the essence

Yummy yummy salad & breadsticks. At my mommy shower I received a gift certificate to Olive Garden. Rather than wait until after the baby comes I wanted to go on a date before she's here. We also had a Barnes & Noble date two nights ago. Live it up before things change completely.

I forgot to mention before that we now have two laptops in the house! This has been fantastic for me, Our other laptop is more like a desktop & we aren't sure where the wireless card is at so the laptop pretty much sets on the desk. But, before we left Orlando on Sunday, my mom suggested I take home their extra laptop! So I'm now sitting in our bed typing on her iBook. When Ray is home he's usually working on the computer so this is really allowing me more flexibilty - I LOVE it! I'm so glad she let me borrow this for a little while, thank you Mom!

I had a really good prenatal appointment with my midwife today. I had a lot I wanted to talk to her about & I felt like I really wouldn't be comfortable going into labor until I was able to ask her some things. Now that I talked to her & worked out what I needed I feel much better! I won't go into details that will probably bore most of you, but I love research/medical stuff - and getting answers to my questions!

Anyway, everything is going pretty well. She hasn't dropped yet, she's very low but hasn't actually dropped so I'm sure that's helping with my comfort. I can tell I'm definitely getting more uncomfortable though, but it really isn't anything that's horrible. I still have days where I'm a little swollen (I'm still wearing my rings, though!) so I need to start taking my alfalfa again. I stopped when my iron levels came back high enough. The baby's heartbeat was a little slower today, normal since she's getting bigger. I took my measurements last night & they're all the same now! My boobs have been bigger than everything else this whole time but now I'm the same everywhere.

Oh my goodness, on a totally different topic, I saw complete nerd fests today. I was running errands & drove by one Target & saw some people sitting in chairs outside, I thought that it may've just been employees. But, there was a line at another Target & one at Walmart too - I counted five tents in that line! Apparently, some playstation or something is coming out TOMORROW & these people were already in line for the thing. I just can't fathom that - or people actually having time to spend a day outside in a line.