Baby on the way

I've had a request from my cousin, Aubrey, that I do a baby post. I guess she's right... it's nearly time for this baby girl to come! So I'm due July 4th. I haven't talked to my doctor about inducing. I'd like to see if I can have this baby on my own (wouldn't it be good to experience that?), since I've been induced with the other two, but I don't want to be miserable and have to wait days after my due date. So maybe he'll start me on July 3rd, which is my nephew, Bryson's birthday. But less than 3 weeks hopefully! Yikes! When I was checked at 37 weeks, the PA said I was nearly 1 cm (which means she's just being nice) but that the baby's head is right there and ready. I've never been one to progress past 1 or 2 cm until they give me pitocin. I'm feeling pretty good still. I get winded doing what should be simple things, and I have to take breaks more often, but I can't complain. Nights were getting bad, but then I started taking Zyrtec for my allergies and now nights are wonderful! Here's the belly pic at 37 weeks. I'm not really a fan of doing belly pics... I typically do one in the last month and that's it.

I've been quite busy getting everything cleaned and in order. Justin has helped me clean out the garage and my Dad came to town and built some shelves for our basement storage so that we can actually walk around in there. He also helped me do lots of touch-up paint work and I painted the stairwell that had been damaged from back when we finished the basement. Now I'm moving on to cleaning blinds and will soon get to wiping the baseboards. Here is the work I've done in the boys' room. They're glad that people can tell which bed is theirs because of their school pictures. The only toys in there are their Legos, which I recently combined and organized into colors. Hopefully I don't regret that because it would be a huge project to split them into sets again!

And baby's room is where the boys used to sleep, so I was left with a bright green wall. With all the other painting and organizing in the rest of the house, I wasn't feeling like changing this wall. Instead, we found some darling bird material that has green in it, and other fun colors like PINK! So we're sticking with the green wall. My mom made the cute bed skirt, cushion, and curtains. Maybe I'll try to find a bright pink rug to put in front of the dresser/changing table.

I will be buying something cute for the walls as soon as we name her. Something like these (I think the bottom one is the cutest):

So speaking of names, we just can't decide. We've never been ones to start calling our baby something before we actually hold and see what she looks like. Ezra has been calling her several different names through the weeks. He has called her Sally, Sinna, then just plain Sin (yeah, we definitely don't like that one!), Lucy, and most recently likes Rosie. Well he doesn't get to decide, thank goodness! Here is a list of all the names we've been considering. Some are stronger candidates than others, but I'll just put them all up the poll (upper right column) because it's fun to see what other people like. Vote on your favorites! Next time I post about the baby, hopefully she'll be here!