PA - Hope that your shower went well and you got lots of useful and cute gifts! When will you hear if you're officially on maternity leave? As for your friend, WTH? This may be your only shower and she's worried about making a 10am deadline? HUH? I mean especially after you TTC for so long. Hopefully she made it and all is well, cause I'd be irritated if she didnt
Natasha - hang in there, nursing school is difficult but well worth it after you are done.
Angela - Good luck at your GTT today, I hope you dont end up feeling too ill. Yay for your DH getting the crib together - NO yay for having to nag him to do it though. I love your letters, I was only able to see 1 pic, did you post more than that? I also upload to photobucket, its just easier and you can still do it that way from a cell phone camera - plus when she's born - instead of having to send pics to all your friends & family you can just give them your photobucket website address, you get your own webpage & address and its free - pretty neat I think.
Babyluv - UGH, more discomforts? Just what we all need, right? I havent had terrible palm itching, but had it on my belly, and ankles, or at this point, I guess I mean cankles- ugh. So I see you're on the same sleep pattern as me, its like catnapping all night, then you wake up tired anyway, fun, yes? Aw, I'll bet those pumpkin patch pics came out adorable! You're moving right along, just keep trying to take it easy please.
Steph - OK, you can get through this... tomorrow is your birthday yay, Wed will be Ethan & Angelina's birthday, and then your in in laws will leave! And you can have your babies and husband in peace! Big YAY for that! How are you feeling twin mama? Just two days left and its really more like 1 1/2 - OMG! How excited are you?? I know that the whole dirty diapers in the kitchen trash would just drive me bugshit crazy, but thankfully they'll be leaving soon!

Now what happened? How could your MIL complain that Andrew wasnt cleaning right when it sure doesnt sound like she herself is up for any housekeeping awards? I mean to not use proper hygienne and handwashing? with kids around? UGH they must get sick all the time. And ummm, newsflash in my world the fact that Andrew was willing to mop the floors wins major bonus points! Who cares how he did it? As long as it got done, right? Just get through this visit and you shopuld be safe for years!

I'll keep sending you patience dust! Lots of it! Ooh honey a day on the lake sounds nice, but this pregnant? That seems like it would be too much ( you see I take how I'm feeling and try to multiply it to figure out how you're feeling) and umm, ow? I cant believe that you can in & out of the tub by yourself, I've gotten afraid to shower if I'm home alone. I can get in just fine, but getting out theres nothing to hold onto. Hee hee, I was thinking the same thing last night, I was super tender at like 9pm and I said to Chris, "well theres no way a birthday of 10-10-10 is happening now"
Poor guy thinks every time I say ow that we're on our way - I tell him dont pay attention since I say ow with almost every step lately - ugh. I cant wait to hear how your birthday goes tomorrow. And then it will be WED!!!!!!! much love mama - xoxoxoxo
Claudia - Good luck at your OB appt tom. Ack! "stealing your beauty"? Where do people come up with these sayings? Oh, please you look just gorgeous in all the pics you've posted! how are you feeling mama? And speaking of old wive's tales - they better not come true because if thats the case with all this heartburn, then poor Savannah will come out looking like a cavewoman!

How lovely to have a porfessional photographer take all sorts of pics - you'll be able to put togather a great baby book for Flick! - xoxo
Gi - Good luck with your appt tomorrow! Hope they find the HB right away and dont freak you out this time. My OBs always seem to move it around wuite a bit before finding it too - jeez, dont they understand that we crazy IVF women get nervous fast? Yay for being 35 weeks already! Where did the time go? No, signs of labor yet, but I keep looking for them.. Oooh I love that you dress your pups up for Halloween, and they let you? Gracie wont even agree to a Santa hat at Christmas time, spoiled beast that she is. A fairy and a warlock? Aw, that sounds like fun, I'll bet they look adorable!! How are you feeling mama ? Is Jason getting nervous yet? - xoxo
AFM - I think Savannah has dropped even more because each step is kind of owie! and if I thought I was walking slow last week? Well thats nothing compared to how very slooow I go now! And in the mirror it looks like my belly is lower than it was last week too. I have an OB appt tom ( with the female OB who hurt me the last time - sigh) so i'm eager to hear how much I'm dilated now, I think maybe a bit more? Who can tell? All I know is that certain times of the day it feels like those knife like pains are there for every step. Oh, and I sure do feel for you Steph, its gotten really difficult to turn over in bed without hurting myself now, hey theres some fun, huh? I'm getting very nervous now, yep, Gi, I may be in denial right along with you - lol. I had this cleaning / organizing frenzy this weekend and had poor Chris rearrange the whole nursery, he did it without complaining but I think he's just humoring me at this point, anyway I'm glad because its more functional now, and looks a bit bigger, so yippee for that! I keep having this new fear of being alone when labor starts, and not realizing that I'm in labor. Its sort of freaking me out that I havent had not even one BH, if they are supposed to be your body practicing for labor, why doesnt mine want to practice? I asked the OB last week about labor and he said "oh, trust me, you'll know" ummm, I sure do hope so cause the idea of this scares me to death! It it so so surreal to me to think that there will be a baby in this house any day now - eeek! I keep telling Chris that we'll take her home and look at each other like "what do we do now"? lol. He said he'll double check with the hospital that "are you sure theres no instruction manual that came with her"? hahaha. But that sure would be helpful, wouldnt it?

much love to you all - xoxoxo