It's Friday!!

It's Friday of my 33rd week!  I get my kicks these days stalking all of my friends and acquaintances who are having children in the next 7 weeks, or who have had babies since November of last year.  I am so intrigued and want to learn from their experiences.  What has been hard? What has been rewarding? What could have been avoided? What have you experienced that you never could have imagined?  And those sweet baby pictures!  Oh I cannot get enough of them! I go into the nursery every now and again just to hold the little outfits that she will someday wear... or will she?  Will she be too big for them?  Will she take months to grow into them? Will she have lots of hair? Will she have my coloring or Ron's? Will she look like us immediately?  I find it so interesting how so many babies are born with their parents' features.  Not sure why that blows my mind, but it does! :)

Needless to say, Al is all that I think about these days... from belly bumping off my desk because I have lost track of my spatial awareness, to her summersaults in my belly, to Ron's gasps when she seems to have situated herself all on one side of my body.  We go back and forth about how she is positioned in my belly at any given time, and I get excited every time I see her move.

We had one minor distraction from Al this week....my first child and love, Javier, gave me a scare.  Ron says he pointed out Javy's lumps on his chest to me over the summer...but I definitely don't remember that.  They came to my attention about 3 weeks ago, and I convinced myself that they were nothing to worry about.  A friend delivered girl scout cookies to us last week though, and I was very saddened to hear that her lab (of 13 years) passed from cancerous tumors.  That was enough to encourage me to get Javy in for his annual vet appointment a little early.

After I let on to Ron about how obnoxious my relatively calm lab behaved when visiting the vet, Ron decided that he would join us for Javy's appointment!  I will have to post a video soon of his crazy antics.  It's so comical.  The vet confirmed very quickly that these "nodules" were very common and benign.  In fact he said many labs become "more lump than dog" as they age :)  That was SUCH a huge relief!  After all... all of my visions of our family include my little monster Lopez!  I LOVE MY DOG!!!!!

This weekend we have quite a bit going on.... preggy pics with Meg Runion, I have to teach Interval Class, a Belvedere Neighborhood Social, my brother's girlfriend's horse show, and mom and dad will be staying with us Sunday night!  In all of this, I also have my fingers crossed that Ron and the men will get the chair rail and crown molding finished in Al's nursery so we can start finalizing it!  

Have a wonderful weekend, All! :) xoxoxo