Week 36

Hooray! The home stretch. The baby is due in just 28 days. Isn't he so adorable?

We haven't gotten any farther in packing our own bags--but I have packed the diaper bag for the trip to the hospital. It has two little blankets and one outfit and two diapers (that we got for free as samples) and some wipes (also free samples) in an adorable Paul Frank wipe case and that is about it. I don't really know what else he'll need at the hospital--they are supposed to have everything there for him.

The baby shower on Saturday was so much fun! I had a blast, and I was amazed at who came. It was nice to have so many of Michael's friends' family there--I didn't expect them to come, or even want to come. But it was great and there was so much good food there. I loved every minute of it. And we got so many homemade blankets--and they are so much nicer than anything you can buy in a store. Bigger, too. I am so excited to get to use everything. I really can't wait. If only this baby would cooperate!

We move in like a week and a half and I have so much packing left to do, I can't imagine getting it all done in time. Good thing I'll still have a day or two after the actual move to finish packing and cleaning and everything. It's mostly just the big stuff that we have to move on the 24th, and I am so glad that we'll have help, because I won't be able to do anything at all.

I don't know how I'm going to make it for the last week and a half of work. My legs are so incredibly swollen and I am gaining so much water weight every day. I hope it's all just water weight! But, considering how much more swollen every part of my body is, it has to be just water weight. I really hope! That will also make it easier to lose later, which is just what I need.

I think he's dropped a little bit this week--I noticed today that he isn't kicking me in the ribs as much as he used to (like yesterday and the day before), which is really nice. I still don't have room for my internal organs, and my "heart burn" (if that's what it is) is still totally in my throat. Please just let him be born with hair! That's all I want right after his being healthy and not too big.

But don't you just love how sweet he is? What a good baby.


(Did you notice how small my paper chains are getting? Yipee! Just eight more days of work! That is the most exciting part ever!)

Week 35

Well, another week down. It would be nice if I could go to the dr. just once in these last few weeks and not have some other new complication arise. It's starting to wear on me. I can't wait to just be done with all of this.

But good things are happening, too. I ordered a ton of stuff for the baby and it all came (except for two little things) but now we are all ready for him to come--except for the baby wash and lotion and diaper cream and other bathing and toiletry stuff, but we have diapers and wipes and clothes and blankets and toys and towels and washcloths and lots of love just waiting.

And I only have 13 more workdays until I go on vacation and then I go on maternity leave for 12 whole weeks--that makes 14 weeks of absolutely NO Overstock--no Lacy, no Deborah, no SKUs, no templates. And I can go and visit my friends and we can hang out at Totem's and it'll be fun--like we used to have at work before everything went wrong.

The baby is so squirmy lately--much more active than he used to be. I hear he's supposed to be just as active now that he can't roll around, but he just doesn't stop moving. It's cute, because I can tell his sleep schedule so well (and it isn't between midnight and 5 AM at all). Well, soon he'll be crying at that time and not just kicking me, so that will be ... different. It's funny how ready I am for this to just be over. But we haven't even started our birthing classes (they start tomorrow--and I'm so excited!) and we have so many dr appointments. Thursday, we meet with Dr Lash, but then we can hopefully go back to just seeing Margy. Having to go to a regular OB makes me a little nervous. But Michael will be there for Dr Lash's appointment, and that is good.

We've started packing our hospital bags (I haven't gotten that far yet, and Michael only has the extra batteries in his so far). But it's a start. We still have so much packing and moving to do.

But this week is my baby shower! I can't wait. Everything finally seems like it's happening so fast. In just five weeks, we should have our little baby home with us, if everything goes according to plan--maybe even sooner, which would be so awesome.

But now I'm really starting to worry--what am I going to do with a baby? What if he hates me? What if I don't feed him right? What if he hates the way I change his diaper? Crazy, right? But it doesn't seem that way to me right now. These are all very valid concerns.

However, I am so huge right now, and I just can't wait for this baby to be outside of me instead of squishing me from the inside. That is worth it just by itself.

Week 34

Week 33

Our apartment flooded on Saturday because some punk kid thought it would be funny to break into Cathy's apartment right after she moved out and turn on her water full blast. Very funny. Water was coming through the light in the hall and there was almost half an inch of water in the bathroom. Books, clothes, everything soaked. Things I had spent months packing, soaked. I have never been so sad and upset. What a hard day. But Cory was awesome about it--came right over and vacuumed up the water and took one of my dresses to be dry cleaned. Now we just have to inventory the other things that were ruined--just a few books, I believe.

But, after that, I needed a treat. A lot of really big treats. And I am still needing them.

It is really hard to be so pregnant and have to clean and wash and re-pack everything. But there are only seven weeks left--can you believe that? I'm getting so excited and so nervous all the time.



Just 49 days! Hooray!

And 45 days until my baby brother's wedding. I hope I can make it. He's only getting married once--I would hate to miss it.

Week 32

I can't believe it's getting so close!

But I am so sick and I feel awful and working full-time is getting really hard.
But it's only seven more weeks (well, 6 1/2 before I go on maternity leave). And the baby is due in just eight weeks! That is less than two months...it's overwhelming.

And so exciting! Hooray for having a baby!

Week 31

So, with the realization that I have cankles and how much they hurt, I have decided that I am pretty done being pregnant. I can't eat what I want, I can't knit, I can't be comfortable in my own body.

And then I realize that the baby is due in NINE WEEKS. He is already so big there isn't enough room for him in my body and I think he's going to break one of my ribs any day now. I don't know how I'm going to make it nine more weeks, but I also can't fathom having a baby in only nine weeks! So exciting, and I really love feeling him roll around and kick around and jab and everything. He's just so cute.

And I'm so huge and uncomfortable, but it's only nine more weeks, and I can do anything for nine weeks...

The Countdown Begins!

Hooray!

So, to celebrate the end of two big things that I can't wait to be over, I made my favorite things ever:

I love paper chains! I can't get enough of them. I love making them and I love taking them apart.

The two things I'm celebrating? The end of work and the day the baby is due!!!!! I really can't wait.







Only 37 more days of work and 63 more days until the baby is due! What an exciting time for all of us.