7 months!

Another month down! Here we are at the beginning of month 7 and I can hardly believe there is only 12 weeks left. I feel like we've made some great progress with the nursery the past 2.5 weeks - it's finally starting to look like a little someone could sleep in there. :) Jake has been amazing and so helpful in putting everything together - I think he's excited to see the room come together too. There are still a few things we need {car seat to get our boy home!}, but we have plenty of time for those things. I'm glad we haven't rushed to get the nursery put together because now that it's nearly done, I just want a baby to put in that crib! The walls are still bare, but I have a few things for the walls coming. The past 7 months have really flown by...I've been looking back on belly pictures and have started to long for that week 4 "oh I feel so bloated" picture. Ha! I'd love to look like my week 4 picture {see the blog entitled "AWAKE" under the month of July}. Instead I'm watching the belly get huge {which is pretty exciting} and some other places which aren't too exciting to watch get huge. ;) It's pretty darn amazing to see how quickly your body changes in a matter of months. And thanks to my dear friends who PROMISE me I'll bounce back to my pre-baby body!

In other news, I got up just before 3am to make one of my nightly visits to the bathroom and discovered Max sleeping in the cat bed!! Ever since we bought that silly bed, he'd sleep all around it and next to it but never in it. Jake was sure we'd wasted $25 on the bed for their Christmas present. But we seem to have out-smarted the cat! I put one of Jake's t-shirts on it since he also loves sleeping on our clothes and there he was at 3am - sleeping in the cat bed, all curled up. I thought about taking a picture, but decided against it since it was middle of the night. Don't think for a second that I didn't wake up Jake to show him, though - he had to see this for himself!

Oh,I did manage to get in a little run a few days ago!!! I'm sure I was a sight for...um, everyone? I waddled my way to a nice jog with a huge grin on my face {because there is such a thing as a "runner's high" even when pregnant!} - I even managed to get Jake's attention and show him I could still do it! I got 4 miles in that day {not all running!} but my back hurt SO BADLY by the time I was done that I swore against it for the rest of my pregnancy. I was in some serious pain for a good 3 days and have decided that as much as I'd like to say that I ran throughout my entire pregnancy, it just isn't going to happen. I could end up with a serious injury and I am not willing to sacrifice any PTO just because I was too proud to give up running the last few months.

I think that's all for now. Looks like 2010 is off to a great start - it's definitely starting our countdown to March 31st!



I'll leave you with a couple week 27 pictures: