38 weeks... the end is here

here we are... at the end!! i am really excited and completely ready for this little guy to be here! feb 6th they are going to take him and it cannot come soon enough.  i feel like the last 9 months have gone by fairly fast and these last 2 weeks have been torture!!! once the baby shower was over it was like... now what??!  wait wait wait.  here are somethings i'm experiencing these days:

- i no longer have heart burn because of the best pill ever invented called nexium!!! if any of my friends out there suffer... ask your doc for this pill!!! its amazing.  i haven't had any heart burn in a month.

- sleeping is becoming more sporadic. i wake up often for the bathroom and sometimes once i am awake i get a little insomnia crazed.  luckily chris is a heavy sleeper and i can turn on the to to entertain myself at 3 am.

- i am having contractions all the time.  sometimes they are more uncomfortable than others and lately they are down right painful.  i'm not in labor but they sure do hurt.

- it is also comical to watch me move around. i walk with a huge waddle... i need help getting off the couch... rolling over in bed takes an unbelievable amount of effort... and i simply put am completely constricted by this giant ball hanging off the front of me.

- this weekend i think they baby has dropped down... which has been really really painful.  i could hardly lift my leg to get in the car... haha... 

- i haven't gained any weight in the last 2 weeks... but baby bump has super grown... 

i have organized all the babies things and put them away in his room and gotten the whole room ready... big time nesting.  its been really fun.  except for the part where i broke grandpa's washing machine washing baby socks... beware... they flip up into the barrel and get sucked into the drain pump... and then it costs $$$ to fix it.  i bought a mesh laundry bag to put all tiny things in from now on... lesson learned.  

my weekly appointments go by so fast as i go in and they take my weight and blood pressure and send me home... its pretty nice.  i'm definitely ready to move onto the next phase of motherhood!! chris is also ready but nervous that i will go into labor before feb 6th... which is not a big deal... but it will not be part of the plan! the other day i was getting out of the car and stepped wrong on my foot and got shooting needle pain throughout the whole foot and i yelled out really loud and chris jumped out of the car and was like "did your water break??!" hahaha i guess i'm going to have to be more careful around him when i wince in pain.  he was getting really nervous the other night because my contractions were more painful than normal... but never consistent so i told him no biggie... even though i was secretly worried too haha.  

here is the progression of the belly growth: 

i will definitely be surprised if this boy isn't at least 8 pounds as he has been measuring... we fight over space all the time.. i lean over and he pushes me hard in the ribs and i retaliate by pushing back on him with my hand... i know... i'm fighting with my unborn baby.  oh well...  one more week!! (plus a day or two)