New Links

I've added some internet links on the left to some sites that I've shared throughout the last year and some others that I've found interesting. If you don't remember what your baby prediction was, then check out the ExpectNet! link and you can look it up. I really hope that Jason has psychic powers even though I'm enjoying pregnancy. However, I think that either Lois or Claudia will win. Most of the people predicting an overdue baby guessed boy and I really, really hope they're wrong. I don't want to deal with the returns and I don't think my little boy should have to wear pink the whole first year just for my convenience.

I'm friends with the Mommy & Me Necklace business owner. You should check out her stuff if you're looking for a unique gift for showers or if you're planning to nurse.

I know some of you enjoyed listening to the Rockabye Baby! music. It's much cheaper to buy the songs from iTunes and put them on your iPod. Whenever I work on projects in the nursery, I always have one of those CDs playing. I have three or four.

The Baby Name Wizard is fun to play with because it shows the trends for names. Feel free to play around, but don't share your guesses with me anymore. We all know her name is Sally Minnie. Plus, I go psychotic at times so do you really want to test me? I'm bigger than you!

Pregnancy Week by Week just goes through what's going on each week. I suppose that would have been more helpful earlier on, but I know that at least a couple of my readers are preggers.

Contraction Master helps people time contractions without having to write it down with pen and paper. You just have to be able to press the spacebar. If Milo's guess is correct, then it might be my family's entertainment for when they come to visit December 29th and 30th.

Griddlers are the puzzles I talked about the other day. Sudoku and kakuro puzzles get a little old so it's fun to play something new.

Rocking Chair

The rocking chair is complete! I picked it up this afternoon. It's incredibly comfortable now and it's so much prettier. Jon did a great job with refinishing and the upholsterer did a great job also. Here are the before and after pictures.

Before:

It felt like I was sitting on straw and had stains.

After:

You can see the nursing stool in the second picture. My handy dad made it for me. The wood in both the chair and stool are really pretty in person (and match better than they look in the picture).

The nursery is ready so baby is welcome to come now.

Cervix of Steel

Apparently baby girl is showing no signs of wanting to come out anytime soon. I had my first internal exam today and baby was high and my cervix was completely closed. The doctor did a quick ultrasound to make sure that she's head down (she is), but she didn't look at the goods. Shucks! My blood pressure was a little high, but not high enough to worry the doctor. We don't need to talk about my weight. I had the Group B Strep swab test and will find out the results at next week's appointment. I hope I'm negative or I'll have to get antibiotics during delivery. According to fundal height, I'm measuring slightly ahead (37 weeks). That goes to show that all of those people that think I look too small are wrong because I'm slightly bigger than average right now. It's just that my extremely long torso is good at hiding baby.

Here are this week's belly pictures. I've included a bonus picture that shows how I don't fit into my shirt. It's an extra large, but it looks like a doll shirt.

A Funny

I was forwarded this email and I found it very amusing as a former teacher.

New York City Report Cards
These are actual comments made on students' report cards by teachers in the New York City public school system. All teachers were reprimanded but, boy, are these funny!

1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.
2. I would not allow this student to breed.
3. Your child has delusions of adequacy.
4. Your son is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
5. Your son sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
6. The student has a "full six-pack" but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together.
7. This child has been working with glue too much.
8. When your daughter's IQ reaches 50, she should sell.
9. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.
10. If this student were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.
11. It's impossible to believe the sperm that created this child beat out 1,000,000 others.
12. The wheel is turning but the hamster is definitely dead.

T Minus One Month

I can't believe how close we are to the end/beginning! We're getting more excited every day. Last night we watched The Happiest Baby on the Block and we enjoyed looking at all the cute babies and learning techniques to get them to stop crying. I have a feeling that Jon is going to be really good at it since he's the person with more patience of the two of us.

I'm working on getting as much of the baby book done as I can before baby girl gets here. There are lots of spots for pictures so I got some pictures developed yesterday to use. I had a bit of an emotional/psychotic episode at Walmart yesterday, but I'm better now and I didn't go to jail. It's fun to fill out the story of us as individuals, how we met, our wedding day, how we found out we were expecting a baby, etc. I'm going to work on the book some more today since it's going to take a while to place all of the pictures. I'm feeling a little stress to get everything done and ready for baby. My next project will be to make some meals to freeze to put in our chest freezer for after baby gets here. I don't really love cooking so it's better to make stuff now than later or we'll be living on frozen pizzas, hot pockets, and takeout.

Fun Pictures

We took a few pregnancy pictures yesterday. Jon was very enthused.


On Saturday my mom made Euclid a new cover for his dog bed. We're hoping that we can get him to sleep on it so we have more room in our bed. Last night he laid on it for a while, but he ended up in bed with us eventually. However, he laid on the dog bed for the whole car trip home and didn't seem to want to get up when we got home because he was so comfortable.Thanks mom for doing such a great job! I really appreciate it. Here he is posing on the bed.

We had a great visit with family even though it was short. I'm scared to see how much I weigh after all the yummy food!

Cool Toy

If anyone wants to splurge on baby girl, then I found the coolest toy. Here's the link to a musical hot air balloon mobile. I bet she won't be here until after Christmas, but you never know.

Jon is on call today and it seems all of the pysch patients are having tooth pain. They're probably more lonely than anything. I hope he doesn't have to go in to the hospital in the middle of the night since we're leaving for FD at about 6:30am. Why anyone would go into the ER on a Friday night for something that could wait until the morning is beyond me.

We had fun putting up the Christmas decorations today. Every year Jon wears a Santa hat and I wear the tree skirt while we decorate and it was a challenge this year. I can't believe I could ever get that thing to tie around my waist. I couldn't even get the ends of the ties to touch, let alone make a knot. Maybe next year...