35 Weeks

35 weeks as of yesterday! Just a little while longer! Hopefully not too soon, though... I've been pretty good about not being nervous he's going to come early, plus my doctor agreed with me at my last visit that she didn't think he was coming out any time soon, but I'd just hate to have to have him in the NICU (what parent wouldn't? At least he's gotten as far as he has, others aren't so lucky). I have my next doctor visit next week with one of the other doctors in the practice, then my doctor at 37 weeks.

Some of my friends insist I won't make it to full term, I guess because I look so pregnant now... but I'm suspecting that I'll make it to 40 weeks, honestly. I could be wrong, but I definitely don't think he'll come early just because he might be big if he doesn't. Since my due date was already moved up a week, anyway... if he came at 40 weeks I'd consider it him coming at 39 weeks. Either way, we're going to see when he decides to make his appearance. I don't know if I'd want to try to induce him at 40 weeks or just wait 'til I go into labor naturally and accept I'll likely have to have a c-section. I just really think it would be best to at least go into labor naturally. We'll see.

Our roommate is almost finished moving out, as far as I know he's gotten everything... he just said he's coming back today to vacuum the room. I'm anxious to start setting up, but Patrick works all day today anyway so it's not like he could be here to help me move stuff... and even if he is, I should probably not be lifting the dresser with my wrist hurt so we'll need other help. I want to be doing something productive, but I don't really know what to do... until I have Patrick here to help I never feel like I can do much (hopefully once I'm not pregnant I at least won't feel like I have the physical limitations I do now--besides the hurt wrist which isn't pregnancy related).

I want to go out and shop, but we don't really have money currently... we're needing to save because most of our bills hit at the beginning of the month... so yeah...  We have money, but I'm trying not to use it so we can have extra next month, just in case... 'til we get our new financial situation figured out. I mean, we need groceries and cleaning supplies and stuff. I want to get the stuff to refinish the dresser but I'll probably wait since I'll need help, anyway. I want to buy a lamp so I was thinking of hitting up thrift stores but I should probably wait on that, too.

This is the fabric we got for Wiley's room for the glider! I'm so excited to see it re-covered! Part of me wants to paint the chair white since the rest of the furniture is white, but it's a nice light color wood and I hate to paint over a pretty wood. 

Today is my grandmother's 92 or 93 (Mom told Patrick 93, I think it's 92 because of a conversation we had last year--at what I'm pretty positive was her 91 party). Either way, nobody in the family is very good at remembering the exact year. We celebrated her 80th birthday twice, I think her kids just take her word for how old she is then she remembers later it's wrong, oops. I'm very hopeful she'll make it long enough to get to meet Wiley, since he'll be her first great grandchild. That would mean a lot to me. I mean, I have about a month left, but even young people can't count on tomorrow... We'll see. 

Yesterday I got to celebrate my baby boy with my best friend and "adopted" family. They were supposed to throw me a baby shower but we cancelled it last minute (well, postponed 'til after Wiley gets here, we think) because none of the invitees could make it. My best friend (since 4th grade?) is due a couple weeks before me with a little girl, so it was great getting to see her and lucky her doctor let her come! I'm totally going to share the photo she posted, since I was dumb and didn't get any of my own.

They took me to Target afterward and bought me a bunch of the stuff I'm going to need to bathe Wiley, which is great because I'd put off buying it because I honestly have no idea what to get. What I'm going to need, want, use, etc. What smells good, what doesn't. All that. So I just took their word for it on stuff, yay.

Hopefully soon I'll start getting to post nursery pics and diy pics of the dresser as we re-finish it.

So close!