One more 'photo shoot' before I'm almost fully cooked! It really looks like I have a torpedo coming out of my belly. What's nice is that in the photos I look a lot less 'fluffy' than I feel- I feel so bloated and puffy that I could just float away, that is if I didn't feel like I weighed 500 pounds. So far I've gained about 40 pounds and it's amazing that I don't look that big at all. This past Friday was the first week I purposefully skipped ballet class. It was so hard to pick up my legs and balance on my puffy feet the previous week, that I decided to skip and probably won't go back until after the baby arrives.
The baby moves around like gang busters and on a fairly regular schedule. I took a video with my phone of my belly bouncing around. Need to figure out how to download it and if it looks okay, I'll upload it, though it is of my naked belly, so I may try to video it again while I'm wearing a shirt.
Sleeping well has been cyclical. Thankfully, the last 4 or 5 nights have been pretty good with me being able to see for about 5 hours straight. I'm just hoping that I get a good night's sleep the night before I go into labor. The last thing I want is to be exhausted before any of it even starts.
If I'm still pregnant next week, I'm going to ask our friend Annabel (the one that took the pictures of Joe and I before) if she can take another set of pictures for us. It's so weird going through every day thinking, 'this may be the last time I watch TV without a baby or this may be the last time I enjoy a nice long shower'. Everyone says that it's all worth it, but it's still a bit scary to think that such a dramatic change, bigger than moving to or from Switzerland or even starting college & graduate school, is just around the corner.
-Finally installing the car seat into the blue car- it eats up all the leg room for the passenger in the front seat!
