Let me tell you, third trimester pregnancy emotions are real. I’ve been pretty excited about having a baby and all the things that come with it this entire pregnancy. I have been one of the lucky ones to not have too bad of a pregnancy journey, aside from indegestion and back pain it’s been a breeze. But as my first baby shower came along I began to be filled with so many emotions, from being anxious to meet this little one to overwhelmed at all that we still need to do. Am I going to be a good mom? Am I going to be able to push through the pain to deliver this baby? Are we going to be able to afford all the big purchases we still need to make for this little one? Can I handle being a wife and a mom? Who will he look like? And the list goes on…my mind has been running constantly.

I had two back to back emotional days Sunday & Monday. I think it might have been because I was home alone all day and left staring into the face of all that I still needed to get done. When hubs came home Monday after work to pick up his phone he had forgotten before heading out to give plasma, I decided I needed to go with him. I knew that I needed to step away and remove myself from everything that reminded me of what I still needed to do and not think about it. So I jumped in the shower, barely put myself together and headed out with the hubs.

My sweet hubby knew that I needed this time. I had told him I was having an emotional day (ladies, be honest with them. When they know your emotions it helps keep away a lot of disagreements because he can understand where you’re at that day). So he said he wanted to take me out to dinner to this place he had been wanting to go. I was so excited to just be able to spend the evening with him and not have to focus on anything that I needed to do at home.

I had something I had been wanting to take him to do for a few weeks and since we were going to grab dinner, I decided I would take him to do that as well. I had been wanting to take the hubs to Build-A-Bear to build our little one a stuffed animal. I had stopped by a few weeks ago and also found out that we can take the recording box and record the babies heartbeat and get it put in the animal. Since we had an appointment Wednesday, I knew we needed to go then if I was still going to try that. So I called the doctors office and got permission to use a recording device during the ultrasound and when hubs finished giving plasma I picked him up and came up with an excuse to run to the mall.

And there we were, at Build-A-Bear and it was so much fun! Hubs is such a great sport he did everything they asked.

I told hubs the only rules were: 1) We had to pick an animal that matched his safari/jungle themed room & 2) He had to do everything the lady told him too….even the funny stuff. 🙂

So he had to help stuff the tiger…

The lady got me in on this one too…but it was fun! We each had to grab a heart and rub it on our heart, on our bellies, on our head, on our ears, rub it and make it warm, make a wish for baby Jase and put it in the tiger.

Hubs even had to give the tiger it’s first bath. He couldn’t stop laughing! The lady told him it was practice for the baby. 😉

Then hubs had to name the tiger. He named it after the Mizzou mascot…go figure.

Hubs found this chicago style pizza place…seriously so good. Great way to end the evening!

I’m really excited about the little stuffed animal having the babies heartbeat inside. We will be taking the recording box to our appointment today. So exciting!

I was so thankful for hubs this week. He is so not a spontaneous person and would probably have preferred to come home and rest after work and PLAN the date for sometime that week, but he knew I needed to be out of the house. So thankful for my husband, it truly made me wake up the next day feeling a lot better to have stepped away from it all.

Mom’s: How have you handled the overwhelming feeling and anxiety those final weeks of pregnancy?