26 weeks

Hey loves,

Sorry we have been MIA, but the last week has been crazy. Here's the update!

My mom is out of the hospital and doing great. She was release Monday night (so a week's stay total). She's still dealing with pain, but is making great strides, doing her walks and staying nourished. All in all, it looks like a success! She's already back to grand-baby planning. Thanks to everyone for your love and prayers. 

Max has been insanely busy with football. Most of you think he's the defensive coordinator for varsity. But in truth he also calls the defense for Freshman and JV games, so he's coaching in one form or another 6 days a week. Last night he was also the ref for the powder puff game since this is homecoming week. Tomorrow for our big game we play LOWELL (for all you out-of-staters, Lowell is ranked #1 in the state...maybe you saw them last week on ESPN? They raised $100,000 in one night at a game by playing in pink jerseys.) Anyhow, not much  hope of a win, but we get Wildcat burgers, so the night will still end up salvageable.

On to baby news, which is the reason we have this self-indulgent blog. 26 week check up last week went great. I have only gained 11 pounds though my stomach has grown an inch in the last month! The baby is moving a ton....now to the point that Max can feel it most days. It's so much more exciting now that he can be more connected with the baby. Most mornings I wake up with him kissing my belly goodbye since he's out the door at 6am and I am not even out of bed by then.

Prenatal yoga class is going well and I am doing a lot of work to try and prevent injury during child birth and mentally prepare myself. Many of you know, I have broken my tailbone 3 times...the last of which cliff jumping on our honeymoon...so there is a bit of a concern of an additional break for the labor process since I hope to have a natural childbirth without drugs. I also see  medical masseuse every week who is doing lots of prodding (poor girl) to straighten things out.

We're moving furniture this weekend to make way for the nursery furniture that begins arriving shortly...and the handrails for the stairs (yes, surprise, surprise, I have bit it several times pre-pregnancy without handrails, so we're adding them and they come in tomorrow.) I have been in crazy nesting mode, so all in all, we're a normal first-time pregnant couple.

We heard some of you are not getting updates. If you read this and are not getting auto updates when we post, can you drop me an email and let me know? Thanks all. We hope each of you are having a great week and we'll check in soon.

Love Court, Max & Baby K

 

This is proof that I actually have a job. We had a professional photographer to the offices to take pics for a promotional piece on DDM. My pregnant, double chin made it on a 2 page spread....thankfully in the gutter though.

Another shot by the talented Bob Newman...Notice my Budda poster in contrast to my own budda- like 26 week pregnant frame.