As the Family Gets Bigger...

This weekend has been spent doing the usual baby preparations:

• Cloth diaper buying
• Baby items washing
• Reading the "birth day" list & checking it twice
• Reading more articles & books about breastfeeding, diapering, and sleeping.

30.5 weeks
(I debated long & hard
as to whether I should share this)

As of yesterday, I am 37 weeks pregnant and 3 weeks away from the due date. So that means I am now term and could have the baby at any moment! But I had another check-up on Friday and everything is still looking and sounding good. There are, of course, the usual pains, discomforts, fatigue and such, but overall I feel well.

The thing I feel the most, though, is that I want this baby out!

I hear some women get depressed and sad after the baby is out. Sad that the baby is no longer within them. But I am ready for this little guy, or girl, to come out! I'm ready to see what we've made, to interact with baby and to have energy again!

We have also just bought a new printer/copier/scanner. I'm way more excited about this then I should be, but nevertheless am. Starting Sept. 19th, I will be working from home. So for this reason, plus the fact that we will be printing baby pictures like crazy once the baby arrives, warrants this new electronic purchase.

We will also be buying a dryer with the next paycheck deposit. Right now, we have this nifty, little, portable washer. And it works wonders since our apartment doesn't have washer and dryer and hook-ups. But as the weather cools down, we will need the convenience of a dryer more urgently. As much as I love smell of clean clothes fresh out of the sunshine, the mountains will be getting chilly sooner than we know.

Here's the portable dryer we're looking at.

And speaking of pictures, while I was reading this fave of fave blogs, I was introduced to Pinhole Press. I know, just know, that we will be using this company for this year's holiday gifts for the family (adorable first baby book, anyone?).