Still Pregnant

Although I am not due for 3 more days, I am surprised to still be pregnant. Baby has been low for weeks now, and I have felt my pelvic muscles and bones spreading...causing a lot of soreness! I have been doing a few of the old wives' tales to try to help labor get started: walking everyday, drinking my "3rd Trimester Tea" with red raspberry leaf, and eating spicy food. I am ready to get this thing they call labor over with and to meet my daughter!

I have definitely been nesting, this weekend we have been to Lowes 2 times, Target and Babies R Us. Mike has had to: install new blinds in our bedroom, put up a fabric chandelier light (featuring cupcakes of course) in the nursery, finish the shampooing of the carpets his brother Kevin did for us, by doing a plain water run of the shampoo'er. I have vacuumed, laundered cloth diapers again (the more you pre-wash the more absorbent they are), prepared the envelopes for our birth announcements (address labels, return address labels and 44 cent stamps), put together a storage ottoman from Ikea we will use to keep Mike's work stuff that he brings home to work from home (which luckily he can do as needed after the baby arrives), and put up baby gates on our bedroom and the nursery windows (large 5ftx5ft windows that certain cats think are fun to climb the screens, leading to certain cats almost falling from our 2nd story condo while their claws are stuck in screens, and making a nervous kitty mommy who wouldn't let husband open windows past 2 inches! Now we can have the windows wide open and cats can't get their claws in the screens, phew). Mike has been a good sport putting up with me and my need to get things done "right now". 

My friend Christy has designed the skeleton of our birth announcements for us, all we need now is the birth information, photo...and baby!

If there is no sign of baby by Monday, I plan to go get a maternity massage, manicure and pedicure using gift certificates I received from friends for my birthday.