New Flickr Pics - Nursery

So I FINALLY took the pictures, and downloaded them!! Click on the picture below to be taken to the Flickr folder for the Nursery.

Belly Pics - 36 weeks (July 18)

Still looking like a huge caricature of myself....

Belly Pics - 35 weeks (July 9)

Warning! They're not pretty!! and of course Max wanted his photo taken, too.

What size is Baby D-Lish?

Two days early, but it's the last in-belly estimate....

It's finally a watermelon! From thebump:
At week 37, your pregnancy is considered full term, meaning baby is likely to thrive after birth. Baby spends these last weeks in preparation for the outside world… meaning careful refinement of the blink, suck, inhale and exhale. Meconium, which you’ll probably find in the first diaper, is accumulating in the intestines. If (okay, as) you worry about giving birth, consider what it’s like for the little one. During the journey out of your womb, baby will produce more stress hormones than any other time in life.

Stretch marks suck.

That is all.

(I think I would have been more OK with them had I gotten them earlier in the pregnancy - being in the homestretch and getting them is like, placing second in a race that you dominated the whole time and then suddenly lost to someone who came out of nowhere).

Ugh. I'm going to go slather myself with all sorts of pregnancy products for the next 3-4 weeks in hopes that they will not grow or, maybe?, go away!?

And the polls are in....

According to you all, I am ....

having a boy (66%)
who will be born somewhere between Aug. 6 and 13 (46%)
and will be average-sized (20%).

Love the six of you who told me Baby D would be a holy cow big baby(what!! do I really look that big??)

Also love the 12 of you who think Baby D is coming after Aug. 13 - that's what I'm hoping for!!

Pictures, pictures, pictures

I uploaded some pictures to Flickr tonight:
1. Work shower (from June 12!)

2. Belly and sonogram pictures (randoms, most have been posted here before.)

3. Added a folder for "other stuff": gifts, nursery, fun things we see and do. More to be added as we go.

Officially a D-Lish myself.

So I finally made it down to Social Security this week and got my name changed. I kept K as my middle name (just like my mom did with her maiden name) so I have an ultra-long name overall - 22 letter and a hyphen! whew! But I just couldn't bear to part with any of it. I've been JL for so long now - in fact, my college friend Rebecca ONLY calls me JL, which I like! - that it felt weird to part with it. And with no boys to pass it on, I had to keep my maiden name for Dad.

On the to-do list today:
-call Salvation Army for a pick up.
DONE: they won't pick up b/c I don't have enough stuff!! argh!!
-put the office back together.
DONE! Only took the extended length "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" to accomplish....
-take pictures for the blog (I know, it's been THREE long weeks since you saw my awesome belly).
-go through magazines and trash what I don't want (yes, I am one of those geeks who saves all her magazines. I've gotten much better, I try to do this once a year now, and I've cut WAY back on the amount of magazines that come into this house. Now I only get Real Simple, I cut out Martha Stewart Living, and NatGeo Adventure in the past six months; but I still horde catalogs that come in, and being a union teacher, I get another three publications a month, plus a multitude of other language-educator magazines form various organizations to which I belong).
-grocery shopping (at least to get through the next four days)
DONE. and I was able to get to the library and the drycleaners, too!
-make dinner. We stopped at the Highland farmer's market yesterday and got some great raspberries, currants, beets, and kalamata olive bread. I LOVE beets, so I need to leave myself time to roast those suckers today.
-play around with the SLR and make a flash diffuser for it. I haven't touched the thing since I got pregnant, save one rugby game this spring. :-(
-PACK HOSPITAL BAG. crazy, I must be in denial, because I am not feeling the nesting that is supposed to be surging through my body. And my usual OCD personality seems to be on vacation.... because my brain has read the books that say I can expect to go into labor at any moment, but my body is in surfer-dude mode, saying, "we have PLENTY of time, just chill!"

Another plus to the week - the XBOX is fixed, so Gian and I have enjoyed rockin' out every night instead of flipping through the channels to find some mindless program to watch. My favorite of the week: we got to do "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi in a mystery song set. Fabulous!