Baby shower courtesy of Tammi and Lenore

Last Saturday (2/28) I had my third and final baby shower. Tammi and Lenore did a fabulous job planning it and making it all come together!!! Here's my cake that one of Tammi's friends made. It was chocolate with pink frosting in the middle. Tammi had emailed her a picture of AnnaBeth's bedding so she could decorate it based on the theme. She did an amazing job!

Tammi had another friend make a diaper cake. She must have spent HOURS rolling up the diapers and tying them together with pink string (it took me quite some time to untie them all). Also inside were some bottles, hand mittens, socks, a rattle, and mini shampoo and lotion bottles.

Here are some pictures of most of my guests

Sarah won the "guess the size of Ann Marie's belly" game. She was DEAD on! She won a $5 gift card to Hollywood video.

Here, Oliver decided to help me open gifts.

I think he really just wanted the bow to play with.

I had registered for the turtle bath towel set at Target. Apparently multiple Targets were out of these so three different people decided to get me the frog one instead. I almost ended up with four, but at the last second, Carolyn decided not to get it.

One of the neat things Tammi and Lenore did was ask that people bring books to help start AnnaBeth's library. This Shel Silverstein book is from Tammi and the picture on the back reminded me of that Wooly Willy Magnetic Face toy of the 80's. See the resemblance?

Here's all of my gifts.

"Aunt Sarah" can't wait to meet AnnaBeth!

I was thrilled to see Jen since we haven't seen each other in about 4 years.

Mischa's mom and her two sisters came to celebrate.

And finally, my two wonderful hostesses!!

Awaiting her arrival

Bondo and Rufus know that something is up and things are about the change. However, they both have different attitudes about it. As you can see, Rufus is totally laid back and seems to think that his life isn't going to change at all. He's quite content with sunbathing in AnnaBeth's room. I've also caught him jumping in her crib or on the changing pad on her dresser and taking a nap in one of the empty cubbies in her closet.

Bondo on the other hand seems a tad more concerned with what this will mean for him. He tends to give us his sad eyes whenever we are in her room. He doesn't seem to be concerned with any of the other actual baby items (although he is interested in trying to put diapers and stuffed animals in his mouth), just her room. In this picture, I felt as if he were saying "wait a minute, you mean I'm NOT going to be the baby any more???"

And here it's as if he's looking to see when she's going to burst through the door and take over his life. In both pictures, he doesn't look very pleased that in a very short period of time, he will no longer be the center of attention.

A few maternity pictures

Today Kent's dad took some maternity pictures for us in downtown Gilbert by the little park that was built around the town's water tower. He took A LOT but these are pretty much the best ones =)

I wanted to spell AnnaBeth but the blocks I bought today only had one "a" which I found quite odd. What was even more odd is that the set had two z's and two x's.

Squirmy Wormy

For the last couple of days, AnnaBeth has been extremely squirmy. I'm pretty convinced she's trying to dig her way out but is lost in the dark =) I was able to get some video of her having a party in my belly. As of right now, she's been moving almost constantly for the last hour. Maybe she's super determined to find the exit of her dark environment or she's just really hungry for the lasagna we're having for dinner.

Handmade is the best!

Today when I got to work I had a box on my desk that had our names on it but addressed to Kent's parents. And there was a handwritten note from his dad on it that said "Nana says this is something great grandma would have made!" When I opened it, I found an adorable quilt that was handmade by AnnaBeth's Great Aunt Betsy! It's such a wonderful treasure that she will someday be able to pass on to her own daughter =)

36 weeks

AnnaBeth is already a little stinker

So yesterday, being President's Day, I had the luxury of having the day off thanks to my cush government job. I got up when Kent did, had breakfast and did some stuff on the computer for a little bit. I noticed that AnnaBeth didn't quite respond to after eating like she normally does and I started to feel pretty nauseous so I went back to bed for a couple of hours. After I woke up, she still wasn't moving very much so I ate some chocolate animal crackers and that got her to move a few times. Tammi came over and at lunch I had some spicy tacos and a little soda but she never really moved like I wanted her to. After lunch, we played one of the Scene It DVD games and after a couple of hours I decided to have some fruit (an orange and some grapes) and then lay on my left side to see if AnnaBeth would start to move around. She only kicked a couple of times very lightly so after half an hour, I had some ice cream. When that didn't really get her moving, I called the doctor and was told to go immediately to triage so they could check her out. Tammi drove me to Kent's work and then we headed to the hospital. Her movement had started to pick up while he and I were en route but we still wanted her to be monitored. So we get to the hospital and they hook up the fetal monitor to my belly and she just starts going crazy in my belly! Leave it to AnnaBeth to be such a little stinker and start to scare me only to go and show off to the nurse just how active she can be. I guess she was just enjoying a lazy President's Day =)