38 Weeks

I never did get around to posting more Halloween pictures, did I? Oh well. That's life for you. I've just been too busy disposing of the 12 pounds of chocolatey goodness that the kids can't have. And by "disposing" I mean with my mouth. Well...Abby can have it,  but it turns out that she doesn't like it. She is also having some adverse reactions to too much cow milk. I think four years without it has created a possibly slight lactose issue. Moving on.

I'm officially 38 weeks...as of tomorrow. I figure I will be too busy to post this tomorrow so I'll just whip it out tonight. I'd schedule it to post tomorrow like I used to before blogger changed, but I can't figure it out now. So when I went to my 36 week appointment, the doc told me I was 1 cm dilated and 80% effaced. She then said that she'd be surprised if I went much longer. Ha! I've heard that before, doc. Alex was 2 days late and Abby was just 4 days early and she said the same thing with both of them. Both of them had scheduled inductions (that never happened of course). Of course, it naturally sent me into a frenzy thinking I'd pop within the next few days and was worried I wouldn't make it to that lung-safe 37 weeks for the baby. Here I sit two-weeks later and still cookin' the turkey. I'm perfectly fine with that too. Oh sure, sure. My hip is shot, I had a dislocated rib (not ruling out a possible fracture according to the doc, but we can't take an xray) and I am fairly certain that I can only pee one teaspoon of urine at a time now. But it's all good. The longer this kid sticks inside, the better lungs he/she will have.

So other than the obvious discomforts that inevitably come with the last month of pregnancy, I'm good. I am, however, at that awkward stage of pregnancy where dropping the soap in the shower becomes a dangerous game of Russian roulette. Naturally I drop the dang thing every night. It's only a matter of time now before Josh hears me screaming as I ultimately plummet to my demise all for the sake of picking back up the blasted soap. 

38 weeks and counting.