This and That

Hi, all! I'm so sorry for the radio silence. I shouldn't make excuses, but I have been really, really busy for the last couple of weeks! ALL good things. :) But for the few weeks, I have spent my weekends being SHOWERED with love by family and friends! I am going to do a dedicated post on the showers sometime next week. Spoiler alert: I'm overwhelmed--in the best of ways--at the outpouring of love and support Brad and I have received. It has been incredible and I feel enormously grateful.

Speaking of gratitude, I need to write more thank-you notes! I literally have just not had time! :-/ If I owe you a thank-you, be patient: I am no less thankful, I am just a smidge busy. (sorrryyyy!!!!)

I'll briefly give you an update on what's happening in Baby Land, though I'll know more tomorrow after my doctor's appointment. I'm going every two weeks now, which is exciting! I have a sneaking suspicion the little babe has rotated in the last couple of days and may not be head down anymore... He gets the hiccups every now and then, and the last time he had them the little thump-thump was on my left side above my belly button, and the time before that the rhythm was coming from my right side. Who knows if that really means anything, but it used to be clear from the hiccups where his head was, now not so much.

The nursery. is. FINISHED!!!! At the risk of sounding like a tease, I'm going to wait to post pics until I get my nice camera (should be a few more days). For Mother's Day this year, I felt like I was given VIP access to this club--the mom club--by mistake. People would wish me a happy Mother's Day and I kept thinking, "Me? But I'm not a mom!" But believe me, I was more than happy to partake of the privileges. I got cards and gifts (including a groovy Mother's Day mix put together by my mom, audiophile Nancy Thorne) and even got treated to brunch by my baby daddy. Brad surprised me by buying me the digital SLR camera that I had been no so subtly hinting about for weeks, but we're still waiting on its delivery.

I haven't had any Braxton Hicks since those two or three contractions I had several weeks ago. Really, I'm feeling very good. The only bummer symptoms are that occasionally, very rarely, I'll get a little pinched nerve in my lower back, but it goes away pretty quickly. Other than that, I'm having a grand time watching my belly undulate as the little dude throws elbows and kicks. It has been so much fun.

I promise to share more soon! Oh, and newsflash: Less than FOUR WEEKS until the baby is considered full term (not preemie), and less than SEVEN WEEKS until his due date!!!

Until next time, here's a photo (well, a photo I took of a photo) of Brad as a baby lounging by the pool at his grandparents' house. It says, "I wonder what the peasants are doing today?" Hahaha. :)