WEEK 37!

We had our Doctors appointment this morning. No news! I've started going weekly now and getting examined each time. She did say the baby has started to drop into position but that is not too significant as it could still be weeks. But I'll take anything I can get!

I am considered full term this week. We still want the baby to go to 40 weeks, or even 42 to really get good and cooked. I am eerily calm these past few days. I have had a bought with nerves in the past weeks and I am sure it won't be the last. I may be more focused on how uncomfortable and yucky I feel than on getting nervous for the big day. Funny story: last night my mom and I went to JoAnn's Fabric and Craft store and she bumped into a friend. Mom said that we were getting some stuff for my baby's room and her friend replied that I didn't look pregnant. What a laugh that was!

This weekend Michael and Josh built the crib, and Josh finished the changing table (just reinforcing it with wood glue). Mom made me a valance and bed skirt yesterday and everything is going to look awesome! I've got everything in piles in the dining room ready to be put away...or at least ready for a home to be found as we have SO MANY goodies that are going to have to go somewhere!

Now...I can't wait for Thanksgiving! I will be pacing myself since my stomach if about the size of a lime, but Josh can be released to the table with wild abandon and I am sure he will! Josh has been working so so hard lately and then he comes home and I run him ragged there. Not really! We make a good team even though I can't do as much as I'd like. In work news, Merit was listed in Forbes Largest Private Companies as the 253rd largest private company in America, and they had 1.7 billion in revenue with a fraction of the number of employees that the surrounding companies on the list had. That mean they have really been working their tails off and with efficiency and smoothness!

Signing off for now with thoughts of turkey dancing in my head...
XOXOX Heather

WEEK 36!

We are ONE MONTH out from the baby's due date! Eye yi yi! Thanks to Alicia we now have a bassinette for the baby to sleep in for our bedroom for the first little bit of its life. Of course the top drawer in our dresser was always an option like grandma used to do, but the bassinette will work, too. I need to go buy my g-diapers soon which I keep forgetting to do - so the child will have diapers to cover its hiney. I've already gotten my hospital pjs washed and some personal items ready to go. So, slowly but surely we are getting more ready to go.

I've been feeling like a BIG ol' poop lately. There is pressure and various other sensations everywhere all the time. This makes it hard to walk far, or sleep well, or stand, or breathe and blink for that matter (just kidding!)...but still I've got high hopes! I've made it this far, right?! We had a sonogram at our appointment yesterday and that baby was just sucking away. You could see the lips and mouth in almost full detail! It was amazing and also inspiring to go just a little bit longer until Baby is full and ready to come out and greet the world.

Now for the anatomy and physiology readers out there...from this point on the "finishing period" of growth begins, during which the baby prepares for its birth. My basal metabolism has increased 25%, which is due to the demands of the baby on my body. It helps the efficiency of converting stored nutrients. The baby's fat deposits are continuing to be laid down each day and his or her limbs are beginning to dimple and crease at the elbows, knees, wrists and neck. The baby's skin is pink and smooth. My skin is pink and smooth and stretched to Timbuktu and back, across the blue seas to the windmills of Holland, down to the Australian outback, under the ocean to the Lost City of Atlantis and back to Dallas, Texas. That's a lot.

However, in breaking news at the Blachly house....I cleaned the kitchen and did laundry this weekend!! It kept my mind off of the jellyfish that were swimming around my belly button near Atlantis.

XOXOX

November Sprinkles Bring December Jingles

This is how we welcome Fall in Texas!

And The Winner Is....

...the silver 2001 Mazda Millenia!

We love it! I have hogged it up so far! It really drives like a dream which I chalk up to being accustomed to my trusty but OLD parade of Hondas. We got a big "showroom" detail on it Saturday afternoon and it really cleaned up beautifully. We got it from an outfit in Ft. Worth called European Motor Cars whose specialty is B-mers, Mercedes, Porche, etc. This was a trade and he saw the value in keeping it since it was in good shape. I guess the cards were in our favor since there had been three people in just days (one of them his neice) who couldn't get financing for it. It was waiting for specifically for US, I'm sure. It was really fun looking at all his vintage cars while we were there, too. Maybe someday we'll be able to own a cherry red '66 Stingray of our own!
My favorite feature: the steering wheel automatically moves up and out of my way when I turn the key off. Now I can get in and out of the car without breaking a rib. Very nice.

Hello Weekend

Ahhhhhhhhhh; a big ol sigh to welcome the weekend. It's a good thing it's Friday afternoon because I don't think I can sit here at work much longer. Sometimes my hiney starts to hurt and I can't get comfortable. But more interestingly, there is a lawyer here that likes to bear his teeth and growl at me. It's frightening in an insane assylum/liver with fava beans kind of way. It's really weird and frankly quite rude - and although I am really good at ignoring these guys most of the time, I just don't know how much longer I can take it. Maybe it's tourettes, who knows? I just think he is weird. So I reiterate...thank goodness it's Friday!

We are heading out Saturday morning to do more car shopping. We have these two cars that we want to look at. We're taking the gold one in to a mechanic to make sure it isn't a lemon cause it's our front runner right now. It a 2001 Mazda Millenia.
The blue one is a 2002 Mazda 626 and I love the color! Both are good looking on paper and very clean with low miles...so wish us luck! We're gonna go check out truck bed liners too. Right now we need to decide between Rhino vs. Linex spray in. We've already got some hauling to do and want to get it lined asap!

On Sunday Shannon (thank you thank you thank you) is coming over to paint a little cloud action in the baby's room. Here is my inspiration shot...
I know "we" (she) can do it wonderfully since "we" (she) can paint anything, anywhere! Then "we" (Josh) will be ready to get the furniture put together and arranged. Hang on Baby, we're almost there!!

The best weekend wishes to all and talk to you next week!
***Love to All***