January 1, 2008

Happy New Year everyone! I can hardly believe that this may be the last photo of my big belly or that baby rancourt will be here sometime this month. I do feel like I've been pregnant forever but it's more shocking that they baby will be here in a few short weeks. (If that...Will seems to think this baby is coming early...we'll see.) Baby R is now 36 weeks and this Saturday we reach 37 weeks at which point baby is considered full term. Anywhere between 37-42 (Yikes!) weeks is full term. At this point the baby is in the stage of putting on weight...I did my best to help with this over the holidays. Baby R should be about 6lbs and growing. The kicks have grown much stronger these days and I've been a little more uncomfortable lately. I'm still able to walk Bella but I haven't been working out in the morning recently.

Tomorrow morning I have my 36 week appointment and I'm going weekly now until the baby arrives.
Between yesterday and today we've gotten like 2 feet of snow. Will and I joke about how we missed winter in Virginia and now it's snowing buckets but it sure is pretty. And I am not allowed to shovel this winter so I have that going for me. You can sort of see behind me how heavily it was coming down today. I didn't think it was possible but I would say that this belly is definitely bigger than last month.

Things are close to ready for baby's arrival. I still have some laundry to do but I'm working at it. I also have one more trip to Babies 'R Us but with the snow the trip has been put off until this weekend.

Will spent some time on a very special project over the past couple weeks. With the help and talent of Adam Newton, Will made a changing table for baby rancourt.

Our last family photo with just the three of us. We had a nice quiet holiday and we all refrained from buying baby r any gifts this year.