Week 34

Not much going on this week. Nick and I are done shopping for baby stuff as of now. We got our crib mattress and craddle mattress. I spent sometime this weekend doing baby laundry. I think I smelled every piece of clothing once it came out of the dryer. Folding all the little things made Nick and I really excited for the baby to be here. I am starting to work on baby shower thank you notes. My goal is to do 10 a night. So far I have been able to reach that goal but it has only been one night.

I am feeling worse everyday. It isn't that bad but I am starting to get uncomfortable. I woke up this morning and I was exhausted and my whole body hurt. I can only imagine that it isn't going to get better. I am slowing down and feel like I am dragging my feet. I am still getting things accomplished at work. Luckily we are slow right now so I am not busting butt too much. I hope to hang on until early August. The baby feels bigger everyday. Nick has been reading a lot of books to him or her. I think my belly button is going to pop out anyday.

Week 33

Approximately seven more weeks to go!!! We are feeling the crunch. We had two wonderful baby showers in Midland last weekend. One was held by my side of the family, middle picture, and the other by Nick's side, top picture. We got lots of wonderful gifts and appreciate and thank all the people who made the showers possible. The nursery is coming together slowly. We have all the clothing items seperated into lights and darks for washing. We have managed to put together a couple of the baby items. It still has a long way to go and my goal is to put an hour in a night. It is amazing how much energy is required and how little of it I have. I ended up taking Tuesday off so we could make a trip to Babies R Us. We spent 3 hours picking up items that we still needed. I wanted to come home and unpack everything and get everything organized but was completely exhausted by the time we left the store. It is exciting to have everything for the baby in the house. It is a constant reminder of what is to come shortly. For some strange reason that is more of an eye opener than my growing belly, as seen above.

Not much is happening on the baby front. We have another doctor's appointment tomorrow. We will be taking the hospital tour soon. I am excited about that because I have been hearing a lot of cool things about the hospital in our many classes that we have taken.

Week 31 and 32

Nick and I are officially graduates of Lamaze. We got done on Thursday with our four classes. I learned some stuff but a lot of the material covered I have already read about. Lamaze did a good job of making me think about how this baby is actually going to get out. Not looking forward to that. I think Nick learned a lot. He hasn't been reading like I have. We both *really enjoyed* the birthing videos. It was pretty weird to practice the "pushing" positions and the instructor was trying to get us to make pushing noises but I wouldn't. I'll save those up for when I really need them. Monday is our baby care class. I am really looking forward to that. We get to interact with real babies. It will be kind of a refresher course for me and a learn everything in 3 hours course for Nick. Hopefully it isn't too overwhelming for him.

We also had another doctors appointment. We got to ask the midwife questions that we wrote down in Lamaze. She also listened to the babies heartbeat and measured my uterus. I am right on track. She also told us where the baby is situated which is where I thought it is. The butt is in the right side of my ribs which can be pretty uncomfortable at times. The feet are towards the upper middle part of my belly, this is where I feel the most kicking action. Nick gets to feel the feet moving across my stomach. The baby is head down which is good. Hopefully it doesn't flip back around to the breech position. It has been in this position for probably about a month so I am thinking the likelyhood of it doing a major move from head down to head up is unlikely.

We are going to start calling pediatricians soon. We have about 8 weeks or less until the baby will be here and it is starting to feel like crunch time. We are excited about the two showers we have next weekend. Looking forward to getting everything ready in the house. Washing baby clothes and linens, setting up furniture, babyproofing, and organizing all the little things like where the diapers go and all the baby care items. The baby will be here before we know it.