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