40 Weeks!!!

So, here we are at 40 weeks. I included two pictures, one from today and one from last night, since I'm not sure the shadow in the first one from tonight doesn't make me look even bigger LOL.

I've had a cool opportunity come my way. A couple of students at Columbia University are doing a journalism project on homebirth, and I get to be involved! She came by the house today and interviewed me on camera...it was fun. And, she's going to come film the birth for us, too! She'll use some footage for her documentary (we get final say on edits) and we get a copy of the footage. I'm pretty excited to have someone else do the filming!!

Tomorrow my mom comes so we will be completely ready for baby to show up....hear that, baby?

Two more days and I am going out of my mind!!! Well, I hope only two more days LOL. We all know due dates don't mean a whole lot to babies! I'm just so done. I mean, I love feeling the baby inside me and beautiful belly but gosh I am so sick of feeling miserable. I don't want to be mean anymore. Please baby please please please hurry up!!!!

Hey, did you see that? My ticker says 5 days left to my estimated due date!!! CRAZY!! I've been really hopeful that this one will show sooner rather than later, but so far no luck. Mickade was born the morning after his due date, and Lilli 4 days after. I don't really want to continue the getting later each time trend, so if you could send some going into labor vibes this way, it would be greatly appreciated...

We did have a great snow storm yesterday, we had over 6 inches by the time we went to out to play at like 9am. The kids had a blast, and so did the dog. There's something so fun about snow! I'll miss it when we go to KW, but not enough to stay LOL.

Stone Soup tackles Nursing in Public...I love it!!!

38 Weeks on Heart Day

Mickade snapped this for me this evening...so pardon the fact that my head is chopped off LOL!!!

I'm 38 weeks today, I can't believe it! It's the 14th and I'm 14 days from my due date. Stephen should be home tomorrow night (YAY!). I'd like to take some nice photos this weekend, and with that done, I'll feel ok if the baby comes. :-)

The kids are both sick. :-( So that's the downer for today. Mickade was sick all day yesterday, still has a mild fever today, and Lillian has it now. Poor little thing, she won't take medicine because she hates the taste, so she's just miserable. I tried to coax her, and she agreed to take some since I said it would make her not feel yucky anymore...but she just couldn't do it LOL. Spit it right back out. That's ok, it's probably better for her body to work it out without interference, I just usually like to make them more comfortable when it hits 103F, know what I mean? And I guess I can assume we'll be getting little sleep tonight. Oh well.

Pregnant Woman Sledding!

Yes, we FINALLY got some snow!!! Granted it's gone today because it's raining, but we took full advantage of the couple inches we got yesterday afternoon. Mickade finally got to try out his snowboard after 2 months of waiting (and did quite well) and all the kids got to sled and throw snowballs. It was a lot of fun. And Lilli of course made me sled with her. :-)

Belly Cast

Tonight we all made the belly cast for this pregnancy. This time, I ordered a real kit from http://www.pregnancybellycastkit.com/index.html and it was soooo much better than the paper mache we used for Lilli's! It was easier, dried faster, and just looks so much nicer. The kids had fun helping, too.


I should have had Stephen take a regular belly photo tonight too, but I forgot. And now that I'm in my pajamas with no makeup on...I think it's too late. I really don't want what I look like right now posted on the internet LOL!!! But I do have a pic from last Sunday before the Superbowl.

OH MY GOODNESS!!! I just looked at my pregnancy countdown ticker and it says I have only 18 days til my due date!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!

Doesn't this photo just make it look like we are all so peaceful and serene around here? Ha!!! Stephen has been gone the past two weeks, my sister left Tuesday, and I haven't gone to sleep before 1am since she left (insomnia is oh so much fun). I'm sore and exhausted. Yes, Steve gets home today, thank goodness. But he leaves again Monday. The worst is that since there isn't really any ice right now he wasn't supposed to have to go....but the CG had other ideas. He's going. So I get to spend 4-6 days all alone with both kids while 38 weeks pregnant. Doesn't that just sound thrilling? I'm just so tired. Oh did I mention I have a cold too? And I feel bad for Mickade and Lillian because I am just NOT the mommy I normally am. I'm tired, sore, unmotivated, grouchy...they deserve better. I really can't wait to have the baby so we can be on the road back to normalcy (a new normalcy, of course, but something normal nonetheless).

On a better note, the baby is doing perfectly. I feel like I have the most perfect belly ever and I can feel all the parts of the baby as it moves around. I love being able to actually grab a little leg! Yesterday in the mirror I could see a foot poking out...it's so cool. Probably the only thing that makes pregnancy worth it, really (aside from the prize at the end, naturally).