Week 35

How your baby's growing: Your baby's getting big. He weighs a tad over 5 pounds and is just over 18 inches long. Because it's so snug in your womb, he isn't likely to be doing somersaults anymore, but the number of times he kicks should remain about the same. His kidneys are fully developed now, and his liver can process some waste products. Most of his basic physical development is now complete — he'll spend the next few weeks putting on weight.

How your life's changing: Your uterus — now up under your ribs — has expanded to about 15 times its original volume, and you may feel like you've run out of room! If you could peek inside your uterus, you'd see that there's much less amniotic fluid and much more baby in there now. Your ballooning uterus is crowding your internal organs too, which is why you probably have to urinate more often and have heartburn and other digestive problems.

Sorry if there's too much amniotic fluid in that description for you Ross. But, at this point, pregnancy gets kinda gross and uncomfortable.

Saturday was a pretty miserable day for me. It was so hot walking around Tappahannock for Rivah Fest that I felt like if I let go, the baby would fall out. Add to that emotional swings (there's a man at a furniture store who will never be the same after I let him both have it both barrels for putting on too much sales pressure, the discomfort of having a baby's foot under your rib on the 1.5 hour drive to Richmond, missing the class we drove an hour and a half to attend (my fault), returning a non-functioning remote control toy at Target for a different one only to get home and find that the new remote control toy doesn't work either and waiting two-hour wait for dinner at the restaurant. Let's just say I was glad to go to sleep and put the whole day behind me.

Sunday was much better. I spent hours floating in the pool. We had a father's day feast of fruit and quiche and bacon. We played board games by the pool. Scott made a delicious Thai taco dinner (which Justin amazingly gobbled down despite the lettuce wraps and spicy curry seasoning). We read books together and ate fresh Nestle Toll House cookies for an hour before Justin went to bed. We talked to the whole family in California.

Justin is in camp at the country club this week (golf, tennis and swimming.) The girls at work are throwing me a shower this weekend. After that I will have a better idea of what I still need and can do a final shop in preparation.

Summer is in full force.

Hope every one is doing well.

Reid