That is what my doctors said last Friday.  Then she followed it up with no one can really predict these things.

So we've been slowly getting ready.  We cleaned out a bunch of stuff, had a yard sale, and took the leftovers to Goodwill.  We've arranged what furniture we have in the baby's room and repurposed some other items elsewhere.  We've been doing laundry.

We washed the first load of teeny tiny baby clothes a few days ago.  They're so little.  John and I were lamenting, though, that since we washed the clothes in Tide Free, the clothes just smelled wet and not like clean laundry when we moved them from the washer to the dryer.  Oh, how programmed we are by smells.

My office hosted a shower for me last week, and we got so many more cool presents.  Everyone's been so generous and excited about baby, it's really nice.  This week is my last week at the office.  It feels a little strange being so close to the end.  I'll miss working there, but I am looking forward to just being a mom who lights shows.

Time to walk the doggys, who have spent much of the morning tearing their toys apart.  Silly dissecting dogs.
Love, Trina

Ooh!  Look at pictures of the remodel here.  ETA of it being finished is Wednesday.  Can't wait.

Love, Trina

My back hurts.  It hurts when I bend over.  It hurts when I walk.  It sometimes hurts even when I lay down.  This morning I was doing my stretches and got stuck on the ground for a few minutes because I couldn't figure out how to get up without hurting myself.  Argh.

I'm so happy about the remodeling and how it's coming along, but I very much miss having an upstairs toilet.  It's a drag trudging downstairs multiple times in the middle of the night.  I can't wait for the upstairs to be useable again.

Teagan and Ronan have been on a barking fanatics the last couple of days.  Perhaps they're not actually barking more often than normal, but it has certainly been getting on my nerves lately.  I'd like to think I'd be more tolerant of it if they were actually barking at something, but best I can tell, they've been barking at breeze.

Ooh!  In less whiny news, I have picture of the curtain fabric my aunt and I picked out for the baby's room.  Adorable, no?


(on its side for some reason....)

The incredibly, unseasonably hot weather broke yesterday.  Hooray!  That still didn't stop us from going (again!) to Molly Moon's after car seat class.

Oh, yeah, last night we went to the car seat safety and installation class.  We learned about different types of car seats, the different ways to install them in the car, the best installation choice for the cars we own.  We also have a new dilemma:  what is the best way to prevent the dogs from becoming baby-injuring projectiles in case of an accident?  The car seat class instructor gave a thumbs down to getting a cargo gate as she had not seen any that have been crash-tested.  Oddly I've been having a really difficult time finding credible information about this subject on the internet, but, after quite a bit of searching last night, I guess I am leaning toward getting a harness that can tether the dogs to the latches in the cargo area.  I just hope that whatever we pick will allow them enough leeway to stand up and sniff the air, which is what they love to do in the car.

Time for a snack and then to work.
Love, Trina