I had an appt today...

And it made me happy.

Two days ago when I did the "stop in to get checked deal, she (Colleen, a random midwife who was there at the time) said my cervix was still pretty hard, posterior, high, hard to find, and that the baby's head was still kinda high, too. Today I'm 60-70% effaced, with a deeply engaged head, and my cervix was super easy to find and right there close :) So, that is something.

Also something: I had a sudden, one week jump in weight (6 pounds!!) and fundal height (from 39 to 42+). The baby is huge, and thus I am as well.

Anyhow. There is still hope for labor on the 7th, then, as Shari predicted a couple of weeks back. The 7th, btw, is Grant's birthday. So he's 24 today, and you should all go congratulate him :)

For now, I'm going to bed.

This is what my kids think grandmothers look like...

It doesn't quite do them justice - you can't see the barbed wire tattoo around my mothers upper left arm (it doesn't go the whole way around to the inner arm), or the tiger tattoo that is peaking out on the back of her right shoulderblade. And the lighting is terrible and creating shadows that give them both a bit more double chin than in strictly true. But yeah, that's my mom (41) and Grant's mom (47 - she had her first at the same age as my mom did, but Grant is not her first..thus, she has Robby, a 10 year old grandchild, as well as Mindy's girls, who are turning 7, and not just our 5 and under crew).



In other news - I've decided that if I'm still pregnant this time tomorrow, I'm going to put all of the baby's things on ebay and use the money to buy a serious maternity wardrobe that I can use for the rest of my life.