Sandy's Surprise -- Full Term

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For some reason my nursery pictures just won't turn out! I've tried taking them in the morning, afternoon and at night, with the lights on and off, flash on and off and nothing works! It's a total mystery to me. I'll have to keep trying!

Man, the baby must be going through a growth spurt or something because for the past week or so I've been waking up in the wee hours of the morning, absolutely starving! It's so weird! I usually just have something light like toast because I don't want to gain too much more weight. At my last weigh-in I was up to 36 lbs. My goal is to gain no more than 40 lbs by the time I give birth. I haven't done too badly, especially considering I haven't been able to keep away from the Toblerone this pregnancy!

Today I went in to see my friend (well, more like an acquaintance) who just gave birth two months ago. She had a baby boy, and he is so cute! She and her husband (who's also in the Air Force like Tim -- they actually used to work together) moved here about 8 months before we did. Their wedding anniversary is about 9 months before ours, and their first baby will be about 2.5 months older than ours. Lots of coincidences!

Anyway, I had so much fun interacting with him and playing with him! He is at such a fun age, with the staring and tracking his mommy all around and cooing. And you could just tell she was absolutely smitten with him, too! It was adorable.

It made me miss my little guy so bad! He was sleeping while I was there, so I didn't even get to feel him. I just felt like, "I want to hold MY baby now!"

My body must be sending me all kinds of mothering hormones now that I'm so close to my due date, because my love for him has graduated from that "I-love-you-like-a-cute-fuzzy-animal" love to a definite mommy-baby kind of love. I don't think I'm there all the way yet, but I'm definitely close! It feels awesome. I just feel like I would do just about anything for this little guy inside my belly.

Oh, I think I forgot to post about this! The other night Tim and I were laying in bed reading when the baby started going nuts. He was squirming and pushing and pulling and kicking, and basically just contorting my belly into all these weird shapes.

I had Tim put his hand on my belly so he could feel it. Once he did that, he put his mouth on my belly and started talking to the baby. He said something like, "Hey there little guy, I love you so much! I can't wait to play with you and take care of you!"

And all of a sudden, the baby just got soooo still and quiet! He was totally listening to Tim! It was such an amazing moment! We were both like, "Hey! He's listening!" My eyes filled with tears because I felt such an overwhelming sense of amazement and love and wonder. My BABY was in there, and he was *listening* to my husband. Wow.

And now, albeit a little late, I'm going to have a:

37 WEEK AKA FULL-TERM PARTY!

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