Lately.

Lately we have been busy busy getting the nursery all finished and trying to get other projects done around the house that we won’t have as much time for once the little girl comes along.  The nursery is finished except for a few things that we are waiting for until we have her name.  We’re pretty sure we’ll know what we want to call her by the time we leave the hospital…I never thought it would be so hard to pick a name!  My goodness!

Mother’s Day was a few weeks ago and Brian celebrated me well.  He surprised me with these beautiful flowers—hydrangeas are my favorite!

I am so excited to be a mother soon—to take my little girl home from the hospital and adore her!  If I can be anything like my own mother she will be a lucky little girl! 

Brian and I have been taking a birth class at a hospital down town in Portland every Thursday.  I had hoped to get a class at the hospital that we are birthing at—which is only a mile down the road from us—but I was too late signing up and we got stuck with a class at a hospital in Portland that ends the day before the baby is born.  We are loving it!  I ride the MAX downtown and meet him when he gets off work.  We then go to Chipotle for dinner—I just can’t get enough of their veggie burritos.  In fact, every time I think about delivering early, I quickly reconsider when I think about how if I wait another week I can have Chipotle one more time.  That and the money we get back from our Aflac plan are good motivators to hold off until June 1st!

  Downtown Portland—before class.

Everything is still going really well with my pregnancy.  I had my 39 week appointment on Friday and I have had hardly any progression.  Yay!  I’m still walking every day and I’m feeling great! 

Here I am at 39 weeks—I’ve got quite the basketball—a really large basketball: