Babble babble babble

Thank you all so much for your support and encouragement!! I feel so much better after venting a little, and reading all of your comments. I really don't know how I'd get through some of this stuff without my community of sistas!!

So much is happening!!

My parents are driving up today or tomorrow with a van full of baby shower gifts! I can't wait to get all of that stuff set up and washed, etc. By the end of the weekend, the Pack-n-Play should be set up (that will be Charm's crib until the house is finished), the tiny clothes should be washed and put away, and the diaper-changing-station should be set up and fully stocked. Dh is certainly in for a shock!!

Saturday, we'll go see the house. Mom and Dad haven't seen it yet at all, and we haven't seen it in a few weeks. I hope that they've gotten a lot done! After that, we'll all go look at baby furniture. I want to at least have something picked out soon so that we don't have to go when I'm really huge or while carrying around a newborn. The store is 45 minutes away--I want to avoid those long trips for a while!!I also don't want to put it off until we have to start packing up to move again!!

Charm is doing all kinds of cool tricks these days. I have a really talented kid in there. I mean, not very many children actually learn how to do cartwheels in utero! the other day, I was feeling awful. I just couldn't get comfortable. Well, I figured out, after a while, that Charm was apparently laying sideways. You could even tell by looking at my tummy!! I saw it in the mirror, and then I showed dh--I was very w-i-d-e!! It was so funny!! Fortunately, Charm did move. Actually, he/she has changed positions several times since. I think that we are back at head down, now, but I really don't know.

Charm gets hiccups 4-5 times a day now. Poor thing. That can't be comfortable! And they last for several minutes!! It's pretty cool to know that he/she is practicing his/her breathing, though. Maybe that means that he/she will be a good studier, always prepared. I hope that he/she takes after his/her Daddy that way!!

So I think that I have just about everything gathered that I need for this little one. Now I just have to clean, launder, organize, and pack. Oh, we do have an important box to find. I hope that DH and DF can do that this weekend, too. When we moved into the apartment, the only box marked BABY was accidentally put into the garage with the storage. Now that wouldn't be too big of a deal, except that the garage is packed floor to ceiling with furniture, lawn equipment, and boxes. That baby box has the outfit that Charm is supposed to wear home from the hospital, the baby blanket that I crocheted, and the shower gifts that we received in CT. I need that box before the birth. Oh, I hope that they can find it.

Ok, I'm babbling. As you can see, my thoughts are barely organized these days. They just run through my head in random order.

Ok, a topic for discussion: sling vs. front carrier--I can't decide, and may just buy both. Any thoughts??