Babies Living Accomodations

The title pretty much says it all. Today, I want to cover the important topic of babies living accommodations both now and in the future. Although it seems weird to write it like that, I'm not sure what else to call this post! I have lots of pictures to share with you so that is why you are getting the treat of two blog posts in two days, a rare item around these parts.

Lets start with current living arrangements, my belly :-) One of my friends is a budding photographer and you have seen her amazing pictures here before. She took our announcement pictures and she graciously agreed to try taking belly pictures even though she has never done it before and she had to witness me being half naked for some of the shoot. Sorry Callie! Here are our favorites from the day:

Seriously Callie, you are awesome.

Next up, future living space otherwise known as the babies room! We finally put the finishing touches on it last night by hanging up our Michigan picture wall and I don't actually want to leave this room once I'm in it. I really only leave the room because there isn't a place to put my feet up yet since we haven't ordered the ottoman that matches the rocker...but we will soon!

And finally, I will leave you with a not so flattering picture of me taken on Friday to commemorate my last day of work until I return from maternity leave! Again, please note, not flattering but this is what people have had to see at work every day :-)

How is your cervix?

It's been a while friends :-). I have a feeling I'm going to be writing that a lot in the upcoming weeks. I hate doing blog posts without pictures because that is really my favorite part so I have been avoiding posting because I temporarily lost my camera. This is kinda a huge deal since I'm about to have a baby!! Luckily, Will recognized that I have baby brain and went looking for the camera in all the right places only to find it exactly where it should have been. Doh!

On another note, it's 6:00am on a Saturday and you might be asking why I'm up. I have no idea. Perhaps I'm tired of getting up every 2 hours to pee, I'm tired of laying in bed looking at the ceiling, the list could go on but I won't pain you with th details. I did make it to my last day at work with was yesterday. I wasn't sure I was going to make it so I was pretty excited/disappointed. The good news is that in the past two weeks I was able to wrap everything up in a nice little bow, watch one of my kiddos get adopted last week and celebrate a case closing yesterday as my very last duty as a child advcacy specialist. It was pretty awesome.

Now it's on to bigger things. My parents are excited although somewhat stressed which has caused some interersting conversations to occur.   My favorite part of each phone call is the very beginning when my mom asks, "how is your cervix". My reply is generally, same as the last time we talked. Mom, I have no idea how my cervix is doing. I can't see my feet do I definitely can't see anything higher! There are all sorts of weird twinges and pains associated with impending labor so I also have no idea what is normal and what is not. It's kinda funny. I'm going into this totally blind and just have to trust that when people says, you will know when it's time that I will actually know when it's time. Sometimes I do envision myself being one of those people on the tv show I didn't know I was pregnant. Something in their exerience leads them to not know when they are in labor!