixed-so we've been using one car-Donovan's Jeep Wrangler). The temp shot up in the Jeep and fluid filled the windshield. We all pulled over and watched in disbelief as Donovan opened the hood and smoke blew out. We decided to attempt fixing it because Donovan believed it would be a quick fix.

So, after my friend and I stayed with the two older boys at Dollar General for about an hour and a half, the guys ran with the smaller ones to pick up parts and grab another car. After getting the other car (which seats 8, gloriously) we loaded up all the camping stuff and headed with the kiddos to camp. We were teetering on going back home and camping in the back yard, but we didn't want to disappoint the kids! So, us women set up camp while the men attempted to fix the Jeep. It ended up-the men didn't have the right size tools to finish the job, so they just met us at the camp spot and fixed it on the way home.

We had a great time camping. The kids slept great and loved being outside, getting dirty, eating gummies and juice and roasting marshmallows. The trip didn't go as smoothly as we planned, but we still had a great time and were blessed so much by the patience and willingness to help from our friends. It honestly could have been an extremely stressful situation, but the attitudes our friends had were so laid back that it made it so much easier to just enjoy each other. Even when we were stranded on the side of the highway. Even when we were watching our boys be dinosaurs in the dirt and gravel behind a gas station. Even when we spent a very long time in Dollar General and probably annoyed the daylights out of the cashiers with all the noise we were making. I can't even express how blessed we feel to have such friends.

As a side note. Donovan and I were lent our friends car, so we went back to the Jeep with the right parts and fluids and fixed it! Donovan said it is running better than it ever has (in the whole 6 months we've owned it). So, although it was very disheartening and frustrating, God provides. Not only the finances to fix the Jeep. Not only patience to work through yet another car problem. But God provides the grace and peace to us in getting that darn hunk of metal fixed. For now.

Comments

jessica kiehn said…
Meghan, thank you for you encouraging, beautiful words on my recent post. Such a blessing...thank you.

I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE PREGNANT! So excited for you guys. Love that you can call the baby Pax for now:)
September 21, 2011 at 2:40 PM
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