37 weeks

Baby Keebs looks WAY out there these days!

Weight gain to date: 18 pounds

Snapshot of our life

Music that we have been listening to lately: Baby Keebs gets to hear Momma sing pretty much anytime we're in the car these days. That means she's mostly hearing country. Still Daddy is trying to expose her to other radio stations.

Recent movie I've seen: Momma and Daddy went to the movies yesterday with Grandma Kebert. We laughed pretty hard at Grown Ups.

Book I'm reading right now: Still reading What to Expect When You're Expecting, guess that won't change until after she gets here.

Top news story right now: Fortunately there hasn't really been a huge news story in a while. I'd much rather it that way then having to mention some horrible crime spree!

Other news: We took our first trip to the hospital this week. Monday night my contractions were 10 minutes apart so they had us come in to get checked out. I was 1cm dilated and 70% effaced, which was different from my office visit the week before. We thought maybe this was promising so the nurse had us walk for an hour to see if we could get things to progress even more. No such luck. We decided since it was after midnight that we would go home and try to sleep and just wait for things to happen there. Again no such luck. Not a whole lot of sleep and even less progression.

At my doctor visit on Thursday, we had no progression since Monday night and the doctor said the baby wasn't engaged. His words were, "She doesn't seem to know where the exit is yet." Real encouraging to a couple of parents who thought they were just days away from meeting their little girl.

Now we wait again. We have another appointment on Wednesday, which Kory and I are both sure we'll have to attend (meaning she still won't be here). According to the doctor, at that appointment, we should have some choices to make. If Baby Keebs is still floating around, we'll do an ultrasound to see her position. If she is head down, we could schedule a slow overnight induction to try to bring her down and then induce labor. If she is sideways, we could try a binder to sort of limit the space she has, hopefully forcing her to get head down.

When I asked what we do if none of that works, the doctor said, "Well then you know my threat." For those of you who don't know, he meant a c-section.

Now we just wait to see what our little girl decides to do. We have read her an eviction notice (contingent on her health status and readiness) and the rest is up to her.

Baby girl, we are so excited to meet you! There are many people out here ready for that. We want you to be healthy and strong so stay in as long as it takes for that, then get your little butt out here! We love you very very VERY much!