Seven weeks to go!

We're nearing the finish line - I'm at 33 weeks - and I'm starting to feel as though it's time to evict this little girl from my body...she's been occupying my prime real estate for what feels like forever...but of course, it's still a bit too early so I'll have to put up with the new aches and pains for a little while longer...Sleeping is getting uncomfortable and rolling over is becoming an effort, too.

I spent two weekends ago walking miles around the Mall of America with Erika as she executed the slowest excuse for school shopping I've ever experienced..she takes forever and it seems like every teenage girl in MN was there shopping in Hollister, Abercrombie, etc...what a pain. I ended up hunched over like an old lady by Sunday night, crippled with lower back pain... Then this past weekend I was at the Little Falls Craft Fair, had to walk around a lot with at least a one-mile or more walk to my car. The baby was doing some sort of happy dance on my bladder that I seriously thought I wasn't going to make it A. to my car and B. to a nearby gas station. (The lines to the porta-potties were at least 15-20 people deep so I made the decision to dash to my car, rather than join the masses in sharing our germs.)

I did make it to the gas station, fortunately, and rewarded my thankful but empty bladder with an Orange Julius.

Erika seems happy to be back in school and is trying out for the community theater musical "Bye Bye Birdie" tonight. Hope she gets a role!

I have the first of three baby showers this Saturday (yep, I'm a pretty lucky prego-mama!) and I'm looking forward to them. At last count I think there will be at least 4 babies/toddlers there on Saturday so I'll get my baby fix before ours actually arrives.

Nels and I have our first childbirth class tonight. He's missing the first Vikings game of the season so he's not happy on several fronts about going.

I'm just hoping during our breaks there isn't a long line to the bathroom with all these pregnant women in the room. :)