The Most Un-blogged Pregnancy Ever

I'm so sorry, Anna! I'm a bad mommy!

I suppose I should first document that we finally picked out a name. Anna Catherine Doyle - doesn't that have such a pretty ring to it? Anna Catherine was also my great-grandmother's name. I was majorly stressing about not having a name picked out. But, once we did I could breathe a little better. Oh, and I could start getting stuff monogrammed, too!

As of this week, I am 36 weeks pregnant. And at my appointment this week, I was almost 3 cm. dilated, 50% effaced and well...other things are happening, too. So, as far as my due date of January 1st, 2012...I really doubt I'll make it that long.

I've been doing really good this pregnancy. I've gained more than I would liked to have - especially compared to my last pregnancy. But, I'm still very much within normal, healthy weight gain limits. I haven't had any weird cravings. I ate a lot of peanut butter in the beginning. But nothing real consistent other than that.

I've felt really good up until recently. Turns out...chasing after a busy 2 1/2 year old is hard when you're 9 months pregnant. Who knew??? I come home from work, get dinner going, fold laundry that never seems to end, give baths, fold more laundry, put Caroline to bed and nest my little nester off. I won't go into much detail. Other than Wally insisted that I NOT vacuum the house last night at 10 PM. What?

I am paranoid that I'm going to go into labor and the house is going to be a wreck. I think the our house has been the cleanest it's ever been in the 6 years we've been there. Not that it was ever filthy. But, it sure is picked up every night.

Anyways, back to the pregnancy...Anna moves a LOT. More so than her big sister ever did. And I thought she was going to come out dancing a jig. I'm having some Braxton Hicks contractions that started almost 2 months ago. As I get further along, they get a little more uncomfortable, but they are not consistent at all.

Wally and I have agreed that we are both more nervous this time around more so than we were with Caroline. Not sure if it's because we know what's in store? Or if it's the added stress of the holidays? Or it's the fear of having TWO children instead of ONE?

My bags are packed. I even have a list of last-minute items and their description/location in case Wally or someone else has to come home and pack for me. The nursery is 99% done. We still need to hang the wall art we have. But, the glider came in and has been assembled and we have the carrier all ready to be occupied.

All we are waiting on is for sweet little Anna to grace us with her presence!