36 weeks

Sea Monkey: 6 pounds! Six whole pounds of cute little baby! *melty cute happiness* Babycenter says that at the end of this week, I'll be at term and the baby could come at any time.

Um.... whoah.

That doesn't mean too much, though, because Sea Monkey could come at any point between next Friday (August 13th) and September 17th. That's the 37-42 week span that most babies are born in. So.... congratulations, your baby is coming sometime. Just in case you didn't realize that before.

heidi: is sleepy and grumpy. Look out. If you breathe, I might just destroy you. Unless you bring me something tasty to eat, then you might be ok for about 10 minutes. But after that... I make no guarantees. I'm pretty much breathing fire these days (that's the heartburn's fault).

But, good news, we have just about everything we need for Sea Monkey now! We need one more thing, and there's a couple things I'd like, but we've got almost everything (some of it is still on its way here). Now I just need to organize some things and keep them organized... I don't know how it happens, but I'll get the changing table cleared off and organized and then suddenly it's covered in things again. It's ridiculous.

The co-sleeper came last week! Zach set it up, attached it to the bed, and Mali played in the little storage part of it below the bassinet. Then I put clean sheets in there and zippered it up and she glared at me. Now she sleeps right next to it. It's cute. She's only tried to get into the part where the baby will sleep once, and I poked her out of it, and she hasn't tried again. We did discover, though, that we need to do something about the co-sleeper- it's about 3 inches higher than the bed, so it doesn't attach properly. If there's not a function on the co-sleeper to lower the bassinet, we need to get a bed frame... or have it set up as a free-standing bassinet, but that kind of defeats the purpose of it being a co-sleeper (although it's a useful function).

All of our diapers are washed and prepped, and all of Sea Monkey's clothes are washed, put away and just waiting to be worn, ogled over, and pooped on. I'm Mrs. Obsessive List Maker Lady (in case you didn't know) and spent time labeling every drawer with what should be in it and made about a dozen lists this week. The labels on the drawers will be useful, though, because if Zach or one of the grandmothers who will be visiting after Sea Monkey arrives needs to get a new outfit or diaper or something and I'm not available for whatever reason, they won't have to search. And I wrote down exactly how to use our diapers and how to wash them and hung up the paper right over the changing table. And I made a list of what we need to do when we realize I'm in labor (basically get the pool and stuff set up downstairs and shut Mali in the office [she can't be around while I'm laboring] with her food, water, litterbox, and a few toys. And something comfy to snuggle on, because my goodness, I dote on my cat and feel terrible that she's going to be shut in a room for hours).

Speaking of labor, apparently I've been having Braxton Hicks contractions for the past few weeks and just hadn't even realized it. It was one of those "....oh.... right.... well, I feel like a moron" moments. I mentioned it to Val at our last appointment and she was excited for me, and mentioned that my body's getting ready to have a baby.

Oh! We set up the birthing pool last night to make sure that it didn't have any leaks and that the hoses and pumps and things would work fine. Everything works, technically, but the pump to get the water out of it is slooooooooooow..... so we're exchanging that... Zach ended up taking advantage of the fact that our house is on a slight incline and made the hose into a siphon. It went waaaay faster siphoning the water out than using the pump. Stupid $6 pump. 

We've also started looking at apartments. We viewed a place yesterday, which was just ok, and we have an appointment to view another place on Saturday. Richard and Karen saw the ones we're seeing Saturday earlier and really like them, and they sound like they're a good option. Hopefully they'll work out. They have an interesting pet policy, though; they don't just say "yes, please bring your cute little kitties here!", they say "we need to talk to you first and then we'll decide if your kitty is cute enough to live here." So we have that Saturday.

Since we're moving in October-ish, I've decided to get a head start on things to make life easier on me after I have a baby and start packing up things we don't need. Like our books in the office. I really don't think we'll have need for any of Soren Kierkegaard's works between now and moving time. But you never know. Maybe Sea Monkey will come out clamoring to know about existentialism (...that would be terrifying).

Also, packing sucks. It's so hot upstairs and it wears me out to try and pack things up and ends up taking a very long time. But it'll be good to have the office packed away, because it's the room where all the random things we think we need to keep go. Once it's done, I'll be at least 1/3 of the way done packing. Which is exciting. Even though we'll have until sometime in October before we move. It'll be good.

So. It's almost time to meet Sea Monkey. Can you believe it??

Belly picture will be coming tomorrow, because I forgot to take a picture... whoops.