Starting the 3rd trimester this week :)

Today is 27w5d, so close enough to the third trimester, which officially starts on Tuesday. This was taken after church this morning, and I did NOT put on any make-up. Sorry. I was up but I was working on a project for Parker's room (in Okinawa, where I hear we will have cement walls - fun). Let me just clarify in case this picture makes you wonder, because people ask me all of the time: No, I am not having twins. Yes, I look huge. Okay?



Parker is very active now. It looks like I have an alien moving around - sometimes we see a kick or punch that moves my skin out over an inch! I would love to have another ultrasound to figure out what I am seeing. All of the movement I feel/see is right or left... I am wondering if she is laying horizontally? I don't seem to have a lot of vertical room to offer, anyway :)



My exams are done! (As long as I don't have to remediate any!!!) Corey still has two more weeks of exams, so he is constantly sleep-deprived but too stressed to sleep. It is a horrible cycle - too stressed to sleep, get up to work, too tired to work, take a nap, go to work, work too hard, get swamped with busy work, etc. I hate to ask him for help, but there are some things that Parker is keeping me from doing.



The stager is coming on Thursday and our video/pictures of the house are on Friday. We should be on the market by the end of next week. We can only hope we get a fair offer so we don't have to worry about this house as boards and Parker's arrival get closer. The other thing I am worried about: random baby gifts. I have no where to put a lot of these things other than storage bins in the garage. I am REALLY hoping that at our showers (we are so lucky to have so much support) we get things we need and not necessarily things that are cute. I continue to stress that we have too many clothes and blankets. I've been told that I'll need them, but let me point out that we will [hopefully?] be living out of suitcases for several months. She'll probably outgrow a good deal of clothes before we ever get our final shipment of household goods!



Rachel and I made our last trip to Laredo this week despite the swine flu. So far, I feel fine :) We used the special particulate respirator masks that we use for patients we suspect or who report have tuberculosis. It is very difficult to breathe while wearing these. I actually couldn't wear it during one extraction because I was so hot from all of the other stuff (gown, surgical cap, face shield) that I switched to a regular mask. There are other health risks we need to worry about besides the swine flu, so I had to balance them all.


This Friday is our graduation dinner. Rachel and I spent hours working on a presentation for the dinner as a way to share memories and thank all of our faculty. It is hard to believe it has been 3 years. I will post some of our pictures after the dinner... we've been planning this since September, and I think it is going to be a great surprise.