One Month!

Guess what?!?! its the 25th of April and that means one month till I'm due! This is so exciting! Hopefully she comes a little earlier so that i don't have to be miserable for another month! lol!

There has been some exciting news for mike and I in the last week!

First of all.... we officially decided that I am not going to back to Wells Fargo after I have Maeli. I have been so excited that I get to stay home with our little girl! So I told my boss yesterday that I am not going to be coming back! I also found out that Wells Fargo will still pay me my maternity leave even if i quit before i come back! So God has seriously answered some prayers with this one. Mike and I would have been without any income for a little over two months because mike has clinical for 8 weeks before he can get a job! so this is a huge blessing for us to still have some income for 6 of the 8 weeks!

Second..... I have returned to school! Its not a real school, but school none the less! I signed up for a Medical Transcription program through an online school and I will be done with that HOPEFULLY in about 4 months! I have already started and have been trying to get as ahead as I can so I wont get too behind when Maeli comes! I'm super excited to get this done because that means that I can work from home with Maeli and make pretty good money!

Third.... Maeli did flip last week! it was just a few days before her doc appointment and she decided to keep me up all night and cause me lots of pain by turning completely around! but it is a good thing since now i dont have to schedule a c-section! So now i just have to wait till she want to some out.

Lastly.... Mike and I have finished out Childbirth class! This was so much fun for us to go to! we got to spend a few hours a week learning a little more about what the whole childbirth process is gonna be like. it was great for mike too cuz he had no idea how dramatic this process was! lol! But we are done now and i am So ready for little Maeli to come!

So other than those exciting little bits of news... We have just been enjoying the great weather and trying to be patient while we wait for little Maeli! Hopefully i will have some good new soon for you all that there is a new little Rankin in the world!

Just Waiting

I was so excited to be able to tell someone the other day that i was going to have my little girl NEXT MONTH!!! Since it is officially april now.... i can say that! well i have 49 days left till my due date and i have been getting more and more excited every day! Im getting pretty sick of being huge and not being able to sleep! and i gonna be glad when she isnt kicking me all of the time :) lol! Nah im sure that i will miss that part a lot!!!

At my doctor appointment on friday, she said that Maeli was still breech so we will be doing another ultrasound in two weeks to see if she has moved. If she hasnt moved in two weeks then my doctor wants me to plan a c-section. So that has been something that we are looking forward to at our next doctors apointment....getting to see little Maeli again! In some ways i wouldnt mind a c-sections because then i would get to plan it for a weekend when mike could be there, have her a little early and get paid two more weeks of maternity leave! lol! But i would be bummed not getting to go through the whole birthing process for sure! We will just have to wait and see what this stubborn little girl does!

So I have a few updates to the nursery that i am way excited about! At my baby shower i got a beautiful board that has Maeli's name on it that we put on her door! its super cute! also i got a saying made for the back of her crib that looks so adorable! Then my Grandma Marvin, who Maeli is named after, my aunt Heidi and aunt Michelle got me a new rocker glider for the nursery! I love this thing! it matches my crib so beautifully and its gonna be so nice to be able to use late at night! i will for sure be sleeping in it! lol! We also got Maeli's cradle that my dad made me set up in our room and it looks so cute in there! The crib sheets that my mom bought for it and the blanket that her aunt Brittany made matched perfectly so we are using those blankets for her cradle! Its all comming together and we just are getting so excited to bring out little girl home in a month and a half!