Thirty Eight Weeks!

I'm thirty eight weeks preggers -and as of tomorrow I'm officially on maternity leave! Hooray!

I'm hoping to cook and freeze a few more meals over the next couple of days, and get in some naps before The Bean arrives. Although Beaner may have other plans. Dan predicts that tomorrow or Wednesday will be delivery day. I'm guessing Wednesday since that marks the full moon and - hokey as it may sound - full moons tend to bring on the babies. We'll just have to wait and see.

In the meantime - check out the belly! This is me striking a preggers pose during a recent walk in Griffith Park - a fantastic park not far from our house. My belly is definitely growing lately, although it's feeling pretty cramped in there. I can feel every little movement The Bean makes.

More updates later this week - I am on mat leave now so I've got time on my hands. Oh and the food of the week - strawberry jam (with tea bicuits). Tasty!

Thirty-six weeks preggo

We got some wild news this past Friday during my regular doctor's visit. The doctor was doing her regular checkup and noticed that my belly hadn't grown since last week's visit. She explained that sometimes that means the baby has dropped and proceeded to see if that was the case.

Well her reaction of "Wow - this baby is really low!" told me Bean had definitely dropped. The doctor explained that this means the Bean will likely arrive sooner than expected. Although she couldn't say how soon - it could be a week from now, maybe three weeks from now. Either way that news set a fire under my nesting instincts (Dan's too). So we've both been busy wrapping up our last minute To Do items.

Other than that everything was fine during this last visit, the Bean has a speedy heart rate of 148 and is head down and ready to go.

Our little Beaner is also moving around a lot - and these are some big movements that make my whole tummy move in waves. It's pretty amazing to watch so we're trying to get some video of it to post.

Hope you like the new belly shot - 36 weeks preggo - and hot all the time.

This weeks' favorite food - blueberry muffins. Mmmmmmmmmm.....

We have a crib!

This weekend we (actually Dan) put The Beaner's crib together. And I love it!

I picked out some sweet material (sage green with white polka dots) for my mom to use when she makes the bedding. But other than that I'm going to leave most of the decorating until after baby arrives and we know whether we have a little boy or little girl on our hands.

I have to say, having the crib set up makes it feel like we're getting close to go-time. In fact, despite my due date of June 28th Dan and I both think The Bean will likely arrive in about 3 weeks. We'll see - maybe we're just over-excited first-timers. :)

Here are some pics of the crib and the latest belly shots.

PS My favoorite food of the week is...WATERMELON. I can't get enough.

Ahhhh... weekends

This weekend marked my 31st week of being pregnant - a mere nine weeks to go (and that's only if I don't deliver early - which seems to be a habit with Calgary women).

But being 31 weeks preggers isn't slowing me down - this weekend we had two breakfast dates, a BBQ at a friend's place and a cooking class. It was busy but so fun.

Our winter weather finally broke so we drove out to Bragg Creek, our favourite outdoor stomping grounds, to go for a walk and play around with our camera. It was wet and muddy, but fun.

Here are a few of our pictures. I think Dan is pondering what life with the Bean will be like in his profile shot :)

PS This weeks's favourite food is... fruit salad! Yum!