40 Weeks - The Waiting Game

40 weeks and one day today. Having some inconsistent contractions, but I think they're just practice ones. Some lower back pain too which I'm taking as a good sign - hopefully this baby decides to come soon!

Our acupuncturist gave us some techniques to try at home, so we're doing those today, along with a nice walk at the lake. More than anything I want the baby to come naturally so I'm praying it gets to go that way! Hopefully more info soon!

38 Weeks - Relaxation, Assembly :)

38 weeks as of yesterday! We really can't wait until the baby decides to come, we're so ready to meet him/her! I'm even looking forward to labor :)

Feeling really good. Swollen feet and legs and sleeping isn't perfect, but really everything's pretty cool. I feel lucky. We've been eating really well, too, which I think helps. We've been cooking at home and making double/triple batches of yummy food for when baby arrives! So far in the guest house freeze we have two trays of healthy enchiladas, bran muffins, some chocolate-chip yogurt cookies, hippie gruel (sausage, lentil and barley soup, really yums) and two turkey meatloaves - wewt! Tomorrow I think I'm going to try and make some gyoza - never tried dumplings before, so we'll see.

This week we got a lot of baby stuff done. We ended up getting our crib and coordinating changing table and putting them together, here's Neddie working his Ikea magic:

Now I'm just waiting on a few supplies from Amazon and we'll be all set up for middle-of-the-night feedings and such :) We went ahead and set the Gulliver crib from Ikea up in the bedroom, too. Got a very nice mattress for it. Originally we were thinking we were going to use our Mickey pack n play for the baby's sleeping spot, but the bassinet attachment didn't seems as sturdy as we wanted it to be. Definitely good for a quick nap, but we wanted baby to be sleeping someplace more permanent. After checking out the Mickey pack n play, however, we do really like it for a playpen - it's super easy (like 20-second easy) to break down and move around, so we'll be able to use it all over the house, take it to grandma/grandpas, biz trips to LA, etc.

So the baby checklist is getting shorter and shorter, it's a good feeling :) Now we just need our little bundle o joy and we'll be cool!

37 Weeks - Down to the Wire

Just three weeks or so to go! Hard to believe we started this back at Disneyland (where we took the pregnancy test) with a fetus the size of a lentil. Now I have a big ass baby inside my belly! And when they come out, they'll have a mind of their own, a soul and make our family even stronger. Awesome.

This past week we made some good progress. Neddie finished painting the nursery (butter yellow, too cute!) and we've started getting some of our gear together. First up was the swing that my Aunt Benita got us:

So cute! As you can see, Lucky is interested in it. I think mainly because of the dangling stuffies :) So far the boys have been good with the baby stuff. Interested and sniffing a bit but basically leaving it alone. We unpacked our Mickey carseat, too - super adorable, I love it. We'll install it this week I think and then have the PD or FD check out to make sure it's installed properly.

My iPhone isn't taking great pics of the nursery (and there's not really much to show off yet), but here's a pic of a cute needlepoint I picked up a few months back at an estate sale and our cute squirrel hook for the diaper bag - you can kinda see how cute the color is:

I'm not too stressed about the nursery being "finished" since baby will be upstairs with us for a while, so I'm just picking up things here and there that I like. Yesterday I had a mini spree on etsy and got the following:

Ridiculously adorable vintage planter - love it! I'm planning on some small shelves on either side of the window and this will look too cute there :) And then...

Super rad vintage radio! Wheee! We plan on putting the baby down for naps and such before s/he moves down there permanently, so I wanted a music source. We really like KSDS Jazz 88 here in San Diego and have it on nearly all the time in the kitchen - I figure baby needs to learn to love it, too. Plus during baseball season they can learn how awesome baseball sounds thru an old radio. :)

Gotta get Ned to take one last belly pic. I'm kind of ginormo. Hopefully this week.

In other news, we went out for a last big date night at Donovan's in La Jolla. Shirley Temple, Caesar salad, big ol NY strip and a loaded baked potato. BOMB! It was great to go out somewhere kinda fancy and "adult," as we assume it will be a while until we can do that again :)

Also finished some additional planting - got poblanos, jalapenos, lavender, dark opal basil, chives, strawberries and even a baby watermelon in the raised beds. We'll see how they do! Just gotta get the drip irrigation installed soon so I don;t have to pay too much attention to them once baby arrives :)