making progress

Well, baby now has a pediatrician, which was the last bit of information I needed to fill out my pre-registration form. Should I go into labor now, at least I will be set at the hospital. However, I am perfectly content to wait the 12 weeks until my due date! The next big item to check off the list is finding a day care provider. We're already seen a few places (centers) and have a few other possibilities, but I hope we can settle on something in the next week or two.

We've made some progress on the furniture rearranging front as well. Our second bedroom (formerly study/guest bedroom) now has the changing table and an extra bookshelf. There's not much left to do in there except organize books and papers. Our bedroom is now home to a crib. We moved a bookshelf and desk out to make room for it. Much more organizing/purging to be done in here -- the crib is piled high with books and papers to go through. In the process of clearing out space in there, I found all of my high school Latin assignments. I must have had a good reason for saving those, right? I couldn't think of a good reason to keep them any longer, though, so they all went into the recycling bin. Now if I could just bring myself to get rid of various notes and assignments from college... :)

28 weeks

Just a few months to go before Baby Olson will finally meet the world. We're keeping plenty busy with the preparations -- the crib was finally assembled today and we are in the process of rearranging furniture in order to make room for him (or, more correctly, all his stuff!). It will be nice to get the changing table and the gifts from my baby shower last week out of the living room and into their proper places.

Here is a picture of me at 28 weeks. Right now, baby is content to spent most of his time with his head up by my rib cage... although for all the moving around he does, I would think that he might find a few other positions :)