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Wow! I am 33 weeks pregnant already. Phew time flies! I have 4 weeks until I am full term, 5 weeks and 2 days until my maternity leave starts, and 7 weeks until my due date. Yes, I am counting down. lol

I had my doctor’s appointment today. It went well. I was in and out..my weight and blood pressure is good and his heartbeat is good. I’m getting excited about his upcoming arrival. Of course I have all the nerves and anxiety of having a newborn in the house! I have more anxiety over that then the giving birth part. I’m just ready to experience it rather than just think about it.

I had a fabulous baby shower thrown by my mom, sister, sister-in-law and mother in law the second weekend in February. I was worried that it would not happen at first because of course it decided to actually snow here the night before. Geez. But it went off without a hitch with a lot of friends and family in attendance. I am thrilled to have gotten so much stuff off my registry and lots of great books to start his library! I washed everything by the next day and had it all put away.  A lot of thoughtful friends and coworkers have since given me some gifts.

The room looks great. Andy’s monsters still need to be put up (he unfortunately has a cold right now so I am not sure when that will happen), but everything else is coming together. The glider is here and ready to be fully assembled and I am picking up Ronan’s bookcase tomorrow.  I feel like we are swimming in cardboard from all of these purchases and will be glad when it is all gone.

I am so glad that my maternity leave is going to work out in a way that I do not have to return to work this school year. I do like being a teacher but this class is…..interesting. Today I had a student push a table into my stomach (luckily not hard so it did not hurt) and then laughed about it. I wasn’t going to put up with that so I wrote a discipline referral on him.  He is now being moved into another classroom. I feel bad for the new teacher he is getting but glad he is out of my room.  His anger has been building and if it was just me and not me and Ronan I wouldn’t mind him staying in my room.  I have put up with him this long but I am relieved to know he has been moved and I hope this move helps him.  It should because he will not be around some students who he was around last year that tend to get him going in anger and off task.

So hopefully things will go smoothly for the rest of my work this week. I am looking forward to getting the nursery all cleaned up and every piece of furniture in place for our little man.  I have some classes set up with the hospital to be attended soon. Baby 101 is on Saturday, then touring the hospital March 4, and lastly I will be doing a breast-feeding class on March 11. Lots of information to gain and be stored in my brain before he arrives.

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