9th month

my due date is oct 18, so i now have one month left. well, as it's week 36, four to six weeks left, and i'm counting on six weeks until d-day. starting on monday, i'll have weekly midwife appointments. sleeping has been really rough. i went to bed last night around 12:45am, and just couldn't sleep any longer past 6:15. i got up, surfed online a bit, and then went swimming. it was the second time this week... i went on tuesday for the first time since may. being in the water felt good, but i felt a little like a tugboat with my huge belly. coming OUT of the water was not fun at all. that's when i suddenly noticed the difference between my belly semi-floating in the water, giving my abdominal muscles a rest, and having to support the whole extra 20 pounds. i wish i could be that weightless all the time.
i'm still working on the teaching project, but it should be done sooner than i had though, as i discovered the efficiency of copy/paste options. other projects i need to do include putting wedding photos - the ones taken with the little cameras on the tables - into an album, and cooking a bunch of meals to be frozen. we have our last childbirth class this weekend at ohsu - childbirth a-z. it's 10-3 tomorrow, & 12-5 on sunday. pretty intense. we're feeling pretty ready at this point, and i'm definitely ready to eat carbs again! here are some pics of some kind, thoughtful gifts from some of my students...