Nope - not yet!

I bet you are coming on here to check if I have had the baby yet, huh? :-)  Well, I haven't.  She's still kicking and wiggling and growing all cozy inside of me.  I'm about 37 weeks now, so it isn't too much longer.  This is always the time when I know that God is teaching me patience - and its really hard!  As has been true with this whole pregnancy, everything is different.  I am having all these different symptoms that I had always heard and read about that can happen during pregnancy, but never experienced them.  Like my newest "adventure" is my sciatic nerve is giving me major trouble.  I don't know if you have ever experienced that, but it certainly is not the most comfortable thing!  All throughout the day, as I am just moving about, I will get an extremely sharp pain shoot down my left leg.  And more often than not, my leg is numb so it feels like I am walking around on a wooden leg.  Its bothersome at night, but I'm not too sure how to relieve it.  My chiropractor is on vacation, otherwise I would get in to see him.

I am going to the dr. weekly now and all is on track.  Basically, I am considered full term and we just wait.  Baby is healthy and active.  And I am healthy and not active.  Haha!  I can't do too much, so I do spend a good bit of the time on the couch.  I know, I'm such a lazy bum!  But, as in the past.  This is just a phase and it will pass.  Matt is being a great help and pretty much taken over the cooking.  I'm sure he can't wait for my mom to get here in 3 weeks so she can relieve him of that duty! :-)

The kids are good - very, very busy.  They are enjoying their new toys and fighting over them and such.  I plan to write about our Christmas soon.  Just don't feel like it tonight!  I think Leila might be in the beginning stages of a cold, so I hope it doesn't stick around too long.  Seems like we all just got over that!  We have had some very, very cold temps lately, so we don't go out much.  When we do its a race from the car to the store or wherever we are going since it is so cold and windy.

It is getting to that point where I am getting those looks from people when I am out.  You know, the "Wow, your going to pop any second" look.  And with my numb leg I'm limping and waddling even more than the average preggo, so I am sure I am quite the sight! :-)  I keep thinking I should take a profile picture since I always do at 9 months, but keep forgetting when I look presentable to do so!

The kids are getting excited about the baby - they keep telling us what they think we should name her (which I'm not going to tell you, just in case we change our mind last minute and use that name!).  This week I finally started getting some things ready - like the bassinet out and pulled out the newborn clothes.  Still need to wash the clothes and pack the bags.  Maybe I will do that tomorrow.

So, one more little update and I am going to go to bed!  Libby has been our little Miss Mischief lately.  She is SO BUSY!!!  Getting into everything possible - like lotions, chapstick, Vaseline, the dresser drawers, food, etc.  She is making a mess of everywhere she goes!  I have had to take a bunch of stuff out of her room because at nap time (and sometimes even at bedtime) she will make a mess of something.  All this made me realize something.  I have always heard mothers mention how hard it was when they switched from a crib to a toddler bed to get their kids to stay in bed.  And I never understood it.  With Liam and Leila, we didn't have this problem at all.  But we went from the crib to a twin bed.  So I realize that the toddler bed is so much easier to get out of than the twin.  So there's the problem!  Libby has that freedom and is definitely using it!  Sometimes at nap time I will put her in Leila's twin bed and Libby stays put.  But not if I put her in the toddler bed!  Its kinda funny to me. 

I still think the toddler bed is cute and it is helping with the bed/space problem we were having, but I am seeing some more cons to it as well.  Oh, well.  She will learn.  Hopefully before she destroys everything! :-)

Well, have a great night and a Happy New Year!  Enjoy your last day in 2011!

Until next time/year......