Picture Updates

(baby's music time)

Been a while since we posted any pics. Everything is trucking along. Baby is growing away and so is my belly (6 cms in the past month!). I found my first stretchmarks tonight - boohoo - I thought I might get lucky and not have any. Oh well...

I am feeling pretty good - my only recent complaint is the double charlie horse I woke up to last thursday am. Wow - it must have lasted a full minute. It is the closest thing I can think of to what labour must feel like - pretty much solidified the plan for an epidural... My calves are still in recovery!

Jon and I went to the Mothering Touch store yesterday to learn all about reusable diapers - my head still hurts... I think we will get some disposables and a diaper service for the first month anyway. Deciding on a 'system' seems like far too much work right now!

Baby's room is coming together...

Insomnia

Boy I am very deliquent in getting a posting on here. I am pretty swamped with work and volunteer work so finding time to do something else on the computer has been a challenge lately. It seems that a little insomnia has come my way so I thought I might as well catch up on some e-mail and add a posting while I'm up (or should I say we're up - Baby G is wide awake and experimenting with ways to deal with her bouts of hiccups).

Can't wait to get some new photos up - I will get Jon to upload some tommorow. Lots of me and my blossoming belly as well as baby's room progress.

I am feeling pretty good these days despite the fact that I am officially in the 3rd trimester - can you believe it?! A little heartburn and some aches and pains but really nothing too major. I can feel my energy dwindling a little but as always Jon is more than willing to cater to me which is so appreciated.

Not much to report on the belly button front - still hovering at slighting indented with an eruption threatening to make me an outie any time now.

Two of our friends have had baby boys in the past weeks - congrats Mark and Joy and Julia and Wendell! Later Gators...

Baby's Accomodations

No not the current accomodations (which of course you can see from the photos is ever expanding) but her future accomodations in our lovely little home.

We thought it was about time to start making some space in the house dedicated to our little one. Her room has been my dressing room - what luxury!- since we moved in. Slowly but surely we have moved my stuff out and Jon and I have come to an amicable (no really) arrangement about sharing the not so big space in our bedroom - I have a full dresser and the closet and he has a lovely new wardrobe (though I will note that I have let him keep all his size 13s in the closet :)

Baby currently has a dresser come change table and an almost cleared out room (when I say almost that is there is still a LARGE pile of "things Christine can no longer wear" in the corner that I will have to deal with sooner or later). We have ordered a rocking chair but can't yet seem to find a simple crib that we like for less than $1000!!! As such we are still looking...

Will keep you posted on the baby room progress!