Come out Baby Austin!!!

40 weeks along. Apparently Austin has not received the memo that it's time to come out. I even got an email from one of those weekly pregnancy newsletters congratulating me on 38 weeks of gestation....I'm like, whoever wrote that has obviously not gestated for 38 weeks.

Go back to the doctor Wed. will do a non-stress test on the baby to make sure he is still enjoying himself in there. My vote is probably so. After that we will set up an induction date for the following week. My doctor says very calmly...we don't like you to go past 41 weeks. THANK GOD FOR THAT! So, the latest we are looking at is the 6th or 7th.

Everyone has their theories of why he's not here yet. The most popular though is..."He's a King so of course he's late...."

My nephew Eric was so cute, he has been talking to Austin all week. Giving my belly a pat, and telling him to come out and play. It's a 2 part-er, 3 year olds don't always get it on the first take. :)

Visitors

My sister Tara and nephews, Eric and Cameron, came to visit for the week. They had come to help if I went into labor or distract me from thinking about that I haven't gone into labor yet. Needless to say we have found many distracting things to do.

Lots of walks, mini trips to the mall, and local shops. It's been fun having them around. The boys are too cute. Here we are by the Iowa River, the boys in their matching big and little brother shirts.

My brother in law Joe joined us this weekend, and we celebrated Eric's 3rd birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. Always, fun. Eric enjoyed pushing buttons on the machines...Joe and Josh enjoyed beating the other dads in pop-a-shot. Everyone was happy.

Cameron thinks Josh is pretty funny...looking. He is probably wondering why they have the same hairstyle.

One more...er..uh...one to three weeks to go!!

39 weeks...so close, yet so far away. I'm like one week I can jump on board...3 weeks, sounds like a long time. Things are progressing slowly but surely, but pretty much it means nothing unless you go into labor...and obviously I haven't done that yet. :)

Just a smidge uncomfortable...which is sarcasm for, I never knew that so many parts of my body could hurt or fall asleep after 10 min of being in one position. Examples you say?

Standing: This probably feels the best, but ultimately the swelling wins in the end turning ankles into cankles, and making the varicose veins throb.

Recliner: great for cankles, however the small space between my chest and upper torso somehow always falls asleep. Still trying to figure that out.

Sitting: refer to torso falling asleep and cankles

Lying on the side: I fall asleep...waking up a few hours later to a full bladder, and hips that feel broken, making me secretly wish I had a walker to assist me to the bathroom.

Lying on my side upright supported by pillows: This one is deceiving. You feel like you might have beat the odds. Everything is supported and circulating well...wait what's that? Oh, just kidding my whole side has fallen asleep. I looked like Kevin Spacey's character from Usual Suspects trying to walk this one off.

Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum, and Tweedle Ry-Ry

38 weeks, and I'm finally understanding where they got their inspiration for these characters....

Snoozing, and Snuggling with the Snoogle.

BUSTED!! Josh claims he doesn't usually sleep with the snoogle when I'm gone, but as I was heading out the door the other morning look what I found.

I had heard his phone/alarm going off several times already, so I figured he was up....but imagine that...there's his phone snoozed...and Josh sleeping ever so soundly in the snoogle fort.

I have embraced the Mu-mu....

It's come to the point where even maternity clothes aren't fitting and or aren't comfortable. I get tired just dressing myself. I pretty much wear a combination of 3 outfits a week, because well...see above. Now that the weather is starting to warm up we have even more of a dilemma. I don't have any warm clothes, because well...see past blogs about Iowa...and I'm not about to go buy anything, because I wouldn't want to do anything that would encourage prolonging this pregnancy.

As I was staring at my closet today thinking...I wish I just had a giant cotton tent with a draw string....I remembered last summer buying this little number at Old Navy on clearance for $1.99. It's not maternity, but it was ginormous, and I thought...there just might come a time where this might work....well folks, it's that time....and it has pockets and a hood. Love it. Best $2 and change I ever spent.



So I've reached another low or some might consider a high being 9 months pregnant. Yes, this is what it has come to...wearing a mu-mu, sitting in a recliner, eating a giant piece of chocolate cake. (p.s.....Wal-Mart bakery section $1.50.) They are like the perfect pregnancy size...I don't want a whole cake, just a piece...I mean a giant piece...OK, maybe in my mind I secretly say part of this is for Josh too....but I don't think his two bites really puts a dent in the thing.

OK, now the picture taking is just getting ridiculous. I mean, who needs a TV tray when you have a built in shelf?

I've been tagged

Aurora tagged me. I'm passing my tag on to Lani, Chancy, and Maria.

Here's the skinny:
1. link to the person who tagged you.
2. post the rules.
3. share 6 non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. tag at least 3 people.
5. make sure the people you tagged know you tagged them by commenting to them.

6 non-important things/habits/quirks about myself:
As I was starting to type this I was just thinking out loud, "What are some quirks/habits I have?" Josh being in the room with me started to rattle off a list like no one's business...so I guess I will write these from Josh's point of view....or I should say Josh's pet peeves of me.

1. I leave cabinet doors open (mainly in the kitchen). I will say the King household growing up didn't have "latches" that worked really well on our kitchen cabinets, so they swung freely with ease....I don't know, doesn't bother me.

2. I'm a klutz. I run into things a lot, mainly my arms and elbows, it's like I'm not aware of them as I go through door ways. It's pretty much a daily occurrence for me to be in the other room and you hear a "thud"...me: "Ow"...Josh:(laugh), "Imagine that." Playing indoor soccer, Josh said I was constantly on the ground, I told him it's called being aggressive, but I can still hear him from the stands yelling "stay vertical!!"

3. Chewing on my face...Not only was I cursed with tiny teeth, but a few years ago a dentist told me I was a clencher and a grinder. Which I find makes tiny teeth tinier. I catch myself doing it sometimes, or I wake up with a sore jaw. Josh has pointed out to me another bad habit that I do which is chew on my cheeks or my tongue...or as Josh calls it, "chewing on my face." Hence, why I chew gum by day...but apparently I do it at night too. So, occasionally I get the, "you were chewing your cud so loud last night. "

4. Absent mindedness...if that's a word. Josh claims that I just don't think sometimes, (also see being a klutz), or I'm just in another world. I will ask him the same question several times. We will drive by restaurants, and I will say, "we should eat there sometime,"...to which Josh says, "We have." He says I D.A. him a lot...dead air...where I take too long to answer him. I mean mainly it's when I'm multitasking a.k.a. watching TV. But, then again the Dallas lunch crew nicknamed me Rose (from the Golden Girls)...so I don't know.

OK...enough of Josh's thoughts....before we get divorced.

5. I'm an OC hand washer. Not so much because I am afraid of germs, but more because I feel like I have a film on my hands...or I don't like going from different tasks without washing my hands first. Like if I go for a walk, I have to immediately wash my hands when I get back home, or after I am done typing this I will go wash my hands before bed....but then sometimes I forget if I have washed my hands recently, so I will wash them again. I don't know...weird.

6. Restaurants-more condiments and liquids...I will drink water/soda as long as the waiter keeps bringing it to me. Most times, I can't wait for the refill, therefore, I will drink Josh's water as well while I wait. Back in the day when I could drink. My favorite was going somewhere for brunch after a night out, and I would order no joke...water, OJ, Coke, and a Bloody Mary...and yes, I'm a nerd, a perfect day would me bringing a multivitamin as well. All the ingredients for successfully treating a hangover. But it doesn't end there. I will order an item like chicken fingers, which might be like 4 or 5 in an order, and I will have just as many if not more condiments on the side...ketchup, ranch, honey mustard, BBQ sauce, blue cheese...yes, I will take them all.