32 weeks… counting down

i’m 32 weeks pregnant this week! very very exciting. we’re in the 10 week countdown, i’m getting anxious i’m trying to pace myself… we have 1 more birth class tomorrow, so that’s exciting. We’ve talked about all kinds of things, one of which was mental exhaustion… There’s a couple in our class who is having their second child… Their first labor was 52 hours….

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yes. 52 hours.

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OMG! OMG!! OMG!!!!!!!!!

can you EVEN IMAGINE?!!!

well, that was our assignment… to imagine. we were told, the best thing to do to avoid exhaustion, and mental defeat, is to prepare yourself for that 52 hour labor… Makes sense i think… Then, you have a 42 hour labor and you’re like “well, hell! that was a whole 10 hours faster than i was expecting!”… i guess that’s the theory, anyway :-p

but holy crap, 52 HOURS?!!! Lord help me…. i’m completely serious… PLEASE help me.

So… that said, in the spirit of not getting too anxious, i’m trying to prepare myself not to get too excited right off the bat when i go into labor. They say the best thing you can do is sleep as much as possible in the beginning… sounds impossible, but we’ll see.

lately the baby’s been moving around A LOT!!! she resembles quite eerily a cute little alien, squirming to get out. i like to think she’s dancing to whatever song is playing in my head i just hope she remembers she needs to come into this world in a very specific way,… and that does NOT include a dramatic scene where she pops out of my stomach, growing at an exponential rate and rampaging through the ship, killing all of my crew members… mmmkay?

sooo…. here’s what she looks like this week!!!! roughly 3.75 lbs, the size of a jicama (i love jicama, a severely underutilized vegetable if you ask me…)

cute, huh??? well, I THINK SO!!! and here SHE is, her 3D debut!!!! our precious little booger face

i just love her so much already.

i can’t WAIT to meet her!!! … nick thinks i’m crazy, but i really think she looks like him… which i love

and here i am, in my pretty holiday party dress, that looks suspiciously like a set of vintage curtains on camera… hmm.

and, as you can see, we did get the Christmas tree and decorations up!!! GO US!!!!

took us awhile, but it’s done, and i LOVE IT!!! i just love holiday decorations… they make me smile. Bronx and hollow helped… well, bronx helped, hollow just admired the tree…

Isn’t this a gorgeous family??? You’re jealous, admit it

and, to wrap up this post,….

nick in his “long johns” (aka, my yoga pants that he steals to wear under his work clothes to stay warm during the day :-p along with his work socks… alyson calls it his riding habit.)… putting on the angel!

a job well done Merry Christmas everybody!!!!!

enjoy.

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