Week 39

These photos were taken yesterday on Bowen Island. I surprised Drew and took him to the island for a small hike and birthday dinner at Blue Eyed Marys. We couldn't have asked for a nicer day to make the trip.

Only five days left and we're both getting really excited now. Everything is ready to go, we just need baby. We don't really have any plans for the next week, we're just going to take advantage of "us" time and make sure we're well rested. We had a very busy weekend, trying to fit in visits with friends and celebrate Drew's upcoming birthday. I'm relieved that we were able to celebrate Drew's birthday, I was afraid the baby would come early and his birthday would be forgotten.

Today I'm having a pedicure, my last bit of pampering before the baby arrives. I'm quite looking forward to the foot massage! I've been extremely blessed during this pregnancy though. No swelling, indigestion, heart burn or stretch marks. All I can complain about is a bit of back pain and some sleepless nights. Hopefully the labour will go as smoothly.

Week 38

Here are some photos taken Sunday. Less than two weeks to go.............

Week 37

The baby is offically full term now and could come at anytime. I feel more prepared going into week two of unemployment. Our home birth kit is ready to go and I'm going to start cooking meals and snacks to freeze today. I still need to pick up a couple of things for the baby and a couple of things I'd like to have at the birth. I need a full length mirror so I can see whats going on during the birth and I'm giong to pick up a nice piece of homemade paper so we can do a placenta print after thats been delivered. We'll probably do some footprints on the paper too. I picked up some wool on the weekend and plan to start knitting a soaker for the baby today. I've cast on already which was easy but I think knit 2 purl 1 will be more difficult. Hopefully I learn quickly as I'd like to take a sock knitting class next Tuesday night. If anyone else is interested, let me know.

We also need to buy a new camera. Our Fuji just came off warrenty and died on us. What great timing. We're looking into a Canon digital SLR but don't want to rush into anything. My friend Loring is letting us borrow his camera for the birth if we haven't bought one by then.

On a very happy note, our kithcen repairs are finally complete (after two monthes). We finally got our keys back and got rid of the huge fan thats been sitting in our living room. The last two monthes have been a nightmare - never hire Angel Restoration! I'm hoping we'll be compensated fairly by our landlords.

Sorry, no photos with this post!

Week 36

Well, yesterday was my last day of work. I'd been looking forward to August 17th for a while but yesterday I was actually a bit sad as I cleaned out my office and ran around like crazy to hand off all of my projects. I'm really going to miss everyone at the office, they've all become family to me (except maybe Mark). I know I'll still see them often but I'll miss the daily office gossip and crazy happening. There's never a dull moment at Envirowest, thats for sure. They took me out to The Reef for dinner last night which was a lot of fun. We got a couple of baby gifts from my colleges which was unexpected. My friend Lesley knitted the baby a cashmere sweater. It's the cutest thing - more stylish than most of the clothes I've been wearing lately. She's going to come over at some point in the next couple of weeks and teach me to knit. A friend gave me a pattern for wool soakers that I'd like to try but could use a little help getting started.

I spent my first day of unemployment cleaning and having a massage. It was a relaxing day after yesterday, one that I needed very much. Drew went hiking with Jeff on the North shore. He was itching to get out of the city and unfortunitely I'm not able to hike with him anymore. He brought us home a whole bunch of huckleberries so I think a peach-huckleberry pie will be in the cards for tomorrow.

Tomorrow I'll be 36 weeks pregnant - only four weeks to go. I still need to get so many things ready for our home birth - I'd like to get it all done this week if I can so I don't have to worry about it. As long as I make it to 37 weeks we can have the baby at home. People keep asking me if I'm nervous and I honestly have to say that I'm not. I feel unprepared at the moment but once the house and supplies are ready, so am I. I'm so excited to meet this little creature that beens growing inside me for the past 8 monthes. I think we're both getting more and more excited as the due date approaches. Drew's planning to take at least two weeks off work after the baby is born which will be great.

Anyways, I'll probably be posting more often now that I have more time. The count down beings................

Week 34

Only 6 weeks left! I can't believe how quickly this summer has flown by. It sucks that the weather is nice now that I can't really do anything. I'm still able to walk (which we do a lot of) and I still bike to work occasionally and do yoga but hiking is tough now that I'm carrying around 20 some extra pounds. My tummy has really grown in the last couple of weeks and bending over has become a chhallenge. I'm also running low on clothes that fit me again. I just can't justify buying a lot at this point though.

A lot of people are asking what we need for the baby. The truth is that we don't need anything. We got a car seat which we installed Saturday and a sling which we're learning how to use. We've been given a lot of second hand clothes and have enough cloth diapers to last us for awhile. We really don't have room in our condo for much and truthfully, we don't feel that we need all of the things they tell you to buy.

Just a heads up - we're trying to keep our baby away from synthetic fibers and plastics. We're planning to buy most of our baby toys from this great local company specializing in wooden toys.

If you live locally, help would be the best gift you could give us. Meals and cleaning are always welcome. For those who don't live quite so close, we've opened a savings account for the baby.

By the way, we bought a new computer. With a built-in camera.

Week 31

It's been awhile since our last post and the baby's grown quite a bit. Here's a picture from this morning.

We have two months to go which I'm sure will fly by. I finish work on August 17th which can't come soon enough. I feel like we have so much to do! We picked out a car seat yesterday and a sling. We really don't need to buy any clothes as we've had so a lot given to us already.

We finally had a chance to sort through our Galapagos pictures. For those of you that didn't get our email, here's the link.

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The next time we post on here we'll be using our new Macbook. It's supposed to arrive tomorrow along with the free 30GB IPod that came with it. It's finally time to recycle my old laptop - it's been very good to me over the years so it will be tough to see it go.

Belly - 24 weeks

I'm actually starting to show - after 24 weeks of pregnancy. It's taken some adjustment but I really enjoy the belly. I can't imagine it getting much bigger though and I have a ways to go yet. I'm running out of clothes that fit but finally bought a couple of tank tops yesterday that should fit me all summer. I also found a nice summer dress - its a bit pricy but was so comfy and looked really good on me so I think I'll go back and pick it up this week. I've been having trouble finding maternity clothes that fit me - everything is so big. I need another pair of shorts for summer and some t-shirts so I think I'll cave and try Metrotown this week.

The baby is really starting to kick, especially at night or after meals. Drew enjoys playing with my belly and getting the baby to kick. He'll poke my belly and the baby will kick him back - its pretty neat. We took the baby to the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra last night at Shaugnessy United Church. I think the poor thing was probably terrified - it was pretty loud but we really enjoyed it. We were lucky to attend the last concert of the year and got to see Sarah Buechener, an accomplished pianist.

Today we're headed to the Eat Vancouver Food Show. I'm excited to see Anna Olsen from Food Network and to try all of the yummy food. We were hoping to get out of town for a hike this morning but its so windy outside, we may just go for a walk around town and save the hike for next weekend.