Iced in- 36.5 weeks

We are in the midst of a winter storm here in Texas and are going on day 2 of being iced in. Crazy!!! Supposedly this is the coldest it's been here in 15 years? With temps in the single digits. Absolutely nuts.

Everything in north texas seems to have come to a complete halt. Everything's closed, everything's cancelled. It's not SNOW, we had much more snow last february, it's ice. The city seems to just be covered in thick ice that isn't melting cause the temps are staying in the teens. At least that's what these media people are saying. We wouldn't know first hand since we're pretty much staying in. Except for venturing into our back yard...

Aiden going out to see the "snow" again our back yard is more like an ice skating rink. This is hard ice that he's walking on.

Just cause the backyard is iced over, doesn't mean you can skimp on your yard maintenance...

We made a little sled and pushed aiden around on the ice.

Wee that's fun!!

And we tried to make snow balls (since making a snow man was out of the question) but even that didn't really work

Happy boy

And of course the picture we LOVE to take in our backyard!

We haven't really spent that long outside, it is COLD!!! Definitely the coldest I think I've ever experienced in Texas.

Now for my update, I'm really bummed that this winter storm came now. I was supposed to have my baby Dr. appt and sonogram yesterday and it of course got cancelled. My OB called and said the offices were staying closed but that we'd try to get me rescheduled for later in the week. Now again today, the offices are closed. If it doesn't melt by tomorrow I'm thinking the offices will be closed again?? So it's not looking good for me getting seen this week which bums me out. I was looking forward to seeing how big Hallie is and whether I've started to progress towards delivery... So I'm not a fan that now I don't know when I'll get seen? Plus it's weighing in the back of my head that this FRIDAY marks 37 weeks. I had aiden at 37 weeks to the day. I'm fairly positive that it won't be the same with hallie, nothing about my pregnancy has been, but I can't stop thinking about that.

Everyone (that has seen me during both pregnancies) keeps saying I'm smaller this time. I beg to differ. In fact I've started to look and feel so HUGE that I had ben take my profile picture at 36 weeks. I was thinking I had the same week picture with aiden but I didn't, I only have 35 but go ahead and take a gander...35 weeks with aiden, 36 weeks with hallie. I'm every bit as huge. Maybe even more huge???

I do however have a 37 week picture with aiden (turning out to be the day he came) so I will take my 37 week pic on friday so we can compare side by side but yep cue the carnival music, the fat lady is here!!!