Still Pregnant - Updated

Now 5 days post-term. After some tests, the doctor's have declared the baby fine and so we've decided to wait to induce labor until June 3. If I don't go into spontaneous labor before that, I will go into the hospital on Tuesday night and probably have the baby sometime on Wednesday.

Flowers

Our house with our nice flowers and me just waiting around for that baby.

Broad Street

On Sunday, Ben ran the Broad Street Run, an annual 10 mile race here in Philly. It had about 24,000 running which included a lot of our friends. If you are asking, "Ben runs?" as I did, the answer is, not usually. He gets an urge to do a running race every couple years and barely trains and always does surprisingly well. He did great on Sunday and I was really proud of him as well as all our friends. Everyone who ran by us had a big smile on their faces even though it was chilly and raining.
Ginger and I pretended to run a little to try to get those babies out. It didn't work. The last week has been so uncomfortable and I can't wait to have this part be over with, even if it means going through labor (May be eating my words soon).

37 Weeks

The baby is full term now and we are ready for him!

Getting Closer

The backyard progresses to a state where we can enjoy it. We still need more flowers and some other things, but it's so nice to hang out back there and read or eat dinner or sit around the fire pit. And with this great weather, we are out there all the time.
I am now 36 weeks pregnant and after next week, will have a full-term baby walking around in there. It is still pretty surreal that this bump will be a whole other person in a couple weeks. Everything is about ready!

Spring was here.

Spring was here, but now it is cold and grey again. But during the nice weather, Ben and I were busy.
Went to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Fairmount Park, took a birthing class, hosted a fun easter brunch, and hauled 1.4 tons of concrete out to New Jersey from the back yard.
Only 5 weeks left before my due date and everything is almost ready. At our last ultrasound, the baby was about 4.25 lbs. and the doctor said that the baby would not be too big. Yay for me!
The backyard looks great and we bought some comfy lounge chairs for it - pictures of all of Ben's hard work coming soon! The baby's room is almost done - still waiting on a glider chair that we ordered and a commissioned painting by my mom.

Baby Shower

On Saturday, my friends, Jenny and Laura threw me a baby shower. I am not usually a fan of showers, but I actually had a really fun time at this one. There were no games, no activities (by my request), just really really good food, some great gifts, and a lot of the people I love. Friends from New York came down and my Mom and sister came up from DC. It was really special having them all there, along with all my Philly friends. Everyone has been really supportive and Ben and I really appreciated all the gifts!