29 Weeks

It was a busy weekend and I'm tired! Last week was packed with baby stuff.

On Tuesday, Ethan and I had our first baby class. The classes are at the hospital where I will deliver and they are three hours long for 6 weeks. The class was OK - it was a little boring, but we did learn some interesting things. We learned the terminology that they will use during the delivery, like what an APGAR score is. We also practiced diapering and changing a baby. That was fun because they had cloth diapers and we got to practice with them. It was funny watching Ethan changing the diapers and trying to get the baby onesy on. It took him a while to figure out how to get the onesy over the baby's arms, but I have to say overall he was pretty good!

this weekend. The pictures are already on facebook, so I won't double post them here, but it was really well done. My sister Carrie went all out decorating and planning games for the shower. Some of my favorites were the cake shaped like a bear (it was so cute!), the poems that everyone wrote for me during the poem game, and the belly measuring game where my friend Jenny guessed the size of my belly by measuring her own belly :)

We got so many wonderful gifts for Caleb! We definitely have a lot of clothes for him to wear now, but I know he's going to grow so fast and go through a million outfits, so it's great to be well stocked up. The baby clothes that everyone picked out are so fricken cute! I especially love the footy ones that have little animal feet. I admit, I did get a little burned out opening all the presents at the shower, but that was mostly because I didn't want all the guests to get bored, so I was trying to rush through the gift opening. After the shower, I went upstairs and unpacked the gifts in the nursery and got a chance to really admire everything, it was so much fun.

But more than the food, games, and gifts, I was just so happy to see my friends there and I felt so loved by everyone :) I am really blessed to have such great people in my life that take the time out of their busy schedules to come celebrate Caleb with me. I really do appreciate it.

Now that the baby shower is over, I feel a little bit like the "fun" part of pregnancy is over. I know, I should enjoy the whole journey - but I can definitely see how I will want to be done by the end. I feel pretty good still, and I'm lucky that my stomach is not so huge, and I don't have back aches and all that. I also haven't gotten any stretch marks yet, which is awesome! I think they are coming though, so we'll see. Everyone keeps telling me to put lotion on, but honestly, I don't think it will do any good. You either get the stretchies or you don't.

Even though physically, I'm feeling good, I don't like this business of continually getting larger. I feel clumsy and unwieldy with this big belly, and I don't like not being able to move around freely. It's also starting to get frustrating that I can't just start working out a bit harder and cut back on the cake and be able to put on my old jeans again, which is what I usually do after the holidays. I'm trying to be patient, but it seems like it will be a long time before I get to have my body back to myself again! I feel a bit guilty for feeling this way, because of course it's totally selfish of me, and I should be happy that I get to bring Caleb into the world and that we are both healthy so far :)

This week, we officially found our nanny! We offered the job to an old friend of mine, Hanna, who is actually my best friend Tonya's younger sister. She accepted and she's going to be joining us after Caleb is born. Ethan and I are so excited, and more than a little relieved, that we found someone who will take good care of Caleb and will also fit in well with our little family. Hanna was a nanny before for a couple years, and she is interested in pursuing early childhood education as a career, so I know she's going to be great for Caleb. It's definitely nice to not have to worry about daycare for the first year or so, because although I think daycare is wonderful for social interaction when the baby is a bit older, I am nervous about putting a newborn in daycare.

So, it was a busy week. I'm hoping this week is a bit more relaxing. Now it's time to go watch How I Met Your Mother and fold laundry. I love Monday nights :) I'm being lazy, and I'm going to skip the baby update this week (it will be back next week) - but you can go to babycenter.com and look at 29 weeks if you want to read what Caleb is up to this week.