We're home!!

We are home! We got relased from the hospital today and are spending our first night as a family at home tonight!! (Friday 10/30). I'll have a little more time tomorrow and blog about the birth story and add a few more pictures in. For now, Mommy, Daddy and Brax are heading to bed to catch some Zzzzz's ... at least for a few hours :)

PS - this is the coming home outfit I was talking about earlier! I got the idea at a conference where everyone has to wear those funny stickers with their names on them and I thought it would be hilarious as a coming home outfit, so I made one! Thank goodness I ironed it on a 0-3 month size onesie and not a newborn onesie!

Love to all!

Day 2 with Braxton!

More Pictures of Braxton!

Braxton has arrived!

Braxton Hunter Kluse
9 lbs 21 inches
Born on 10/28 at 1:48am

Mom, Dad, and Baby are all doing great!!!

You ask, and you shall receive ...

Wednesday night we went with Meg and Eric to what we joked was 'the last supper!' We ate at Carmines (awesome!!!) and I loaded up on my last carb-fueled meal!! Then when we were back at their house Meg took some funny pics of me and I had to share them.

If you don't want to see a pregnant belly stop reading now! A lot of you who have seen my bare belly have told me to blog it cause it looks so ridiculous (like an egg!!) but I have been hesitant, well, this pic she got was too perfect, so I figured ... what the heck. I'll let everyone see my giant egg protruding from my stomach.

And that last one is Blake playing his game with him! He does duck calls into my tummy and it makes him move! It is the cutest thing in the world!! Enjoy ... and don't make too much fun of me :)

Blue Toenails for my Boy!

Thanks to my friend Angie, who as part of my baby shower gift got me a nail polish named "BLUE FOR MY BABY" ... I now have my toenails polished, bedazzled with rhinestones, and ready for the stirrups! That was the LAST thing on my list....so PLEASE come now Baby Kluse!

PS - Dr. appt tomorrow (10/21) at 1:30pm, will let you know the latest after that!

Sneak Peek!

Tera Pettit (our engagement and wedding photographer) did some maternity pictures of us last week and here is a sneek peak she sent us! Should have the rest soon and I'll post more then! Can't wait --- I LOVE this shot!! Tera, you're amazing! :)

38 weeks!

My hubby the photographer :) like the tilt in the camera?!?!?! :) I'm a little over 38 weeks now! Contractions are starting to get a little more regular, but they're still about 20-30 minutes apart and pretty much feels like bad cramping. We go to the Dr again on Wednesday, so we should know more then!

This was our "relaxing" weekend and I was soooooooooo bored. Blake and I do not do good just laying around. I think we are so used to being on the go 24/7 that when we have 10 minutes of down time we don't know what to do with ourselves! We just go stir crazy!! We even went on a drive last night just get out of the house again and do something .... good thing we're having a kid, then we can APPRECIATE when we have down time!!!

Nesting almost complete --- CHECK!

Ok, here is proof that my house WAS indeed clean before the birth of my son :) I have been nesting like crazy --- cleaning cupboards, the pantry, every closet in the house, having Blake shampoo carpets ... we're down to only our bedroom and our bathroom (tomorrow's project) then everything is done and I can say I am officially ready for him to come! ....now the garage is another story.

Now, I'm ready for bed!!! Cleaning the floors on your hands and knees at 38 weeks pregnant is a tougher job than I thought!! As my friend told me, "show these pics to the housekeeper you will hire so she knows what it should loook like!!!" :)

Is this what it's gonna look like?!?!?

This is Blake's idea of a "posed" picture! Thanks to Andrea for snapping it and photoshopping the text in! You can see the petrified look on my face as Blake's saying, "trust me, trust me turn and spread your knees!" ... at 9 months pregnant I don't quite have the mobility I once did and seriously thought I was going in the freezing water!

Heidi & Sean's Wedding!

Today was our friends'--Heidi and Sean--wedding! It was a beautiful fall day and Heidi looked absolutely gorgeous! I loved her dress! And being that it WAS a wedding, I had to include a picture of the most HANDSOME HUSBAND IN THE WORLD! Love you baby!

Abbey Mae turns THREE!!!

Little Miss Abbey Mae turns 3 this month! Wendi and Abbey flew home for a visit and to have her birthday party here! Uncle Blake and I wish we could have stayed longer, but we had a wedding to get to :( .... But miss Abbey did give Auntie Brittney a chance to play with her new camera and BOY DOES SHE LOVE IT! This little princess is gorgeous and was having a great day! We love you Abbs!

THE BEST DAY EVER!!!!

Well today was just the best day ever! We had our 36 week Dr appt and did the Strep B test (will find out results later this week) AND .... did the first physical exam to find out if I was making "progress" ... and I am! I am already 75% effaced and 2 cm dilated!!!! The Dr doesn’t think I will make it to my due date and gave us a guess of about 2-2.5 weeks from now! He told us to pack bags tonight (just in case)….so we did! It was so fun packing for our son! We kept putting his little socks on our fingers because we can’t get over how tiny they are! YAY! We are so excited! I still feel great and am going to keep going-going-going because it sounds like that's what's helping me progress faster!

Also, my new camera came today! I am so stoked! This is the one I was going back and forth and back and forth on and finally decided to get!

The other pics are a couple Blake took tonight (one I thought was super cute that he took of me napping in our son’s new chair!). I kind of like to just go in his room and put on a nursery CD (thanks Staci!!!) and just nod off thinking about what it will be like when he’s here.

The last pic is my 36 week shot. I think I forgot to do a 34 week (sorry!). We have Abbey’s bday party and Heidi and Sean’s wedding this weekend, so I’ll have other pics up soon! BTW - we are shooting for 10/22 for his bday (that is the anniversary of the day Blake proposed!!)

Coming home outfit --- CHECK!

For those of you that know me well, you'd know that there is no way I could bring my son home from the hosptial in something "cutesy" .... must be funny. With any luck he'll be born with some hair so I can do a little "boy-hawk" from the beginning ... I already have hair gel packed!

First of all he's a boy, so the same rules that apply to girls clothes are excluded from boys'. In honor of that (and with the help of Aunite Shan!) I have made him the perfect coming home outfit that is the right amount of ridiculousness mixed with an outfit design that could only have come from my zany take on what's appropriate "coming home" duds!

31 days until you can see it :)