36 WEEKS! (300 th post)

AHHHH, It just hit me.....WE'RE 36 WEEKS!! It's time I start cleaning; FOR REAL this time....we're having company soon!!!! Though the ticker shows 4 weeks until due date, I have a sneaky suspicion we're looking more like 2 weeks. I predict April 9th. *counting dates on my fingers...* THAT'S ONLY 17 DAYS LEFT, EEEEEEEK! :o)

Deona's doing great. She's finally feeling a tad better:

-She isn't feeling like Emory's going to pop-out any day now.

-She finalized and submitted the school yearbook (a major pain in her arse)

-She's currently making an "A" in her Masters course. Now if little Emory will hold off long enough to let Mama take her exam this weekend, we're in great shape.

As you already know I'm so proud of Deona, she works so hard. I'm just looking forward to some R&R for her. YES, we're aware how busy we'll be when Emory arrives, but it will be a different busy. I'm hopeful I can be the extra support she needs; even while caring for our beautiful Everett.

We're having fun watching her belly; as soon i turn to grab the video camera the stinker quits moving for us. I think we already have a wise guy on our hands.

Your continued blessings and prayers for a heathly pregnancy and delivery are very much appreciated.

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According to babycenter, baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. He now weighs almost 6 pounds ) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. He's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected his skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement. At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely he's in a head-down position. But if she isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly.

...and just to note, this entry is our 300th post on our blog. That's alot of blogging, folks.