39 weeks!!!! & Baby Poll Update...

Your baby's waiting to greet the world! He continues to build a layer of fat to help control his body temperature after birth, but it's likely he already measures about 20 inches and weighs a bit over 7 pounds, a mini watermelon. (Boys tend to be slightly heavier than girls.) The outer layers of his skin are sloughing off as new skin forms underneath.

Baby Poll Update...
I'm sorry to Jenice, Allyson, Stephanie, cousin Jennifer, Ashley, Aunt Cora and Casey...but your "date prediction" has come and gone...with no baby ;)

July 1st
Aunt Heather-Boy
Taylor-Girl

July 2nd
Erica-Girl
Bridget-Girl
Katie-Girl

July 3rd *actual due date*
Jamila-Girl
Emma-Boy

July 4th
Daddy-Boy
Nan-Nan Seaton-Boy

July 5th
Laura-Boy

July 6th
Liz-Girl

July 7th
Mommy-Girl
G'pa Shumaker-Boy
Lindsey-Boy

July 8th
G'ma Shumaker-Boy

July 10th
Carly-Girl

*again, its still not to late...add your prediction to the comments on this post if you want your guess in the poll ;)

cloth,cloth and more CLOTH!!! :)

our diaper stash.... :)

a charge to all daddys....

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!

Baby Poll Stats....

June 19th- sorry guys...no baby ;)
Jenice-Girl
Allyson-Boy

June 26th
Stephanie-Boy
Cousin Jennifer-Girl

June 27th
Ashley-Boy
Aunt Cora-Boy

June 28th
Casey-Girl

July 1st
Aunt Heather-Boy
Taylor-Girl

July 2nd
Erica-Girl
Bridget-Girl

July 3rd *actual due date*
Jamila-Girl
Emma-Boy

July 4th
Daddy-Boy

July 5th
Laura-Boy

July 6th
Liz-Girl

July 7th
Mommy-Girl
G'pa Shumaker-Boy
Lindsey-Boy

July 8th
G'ma Shumaker-Boy

July 10th
Carly-Girl

~ITS NOT TO LATE....if you want in on this fun guessing action...just put your prediction in the "comments" on this post and i will add you to the list :)~

38 weeks!!...

Looks like we are well on our way to having a fully cooked baby!! YAY!!! I did a bit of a self portrait session ;) but....we are doing a real maternity photoshoot with this amazing photographer at the end of June....check out his blog under "my favorite bloggers" his name is Randy Coleman, he did such a great job on the Foster girls shoot, i just HAD to use him :) Well...today is the day Lee's and the Bibb's guessed baby Seaton would be arriving...the day is early...but sorry guys i don't think anything is happening today :)

being a lover of all things birth...

and photography, I just could not pass up the oppertunity to show this slidshow of a beautiful homebirth!

Kids these days....

it seems the younger they are, the more "up" on technology they are! And our little one is right there with them. Apparently my uterus has wireless Internet so baby Seaton started a Twitter!!!
One of my most treasured things on this earth, is a "play by play" diary that my dad kept during my moms labor with me...it is typed on a type writer and in my baby book....it covers everything from who was there, what the weather was like that day, to my moms progression and eventual c-secton, to how he felt the moment he saw me.
Because of that diary, it is pretty important to me that my labor is documented...somehow...we decided the easiest way to do that is to take advantage of modern technology and start a "Labor Twitter" that jake will be able to keep up with from his iphone that he is getting from me for fathers day :) I plan on being able to then print all the "twits" off somehow for our baby book...
So to follow baby seaton on Twitter just go to www.twitter.com/babyseaton I think they plan on tweeting some up until the big day as well :) Plus its a great way for all our family, friends and blog readers to keep updated when things start to happen!!! :)

garden update...

*baby S really wanted in the photo :)



well we planted the end of march and went through two freezes so we are just now starting to see the fruits of our labor (literally ;). Our strawberry's started showing up first...they are very small and we only get 2 or 3 at a time, we are starting to see small jalapenos peeping out....but our grape tomato's look the best! I think because of the freezes and the fact that we did not want to use any type of fertilizer,and because i have a purple thumb our garden is not exactly flourishing but it is at least producing! But summer has hardly began...the garden still has lots of time! :)

37 weeks = I am a walking time bomb of responsibility!!

I cant believe i am officially full term!! "full term" is considered anywhere between 37 weeks and 42 weeks...which basically means...any time in the next 5 weeks we WILL be meeting this little person!!!
Now its time for some fun, and a lot of participation from my readers....I have a lot of blog readers...i know i do...people tell me all the time that the keep up with the blog...but...unfortinally hardly anyone ever comments....well I'm challenging all you "non-commenting" readers to comment ;)


Its time to start a "comment poll"....i want to hear every ones guesses...leave a comment and tell me what your prediction is...

1. boy or girl?
2. birth date?
3. and if you want.... name?

cant wait to see who gets the closest!!!!!!

ps. if you do not have a blogger account, you can comment under "anonymous" just make sure to sign your name so we know who you are :)

VBS 2009....

Since Jake has been on staff at Crossings i have wanted so bad to volunteer for VBS, but had always been tied up with school or work....weeeelllll now that i am officially a home economist (stay at home mommy:) i was so excited to be involved!!! It was a sports camp and there was a lot i was unable to do, but i waddled up to the church every day and did what i could :) I stole this photo from a friends facebook page, but i just had to give everyone a visual....CRAZY HUH?? It was amazing, over 400 volunteers ministered to over 1200 kids!!!! God is so awesome!!!!

36 weeks = 9 months!!!!!!.....

Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement.
At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she's in a head-down position.

ummmm??....

does the baby countdown say 30 days to go until our due date?????!!!!!!!!!!!

just checking. :)