10 Weeks to go!!!

Hi there!  Can you believe it?  Today I am 30 weeks pregnant!  It seems to be flying by.  I do hear that the next 10 weeks seem to take forever though.  Probably because things just start to not feel so good and you get to the point that you are just ready to have the baby?  So far so good.  I have aches and pains here and there, especially after I am on my feet at work all day.  I have the occassional (am experiencing as I write this post) heartburn.  I definitely move much more slowly and find that my endurance/activity tolerance is slowly decreasing.  But finally by week 30 you will be happy to know that I am now listening to my body and legitimately trying not to overdo it!  The discomfort is just not worth getting things done in a speedy manor.  The baby moves all the time.  I often find it poking out of my stomach in various areas and rolling around in there.  I try to guess what body parts I am feeling but never really fully know for sure.  I now go to the doctors every other week and so far they say that things look great and are “uncomplicated”.  We will hope that it continues that way up through delivery!  According to the books the baby now weighs around 3 pounds and is about 15 inches long!  Pretty neat!  I do feel it taking up more room in there daily. 

We have had a lot of exciting events recently!  The last weekend in January we had a really nice baby shower in upstate NY for family and friends that are far from Baltimore.  It was really relaxing at the McCarthy’s house with the wood stove and the fireplace roaring.  The temperature was chilly up there!  I am so thankful to have such wonderful family and friends!  It made me so much more excited to meet our baby and to introduce him/her to our family and friends. 

Then last Friday we had our carpet installed which means that the basement renovations are 99% done!  Yay!  They came just in time to beat the big snow storm!  We were really happy that they were able to install the carpet when they did because shortly after they left we officially became stranded due to the storm!  Scroll down to one of the initial posts where I have the “before” basement pictures.  Then take a look at these for the after!  It is like a totally different place down there.  We are so happy to basically be done!  Now on to the baby’s room!!!  

Then finally here are some pictures from this weekend’s storm!  We were house bound Friday, Saturday, and finally got out on Sunday afternoon!  Now we are sitting here watching part two of the storm occur outside our windows.  We are stuck at home once again.  On top of the 27 inches that we currently have they are predicting another 10-20 inches!  Maryland is going to take a long time to fully recover from this!  I have never had 2 blizzard warnings in one week!!!

Until next time…

Erin 🙂