the sickies

our house is a quarantine zone this weekend. evyn and i managed to catch the cold that scott brought home last week (and we thought we were in the clear!) and our computer picked up the system32.exe virus (from the navteq website!). not at all what i wanted to spend my last few weekend days before baby's arrival dealing with.

evyn & i both have headaches, evyn spent most of today dozing off. poor kid hasn't eaten a single bite of food today - she couldn't even be bribed with chocolate pudding!


i keep telling my slow, pregnant body that i have much to do - no time to be nursing a cold - but it just isn't having any of it.

as for the computer, i can hear the virus churning constantly in the background, it's the most aggrivating, grating noise i can imagine at the moment. it taunts me. i've invested two days working to eradicate it, but i'm not good with registry editing, so i guess i'll have to consult a pc shop tomorrow. we're able to access a few trusted websites while we're infected, but much of our computer is useless until we shake the virus. in the event you don't see an update for a couple days - don't assume it means baby is here! it could just be that our computer is in the shop.

Full Term!

Monday marked our 37th week of pregnancy - baby is now officially considered full-term! It still amazes me, every day, that we are here.

Thursday afternoon I had my latest prenatal checkup. I am up +17 pounds over my pre-pregnancy weight. My blood pressure was 100/68, fundal height measurement showed that baby was spot-on for size at 37 weeks, and his/her heartrate was 136 bpm. I asked the midwife to check baby's position, as I could tell s/he had shifted yet again in the last two days. S/he is still head down and low (good) but the little bugger is now in left posterior position, which means his/her spine is toward my spine, his/her belly facing out to my belly. This is NOT where we want baby to be when I go into labor! Chances are good that the baby will turn again - but if s/he stays like this, I'll have to spend most of my labor on my hands & knees, to try to convince him/her to turn & avoid what they call "back labor."

One good thing about the shift in positions as of late, the pressure in my pelvis has decreased slightly, and I am much more comfortable than I was a week or so ago. Hurray!

day 37 - patio continued

3rd day of the patio work:

the patio

A picture of the patio progress, from yesterday - day 36 of the overall construction project.

no (baby) news is good news

We're in the final - and dirtiest- phase of the construction project: finishing the drywall. 3rd coat of patch to be applied Wednesday, then sanded on Thursday. the entire house has a thick layer of white dust throughout, by Friday it will be double. So we're quite glad that the baby hasn't threatened to make his or her entrance just yet! The plan is to clean like mad over the weekend. The baby can come any time after that (but please, baby, wait until then).

They're also working on constructing the roof over our patio, which we will enclose down the road - perhaps this summer - with screening. Then the contractor is done, and our work starts in earnest. Guy (Julie's stepdad) will be helping Scott trim the new room. Scott will be doing the carpeting, and the painting - not just the new room but also repainting spots in the hallway, kid's bathroom, powder room, living room, garage, and stairway. That's a lot of work!

Evyn & I have been squeezing in a few extra playdates with friends, but otherwise mostly hibernating during the day, and enjoying these last few weeks of just the two of us. Scott is wrapping up the Philly job (that we thought would never end) this week, and then has two weeks of work in Ephrata - conveniently just minutes from the hospital where the baby will be born. Still lots to do, but we're finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.