39 Weeks: Anytime Now!

Happy Hump Day!

I'm still getting used to maternity leave...as hubby and I were talking over dinner tonight, this is my first time I haven't worked since before high school.  I've been working for 15 years straight now; vacations don't count...because maternity leave being about four months, that's a long break!

Baby H is heavy at 39 weeks.  He's putting a lot of weight on my lower back and I have this weird pain on the left side of my back only...I must lean that way to keep him up!  And it's hard to get out of bed in the middle of the night now.  Also the last couple days I'm getting hotter and sweatier, which is apparently normal because my hormones are going haywire.  I sleep with the fan on and no blankets!  I'm both anticipating this baby's arrival and frightened of labor-but I'm just trying to relax and go with the flow.

Having my folks in town has been really nice.  But let me recap my last few days...

Sunday morning hubby and I had our Christmas!

It was neat having our own Christmas so many days before the actual day.  We did well for each other-a lot of necessities (for example, I got hubby new undershirts and socks, hubby got me chapsticks and hair-ties, etc), but we also got fun things for each other, like Zombies!! the game for hubby and canvas prints of our wedding for me.

Afterwards we cleaned up fast and got ready for my folks to come over to watch football.  Unfortunately living in California we were unable to get the Seahawks game on TV, but we watched the A.D.D. Red Zone (where they show every football game that's in the "red zone") and were able to get snippits of the Seahawk game.  I met my folks outside our apartment complex before football and my pa wanted to take a photo of my belly...so here I am.

Facebook friends were generous about this photo...I still feel/look huge!

When half-time rolled around for the Seahawk game, hubby and I took my folks to our faaaavorite restaurant, Salsa and Beer.  We thought it wouldn't be so crowded for lunch, but we still had to wait about 20 minutes which wasn't too bad.  We stuffed ourselves silly and parted ways...and I immediately passed out for a nap when we got home.

Sunday night we broke out hubby's new Christmas present:

Zombies!!

After an intense, long round, hubby won.  What can I say-he's good at games.

Monday hubby didn't have to work so we did our grocery shopping and then took the pup to the smaller doggy park.  We also played Dominion, a really fun game Missy bought hubby.  That's a really neat game!

Tuesday hubby had to work, so after taking Miles for a walk around the block, my folks came over and we got Thai food for lunch.  Then after a quick run to Costco and Starbucks, we watched some TV and they took off before hubby came back from work.  Not much else that night except more Dominion and dinner.

Today we woke up early and drove out to my work to pick up a card/present from the College of Arts & Sciences faculty-every Christmas they collect money and divide it up for the admin. assistants which is really generous of them.  Then we drove over to my OB/GYN office and had my weekly check-up.  Quickest wait ever today!  But I got a little nervous when the OB couldn't find Baby H's heartbeat...took her a few tries and actually pushed him around a little, but she eventually found it.  Phew.  Then she said the obvious...Baby H will probably be around 7.5-8 lbs. and then joked "He's not going to be a six pound baby.  But you never know..."  Yes, I'm huge.  She also said I'm not really dilated and projects Baby H's arrival for next week (unlike my mom who swears he's coming out tomorrow!).

Afterwards we ran a few errands, got lunch nearby and then ran home to get Miles to take him to the dog park.  Took a short nap when we got home and have been playing games all night.

And this is why we take Miles to the dog park...so he can pass out all night!

Back to my thoughts on Baby H.  Pregnantchicken.com says at this point Baby H can come out at any moment so I should probably stop counting the days.  But another website says studies show that the longer baby stays in the belly, the better brain and motor skill development happens.  So even though he's making me rather uncomfortable lately, I'm happy he's taking his time.  I want this baby to be as smart as he can be!

Tomorrow it's going to be rainy, and I think my folks are going to come over to play board games with us and then we're going to take them to our favorite Filipino-fusion restaurant.  Near that restaurant is a street where houses really get into Christmas lights and decorations, so we're going to try and take them to that.  Yay Christmas time!