Oh how I love getting a great deal!!

I made my first Craigslist purchase tonight and I'm so excited! I found a couple selling a brand new Baby Bjorn carrier - in the box - for $25!!! I had registered for the exact same one - which costs $79.99 - at BabiesRUs.

So while Mike is at the movies watching Terminator with some guys, Shelby and I headed down Cedar Road to pick up the Baby Bjorn. The couple selling it was really sweet and it was in GREAT shape! So then to top off the good find of the night, we stopped by Bruster's Ice Cream where I got a Maple Walnut Waffle Cone and Shelby enjoyed her free Doggie Sundae! I even got a call from Elsie and got to hear all about how she and Jocelyn are doing. I may not have had my feet propped up like the doctor said, but it was a fun night and now I'm going to go pop in a chick flick, prop up my fat ankles and call it a night!

Oh, and for the quick doctor's appointment update: Apparently my cervix is soft but closed. Well... since my doctor thought 1 cm last week, but the other doctor thought closed this week... I'm somewhere between closed and 1 cm. A bit of a bummer... but really, these things don't even mean anything. I could still go into labor tonight or sometime in the next 5 weeks. :) Stay tuned...

A Baby Bump Report & A New Blog Look

I thought it would be fun to see the progression of how this baby bump is growing... wow, a lot changes from week to week! At this point, BabyW. is expected to gain around 1/2 lb. every week for the next 6 weeks as he packs on the baby fat and gets ready for life in the "real world."

It's been so fun to feel him the last couple of weeks, as now I feel knees and elbows, his bum, and often a foot or something in my ribs! I can tell he's definitely filling out his space in there and doesn't have as much room to move. He's still moving, but he feels cramped! I still have a hard time distinguishing whether it's a knee or an arm or what that I'm feeling, but it's still really cool. I have an ultrasound next Thursday, so hopefully we'll find that he is head-down already! I'm feeling confident that the extra fluid issue has resolved itself because he is so easy to feel now.

Our house is starting to feel ready for a baby - there are baby clothes and diapers and gear all over the place. As much as I want to get organized at least once more while I still can, I'm resolving to the fact that this chaos will likely be my reality for a while to come! As the weeks fly by, and it's almost June, I realize I better get crackin' on my to-do list! I have a book or two to read, a bag to pack, a carseat to install, baby-stuff to wash, a chair to reupholster, walls to decorate and maternity leave paperwork to fill out. And I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch!

Moving on...

It's almost June, and we haven't sold our condo, so we're just shifting gears and moving on to Plan B. Tonight we'll be attending a homeowners meeting in hopes to get out of the rental restriction that is on our neighborhood but (long story) mistakenly wasn't disclosed when I purchased the condo 3 years ago. If that goes as we're hoping, we will probably look for renters sometime this Fall. While we would like to still eventually sell, it is actually a bit of a relief right now to just stay put. Our clutter-free, clean house has quickly transformed to a baby-gear infested mess... but I'm completely okay with it since it means that "BabyW" will be here soon! If anyone wants to come over sometime in the next few weeks and help me figure out how to organize all his stuff, I'd love the company!

Oh, and for those who have been checking in on me... the hours of pain I was having everyday... have gone away!! As of Friday, I've had hardly any pain at all. I occasionally get what I think is NORMAL round-ligament pain... it lasts just a couple minutes and only when I move weird or something... So I don't know, besides wearing a maternity support belt 24 hours a day, nothing has changed... so maybe BabyW. was just positioned in a really bad spot and he moved. Whatever, it's a huge praise. And it was just in time, I don't think I could have handled working all day and visiting at the hospital each night feeling like I did before.