39 weeks 4 days and going strong.

There was a moment last night where I thought Uncle Kyle might get a birthday buddy today, but no such luck. The baby is happy as can be, still moving all the time, and when I listen to it's heartbeat with my stethoscope is it between 130-140, perfect. My mom has been like a magic fairy lately, coming over and just going through my house on a mission to spring clean. This morning she showed up and hung a window upstairs that she had taken home and cleaned, sanded and repainted (it looks great!), she went through another part of my kitchen and completely organized my food pantry. Amazing! With all her help, I have been able to keep up on the other parts of the house, and this afternoon I went grocery shopping and stocked up the house. I got home and caught up on all the laundry and dished and the house is still clean! For the first time (maybe ever) I am feeling a sense of pride in my wonderful home and finally feeling like it is a place I want to spend time, thank you mom! Of course this is just in time for the new baby to come and everything to fall apart again, but I am enjoying feeling on top of it, even if it is only for a few days :o)

Kylie, Papa and I walked downtown to the Festival of Arts, it was a good time. I ran in to a few friends (I love that Redlands is a somewhat small town), ate a yummy lunch, listened to some good music, looked at beautiful art and Kylie got a butterfly painted on her arm. This evening Kylie and I had a wonderful dinner with Tabitha, Darin, Portia and Nico. They came over for a little play time and brought some delicious fish to share. I hope we can continue to do "family dinners" when the new baby arrives, it is so fun to enjoy a meal all together.

Craig came home tonight and entertained Kylie, gave her a bath and let me have about 30 min to just sit with my feet up and eat some ice cream. It was a wonderful little break. I know he is exhausted when he gets home from a 13 hour day, but he is such a wonderful husband and daddy, he always has time and energy for us.

No contractions so far tonight, but you never know. My back has been a little uncomfortable but the worst part right now is the occasional heart burn. I never had any acid reflux/heart burn feeling with Kylie, ever. But over the past week or so I have had it with this baby, so uncomfortable. I keep forgetting to buy something to help since it usually happens at night when I am to lazy to go out and get anything. I feel like this baby is low like Kylie was, I am still only measuring 34cm at my last apt (39 weeks) so I don't know why I am so uncomfortable. But what can you do, at least that is all I have to complain about :o)

I had two more strangers tell me they thought the baby was a boy. That seems to be the general consensus again this time around. But as soon as I tell them "this is exactly how I carried my daughter," they usually say "oh, well maybe it's another girl." Most people also tell me how low I look, like the baby has really dropped, but today a woman asked if I was 8 months along and still waiting for the baby to drop. It's so interesting how much people think they know from simply looking at you.

Well it's time for bed, I will write more if things start to happen tonight, but I have a feeling I will probably just get some good sleep :o)
-Natalie

Mish's birthday lunch, tacos, yum!

 Kylie enjoyed pretending to catch everyone as they came down the slide.

 When her mommy went inside to cut the cake, the birthday girl thought it was a good idea to hang out on the table, silly girl.

 Oh and dance on the table.

 Ummmm cake!!