31 and a half weeks!

Here are some photos Joe took this weekend...31 weeks and 3 days pregnant!

31 weeks and still too small!

Well, our midwife says that baby is still measuring too small! This little one is not growing as much as it should and that is unacceptable! However, I don't know how to get it to grow faster or more...my weight gain is right on track so I don't need to gain anything, just the baby does. If it doesn't have a substantial growth spurt in the next four weeks we will have to be tempted by fate to find out if it is Eli or Lucy and I don't want to! It is too hard, I will only be a month and a half away at that point and I can't back down now and find out. So we will just have to wait and see what happens in four more weeks. My belly is really achy today and so I am hoping that it is because the baby is growing and stretching.

I had my first baby shower yesterday, it was the work baby shower. They did such a nice job and it was really a lot of fun! The shower was a combined shower of three of us at work. I was the odd woman out because we aren't finding out if it is a boy or a girl. Everyone else at work is having girls. I was told on more than one occasion that I was difficult to shop for....I was actually impressed with some of the gender neutral clothes people found, there are some really adorable things we received. It is amazing how tiny the newborn size is! It is hard to believe that the little one in my belly will be wearing the clothes. I think the most surreal moment was when they asked the "mommies" to come up and start opening gifts...it is still so weird to hear the word mommy in reference to myself. Not much longer and I guess I will be getting used to it! Can't wait, I am ready to be done with the whole pregnancy thing!!