There has been so much whining about money here lately, hasn’t there? Well, I’m going to do some more of that. Feel free to skip it if you’re sick of it!

So, this being my last pregnancy, I wanted to commemorate it in a couple of different ways. First being a maternity portrait session some time around Christmas…a month before the baby is due when I’m nice and round but not huge and swollen. We did this about 6 weeks before my last child arrived (though it was supposed to be 8 weeks before!) and I have some lovely family photos that I really adore. None of me alone, though. I don’t want anything super wild. No bare belly shots or anything like that…just some nice *professional* (sorry, not Sears or JCPenney!) portraits of me and my husband, me and the kids, and me. To commemorate the last days of my last pregnancy. But financially it is out of the question now and probably will be even if some money comes in before that. We just have too much to buy between now and the baby’s arrival and this is really the bottom of the list when it comes to things we need to spend money on.

The second was to have a 3D/4D ultrasound at Prenatal Peek in Durham sometime in November. We did this last time and it was so amazing! The technology wasn’t widely available with my 1st and though we do have ultrasound videos of him (which I watched last night and cried over!) they are grainy and you can’t see much. These 3D/4D ones are amazing…we could see all kinds of details and when I watched ours last night I cried my eyes out. I relived the entire amazing experience and I’m so sad that I can’t do it again. And just because I can, here’s a short video clip and a photo from that ultrasound.