I am officially the most pregnant I've ever been. I had Madison and Jackson at 36 weeks 2 days. The kids start 4th grade tomorrow morning and I was so upset thinking that I would miss their first day of school. It's bad enough we aren't in our home for me to take their first day of school picture and now I was going to miss it all together?? Tomorrow night...fine. Just not tonight.
I had a lovely baby shower last weekend organized by my amazing friend Shauna with tons of help from my mother and mother in law and other friends too. We got everything we need for the baby that Shauna hadn't already supplied us as loners. It is all filling up my parents' living room at the moment.
I really did breeze through this pregnancy aside from the hassle of gestational diabetes like I had with the twins. That is, up until about 5 weeks ago. I just started getting very achey in my back and hips and the sciatic nerve pain. All of that has gotten worse and worse over the weeks. I did WAY too much activity two nights ago and now I can't walk at all without the sciatica shocking me. Physically I'm so ready to have this baby but emotionally I'm a wreck (nothing to do with hormones) and I really would just love for things to be all ironed out before I have a baby.
I had only one name that I wanted for this baby. I really had no interest in any other name but I didn't want to get my hopes up that Chris would agree to it. Thankfully a couple weeks ago he said we could use the name. Still no middle name but I guess we will figure it out eventually. We are keeping the name a surprise mostly because people can't keep their opinions to themselves.
The house hunt is basically a shit show at this point. The stress I have endured over it is just so unfair. I know other people go through worse but for me this has been the hardest year of my life and I still don't see a light at the end of the tunnel.
As of this weekend the kids and I are living with my parents. There is a bed here next to a bathroom for me for all those middle of the night trips. Hopefully Chris will join us soon but for now he is still at his parents' house.
At the baby's weight check last week he was 7lb 7oz. 80 something percentile! Madison and Jackson were roughly 5th percentile at birth! (5lbs each).
