Complete with a funky belly button and stretch marks! YAY! In case anyone is wondering why my belly button has a red spot...its from when I had a belly button piercing when I was a teenager. I guess the scar tissue turns red when its stretched like that.
So I am getting pretty excited about the baby shower in a little over two weeks! I'll be even more excited that I'll be 34 weeks and a couple days at that point. Then shortly after that I have my 36 week ultrasound on May 1st. I am super thrilled to say the baby has had excellent movement. He is a little ninja in my belly. He spends alot of time now lying on his side which is better than him being breech all the time. I think he might have completely turned upside-down at some point because I start feeling lots of pressure with the weight change. I really dont want the doctors to perform an external version to turn him so hopefully in four weeks he will be where he needs to be locked into position.
In the meantime, Jay and I have been keeping busy. We are going to start getting the apartment baby proofed and replacing old stuff with new stuff. I was able to get Jay out of the house yesterday in order to go see the Titanic exhibit and the Bodies exibit at the Luxor. Jay had free tickets from his job (which would have cost close to $90-100 for the both of us). We saw titanic first and it was a trip! It was very emotionally overwhelming and realistic. Jay really enjoyed it alot. We then saw Bodies which is filled with real human remains that have been processed with polymer to preserve them. They had entire bodies, bones, random organs, etc. It was interesting but its pretty creepy too. They had facts on the wall and one of them said women who eat lots of garlic have babies that breastfeed better...so at least I learned something new. Jay and I were going to skip the room which contained embryos and fetuses but then I decided to go in at the last minute. Jay hated that room. It was interesting though to see real preserved embryos throughout every stage of pregnancy and then the actually larger fetuses. I was actually blown away by it all until I saw a baby in a tube that is my babies age right now, and then I got freaked out. I thought it was bad ju-ju for me to be in there any longer.
So after that kind of excitement, we needed somewhere to relax so we headed over to Shark Reef. I had only been to see the top of the shark tank so this time I was able to walk through the whole thing. I know I will be bringing the baby back there all the time. When we were in the touch pool room with the sting rays, I wanted so badly just to touch one but I couldn't manuever my big self through the people so I quietly sat at the other end of the pool and observed. The sting rays were a good 15-20 feet away being idle and so I was shocked when out of nowhere an ivory colored sting ray bee-lined it right for me and sort of stopped so I could reach him. As soon as I touched him a few times he went back to the other end of the pool. I don't know why but this made my day feel great.
I hope Jay and I can have many days like that with the baby. I love those type of outings, too bad the best places to go are on the strip. Being pregnant down on the strip is way stressful but its fun once you are doing something indoors.
So I hope everyone is getting excited about the baby coming soon! I know the baby's grandmas can't wait. My mom already has plans to kidnap the baby from me and take him to lunch so she can pretend he is hers. Hahaha. I'm starting to get a little frightened of the whole labor thing so it will be great to have our moms there guiding me through it all.
Well, expect updates at 34 weeks for pictures and 34 weeks and four days since that the day of the baby shower. I'll try to get as many pictures as I can and when the baby's nursery is set up, we'll get pictures of that too. Oh and the baby is still nameless but we are working this out. =)
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