Still waiting

We're still awaiting the arrival of Abby-Jean. Braxton-Hicks contractions are becoming more frequent and slowly getting stronger, but are still nowhere near real contractions (with the occasional anomoly). While she is continuting to drop lower, as of a week ago, there was no change in dilation/effacing worth mentioning. I recall now how days felt more like weeks when at this point in pregnancy!

We're pretty much ready to go as far as preparing for Abby-Jean's arrival; we just pray that God allows her to enter the world complication-free.

LJ is coming up with new things to say all the time. Gary and I usually spend the evenings laughing about the silly things he's said and done throughout the day. One of my favorite new things he says is: "Oh Daddy! Oh Daddy! Oh Daddy! Oh Daddy!" (while running down the hall to go get his Daddy). Sometimes it's "Oh Momma" or "Oh Nala" instead. One more thing worth noting is how much he likes Nala (the feeling really isn't mutual, but Nala tolorates him...most of the time). He'll go right up to Nala and look her straight in the face, then wave his hand about 3 inches from her face and say "HI, Nala." Then he'll pet her (he does quite good too!), then his blankie will pet her, then blankie will give her "kisses" and then LJ will give her a kiss. It's pretty cute.

I can't believe how much we've accomplished on the house since February. Our house went from about half-finished to almost complete. The only thing we really need to do is fix up Gary's office where it's both functional and looks nice. A coat of paint and some cabinets/shelves/or both will probably do the trick! Eventually I want to repaint the laundry room too, but I'm in no hurry whatsoever.

Nesting

Nesting is in full swing. We made the master bedroom back into 2 rooms, half is LJ's new room and the other half is Abby's room. Gary still has his office, and we downsized our bedroom to the one bedroom that has 2 closets in it...and I think I actually like it better than before. Afterall, we only spend MAYBE 30 waking minutes in our bedroom on any given day. I hope to post some pictures before long of the bedrooms. They really turned out better than I thought they would! I still have A LOT of cleaning up to do from the rearranging of all the bedrooms (and laying of the new carpet, etc.) so that's keeping me quite busy.

I begin weekly appointments this week and they start checking for dilation/effacing and all that fun stuff. I can't believe it's already almost time for her big debut! I've been on my feet so much more this pregnancy, it wouldn't surprise me too terribly if she did come a little early. I certainly wouldn't complain. I look like I quite literally swallowed a basketball. I'm SOOOO ready to be able to move like my normal self once again!