Can we meet you...please?

This little man already knows how to punch his parents' buttons!  We are anxiously waiting his "tardy" arrival.  I'm overdue by almost a full week and I doubt Gumball is going to come on his own, at least that's how feels.  For the past three weeks I've only been 1/2 cm dilated...really?  I think the doctor just told me that so I would leave my appointment with a little hope.

Mike and I have an appointment Thursday morning for a non-stress test and ultrasound.  And that evening I will be induced at the hospital...yay!!!!  I have read a lot of blogs and websites and most are saying that inductions can be pretty brutal.  C-sections are also a pretty big risk.  But at this point, I just want GB out of my tummy and safe in my arms.  If it was up to us, we would have induced last week!  But my doctor refuses to induce first time moms anytime earlier than 41 weeks.  Ugh.  I do have to say, it's nice than we can plan...as long as GB cooperates.  At the rate he's progressing I don't think I need to cross my fingers and hope.  My parents live almost 5 hours away and my mom is planning on taking time off to stay and help out.  So it's definitely convenient to be able to give them a date.

Here are a few pics from the last two weeks.  My tummy looks bigger in the 39 week pic.  I have no idea why.  Maybe because GB dropped a bit?  No clue.

                                                                   39 weeks 3 days

40 weeks 5 days

Week 38

Well, I'm in the home stretch!  And I am most definitely ready to meet Gumball.  My sleeps are becoming more uncomfortable each night and I'm definitely moving a lot slower each day.  I don't think I have the total waddle yet, but I feel like maybe a slight one...if that makes any sense.

GB is moving around tons.  I can feel him all of the time.  Hiccups have become a daily routine for him (at least once a day) and he is testing his boundaries in my tummy.  My poor skin is stretching and stretching to show his every move.  It's funny to see how lob-sided my tummy looks at times.  He moves his bum from side to side throughout the day...it's so fun to watch him wiggle.

Here I am today at 37w 2d.  I have always titled my posts by the week I am starting, so maybe I've been jumping the gun, but I go by my "What to Expect When You're Expecting" app.  And that's what it says, so that's what I type ;)

Here are a few pics of the nursery.  The room is pretty big, but Mike and I decided to keep the queen size bed in there, which takes up a lot of room.  But it will be perfect.  Why does my carpet look like such an ugly color in these pics?  Yuck...promise, it's not puke yellow.