Coming into the home stretch...

So, I am offically in the last trimester now. 28 weeks and counting, leaving 12 to go. Crazy. And, for the first, I actually look preggo and not just like a gained a bunch of weight in the stomach area. Well, I think so, anyway.

Maybe it's just the usual nighttime bloating in the stomach area.

I think that I've had a few fake/practice/Braxton-Hicks contractions, but it's hard to stay. I just don't know.

I was supposed to have my monthly appt today, but I went in on Monday, because I wasn't feeling well and was having some cramping feelings, but all was well. Blood pressure was okay (I think), I only gained 3 pounds since the last appt (bringing my total, according to the doctor's office up to 13 lbs.; if you ask me it's more like 15 - 18 lbs, considering my illness at the beginning), pee test was fine and the baby's heartbeat was fine. He did a manual check as well and said the baby wasn't even down and everything was closed up tight. So, I just have to deal with the weird aches and pains.

I swear, the instant I hit 27 weeks, the back locked up. I have sore back ALL the time. It hurts so badly. I have Jake push on it a bit, just to get something to crack back there and usually, my spine does a good one. Yesterday, for instance, he was pushing and proding my spine area and it popped three times right in a row. And I felt a LOT better. I wish he were here right now to do the same, but he's off playing a gig in Chicago.

Also, he must be having growth spurts, because I am back to being as tired as I was in the 1st trimester, or very close to it. I'm forcing myself to stay up right now and it's only 9:40. V. tired. He has also be VERY active the past few days. It's really starting to become rather painful. I think that I'll have to go back to playing horn after he's here to get those tummy muscles back in shape. I did have good muscles under my fat layer.

In other news,

I am going to try to work on the bathroom this weekend. I also have plans to run over to Babies R Us and get a gift for one of the girls that I am on a preggo board online with -- we are having a virtual shower. So, I want to go buy her gifts and mail them to her ASAP. I just have to sand the layer of mud in the bathroom and make sure that it all looks fairly decent and paint with the texture paint for primer and then paint the blue. Then, the shelves need to go up and we'll be done with that. I doubt that I'll be able to do all of that this weekend, but I can dream. I guess if I am done with it before March, that will be okay. The baby's room closet is ready for the rest of the drywall and we just need to finish cutting into the room in the back to make that closet. That really just needs a layer of drywall on the back wall and mudding and repainting. Oh, and a door. We can just hang the rack from the baby's room closet back there. Easy peasy, right? We'll see. If all that could just be done before Ryan gets here, I'll be happy. Ha ha!

Well, I'm going to lay down and try to sleep before I feel like throwing up even more than I do already.