Success!

What a LONG and exhausting week! Not to mention stressful. I can't even pinpoint just one stressful moment. They were just flying at me from every direction. I love my little daycare babies, but we had 2 new ones start this week and we just couldn't win. If one wasn't crying, another one (or 5) were. Wednesday and Thursday night I was in bed before 9:00. I'm starting to understand the exhaustion that pregnant women talk about and I'm beginning to consider asking to drop to part time within the next few weeks.

It has been nice to have some cooler days. It makes meeting Daniel seem that much closer. I'm down to 9 weeks now! I'm hoping that he comes before Thanksgiving so that Kendra can meet him. The craziest thing to me is realizing that if for some reason I should happen to go into labor really early most hospitals won't try to stop your labor once you hit 34-35 weeks! I could potentially have a baby that soon. I don't have any reason to  believe that he'll come early, but it just shows me how much closer this is to reality. I'd prefer he keep "cookin'" in there until after the musical at Jacob's school in November. Once we get beyond that, he's welcome to show up whenever he'd like.

Today while Jacob was at musical practice I decided to be productive while watching the Iowa game. The game was stressing me out anyway! They were awful. I saw the season slipping away...but then a miracle occurred and they came back in the 4th. My Hawkeyes won!

I folded some laundry. Took out the garbage. Then I decided to try and put the baby swing together. I am not handy. I do not do well reading instruction manuals. I felt determined though and this is the final product:

It took me almost 2 hours (although I took a lunch break at one point), but I was going to succeed. My greatest obstacle were the screws I had to use one of those blasted Allen wrenches with. They did not want to cooperate. Of course I managed one screw up and put a piece together backward. So frustrating!
In the end though, I won! I plugged it in and everything works! I had planned to keep it in Daniel's room until he was born...but I couldn't get it through the door. Oops!

I'm looking forward to my Iowa baby shower which is 2 weeks from today! I was getting a little nervous that only 2 people had RSVPed, but my mom let me know that several others have responded now and I can't wait! I need more baby stuff to organize! Plus I'm really looking forward to seeing friends and family as well!