Colorado Bound...: 37 weeks: Full Term Baby!

As of Thursday April 29th, Lil Monty is full term! 37 weeks marks the "official" full term marker but it is ideal to go to 40 weeks still. We are getting more and more impatient to have this baby - although I keep reminding myself that once he's here, we can't put him back - so we need to just revel in our independence a little longer.

I'm ready to not be pregnant. Perhaps I'll miss it once it's over but I think that's unlikely. I don't think I'll be one of those who just "loves to be pregnant". There are some sweet moments when he's moving around and stuff but those moments are quickly un-romanticized when he kicks me in a way that hurts, stomps on my bladder, gives me heartburn, and (long term) disallows me to move or sit-up easily. What was it like to get out of bed without hurting or straining? I can hardly remember.

At the last doctor's appointment, I got a good report. They measured my amniotic fluid again and it was higher than it's been since they started measuring it. Lil Monty's bladder was full at first so they told me to dance around the room and get him to pee it out to increase my measurable fluid. It worked! They also checked to see if I'm dilated at all - I'm just barely starting to dilate so we'll see what happens this week.

In other baby news, my friend Laura (who I met on my mission trip to Daytona in 2005 and yes we are still friends!) just had her baby yesterday. She lives in Florida but we've kept up during our pregnancies since she was due about 3 weeks before me. That's been fun.

This weekend was very busy with building our new firepit! I wasn't a ton of help because I can't really do much in the way of lifting heavy stone but I served as foreman and did some work on the gravel. We got most of the stone from Ryan's uncle who wasn't using it so this project actually cost us very little out of pocket.

After hosing it down

We caught Grover sleeping in the funniest way the other night. Thought this picture was worth sharing. Even after we woke him up for a bit, he kept his foot in his mouth - I guess it was really comfortable.

Yesterday Grover cut his foot somewhere in the backyard and if you've ever experienced a dog with a cut foot pad, you know it bleeds and bleeds and bleeds and then bleeds. I've had to play doctor and bandage it. Grover is a great patient - lets me bandage it without anyone holding him and then doesn't really mess with the bandage once it's on. I'm very glad about that!

Here are some pictures of the nursery. It's pretty much finished with the exception of the wall over the crib - we'll be putting Lil Monty's name there but we have to wait lest someone sees the room and learns his name! :)