We had our doctor appointment today and unfortunately the blood pressure is back on the rise, even with the medication. They said I had a little bit or protein in my urine which was alright for them. However, now I have to go back in in a week to get it taken and if it’s still high then I get more labs done. I’m guessing that it’s blood work. I’m hoping it’s not another 24 hour urine sample!

Getting so close to the end and I was hoping that the blood pressure would have stayed level! However, whatever happens happens and we’ll just roll with the punches.

A tiny bit over three weeks and we’ll be considered full term. That is super excited. Full term on April Fool’s Day!

On unrelated news, the weather is finally getting warmer. We were in the 50s today and almost into 60! In fact, tomorrow is set to be 60. Of course there is rain coming with it but it is so nice not being freezing cold! I don’t mind winter but you just can’t beat the sunshine!

Well, last Tuesday we had another ultrasound to check out how the cyst was doing as well as the baby. Mainly the cyst. The good news is, they couldn’t find the cyst! So, they assume that it’s gone. The baby is doing great though. He’s still stubborn and they could barely get a profile shot.

The finally got a vague one and he had his hand on his head with his knee up to his face. He’s head down too, yay! The doctor also said that he is still a boy, or a girl with testicles. Let’s hope he just has one gender though!

We have basically everything ready to go. I still need to pack a hospital bag for myself and the baby and Jamie is going to throw a change of clothes in my bag too. Only four more weeks until we’re full term so I guess I should really get on that!

One night when I should have been working I was looking through the Google Readers ‘explore’ section just to have a look at other feeds that I may be interested in. In these blog postings was a bunch of creative blog posts from a website that featured people’s blogs that had creative do-it yourself type things.

I ran across one which tickled my fancy. It was decorative letters for names, made from cardboard and scrapbooking paper! I thought, wow, I can actually do that! You can look at it on the website Craft Envy.

It took me a few days because I had to trace the letters off my computer screen (no printer in our room and didn’t want to bug mom), I ended up sadly cutting the letters out of the paper with a knife because I couldn’t find the scissors that were in the room, and had to bug mom later for a glue stick and an exacto knife. However, I got it done!

I must say, that they turned out pretty damn good. Too bad about the wood paneled walls, eh?

Total cost: $0. I already had the scrapbooking paper because I had bought it previously. Obviously the cardboard didn’t cost anything! Just some time from me. Better than spending $13 a letter that we were looking at in Kohl’s. Just looking, no way would we spend that much on letters!!

Well, our mattress for Duncan’s crib finally came yesterday and we were finally able to put the crib together. We didn’t figure we were getting it yesterday as the UPS man had already come and gone. However, it came through FedEx!

Jamie bolted downstairs (literally). I don’t think I’ve ever seen that man run downstairs so fast for anything before! So of course when he brought it upstairs I dropped everything and Jamie and I set it up!

I love this Winnie the Pooh set. It’s adorable! Ever since I saw it, I said when/if we had a kid we would get that set. It almost didn’t happen until my mom bought it for us! I’m soooo thankful. It’s adorable with the crib!

We put the toys we’ve gotten so far. The Winnie the Pooh is from Shaina, the orange Dr. Seuss is from my mom and the giraffe was a gift I got for Jamie for the baby since he saw it and fell in love with it.

Having the crib set up in all its glory is so surreal. It brings it to reality even more than the kicking baby in my stomach that this baby is coming and soon!

Yesterday the travel system for the baby arrived! We’re pretty excited because it means that the baby now officially has something to come home in.

Okay,  so he would’ve had something to come home in anyway. We were planning on using Jeremy’s old car seat if we were unable to get one of our own, just so he could come home and so on.

However, Jamie did some trickery (selling our items from the game Maplestory we were obsessed with long away and then selling the in game currency for real currency) to get a game for himself as well as the baby’s travel system.

We couldn’t help it and we opened it last night, not taking it out of the box though. Today though, we took the car seat out of the box. Gorgeous! The colors and padding was so much more than what we expected. It was only $125 so we figured we were settling because it’s not the one we originally wanted. We’re so pleased with it though!

You can kind of see it, the design is called Alphabet Soup with the alphabet and leaves. The colors are just gorgeous and so much better than the picture!

75 days to go until the due date..but who’s counting?