Still Here...and Still Big!

Pictures: 1)30 weeks, 3 days
2) My New Trick!
3) 38 weeks

If you are anything like me, then you check the blog of the person you know who could go into labor any day. And, if you are anything like me, you take the absence of a post to mean something. Sadly, in my case, it just means that I am officially done with school and have been doing nothing but sleeping all week long. As you can see, I am still here, and I am still HUGE.

There's not much to report on the homefront--Joe and I are just sitting around and waiting. We went to the doctor Tuesday for our 37 week checkup, and I am dilated 1 cm and 60% effaced. Which is exactly what I was at the 36 week checkup. I think the lack of progress is mostly because I am done with work (clear until August! YAY!) and I have turned into a recluse. I stay home and I sleep-in everyday, and then I take a nap in the afternoons. I feel really lazy, but I tell myself that I haven't been sleeping for the last couple of weeks, and I won't be sleeping in the next couple of weeks, so I have to get sleep when I can. Plus, it's nice to see my ankles back to their regular size--I was starting to get worried! They were so big and swollen from the last two hectic weeks at school. I was never off my feet, and when I was off them, I couldn't put them up, so they ceased to be ankles and were tree trunks instead. The secretaries at school were telling me I needed to have them checked out! But no, it was just the lack of rest.

I have also done a lot of laundry. For the first time since July, there is NOTHING in my laundry baskets! Joe can't believe how much laundry I do, but to be quite honest, it's the only chore I can do while sitting down, so now it has become the chore of choice. Today was the first day I actually ventured out: I went to Wal-Mart, to the libaray, and soon, I am going to venture out again because I feel like a Jamba juice.

So things are pretty tame around here. The baby room is almost completely ready (Joe's going to install the ceiling fan this weekend), I have done all the baby's laundry, the baby bag is packed, and the car seat base is ready to go. The only thing we have left to do is clean the house (which I'm doing one day at a time--I cleaned the bathroom yesterday, and tomorrow I'm hitting the kitchen.), and pack my bags, which I am resisting. Call me susperstitious, but I feel like if I pack my bags now, then this baby is going to laugh and decide to stay put for an extra week. Joe's terrified that I'll go into labor and not be ready. I keep trying to tell him that, even if my water does break, I will have plenty of time to pack a bag because I'll be in labor for a while, this being my first baby and all. His only reply was, "Okay, but if that baby comes while you're in the bathroom or in the car, you're on your own." Which isn't true, but it's his way of telling me that he doesn't agree. Don't worry. I'll pack this weekend. I just hate to have things sitting there waiting--it will make time go that much slower! Not that I think I'm going to go in labor early. I can't. I think Jon Nelson would have a fit--I'm singing in a double trio at stake conference this week, and he is really worried that I will go into labor before then. But I keep assuring him I will be there, ready to sing. Although I have had a recurring nightmare that my water breaks on the stand at stake conference--Joe's even had that dream. What if it really happens? I would have to replace a couple pairs of shoes, I would imagine. Not to mention the mess it would create on the stand... but, it would be a great story to tell.

Anyway, that's really all there is to say right now. Just sitting around, sleeping, waiting, and grateful that it's April and the weather's still crappy (Joe's work is starting to pick up--we might have a decent pay check today!). Wish us luck, and I will try really hard to keep everyone updated.