Baby Shower! 3/25/2007

My sisters and mom had a great baby shower for me at my house. It was so nice to see everyone. Craig and I got so many great gifts, it really is starting to seem real. I have the baby clothes all washed and the crib ready, now I just need a baby. But he needs to stay cooking for another couple weeks until I finish my finals!

It was amazing how many pregnant friends we have or friends who have just had their children. Here is a picture of the girls who were pregnant at the shower. Since then 2 of them have had beautiful baby girls. Jill had Molly Amanda on March 28th and Gina had Nela Rachelle on April 2nd - I've seen Molly and she is beautiful, I'm going to see Nela on Friday and I'm sure she will be also!

(from left to right: Susan - dd 8/2007, me - dd 5/17/2007, Jill -3/28/2007, Gina 4/2/2007)

Thanks to everyone who came to the shower and gave us so many wonderful gifts.

31 week check up

Hi All,

Well we had our 31 week check up yesterday. Everything looks and sounds good. His heart rate is in the 130's, it was funny when the doctor was using the doplar to listen to the heart rate he kept on kicking it so you would hear showsh showsh showsh and then a thump. He already sounds like he takes after Craig and I - 'never sitting down'.

I also confirmed yesterday that I have pubic symphysis seperation or dysfunction. Below are a couple sentences that I pulled off of a website. - basically I've been in pain for a while and I've ignored it because I thought it was just symptoms of pregnancy. No wonder it was so painful to turn over in bed...I thought it was because I had a huge belly. (basically I think my problem was probably caused because of all my running injuries and misalignment)

The Pubic Symphysis and the Sacro-Iliac joints (in the back of the pelvis) are especially important during pregnancy, as their flexibility allows the bones to move freely and to expand to help a baby fit through more easily during birth. In fact, the pregnancy hormones relaxin and progesterone help the ligaments of your body to loosen and be even MORE flexible than before, so that there is plenty of 'give' and lots of room for the baby to slip right through. Simply put, significant pubic pain is caused by the pelvic girdle area not working they way it should, probably because of hormones, misalignment of the pelvis, or an interaction of the two.

I'm going to try and take it easier, but we'll see :)

Can't wait to see you guys soon.

Babys' Room

We started the babies room during Christmas break because we knew we wouldn't have time to work on it during the semester. We bought the rug first and then based the colors off of that.

This past week we got the crib - it is really hitting home now!

Here are some pictures of the room and me -

since a lot of you haven't seen me in a while. I'm 29.5 weeks!

He is moving like crazy - I just love it. I find my self watching my belly a lot. I'm still running 4-5 times a week - I'm a lot slower, but it feels great to still get out and run.

The baby shower is scheduled for March 25th. This month is going to be super busy, I have 3 classes a week - but the busier I am the more efficient I am :-)

Christmas 2006!

Craig and I drove everywhere for Christmas. We made the rounds to Vassar, Grayling, skied up at Shcuss Mountain (yes - I skied). We had a great Christmas with the family. Here are some of the outfits that Baby K got for Christmas - the KISS outfit is from Melissa and Chris Stroud -this is the outfit he's coming home from the hospital in!

I also got the little guy a onesie for when he's on the Harley.

For New Years Eve we hopped in the car and headed over to Chicago for a couple nights with Tracy, Sean and Aidan. Craig and I headed to the Museum of Natural Science - It was very cool. (Picture to be added).

Tracy was nice enough to make me fondue for the first time, I loved it!

We headed up to Antigo for a New Years Eve Wedding. Craigs' best friend in high school Travis got married on New Years Eve. We spent a couple nights with the Kjomes' - their house was outstanding and it was so relaxing to stay with them.

Thanksgiving 2006!

Craig and I flew out to AZ for Thanksgiving. We went to the ASU/UCLA football game. It's probably good that the little guy didn't really know what was going on because ASU couldn't pull off a win. ASU made up for it the following weekend by beating AU!





We headed up to Prescott and then took off for the Grand Canyon at 5:00am on Nov. 21st. Even though I was about 4 months pregnant we decided to be crazy and hike down and up the canyon in 1 day! We started down the canyon at about 9:00am, here's a picture of him in my belly =)



We had a great time, it took us about 8 hours to hike the total of 17miles in and out of the canyon. CK was really feeling it - I think that he finally realized what it is like to run a marathon.

It was a great vacation, we spent Thanksgiving with Kevin, Gretchen, Sean, Tracy and Aidan. It was really nice.

Griffins babtims Oct. 15th

For Griffin's babtism the whole family came to Michigan so Craig and I took the opportunity to tell them that we were expecting. I think that everyone was pretty shocked that it was so soon, but they we very excited for us!

Baby K's first Tiger game!

Craig and I went to a Tigers game on Oct. 10, 2006. We hadn't told anyone yet that we were pregnant. JT and Sue never even questioned that I wasn't drinking :) Maybe it was the fake sips I kept taking from CK's beer!