38 weeks

I can't even believe that I'm due 2 weeks from today! I could truly have the baby at any time now, and it wouldn't be considered out of the ordinary. He should be 6.5-7.5 pounds... about half the size of Chloe (our cat). lolllllll. I just looked at my last picture wearing this shirt, and I think I look quite a bit bigger. I feel pretty huge, and it's tricky getting up out of bed. I'm still really crampy all the time, but I just don't know if I've had any actual contractions. I have strange twinges every now and then, but I truly don't know. At my appointment last Thursday, I was still the same- 1 cm and 50% effaced. Hopefully I'll have had some progress at my appointment on Wednesday.

I feel like I've tied up all my loose ends at work, and am now ready to go at the drop of a hat. On Wednesday, I'll take my files to the two advisors that will be covering for me. My plan right now is to work through Christmas Eve... and then I won't come back after Christmas, even if the baby isn't here yet. I'll just consider it "holiday vacation" until the baby actually arrives. So, after today, I have just 7 days of work! Yeah! I'm so ready to not be here. It's finals this week, so I'm actually leaving at exactly the right time, as the semester winds down to a close.

I think I really "overdid" it this weekend. I've felt so good all through this pregnancy... I don't think I've ever really felt like I needed to slow down before. On Saturday, I was on my feet almost all day. I went to the gym, stood in line at the post office, went grocery shopping, made lunch, baked two different kinds of cookies, made lasagna for dinner (since we had some friends over), and did lots of organizing in the baby's room. By the time our friends left at about 9, I truly felt like I was going to die. My back and feet hurt unbelievably bad. That's when it hit me that I'd been standing basically all day, most of the time in socks on our tiled kitchen floor. I know now that I can't do that anymore, so I tried to take breaks yesterday to sit down and rest.

I think that almost everything's ready now for the baby's arrival. Clay put the crib together this weekend, and we got the dresser/changing table out of the box. I washed all the clothes and bedding, and organized everyting in the dresser. I went to Target and bought everything that we needed to have right away- crib mattress, diapers, wipes, changing pad (for the changing table), hamper, diaper pail, etc. The glider just needs to be picked up (since it arrived in town last week) and assembled. The room is still kind of a mess, so I'll wait and post a picture once it's cleaned up. It feels great to know that the important stuff is done, and that at least he'll have a place to sleep when he comes home!