COME ON BABY!

This waiting part has to be the worst part. You get tired of the "no baby yet?" questions, the "enjoy this and that while you can," and all the other stuff. I just want to meet him! I have plenty of things I can be doing like homework and little things around the house, but I am getting tired of that.

There are things you can do to induce labor, like walking, sex, exercise ball, eating spicy foods...plenty of myths, none of them are working. I even walked on the treadmill last night for a half an hour!

p.s. treadmills suck and make you feel dizzy when you get off of them, I much prefer the elliptical.

38 weeks...

At my appt. I asked them to check me and sure enough, I am not dilated AT ALL...when I really thought I would be :( I have been having cramping since saturday. This doesn't necessarily mean anything, you can go from 0-10 in a day, but no matter what anyone says, I think that's rare. It is more common for people to be like 2 cm dilated for several weeks (which I'm sure sucks too). Oh well. Maybe he will be a Sagittarius after all! I am getting more and more uncomfortable though, so send labor vibes my way!

Woe is me

So, I was supposed to get approx. $1200 from my 401k from my old job, filled out all the paper work, was excited...sort of relying on that money, and yesterday I asked what was going on and the plan administrator (boss's wife) said oh, you had 0% vested and weren't with the company for two years so you can't withdraw it. I was 2 months short of 2 years, and I asked since it was my bonus money from xmas, was there anything I could do? She basically wrote back no, good luck with the baby, aka shut up and stop writing me. It put me in a really, really bad mood. I think we'll be ok, but when you are looking forward to that much money that SHOULD be yours, it's a big disappointment.

Another money woe, I can't find like 100 something cash that I had from gifts and stuff. Mike thinks I lost it (and isn't mad) but I just don't know what happened to it and I'm really upset about it. Imagine trying your hardest to think of something and you just have no idea what you last did with it, no matter how hard you think or look for it. It's really frustrating. I hope it comes around...

So for these two reasons that surfaced yesterday, I have been in a terrible mood today.

Tomorrow I go to the doc and Mike is off. They will check me to see if I am dilated and all that scary stuff. So, we'll see.

Officially (at least) 37 weeks

I made two plaques next to his name for the baby room. I drew and painted the wooden blocks and drew an elephant on it. It doesn't look amazing or anything, but I like it and am proud. I had never done anything like that before. Can't wait to paint with him when he's old enough!

Anyway, here are some pics. The first is me at 37 weeks, the second is my fat/round face last weekend, and the third is the elephant.

Oh yeah! And I start my maternity leave tomorrow at 2!! wooohooo!

We are thankful

I know my old blog was all complaining, but there isn't a day where I don't remind myself and Michal that we are so blessed, loved, and lucky. We have so much support and people have helped us so much. We're thankful to everyone and whatever higher power :)

Michael's family did a bet where everyone picked a day baby would come, I picked my going into labor tonight because it's a full moon. I'm not counting on it...

Slowly, the room is coming together. I shortened my hours and have plenty of time to organize and rest now. Here are pictures of the room, it's simple and not yet complete but I love it.

Sooo hungry

I am always hungry. I wake up in the middle of the night hungry. I thought this was supposed to be the time when you are so full of baby that you can't eat a lot. My face is soooo fat I can't even stand it. I know it comes with the package and it'll be worth it in the end and hopefully I'll lose it and this and that, but i really HATE it in the meantime! I think if I had longer hair I wouldn't mind as much. Enough of my complaining...

The doc said the head is down, baby is big. I feel pressure, meaning I think he dropped.

I'm still not nervous or worried. The only thing I am worried about is that I will have no motivation to clean up and move around, making me a bad mom. Its just saturday mornings I literally sit around till 2 or later and can't make myself do shit. I just feel soooo weak and tired and I'm not even busy! I think its this whole iron thing....so hopefully I will be better after baby comes.

Almost there?

Michaels family made a bet on the date, via email and everyones putting down $5. The pot is at like $85. I said November 3rd, because the 2nd is the night of a full moon and they say that bring babies. That would put me at 2 weeks early. I sorta feel like I won't get that lucky, I guess my heart wasn't in the guess but everyone had picked a date already and maybe its wishful thinking. I really cannot wait to meet him though!

According to the sono, today I would 36 weeks, meaning he could be born today and fine! I told my work that November 6th will be my last day. I am starting less hours this week, only about 4 hours less a week.

In other news, I got a 4 door car (2004 Inifniti i35, 83k miles) fully loaded, its beautiful! It has so many ritzy things I'd never care about in a car, but it's beautiful, drives well, and was a GREAT deal. I am getting the car seat properly installed sometime this week. Can't wait!

I was stressing about this week because I have a million tests and homework things to do, but I am in a better mood. I have so much to be thankful for...great family and friends, materilaistic things that I don't care that much about but I might as well appreciate, it's fall, and best of all, my sweet sweet boy is coming to this world soon! I'm still not scared :)

Things to do still:
-wash all the clothes and blankets
-pack the hospital bag!
-wash the sheets
-better organize the room/decorate
-get breast pump

picture (36w[sono] OR 35w3d):