Turn Baby Turn

I have another little drama to add to the little dramas that is my pregnancy. I met with my mid-wife yesterday. When she was feeling my stomach she couldn't tell if the baby was still in the vertex position (head down) or not. I didn't think it was a big deal because she has been had down for the last 2 months (and as of two weeks ago was still that way), so I couldn't see how she possibly could have moved with so little room to spare. The midwife decided she needed to make sure so she got the ultrasound machine out (yes making it my sixth ultrasound, sorry there are no pictures) and confirmed her suspicion this baby is breeched. Somehow she had managed to wiggle her head to my rib cage and seems rather comfortable there.
I was given some exercises to try to get her to move and if that doesn't work by next appointment they will schedule an external version, which is basically trying to manually turn the baby back down (it's actually a bit of a complicated procedure). Lana Celmer had to face this when she was pregnant with her son, Mark back in November. You can read her post and a little more info about external versions here. Thankfully, Mark turned back down at the last moment and they were able to avoid it.
If that doesn't work either or she goes back to breech again they'll schedule a C-Section which is something I am really hoping to avoid.
Please pray that the baby goes back and I do not have to end up under the knife.

Mystery Gift

Monday afternoon I came home from work to find a porta-crib on our porch filled about a third of the way with beanie bears and other random teddy bears (all with tags attached).

There was no note attached. Thinking it was gift from one of our friends I called David and asked if he knew anything about this. He was clueless as well. He called a couple of people and they didn't know either. At this point we have no idea who this thoughtful gift was from...anyone care to step forward? We are suspecting one of our neighbors, but as I stated we really don't know. In any case we are grateful for this and a little unsure of what to do with so many teddy bears. :)

In other news I went shopping with my mom on Friday to look for some decorating ideas for the nursery. We came across some ideas and we did buy some things. We found some really cute 3-D butterflies that you hang on the wall.

On Saturday I spent some time hanging them up along with a picture frame. We also found some baskets to put on the shelves. Amy had given us the green ones back in in the spring for an Easter gift and David and I found the pink ones at Michael's. I'm not sure if I like it or not (I'm just so indecisive).

Here's a closer look at the wall decor. I'm still not sure about the print (okay I'm REALLY indecisive), but it works for now. I really like the look of the butterflies surrounding the frame, but I'm going to continue to keep an eye out for a print...

David and I also went looking for shears for the window and my initial thought was to do a pink color, but we went though three different sets and could not find the right pink. We may have to go with green or white or ...who knows? As you can see my mind is not functioning properly and I just know two months from now I'm going to be asking myself what the big deal was. :)

Crib Set

Wow, six weeks left until my due date! This is crazy! I feel like there is still so much to get done and yet I can't specifically name everything. One thing that I'm able to cross off my list is the crib set. Back in May I had mentioned that we had already picked out the crib bedding. While the monkey idea is still really cute it just didn't seem quite girly enough for me. I had thought I wanted to keep it neutral for use of future babies, but really who am I kidding? Monkeys were more of a boy theme. :) David was at first resistant to the idea of getting a different set, because he said he didn't see anything he liked better.
A few weeks ago Babies R Us got a few new sets in. I think he's gotten used to the idea of a girl that he decided there were others out there he did like as much or more then the monkeys. We looked around and picked out a few we thought would be good, but couldn't settle on anything.
Last week the ladies at my work gave me a baby shower (it was actually a bridal and baby shower combo since another girl was getting married). I was telling them how we were still deciding on a crib set. One of my coworkers, who had a baby girl back in February, had actually bought a set at Pottery Barn Kids last fall, but ended up going with a different theme. She had bought the set on clearance so she was unable to return it. It was all brand new with tags still attached and in their bags. She offered to let me take a look at it and see if it would work for us.
A couple of days later she brought it in and I thought it was adorable! She let me take it home and see how it fit with the room. I set it all up and showed David. He loved it! I did too, but I was feeling hormonally wacky that day so I asked a couple of other people's opinions and I decided that this was the one. My parents offered to buy it for us as gift for their granddaughter. (Thanks Mom and Pop!)

Here is the set up:

Arts in the Park

This past weekend we had Grace and Adam spend the weekend at our house. Saturday there was an art festival going on at one of the parks in West Linn, so we decided to look around. We saw some pretty interesting artwork, but the some of the sculptures were the most fascinating...

Some kind of bat lady...?


Port O' Potties are included in price of statue.




Preggy!

Muscles!

Silver Falls

So what do you do to recoup after several weeks of planning an event for 350+ people? You go hiking of course! Last time John and Nancy came down I had suggested going to Silver Falls, but the timing didn't work out on it. This time we decided to trek out there.

South Falls


Here I am at 32 weeks ready to go!

Love the silhouette of my bump...actually it looks more like I'm carrying a watermelon under my shirt. :)

Cute picture of John and Nancy. :)

Pretty falls.

View behind the falls.

After this the boys were ready to head back, so Nancy and I had to convince them to keep going. Rather than doing the entire 9 mile loop we showed them on the map where there was a bridge we could cross to cut almost half the trail out. They grudgingly agreed and we kept going. We eventually made it back discovering that we did a total of 5 miles!

Now before you protective types get upset (I can think of a few of you) just know that we took it easy going up the hills and I made sure to not exhaust myself. There were plenty of people and rangers around in case anything might of happened (which it didn't). How's that for a disclaimer?

RCC Summer Jubilee 2009

This past Friday was our annual church get together. In past it's been dubbed to "Oktoberfest" and "Festus Dei" however, this year the planning fell upon David and his "Men of Iron" responsibility. (Men of Iron is the young men's bible study he's been leading this summer.) We were given the option of renaming the event and with help from John and Nancy came up with "Summer Jubilee." We got the approval and thus a third rebranding has occured.

David has spent the better half of six weeks planning and coming up with new ideas to "spice things up." :)

It was held at Cone's farm (a family at our church).

Jesse cooking up some chicken on one of the three BBQs we had.

Eric Dau manning the drinks station. We had a keg of Root Beer and a keg of regular beer.

Hay Rides around the Cone's farm.

Face painting

Bouncy Castle

Kyra enjoying herself in the bouncy castle.

Cone's petting zoo.

ABBS and Sara

Cute picture of Henry

We had concert with various RCC members showing off their talents. Grace and David did a Beatles cover of the song "For No One." I captured what I could on video, but for some reason my camera cut out the very end. :(

David had compiled a band consisting of Himself (rhythm), my brother Jon (drums), Sean Fukuda(lead guitar), Andrew Payne (bass), Joseph Forster (cello), and Kenny Hangartner (fiddle) to do a rendition of "Folsom Prison Blues."

Here's a video of the performance. Again, I was having issues with my camera and it stopped recording in the middle of the song so this is a two part video.

After the concert we had dancing.

Georgie and Levi decide they have better things to do.

Later a special announcement was made thanking David for all of his hard work. As a token of the church's appreciation they had bought a brand new BBQ for us! What a surprising blessing!

The event was a great success.

Captain Bogg and Salty

Yesterday Masha and I took George and Rachels' kids (minus Henry) to see Captain Bogg and Salty perform at the Beaverton Library. For those who are unaware Captain Bogg and Salty are a pirate rock band based here in Portland and are a fairly popular novelty band. We had discovered them about five years ago when a group of us went to the Festival de Piratas and they were by far the best band there. Every once in a while Masha and I will go and see them perform.

Georgie is hiding from view, because for some reason he said that he doesn't like having his picture taken.

Sonny Jim and Captain Bogg

The drummer

Captain Bogg

Kyra clapping along to music

Caught you!

Trinity

Anika

Faith - I just laughed at this picture! They all look like they're having fun don't they? :)

I had to sneak this one in of Georgie.

They eventually did warm up to the music and started to dance.

What goofy girls!

Here is a little video.