He's Here!

Timothy James Alldredge was born November 26 at 6:08 pm. He wieghed 7 lb 7 oz and measured 19 1/4 inches long.  We are happy he is here and healthy.

Here is a link to a lot more pictures on a public facebook album.



Happy Thanksgiving

and happy due date. Although, I would be happier if I had a baby.  I guess I've made it 40 weeks, I can manage to wait a few more day. It's only 4 more days untill I'm induced and he could come before then (keeping my fingers crossed.)

The Doctor's

Well, my due date is tomorrow and we are still babyless, but the trip to the doctors was certainly and adventure this morning and brings kind of good news. First of all, we got there super early. We expected the roads to be awful after the snow yesterday, but they weren't.  Even though we were early they got me in as soon as I checked in (I love morning appointments) and then I get all settled on the exam table ready for the doctor and his assistant comes in and says that the doctor just  got called over to the hospital  to deliver a baby (and I mean just because we passed by him in the hall maybe 2 minutes earlier when the assistant was taking me back to the exam room) and it would probably be another half an hour, but that I was first on his list when he gets back (good thing I was early.)  The doctor finally makes it back (I don't think it even took a half an hour. The hospital is right next door.) He gives me my exam and absolutely no change from last week. This baby just doesn't want to come! Anyways, we talk a little bit and he says he will call the hospital and see about a scheduling an induction for Monday and while he is making that call that he wants me to head to the ultrasound room to make sure there is enough amniotic fluid to last until Monday. Totally wasn't expecting to get an ultrasound today, but at least I got to see my baby boy, kind of. The poor little guy is definitely running out of room. His little face is all squished and he doesn't look comfortable at all.  After the ultrasound we sit around a while waiting to hear from the doctor exactly whats going on with the induction. Eventually, he comes and tells us to check in at Labor and Delivery at 5:00 am monday morning. Hurray, I'm going to have a baby by Monday.  That gives this little boy 4 more days to come on his own. Let's see if it happens. If not I'll have a baby in 5 days.

Here are the ultrasound pics. They are little hard to decypher since it's a little crowded and he is so much bigger than he was 20 weeks ago.

Little Toes 

He is still a boy (if you can make sense of this one)

 



Heart beat

Squished little face

Another squished face shot

Like I said, they are difficult to figure out.

39 weeks

Here we are with 7 days left. I'm hoping, I'm praying it's less. I had a doctors appointment on Tuesday and I was 1cm and 50% effaced, so I'm really hoping it's less than a week. But, I know that some women walk around dilated for a long time before labor actually starts. I hope I'm not one of them. Greg keeps jokingly saying that the baby will come on Friday (tomorrow) at 3:00 pm with a margin  of error of 2 (we're not sure what units the 2 actually is. It could be minutes, hours, days.) Baby is running out of time to meet that deadline. If baby felt like coming today or tomorrow it really would be ideal because it would give Greg the longest stretch of time off of work. He has a week to take off and with the 2 days off he gets for the holiday, if the baby came in the next 2 days he would get 2 weekends attached to that vacation time instead of just 1. I'm just hoping he comes by Monday. Why? It just seems like a good day and it would give me a couple of days to recover before Thanksgiving. I do have a Turkey to cook (well, for Greg to cook after all.) Come on baby, let's get this show on the road! 

38 weeks

Only 14 more days. 

Crafty

Saturday morning I had the Relief Society Super Saturday at church and it was fun. We made our crafts and had a pot luck lunch.

I painted a candy Jar

I also made a cookie mix, brownie mix, and barley soup mix.

Now, the candy jar they had on display and had provided ribbon for was painted with snowflakes for Christmas. It was cute but I already have Christmas candy jars so I wanted to make one I could use year round and everybody kept telling me that I could do the snowflake one and give it to someone as a gift. Is it really so bad that I wanted to make one for myself?  Funny side story, the relief society president came over to my house last night to visit and she was impressed that I already have candy in my jar, but I had to admit it was just the left over Halloween candy (we only had like 5 trick or treaters.)

I've also been busy crocheting. I made some cute little amigurimi animals with the left over yarn from the Noah's ark blanket (Ignore the fact that the I haven't put eyes on the snake or the elephant yet). When I was making the elephant I just had his trunk and  the two legs sewn on and I  made a comment to Greg that it reminded me of Q-bert.  Greg has never heard of Q-bert.  Anyway, I'm now officially done with all of my crocheting. Now, I can work on my Provo scrapbook more diligently at least until I find a new crochet project. I'm thinking I need to make a Christmas Afghan....

Happy Birthday Greg

Last Thursday, Nov 4 was Greg's Birthday.  We had a fun day. I woke up and made Greg breakfast: French toast with homemade Dulce de Leche (Okay, so I really  made the Dulce de Leche the day before). He of course had to work but after work he opened presents and then we headed out to dinner. It was hard for Greg to decide where he wanted to eat.  He had kind of been thinking PF Changs all  week but when it came down to it he wasn't super hungry so we looked up places in Reno on Google Maps and found a Melting Pot. Greg got on the website and just to make sure we didn't need a reservation or anything and we unfortunately discovered a Note on the website that said the Reno location closed on October 6. Sad day. No Melting Pot.  We eventually decided it wasn't worth it to drive all the way to Reno so we picked a place in Carson City, Red's 395 that was recommended to us by a sales rep at a Verizon Store a few weeks ago. We thought it was a steak house but it turns out their specialty is BBQ. Yumm. So we ate some fabulous BBQ and had plenty of leftovers. We still have leftovers in the fridge and we've pulled them out twice since we went. It was a lot of food.  After dinner Greg wanted to look for a new video game so we went to Game Stop. After some recommendations from the store manager and not listening to them he took home a couple of used games:  Mario Galaxy and Call of Duty: World at War.  He finished playing Call of Duty Saturday Morning (not a lot of game play) and since he didn't like it much he took it back and traded it for Muramasa, the game the store manager originally recommend.  He had a good birthday and he's definitely been enjoying Mario Galaxy since then.  

Greg Fighting with the ribbon.

Slacks from his parents

A silly pose showing off his new slippers

A new tie

37 Weeks

With 21 days to go this baby is considered full term and has permission to come any day now.  Of course it would still be better for the baby if he waited a couple more weeks (which is highly likely considering I haven't even had a single Braxton Hicks contraction or real contraction for that matter and according to my check up at the doctors on Monday I haven't started to dilate which is not very shocking since I haven't had any contractions.) Even if it would be best for him to wait a little longer I am tired, anxious, not sleeping at night, uncomfortable, tired, have swollen feet (I can strangely still get my wedding ring on and off just fine), wishing I could breath again, sick of the view of the bathroom, and really, really hoping that this baby comes sooner than 21 days from now and hopefully not a day later.

Pregnancy Photos

So I've been very diligent about taking pictures to track the growth of my baby bump and everyone tells me I'll be very grateful that I've taken so many pictures. I'm sure I will be, but I needed some nice pictures too. Saturday, we finally had time for Greg to take some pictures of me. I was just thinking we would go to one of the local parks, but Greg decided that we needed to go to one of the mountain trails around Lake Tahoe. (We never actually made it to the specific trail he was thinking of.) In the couple of hours we spent on this photo shoot we encountered sunshine, clouds, rain, and even a very tiny amount of snow. It made for some very beautiful scenery complete with rainbows. We had fun and got a lot of good pictures. Sure, they aren't professional quality, but we like them none the less.

Here are a few of our favorites: