Watch My Belly Grow

I apparently only wear solid colored shirts. :) I guess that's mostly what I have in maternity clothes; though the last picture is green & white stripes but the shirt looks solid green in the picture. I also think it's interesting that on some of the earlier days my belly looks bigger than it does on some of the later pictures. These pictures are all in date order, even though there are some that look like they're out of order.

39 Weeks and 4 Days

So I'm gianormous. My ankles puff up when I sit at the computer desk for too long. My stomach bumps into everything. I have to stand just so to wash my hands without bothering my belly. Rolling over at night takes way more effort than it should. The other night I was rolling over and Andrew thought I was having a contraction so he rubbed my belly and told me to relax. I didn't understand what he was doing until he explained it to me in the morning. I was just trying to get comfortable and was stealing the covers and rubbing my belly. :)

Yarn

Andrew got me a yarn ball winder for Christmas (I asked for it) and had a lot of fun winding my old balls of yarn into new balls of yarn. It sounds like such a silly thing to get excited about, but I was really excited. :) You may ask why do you need an apparatus to wind your yarn when you were perfectly capable of winding balls of yarn on your own. The answer to that question is tension. You get a more even tension with the winder than with your own two hands. I've actually had some yarn that was wound too tight and when I went to use it on a new project there was a distinct difference between the old and new yarn. The yarn ball winder is the solution to that problem.

These are my yarn balls before.

This is the yarn ball winder finishing up a ball of yarn.

These are my yarn balls after.

It's silly but the new yarn balls make me happy. :) Just look how nice they are and they're not going to roll away and the tension when you use them is so much more even than using a regular yarn ball.

Another Baby Update

We went to the doctor yet again, and today I finally got to 1 cm, 50% effaced and no engagement. So basically the baby is staying high and not helping me dilate. :( We have another appointment for next week on my due date. My doctor is going to be out all next week so we will be seeing one of the other doctors at the office. I've actually heard good things about her so I'm not too worried.

I think this is funny; my doctor is on call this Wednesday night to Thursday night, so as we were leaving he said, "See you on Christmas."

The shirt says "Caution: Intense Mood Swings Ahead!"

What's in a Name?

We have decided on a boy's name and a girl's name... finally, but we're not going to say what they are just yet. I thought that it would be fun to do a poll and see what you think we picked. I've created 2 polls, here on my blog, and you can pick multiple names, because we did, and see if you can guess what we're thinking about naming the baby. The polls are our actual list that we made our final decision from and the names that we've chosen are on the lists.

Some names that didn't make the final cut are:
Adelaide
Clover
Fitzroy
Galen
Hazel
Keegan
Lily
Reagan
Skyler
Tobias