8 days...

This is too much.
We did a photo shoot with our friend Brian last week. It was a blast and I am so happy with the way they turned out. I can't help it, I make a pretty good looking pregnant gal. None of that sweat pant, bun on top of my head. It just couldn't be, I have to match my outsides with my insides and honestly with 8 days to go I feel completely rockin'.

9-9-09

It's all set. Now all she has to do is not pull the plug on the pregnant party and stay put.
I go in at 8 a.m. in exactly 30 days and I will be the mother of two by 10:30 a.m.
It's weird to know when it will all go down, well if it does in fact all go down on the 9th.
I'm fine if it doesn't but I don't want her to come early. I like my babies big and fat and 40 weeks.

NST's anyone?

It's a "non stress test" and I am getting my fill of them.
I have to go twice a week, I am guessing because of the medication I was on- the lasiks (no not the eye surgery lasiks) but the diuretic. Well I'm not taking it anymore and they are still making me go. Boo.
I went back last week and got another steroid shot in my wrist. Wow. That's painful. But if anyone is reading this who has carpal tunnel pain due to pregnancy- go get the injection. It will change your life.
I was at a CPR class tonight (with Q as my partner- rad) and there were two women wearing those wrist splints, I felt their pain and promptly told them to go get a "fix". It's a quick fix, not a pain free one though- those injections are no joke. The needle is long and skinny and goes in your wrist, towards your palm and pokes you in a nerve- fills up with cortizone and then you are done. Except then there's the achy feeling for about 24 hours... then you're done but for only three months. It wears off and if you are still pregnant after the shot wears off, you go back for more- so that's what I did. But here I am, typing again. Carpal tunnel pain is no joke, it is life altering.

This is rough.

I'm not much of a complainer. I mean, I am- well to those that I'm close to but I feel like I am drowning here.
It is so hot, Eddie is gone for 2 more weeks, I have a baby looming and I'm trying to keep up with my 8 year old.
Man, I am struggling a little bit.

Crab, cocktail sauce and chocolate milk.

Ya, I said it-
that's what's for dinner.

Relaxing is over

Time to get to work.
We spent the better part of our evening getting her room ready. Eddie sanded the crib and I said good bye to some lovely shoes. We felt it necessary for some of them to go- you know, so Elvis will have a place to call her own.
It's crazy the enormous amount of shoes I have, I mean really. Getting ready for this baby, I don't know if it's the hormones or what but I'm even looking at them thinking "what the hell was I thinking?". I have WAY too many shoes... alright, there's no such thing as too many but seriously I have a problem. A problem that seems to be checking itself during this pregnancy. I am being ruthless, just chucking stuff left and right. If I don't use it or need it- it's out. We have a big house but there's no room for extra stuff now that we are moving in the fourth human, along with our two dogs, two cats and walking sticks. It's just common sense I think to get rid of some things. Will I regret getting rid of anything after the birth? Probably not. I'm not big on regret. I try to teach Q to get rid of things he doesn't need or use- I try to teach him that we don't "love" things, they're just things... he's getting there. But it's true, things are just things... if I had to grab anything from my house besides my people and animals- I can't imagine what I would take... my hard drive? Or maybe my wedding video, yeah, I'd grab that. It's only three minutes long but it's hilarious.

Well...

I'm tired.
I'm really tired.
Last two nights I've felt a little bit fluish, contractions are starting to bother me too.
I am hoping I just need to take it easy and I will get back some energy soon. This last month has really been amazing, so I think I will take a day and just relax.