My Pregnancy "Bucket List"

So today I officially finished my "bucket list" of everything that I really wanted to have done before the baby came. I'm so excited about this too. Most of it was pretty simple to do it just took me actually doing it.
It really wasn't a long list:

• Find all of our baby stuff and have it cleaned and ready. This was only annoying since everything was packed away in our garage so we had to clean out the garage which took a few days and Jed being home to help. But we found everything. It's been fun going through Elijah's old outfits and remembering how little he was and what an adorable baby that kid was. I also forgot just how much clothes he had.

• Get the house cleaned and scrubbed. I've been in my "nesting stage" so cleaning the house was easy since I've been freakishly obsessive about cleaning but it's just keeping it clean that is the hard part. I can spend the entire day cleaning and deep cleaning everything and the kids can ruin it within an hour.  So really, I guess, it's more about teaching them to clean up after themselves which they're pretty good at but still needs a little help with.

• Packing hospital bags for everyone. This was easy to do I just haven't ever put one together before I went into labor so I'm trying to be a little better prepared this time since I have to actually take the kids to my friends' house instead of leaving them with family who had access to our house before. 

• Prepare freezer meals for after the baby comes. I decided to do this only because after I had Chloe I wasn't able to walk for two weeks since I pulled a ligament giving birth and they said it could happen again, so again, I'm trying to be prepared for the "just in case" possibilities. Besides it never hurts to have easy dinners to just pop into the oven. 

• Get Chloe potty trained before the baby came. I might be the most excited about reaching this goal than any of the other ones. I've been working on this, off and on, for the year. She's so stubborn about what she wants to do sometimes that if she didn't want to do it, she wouldn't, and there's no forcing a toddler to pee or poo in a toilet. She had successes but not consistently and she would just refuse to use the toilet when she didn't want to and go all over the floor. I pretty much gave up on this one after trying my last attempt in June with her and decided to wait til she turns 3 in January. This time she actually decided to do it all on her own. Last Saturday she just went "stinky in the potty" and from then on she's been potty trained with only a couple of accidents in the first couple of days. (I do have to say I think what made the difference for her was Chloe spending time with her cousin, Ella, who is only a month older than her and is potty trained already). But she has been dry for the past few days and even told us she had to go when we were out shopping. I'm just so proud of her!! (and happy I won't have to change two kids' diapers)

• Go hiking. I've been begging Jed to go either camping or hiking this entire summer. He's always told me no just because he didn't want me to go into labor or have something bad happen since I was in my 3rd trimester. I finally convinced him to go and used it for what I really wanted for our anniversary. He found a flat and straight hike that wound around a mountain that was close by ( just in case I went into labor since I have only 2 weeks til I'm due). Jed took today off and we left the kids with our neighbor so we could enjoy the hike together. We got there and there were other trails to go on, including going up the mountain to a waterfall. We went up the mountain :) It was such a pretty hike (and steep) but I totally made it without any trouble... or contractions. And the best part was my reward for making it to the top was a nice and refreshing waterfall that we sat under to eat our lunch. (my reward making it back down was getting to run to the bathroom after hiking for 3 hours with no restroom stops lol) 

I'm actually really (REALLY) hoping that the baby will come tomorrow now that I got everything done. haha I know it's a long shot but hey, I can wish for it.