It has been 9 days since my due date and we are making no progress whatsoever! I have been into the doctors office 3 times in the last 9 days and each time have only been 1cm dilated and hardly any effacement. Either baby is just not ready to come out yet or is extremely comfortable in there! I am currently scheduled to go into the hospital Tues night for cervical ripening and then the induction will start Wednesday morning. Dr Messenger should be plenty surprised to see us! We said our goodbyes before she left for her trip the week of my due date, thinking they baby would have been born long ago! For now, we've just been trying to enjoy as much alone time with Tyler as possible before our new addition comes.
Last weekend, we took a trip to Honey Creek Acres Apple Orchard. It's in Swisher, IA about 15 miles south of Cedar Rapids. What a great little place! They have 30 aces of apple trees of every variety you can imagine. You can pick as many apples as you want and they great part about it, is that they encourage you to taste test as much as you want. Tyler was eating apples right off the tree and loving every minute of it!
We ended up picking 8lbs of apples and found our favorites were Jonathan, Cortland, Sharon and Honeycrisp. I made a huge batch of applesauce and an apple crisp and we've been snacking on the rest! They also had a little pumpkin patch setup so Tyler picked out his first pumpkin of the season.
This past weekend was another great experience! Grandpa Randy and Grandma Lou came down Saturday morning and we met in the Amana Colonies for Oktoberfest. We saw a GREAT parade with a ton of firetrucks, tractors and horses. Tyler was in heaven! Grandpa and Rob went to the Iowa/Penn St game (Homecoming) and got to see a pretty good game with the Hawks winning 17-3. As Tyler would say, GOOOOOO HAWKEYES!!!
