35 Weeks and Counting

We just got home from the most relaxing weekend I think I have ever had! We took a short weekend trip to Princeton, NJ just to get away and spend time together before baby mania begins. It was a nice post Christmas hiatus. Only 5 more weeks to go, unless little one comes early. I am happy to be home tonight and waiting! Now that the holidays have passed, I feel like we can actually get things together and get ready.

Thank goodness I come from a family of photographers! While we were down south for Thanksgiving my sister was able to do a quick session of pregnancy photos with me. Suffice it to say, she works wonders with a camera because I hardly felt pretty being very swollen and tired from traveling.
My suspicions about the size of this little one were entirely true, as last week my Doctor confirmed the baby feels quite big and we should be preparing ourselves for the possibility of an early arrival! I am still waiting for Christmas to be over, then we will get it together and get ready for this little one to come!

Books, baby clothes, and the need to buy diapers

yesterday the floor guy at work said, "man I give you two more weeks before that baby come!" Now, I feel that highly unlikely, and I am starting to feel like I will probably just keep being pregnant forever, well past Feb. 2nd. There is still something perfect and sweet about being pregnant and feeling the baby move in the morning when I am getting up, or kicking around while we eat dinner. I still try to remind myself not to get too tired of being pregnant because this state in life only happens so many times, and only lasts so long before it is over and done with. That being said, it is fairly normal that women go into labor around 35, 36, and 38 weeks, and it has dawned on me that we have yet to buy diapers! I feel that we have enough little shirts and things to get us by for the immediate bringing home of baby, but the need for huggies is sort of obvious. I keep thinking that I will do it all after Christmas, the shopping for mundane kind of essentials like that, so it would behoove this child to stay put until after the holidays, or face a life of bare bottomness. Either way, I feel the count is on! only 7 or so more weeks to go!

Call it nesting, I suppose that is what this is. I get extreme satisfaction out of washing and folding baby things. Thanks to my mom and dad, we have all the little onesies and socks necessary to get us started as well as some blankets and sleepers. Thanks to the bremner clan we have an awesome crib and bedding for little one to sleep in. They are all washed, folded, and have no place to go. I can't figure out where we will put them away. I am sure I will think of something. So we now have one little outfit for a boy and one for a girl to take the baby home in. I am so excited to see what the baby is and what he or she will look like! It is hard to believe that some little human will fit into clothes that small! And that we will take said little person home with us to care for!