Bed Rest- Stephanie Style

This past week has been a blast for the Kumor family. Naturally, I have toned things down due to this whole "bed rest" business, but we have found ways to have alot of fun with limited walking for mom. Last weekend the Airforce base put on "Sesame Street Live" for military families. It was alot of fun and best of all, FREE! Caleb really enjoyed it and he even got a hug from Cookie Monster. I only had to walk to the entrance and then got to sit and enjoy the show.

Yesterday was a nice little barbeque at Ben's sister's house- where Ben and his brother (Brent) waited on me hand and foot. Not bad at all. We also went to the park where Ben and Caleb sported matching outfits...I'll let you figure out who orchestrated that. (hint: it wasn't me)

Then today, Ben had the whole day free so we were able to go to the zoo as a family. Don't worry, we rented a wheelchair and bless Ben's heart he pushed me up, down, and around those hills all day! I heard him huffing and puffing, but there was no way he was even going to let me take three steps. Caleb had a blast running around all day. He would yell, "come on daddy, run with the wheelchair".....and of course he did. We found out that those things are definitely not built for speed as it would start wobbling until I was worried it would fall apart. That as well as almost being dumped out of the wheelchair three or four times was enough to almost put me in labor again....but we all had a blast.

We then went to see Caleb and my first IMAX movie...and it was even in 3D! Caleb did a great job and sat through the whole hour show. I was pretty proud of him...and he looked so darn cute with those big glasses. All in all, these past few weeks have gone by pretty fast.

As far as the whole pregnancy thing goes- last Thursday I went in to the hospital again because I was having around 10 contractions an hour...and no, I hadn't done anything but lay around on the couch that day. Anyway, they did a test called a fetal fibronectin. If interested you can read about it here. But basically, it was negative, so that put us at ease that the baby would not be born in the next week or two. (Ben might argue that it put me a little too much at ease...but hey..I'm a mover and a shaker....aka ADD. My body is quick to show me when I am doing too much though.) So yeah, almost 32 weeks now, and I should have at least another one in me according to this test. Woohoo. It is amazing how I can feel so uncomfortable/great at the same time. It has just been so cool feeling the baby move and actually feeling the little appendages sticking out. I am also sporting a new stretch mark. Praise the Lord! :) I can't count how many times I have said "I am so blessed" this weekend. I guess one more wont hurt. I AM SO BLESSED!!