Tick, tock. Tick, tock. I think I’m finally done being lazy…and my need to NEST has set in. Organizing kitchen cupboards, cleaning hall closets, purging junk. It’s all I can think about. And no matter how bad my back hurts or how tired I am (let’s face it, I feel like an exhausted piece of crap these days), I can’t be stopped. I even stayed up until midnight on Wednesday…folding, sorting, and arranging freshly washed baby boy clothes into his new dressers. Baby boy was a kicking, moving, jabbing monster that day. I think there were about 6 hours straight of constant movement, painful at times. And I don’t know if any of you have had this happen, but when I woke up in the morning and got dressed, my belly was TOTALLY different! I had gotten used to my high shelf of a stomach, compressing my lungs…forcing me to easily lose my breath during the most leisurely of strolls. As I looked down at my tummy Thursday morning, I could not believe how LOW my belly was. I literally dropped overnight. This never happened with Marley, so it was new to me! When I got to work, the ladies commented on how low my belly looked……….so weird!!
I had my doctor appointment yesterday, in which I explained to Dr. J that I thought baby had dropped. She confirmed that he is head down in my pelvis…….a very good thing in my attempt to VBAC. Marley was so tightly breech that the doctors laughed at her “spring-board” legs when she was born. Every time they tried to measure her length and stretch out her little legs, they would spring back up like a frog. Losing my train of thought here, but Dr. J measured me and I’m measuring 2 weeks bigger than I actually am…this really doesn’t mean a whole lot, but she did laugh when I said, “He’s HUGE!” She confirmed that yes, he is a big boy already and that there is very little room for him in my big ol’ belly. Tell me something I don’t already know, doc! As I walked out of her office, telling her that I really hope these last 6 weeks fly by, but that of course I do not want to deliver too early, she said, “38 weeks…let’s get to 38 weeks.” By that time, I’m probably going to give birth to a toddler! Joking…only joking.
Time to get cracking on finishing that to-do list and cleaning up my house. But there are busy weekends ahead…we’ll pick away at the nursery a bit more this weekend, but I’m also hoping to get Marley to some type of fall festival. We may hit up the MN Zoo and get our pumpkins. Marley’s swim lessons are going great and we’ll be back in the pool tomorrow for another one! Can’t believe how much 35 minutes in the water (being held no less) can tire out a kiddo!
My favorites from our photo shoot with the amazingly talented Auntie Heidi:
Happy weekend!!
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