Thursday, June 18, 2009

Colorado, Baby and Heat

It has been awhile since I last posted, sorry life has been hectic. We have been trying to get ready for baby, David has been working a lot and I have 4 weddings over a 5-week period.

We just got back from Colorado. I had a wedding to photograph in Hays, KS so David and I stayed the night and since we were half way to Denver we drove in the next day. That Sunday I had the family Baby shower, which was WONDERFUL. It was great seeing everyone and fun to celebrate Baby Anderson. My sister in-laws threw the shower under the direction of Brandy, David’s brother Matt’s wife. Everything went super smoothly and was a lot of fun. We spent the next week seeing family, friends and booking another wedding in CO for October. At the end of our week in Colorado we got to photography another wedding in Manitou Springs, CO. We Returned to Lawrence, KS that Monday.

We were able to fit almost everything that we were blessed to receive at the family baby shower in the car and get it back to Lawrence. It has been my challenge to wash all of the clothing and give everything a home. I finally got it all done today. I even got to decorate our “nursery” a little bit. Since we are in a two bedroom town home and we need an office the baby is bunking in one half of our room. Below are a few photos of baby Anderson’s area. I think it is looking cute. I have to admit though that when I am lying in bed at night and I look over at his stuff it makes it all more real. There is a little boy on his way to become part of our eternal family. If my giant belly didn’t clue me in on that, all of his stuff does.

Baby update: Baby Anderson (unofficially Henry Wilson Anderson… for now) is almost 34 weeks along. Everything is measuring right on track and he is doing great. I have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I failed the glucose tests so now I check my blood sugar four times a day and watch my diet. The nice thing is that so far all of my tests are looking great. Hopefully it can be well controlled just with diet. Also in the last week we have started testing for Preeclampsia/ Toxemia because of the severe swelling that I have been having on my face, feet and hands. I had some blood work done and it did come back off so we have farther testes to do. I will keep you all posted. I shoot my last wedding before baby this weekend and then can kick my feet up and take it easy. When I saw my brother in CO he said that I had the pregnancy waddle. It is weird to think that the baby is 3-8 weeks away. My mother in-law made a deal with him and he is not to come before August 1st, but we will see. If he is anything like his daddy he will be on a time line all his own.

Now we are learning to deal with Kansas heat. It was 95 degrees today and the humidity was terrible. We have been running the AC but seem to only be able to do so much. After a week in CO I asked Dave why we Moved to KS again??? All I can say to that is “Rock Chalk Jayhawk” Hopefully I will keep you all more up to date with more posts in the next few weeks until then!

2 comments:

Chelsea said...

i LOVE love love the wall hangings above the changing table, ambs! And the bedding is soo cute. I'm glad you went with it :) I'm having issues dealing with the humidity as well.

Stephanie said...

Your little "nursery" is so cute! I hope everything turns out okay with the preeclampsia. I had gestational diabetes with Addy and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Well, besides having the almost 10 pound baby! Having to watch my diet during pregnancy made me a lot more vigilant after I had her and made losing the weight a lot easier. My special project for you is almost done. Hopefully, I will get it in the mail within the next few weeks.