January 13th!

James Hamilton Newton III was born on Friday, January 13, 2012 at 12:05 pm in Shanghai, China. He was 8 pounds 7 ounces and 20 inches long. He has lots of black hair and the sweetest face we have ever seen! He is a very content baby and only cries when we're changing his diaper. He came into the world quickly, only 3 hours after the doctor broke my water. He has stolen our hearts just as quickly and we are so happy he's ours!

Friday the 13th!

I had my appointment today and things went GREAT! I am dilated to a 2 and the doctor said everything looks really good! She did and ultrasound.... actually she had the ultrasound specialist come in and do the ultrasound because his head is so far down and she wanted a really accurate measurement. His head is medium/average size and his tummy is "FAT". I wish I could get a video of her saying this word- she exaggerates the "f" and kind of scrunches up her nose... plus there's the accent and I love her mannerisms. I loved watching her says this and came up with ways to make her say it a couple more times because it was so funny.

The plan is to induce on Friday if he hasn't come yet. She says there is a good chance he will come before. I'm not exactly counting on it but it would be fun! If I do go in for the induction on Friday it will probably be relatively quick. She is going to break my water and then watch for an hour, at which point she will decide whether or not to give me pitocin.

We have things pretty much set for a babysitter. What a relief! One of the student's wives will watch her on Friday and then a branch member will take her on Saturday. We figure that Sunday will be easy to get people in the playgroup to watch her since everyone is home on Sundays so we're not too worried about it.

So that's that. Our little boy will be here on or before Friday the 13th (great day!)! We can't wait to meet him and hold him and smother him with kisses! YAY!

39 Weeks!

I'm so excited to see our little boy!

We're 6 days away from his due date!

I have an appointment on Tuesday morning and I can't wait to see what the doctor says.

We're still trying to figure out exactly where Ali is going to be during the main event but that will come together in the next couple days. How does everyone do it? Obviously if you have family around they can help, but not everyone lives by family and they still make it work. It will all work out and very soon we are going to have a new, sweet baby boy.

38 Weeks!

I am in my 38th week and quickly approaching my 39th. We are in the single digits- 9 more days! This is unbelievable! It is unbelievable that we will have a newborn at the end of next week (give or take some days). We will have two children! How cute! I remember a time when I wasn't sure I would even have 1 child and now Ali gets a brother.

I feel tired.

Is this how you always feel before a new child comes? I'm not sure if I actually am tired or not, but I feel tired because I'm thinking about how tired I'm going to be.

Besides the moments during the day when I feel tired, I feel amazing! I feel like I'm 2 months pregnant.

I had an appointment last Tuesday...the Tuesday after Christmas.... I gained a lot of weight. The nurse even gave me a hand motion to slow down. I gained 3 kilos. You're supposed to gain .5. I enjoyed every one of those Christmas dinners that we went to. On top of the 4 Christmas dinners that we attended my legs and feet had also swollen to 4 times their normal size. So at this last appointment I had lost 1 kilo and my feet have pretty much gone back down to normal so the doctor said everything was ok with my weight/weight gain.

She also check my cervix and said it was very good and she can easy get in there and feel the head. My next appointment is Tuesday morning and we will probably talk about the possibilities of inducing. In an ideal world we would induce after Jimmy's final on the 20th but I'm not sure any of us want to wait that long. I for sure wouldn't mind having him in there longer but I don't want him to get so gargantuan that I can't push him out. We'll have to see what she says.

Ali has become clingy. And when I say clingy I mean she becomes hysterical if I leave her side. I wish I knew what all she understood about what's about to happen. I'm thinking she gets that something big is about to happen because of how she has been acting. I feel bad for her. I wish I could help her know that everything is going to be ok. I know she'll be fine but it's hard watching her feel scared and confused. She is so sweet and I'm excited for her to learn that she's getting a new brother and best friend.