S'mores, peacock feathers, and great friends.

This past Saturday, my awesome friends gave me a baby shower at Tillman's Roadhouse in Dallas. It was perfect.  If you've never been to Tillman's, I suggest you try it.  Food is great, ambiance is great, service is great.  The S'mores (that you "roast" at your table) are probably my favorite thing about this place.  It is very country chic, which is very much my style.  I couldn't have asked for a better venue. 

Everything about the day was perfect.  I, once again, was reminded how blessed this Rudd family is.  Parker received some amazing gifts and I got to see a lot of good girlfriends (and a couple of family members, too).  My friends Lesley, Maureen, Renee, and Jana hosted the shower, and I can't express my thanks.  Such great friends.

My boss was super sweet and took pictures of the occasion:

 

Thanks to everyone who came.  It was such a great day.  I have been constantly reminded throughout this pregnancy how many wonderful people we have in our lives. 

My little flipper

That's right.  This little boy has officially flipped and is no longer in the breech position, which means no scheduled C-section.  I'm almost positive I felt him flip.  I was laying on the couch a few nights back and gasped very loudly and told Bryan I felt like the baby almost walked out of my stomach.  I have definitely not felt a feeling like that before or since.

Today we tried again at the 3D sono, and he was a little more cooperative today.  This time he kept his arm in front of his face a lot, but we were able to get some pretty cute pics.  Like this one:

I mean, how cute is my baby?  Pretty darn cute.  And is that a little smirk on his face?  I think so.

Sticking his tongue out.

In. Love.

Congrats, Girls.....and Coach....and Parents!!!

I had the opportunity to get out to the soccer fields last Saturday for a very important game.  Bryan's older girls ('98s) clinched the first place spot in Division II in Lake Highlands Classic League, which means they will move to Division I next season.  Now, if you don't live in soccer world and that makes no sense to you (some of it still makes no sense to me, but I try), they are playing in one of the top leagues in the DFW area, and Division I is the top of that league.  

It is so amazing to watch these girls grow from little girls to young ladies.  I don't get out to a lot of the games, so every time I see them, I am taken aback by how beautiful and talented they are (and how tall they've gotten).  It is such a commitment to play this level of soccer at such a young age and such a commitment from their parents as well.  Bryan played at this level, too, and I know his mom bent over backwards so that he was able to do it.  I admire this from parents and hope I will be as committed to whatever my son takes an interest in.

I probably looked like a creeper out at the game taking pictures of the girls, but I wanted to be able to remember these days (and to share on my blog).

Bryan was extremely proud of the girls, and I was extremely proud of him.  I think he is a fantastic coach.  I actually got a little emotional and teary-eyed at one point in the game when he had to carry a girl off the field after she had hurt her knee.  He laughed at me when I told him.  Hey, I'M PREGNANT (even though I've done that pre-pregnancy.....but don't tell him).  

Oh, Dear....

Soooo......apparently, this is what Parker is supposed to look like (picture of Mommy and Daddy morphed together).  Pretty sure we will make a prettier baby than this.

Parker, if you read this one day and this is what you look like, Mommy is sorry for her last comment.

Uncooperative little boy

My child has been uncooperative a couple of times now when he's put on the spot.  Today we attempted the 3D/4D sonogram.  We were really excited to see his pretty little face, but his arm and leg kept blocking it, and he was not moving either one.  We go back in two weeks, and the sonographer is going to try again and see if we can get some better pics.  This is what we got today:

Hand in front of his face.

Being bashful.

Look at those cute, skinny legs.

It's kind of hard to tell, but if you look to the right of his leg, you can see his face.  This is how close the two are to each other, which is making it difficult to get better pictures of his face.

His little mouth is open in this one.

He's holding his foot.

 

Here you can see him open his sweet little mouth  :)

He is still breech, and his leg was all the way up at his head.  The doctor said we need to go ahead and start thinking of a date around the end of May when we want to schedule the C-section.  He said 90 percent of breech babies have flipped at this point in pregnancy, but only 1 percent are breech at the time of birth.  So there is still a good chance he could flip, but we definitely have to think about the possibility of a C-section.  

The sonographer seems to think, from what we were able to see, that he looks like his daddy.  :)

Nice little weekend

Remember my last blog post when I said I was really excited about something we were doing yesterday???  WELL....this was it:

We took maternity pictures yesterday, and this was a sneak peek that the photographer sent me last night.  It was so much fun, and our photographer was awesome.  She is a teacher, photographer, and mommy to two little boys.  She told me how much fun having boys is, which makes me even more excited (not that I wasn't already).  She was the sweetest thing ever and kept telling us how cute we were.  I mean, I'm positive that is part of the job, but when you keep telling a girl who is carrying a watermelon around in her belly how cute she is, you definitely earn brownie points in my book.  I cannot wait to see the rest of them and will definitely share once I get them. 

Today I went to Bryan's flag football game and tried to get some practice in with my new camera I got for Christmas.  I have been trying to work with it and learn some things before the baby gets here so I can practice on him every day.  I really wish I could take a class, but who has time for that these days.  I'm about to have a baby for crying out loud.  Anyway, here are a few I got:

Highlights of the game: (1) being able to tan my bright white legs (2) girl talk on the sidelines......OH, and Bryan's team won.  Jason Garrett did NOT show up.

P.S. We are doing something exciting again tomorrow, but it is not taking maternity pictures.  :)