Playing Catch Up

It's July which means I'm officially to term and it's (hopefully) our daughters birth month! We finished our lamaze classes, had our final pre-labor meeting with the doula, have all of her clothes washed and put away and are getting things wrapped up at work in preparation of D-Day (before and after pics of the nursery will be in the next post-promise! We've got one more wall decal to put up and then we are DONE).

A few weeks ago our friends Jodi, Stacey, Rebecca, Sarah and Jen hosted an awesome baby shower for us and I finally can post some pictures for you!

As a thank you to our hosts, I put together thank you baskets that include alcohol.  Let me just say, buying alcohol at 38 weeks pregnant is an interesting experience.  I know what I planned to do with that alcohol.  I also know that it's no one else's business what I was doing with that alcohol...but that still didn't stop me from wanting to tell every person in there what I was doing there.  And to be honest I don't even think people really even saw me or gave me a second thought, but out of nowhere I found myself wanting to be that weird lady at the store talking out loud about "How nice this will go in 'so and so's' gift basket," only fueling the perception that I'm actually already drunk in the liquor store. 

Anyways, I'm about 38 weeks now, but here's a pic from 2 weeks ago since I missed it:

At 38 weeks I'm feeling pregnant.  I'm slower than ever, have trouble getting in and out of chairs/cars and spend most of my free time waiting to go to bed.  Baby Swartz is spending most of her time underneath my right rib and what feels like burrowing into my pelvis. 

17-ish days and counting!