2 months to go!

i am starting to slow down, and well i feel really pregnant. it pretty much happened over night, where i went from happy to miserable, from capable to immovable, from having a bump to having a butte strapped to the middle of my body. it feels as if one of us is always squished, me or the baby, and boy does she let me know!
gratch wonders why i lay around all the time, he thinks i have become an old dog, and he rather have a puppy for a friend. soon enough, pooch! soon enough!

30 weeks

it seems as if spring has finally made it to scotland. i have broken out one of my skirts to wear, and i can actually go around without a jacket on today! i should stop talking about this-or i might jinx it- and that would be horrible!
i am 30 weeks pregnant and i am getting to the point where i really want it to be over with, NOW! i am not having any real issues, nothing to complain about, but it just feels like i have been pregnant forever; i have a feeling that it will only get worse over the next few weeks. plus add to it my impatience! the suspense is killing me!!! thankfully we aren't elephants, those poor animals are pregnant for 18 months! that would push me over the edge....

david is sick, he has tonsilitis again! but it does give him a few days off from work to relax, and gratch is doing a very good job of taking care of him. gratch really just wants his dad to get better so they can play frisbee out in the sun.

back in florida it is graduation time, and i really wish i could have traveled there to see my nephew and some of my old students walk. i can't imagine flying this pregnant, unless i was loaded and could go first class or in my own private jet... then maybe it wouldn't be too bad.

alone time

it is nice to be able to do things by ourselves, just david and i before the baby comes. we had our first BBQ of the season this past weekend, and we spend much time just being together doing nothing of real importance. when david is at work, i am enjoying nice relaxing afternoons with only gratch and my garden as company. very soon we will have visitors and a baby to occupy our days, and although we are ecstatic to become parents, we are cherishing this quiet time before she arrives.
today was my 28 week midwife appointment, and everything was great! i had to endure a vaccine shot in my butt and a blood draw, but other than that it went very well. david took time off from work to accompany me, and he heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time! my fundal height, weight gain, and blood pressure were all spot on, which is very good to know. i am still a little anxious about gestational diabetes, but should hear back in the next few days about that.
we start our prenatal classes in a few weeks, and i do hope they are informative. i already warned david that teachers make the WORST students, so that he won't be too embarrassed by my antics!

3rd trimester

it is official! we are now in the 3rd trimester!!! exciting yet scarey!