No baby yet, although I am having lots of “warm-up” surges (that’s Hypnobirthing for “contractions”) the last 36 hours or so. Maybe this weekend . . .
It’s quite strange to feel my belly—my uterus, really, heaven knows where my stomach has disappeared to, or any of my other organs as well—get as hard as a rock, if not harder. Those muscles are powerful! I guess they have to be to push that baby out of there. Pretty impressive what the female body is made to do.
It was great to pick up Mom from the airport on Friday afternoon. Jonathan was most pleased to see her and immediately took over pulling her suitcase. On Saturday she & Jonathan got to spend lots of time together so that Dale & I could go to the Cleo Bay dealership in Killeen and buy our new Honda Odyssey (the vanilla EX model). We love it! It is so comfortable for me to get in and out of, and it is going to be so easy for me with two kiddoes to look after in parking lots, etc. Plus it will be a heck of a lot cooler in the Texas summer than my Civic was. I am pleased beyond words. Now we just need to sell our Civic—any takers?
Tomorrow morning is another appointment at the birthing center (today I’m 39 weeks and 3 days), then Mom, Jonathan, and I will go pick up Jfer in our fancy new car to go out to lunch. Daddy is supposed to arrive on Friday after spending Thursday evening with his mom and sister in Fort Worth. Jonathan is quite looking forward to his arrival, and he seems to be especially anticipating his behavior—he keeps saying that “Boppa will do silly things to the baby to make it laugh”, and he’s started saying that Boppa will do silly things to him too. Also, he’s declared his intention to take Boppa’s hat off (a game they’ve played for a long time), so be warned, Boppa.