June 20, 2010 Father's Day and 37 Weeks

I know I have been slacking on keeping everyone up to date. I just don't have the energy or time to come home and write. The last few week have been filled. Chris started softball again on Tuesday nights, I have been getting together with my girlfriends at least every other week, which has been great, and I had another baby shower last Thursday.

So 37 weeks means full term. It s so awesome to make it to this point. I am ready to hold Layla and be a mom. I am not however really ready for the labor part. I am still nervous and anxious. That is why it is really nice to still be at work. When I get nervous or cant stop thinking about it I can talk to my aunt or co workers and that makes me feel better or I will get a customer call and forget all about everything about the baby. Its nice to have distractions right now. I also bought a bunch of non baby books to read. The only problem is I already finish two of them in a few days. But that helps too.

One of my biggest faults is being to prepared for things and then not enjoying them as they happen. When Chris and I went to Walt Disney World I planned every thing down to the hour over and over again. Then when it came time to leave I told my boss at the time that I wasn't as excited to go. And she knew me really well and said, "Well Whitney you've already been there for the past year." It was so true. But the wedding engagement and the surprise parade ride made the trip even better than I had planned. My other friend at work thinks it hilarious that I plan all my surprises. So because of this I am trying to take these llast couple of weeks to get a few things done, but also enjoy Chris and Mali before Layla gets here and not put too much thought into what it will all be like.

I hope Mali will be able to deal with the Layla taking her spot with Chris. She has been getting pretty spoiled lately.

So I will be trying to post every few days to let everyone know of any progress. I start seeing the doctor every week now. This last weeks visit was fast and he didn't say much. I asked a couple of questions about the hospitals protocol for delivery and then he was gone.

I have however been getting pretty strong practise contractions, but she has not dropped at all yet.