36 Weeks!

4 weeks to go! We are anxiously counting down the arrival of Baby Girl! I don't think these last 4 weeks will go fast enough for me quite honestly. December was so busy with baby showers and holiday celebrations....January, not so exciting! Going back to work after 11 days off was downright depressing! I am managing to stay busy at work, but find myself easily distracted. Here is a prime example...yesterday in a meeting I found myself pondering the thought, "What if my water broke in the middle of this meeting? What would I do?" Obviously get up and leave, but I was questioning whether I'd take the chair with me? I'm doing everything I can to stay busy at work; otherwise I think I'll go crazy with thoughts like this for the next month!

We're seeing the Dr. weekly now. At the last apt. (last Friday) my belly was measuring a little bigger than norm, but not too much so. Baby Girl seems to have dropped lower as I'm feeling much more pressure in my pelvis and on my bladder. I've also had a popping in my lower back which my chiropracter tells me is likely ligaments stretching in preparation for childbirth. The popping doesn't hurt at all - just another thing changing in my body I guess. I was also fighting a nasty cold all last week, and discovered at my check-up that it was a sinus and double ear infection. I'm half-way through my week of antibiotics now and feeling much better thankfully. Our next apt. is tomorrow so we'll see what the Dr. has to say. Tomorrow is actually my first appointment with my new Dr. (the one I have been seeing for the last 2 years is moving out of state in 2 weeks unfortunately). I did find out that my new Dr. delivered our godson Noah though, and he is who our friend Kelly has seen for several years (and really likes so that was reassuring since I've only met him twice so far).

Over the last few weekends we've been organizing and getting ready for Baby Girl's arrival. Here are a few pictures of our work. We'll see how long everything stays this organized, but it looks good now anyway! =)

Because of the layout of our house, we don't have a traditional nursery set-up for Baby Girl. Her crib is in our room downstairs while most of the rest of her things are in a bedroom upstairs.

Her bedding matches our green bedroom walls =)





Her dresser all organized on the outside...



And on the inside...



She has A LOT of clothes already! These are just the 0-6 month sizes hanging up.



These are the 6 month+ folded and organized by size/season.



One of the perks of working for a baby brand (can you guess which one from the picture) is LOTS of product...we got a lot from friends as well and this is only about half of it. Colin organized all the diapers by size here...the loose ones are from our disassembled diaper cakes!



And finally, the 36 week belly shot.