Brian and Joelle

 Well….here we are at full-term.  The time has gone by fast, but it seems like we could use more of it still.  The baby room is almost done (pics are coming!) and my mom is almost done with the mural.  I spent last weekend assembling the crib and dresser which is always a joy to do trying to read diagramatical directions in french, chinese, spanish, and german.   Joelle has an appointment with Dr. Biter every Friday now so we’ll keep you updated on the progress…and hopefully she’ll turn on her own and head south.

Well….we went to the hospital this morning at 7am for our appointment with Dr. Biter to try the ‘version’ method (which basically means that the doctor tries to manually turn the baby head down).  Our doctor tried three or four times to turn her….and she would turn 90 degrees to the left and 90 to the right…..but just wouldn’t tuck her little head and go all the way.  Joelle was an absolute trooper today because it was painful….I would venture to say very painful.  We prayed with the doctor before he started and just committed the results to the Lord….He is the One who is knitting her together….He is the One who knows her name (because we still don’t!)…and He is the One who will decide when she turns south to be introduced into this world.  We are at peace knowing that we have tried just about everything (including chiropractor, walking, lunges, pelvic rocks, inversion to the point of peuking-literrally! and then finally the version method).  Thank you all so much for your support, love, prayers, meals and encouragement.  We will keep you posted and I will be sure to post the 38th week photo as I totally slacked last week

We feel a bit out of control at this point so the blog has been pushed off….but we’ll get a pic up there tomorrow.  Please pray for our little girl to turn as she is still breech at 37 weeks….

This Friday at 7am we go in to the hospital so our doctor can try to ‘manually’ turn her head down.  Hopefully she’ll turn and head south….we’ll keep you posted

We are now at the point of seeing the doctor every week.  He is a really cool guy and we like seeing him because it is obvious that he genuinely cares about his patients.  He is one of the only doctors around with a 4D ultrasound machine….but our little girl doesn’t want us to see her face yet.  Everytime we’ve tried to see her she has blocked her face with her hands or turned around to face mommy’s back….little stinker.  We’ll see what happens this week.  She was breech last week…but we’re hopeful that she will do a flip soon.  I painted the baby room with my brother and this week we’re  having the crown moulding installed and chair rail.  My mom should be over this week to airbrush some fun images on the walls too….ladybugs and flowers I believe.  I hope she doesn’t come early…the next four weeks would be greatly appreciated

beautiful…..just look at that melon.  The doctor says we are at the point that he will not try to stop labor if it started at this point….clear and ready for take off :)  My brother and I painted the baby’s room and we’ll get the chair-rail up this weekend….and my mom will get in there and airbrush some cool flowers or ladybugs or something.  I think we’re buying the crib this weekend too.  I’ll post some photos of the nursery when we’re done.