To induce or not to induce...

Last Friday we got the choice to either continue on naturally with the pregnancy and just keep being monitored by Nonstress tests twice a week or be induced today. Considering I'm not at the hosptial right now and I'm writing a blog we choose not to induce and just see the Dr today.

Today I was not given an option. If Mr Aiden does not show his adorable little self by Monday we will be induced on Tuesday. All NST's are showing everything is fine with him but the Dr does not want him to go to far past his due date, which is sunday 10/3/10.

So we still have to wait and see what happens but at least there is an end in sight!!

Happy Birthday Grandma Rusty!

Today is Grandma Rusty's 85th Birthday.

Happy Birthday Grandma, we can't wait to show her, her first Great Grandson!

Still a boy!

We had the ultrasound today!! Aiden is still a boy, and a pretty big boy at that! Yes I know I've already had 2 ultrasounds that both confirmed it's a boy but you never know!
So they took measurements of different parts of the body and averaged them. On average he's measuring the size of a baby of 37 weeks and 5 days, which isn't much off, we are 37 weeks 2 days. His head is measuring at 39 weeks, YIKES!!!

Overall the estimate on his weight is a little over 3200 grams which is just over 7 lbs. He is in position and very low.
We'll have to wait to see what the Dr says on Friday but I have a feeling he will be here before his due date.

Sorry no pictures this time, he's too smooched in there!!

37 WEEKS!!

Yes ladies and gentleman we have made it to FULL TERM!!!! If Aiden were born anytime now he should be able to thrive on his own!! These are words every momma to be waits to hear!!

These words are often followed by he's now the size of a WATERMELON! That's when you're brought back down to the reality of and I'm going to push him out of where???? Is it too early for my epidural?

We had a check up on Friday, to my disappointment I am not dilated or effaced at all, he's still plugged in there!!! On Tuesday I have to have an ultrasound to check his actual size, according to the Dr's measurements he's bigger then he should be for this gestational time! It could just be the measurements are off so they want to actually see his size. We'll see what happens at that point! So stay tuned....

9/11 and SPARTANS in the D

Well yesterday was quite and eventful day. Yesterday marked the 9 year anniversary of 9/11, a day I will never forget.

I remember it was the most beautiful morning, I was driving to EMU to work in the morning and then had afternoon classes, it was the first Tuesday of class in the fall semester of Junior year. I remember literally thinking this could be the most perfect day ever, the sky was blue, there were a few little marshmallow clouds around and the sun was shining so brightly, it was like a picture!!

When I was almost to work the morning show guys that I listened to announced that there was a freak accident in NYC a plane had just crashed into one of the towers of the world trade center. I thought OMG how awful, how could you just run into a building like that? Then just a few minutes later as I was getting ready to turn on to Anne St to park they said a second plane just hit the second tower, and all they could say is this doesn't seem to be an accident!

Then the pentagon and the plane in PA. Once I did get into work I immediately tried to call Greg who was stationed in Japan at the time and just getting ready to go to bed. It took a long time to get through to the base, I think over an hour! Once I did he was just hearing of the attacks!

I remember feeling so scared and so unsafe, you didn't know what or when something else was going to happen. It was the first time in my life I didn't feel safe in America! And now 9 years later I don't think anyone will feel the way they did before 9/11/01, that security is gone.

Kasey and I were both working that day and in the Eateries on the lower level was a big TV so we would go down there every once in a while to see what was new. The one time we went down we had only been watching for a minute or two when we saw the second tower fall live. I remember thinking and saying 'we are going to war'. I was so scared for Greg and for all the men and women in the military.

Classes were cancelled for the day and once our shift was over Kasey and I left campus and went back to her apartment to watch the president speak. My mom was in Grand Rapids on business so I had no one else to be with so Kasey took me in!!

It was the Sunday after 9/11/01 that I got the call from Greg that I had been dreading. I knew that he was stationed with the only forward deployed air craft carrier and they would always be first response, but when I got that call and heard him say "We are going and I can't tell you when or where but we are leaving" those were the scariest and longest seconds of my life! Then came the news that he would not be able to call or write or email while he was gone. I didn't know when I would hear from him again, it could be days or weeks or months. I believe it happened to be about 8 or 9 weeks later that I got an email, all it said was he was alive and ok and that he loved me. I was so excited to get word from him but couldn't figure out why he would be telling me he was alive, he was on an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean I thought he was pretty 'safe'. Turns out only a couple of days before this one of his shipmates had gone overboard and drowned. Some how I didn't hear anything about this and all of my wonderful friends and family had but somehow kept it from me, thank god! When I told everyone that I had gotten an email from Greg everyone was so happy and relieved and then they told me what happened!! It wasn't too long after that when Greg got moved to Bahrain and we could talk every once in a while again.

While I am so grateful to have that part of our life over with it is something that I will never forget!

In 2008 we went to NYC and of course went to Ground Zero, it is something you can't even begin to imagine until you see it!! Everything was still 2 enormous holes, there are cranes in these holes where the WTC once stode that just looked like tiny little toys someone threw in there. When we were there you could feel the lost souls all around you. At one point I started crying thinking of the tragedy and all the families who lost people they loved and it felt like someone grabbed and held my hand for a minute but there was no one actually there! I will never understand how people could commit these acts against innocent people and then say it is in the name of their god, I refuse to believe there is any god who would want people to kill others.

On a lighter note, we got to go downtown yesterday and see the only live Spartan game I'll get to see this year. With Little Mister on the way and to right in the middle of the season we decided after many many years to give up our MSU season football tickets. :( But when the opportunity come up to see them play in Detroit a mere 20 minutes away we said ok! It was cool but not the same as being at Spartan Stadium!

By request

We all know my love for music and especially BON JOVI!! Today I made a playlist for the hospital while I'm in labor!! Some of the titles are pretty funny when you think about them in relation to labor and delivery! Just for fun here's the list:

1. Something for the pain - Bon Jovi
2. Damned - Bon Jovi
3. It's my life - Bon Jovi
4. You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
5. Lay Your Hands on Me - Bon Jovi
6. Everyday - Bon Jovi
7. Born to be my Baby - Bon Jovi
8. Keep the Faith - Bon Jovi
9. Raise Your Hands - Bon Jovi
10. WAnted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
11. Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
12. We Got it Going on - Bon Jovi
13. Summertime - Bon Jovi
14. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - Bon Jovi
15. Complicated - Bon Jovi
16. Last Cigarette - Bon Jovi
17. Novocaine - Bon Jovi
18. Last Man Standing - Bon Jovi
19. Welcome to Wherever you are - Bon Jovi
20. One Wild Night - Bon Jovi
21. Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
22. Always - Bon Jovi
23. Superman Tonight - Bon Jovi
24. We weren't Born to Follow - Bon Jovi
25. Bounce - Bon Jovi
26. Hook Me Up - Bon Jovi
27. All About loving you - Bon Jovi
28. Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
29. Thunderstruck - AC/DC
30. Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith
31. Deuces are Wild - Aerosmith
32. Eat the Rich - Aerosmith
33. I could not Ask for More - Edwin McCain
34. Anything Good About Me - Edwin McCain
35. I'll Be - Edwin McCain
36. Promise of You - Edwin McCain
37. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses
38. Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns N' Roses
39. Human Nature - Madonna
40. Candy Shop - Madonna
41. Give it 2 Me - Madonna
42. Rescue Me - Madonna
43. Haven't Met you Yet - Michael Buble
44. Save the last dance for me - Michael Buble
45. Push it - Salt-N-Pepa
46. Walk this Way - Run DMC
47. Whatta Man - Salt-N-Pepa
48. Man I feel like a Woman - Shania Twain
49. Baby Got Back - Sir Mix a lot
50. Don't Wanna Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
51. The Distance - Bon Jovi
52. You had me From Hello - Bon Jovi
53. Work for the Working man -Bon Jovi
54. Live Before you Die - Bon Jovi
55. Ain't No Other Man - Christina Aguilera
56. Close to you - The Carpenters

Football Season is here

Aiden is ready for Football season, even if he's not here yet!!