it's gorgeous here today, and i'm just over a week from my due date (!). i am hoping that our little dude will hang out for a bit and not make an early appearance. i think we're generally ready, but it would be nice to have a bit of R&R time before he comes and turns our world upside down.
he's been moving around a lot lately: not so much kicking as pushing at my stomach from a few different angles. it must be at least one of his feet under my right breast, and then there's probably either a hand or an elbow just to the left side of my belly button. i don't know if anyone notices it but me, but when he's pushing on both of those spots i think it makes me look really lopsided.
we have a few things we still need to get ready (sterilizing bottles, finalizing the announcement/contact lists, etc) but we're in good shape. we put our spare bed in the baby's room so that i can sleep in there if necessary (or, i suppose, steve can -- he's been complaining that i've been snoring lately, which is a completely new thing for me). we've got the carseat base in one of the cars, and the bags are mostly packed for the hospital (just need to grab last minute things like the camera battery, which is charging, some toiletries that we use every day, etc).
i am going to try to read a book on baby sleep habits this week. i started reading "healthy sleep habits, happy child", which i think is pretty horribly written and extremely boring so far. i think the main problem is that with many non-fiction/advice books the premise should be about a chapter long (steve thinks maybe the books should be pamphlets instead) and yet they feel the need to drag it out to an entire book in order to justify charging you $20 for the book. i guess i need to accept that, and learn to skim more effectively...
i am thinking of buying myself a kindle. i've been wanting one for quite some time, and when i went to a management class at work, one of the guys in the class approached me during the break and let me know that the kindle was the best thing ever for his wife while she was breastfeeding. he said that she was an internet junkie and loved following the news, and while it was not too hard to prop up a book and try to read it while nursing, it was impossible to find the time to get online or to read the newspaper, and that the kindle allowed for her to do this with one hand while nursing. sounds like a plan to me! i just need to get up the guts to make the purchase... maybe later today.