I am having a cranky evening… headache brought on by cabin-fevered pets. (I swear, if I hear one more crash-bang out there I’m going to flip my lid.)

Devin is SO active. He’s been kicking me what feels like non-stop all day. My belly is currently bouncing around in front of my eyes as he kicks and punches. I hope this doesn’t mean he’ll be an ADHD kid like his dady, LOL.

My uterus seems to be getting big enough so that it (and Devin) are sometimes pressing on my ribs. On my right side, of course, being slightly lopsided and all. (In fact, currently my belly is totally lopsided, I have some large body part sticking up on my right side, lol!) It’s just a very slight ache… just kind of makes me want to rub my ribs now and then.

Den came to bed tonight grinning silly and mentioned how I’d come wandering (errr, dashing) out of the bedroom half-naked to run into the bathroom. He was grinning about my big belly sticking out. He thinks it is the best thing EVER. I sometimes forget I look as pregnant as I do – from my vantage point it’s just a bump. From his vantage point – and when I catch myself in a mirror – it’s like WHOA! So he just loves to look at it and touch it and kiss it. I think he’s as enamored with my pregnant body as I am. :) It’s very cute to see him so giddy!

Kiddo’s pressing on my bladder again. I can feel things shifting in there ever so slowly, and this pressure that builds on my bladder. Very strange.

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I am freaking out just slightly over all the stuff that is left to buy. I have a detailed list of costs in excel (anyone surprized by this?). The gear alone is close to $2000 worth. This is all the furniture, gear, bottles, bedding, bathing, safety stuff. It does NOT include the $120 left to spend on diapers, nor does it include any clothes. I’m trying to stay calm until the baby shower, but it’s really freaking me out that we have nothing save a crib and mattress, some clothes, and diaper covers.

And then there are even worse recesses of my brain that is all What if we get all the gear stuff, but have no toys?! Or books?! As if this is a huge concern, because, you know, newborns don’t need toys, and it’s not as if we can’t go buy toys when we need some. But you try telling that it’s not a big deal to a pregnant lady in her third trimester in the middle of the night. These are the things we worry about – that the baby will have no toys. So then I add toys to my registry. And the next night I freak out that people will buy toys instead of the stuff we really need. Then I delete the toys. And so on and so forth. It’s a nasty cycle, I tell you. (I think I’ve finally settled for having a couple of toys on the registry, but only a couple. Nice compromise.)

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This morning was another sore hip morning. Not the shooting nerve pain, but the really sore achy hips from sleeping on them wrong. This could get to be very frustrating.

Yesterday Den had his monthly chiropractic appointment and asked if they see pregnant women. He was told they do indeed, and see quite a few of them. So I called and booked an appointment for tomorrow morning. I’m a little nervous, because the whole “adjustment” thing creeps me out a little, but I’m hoping that it’ll help somehow.

I’m just glad that the aches and pains have been limited.

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I have a headache and this screen is making it worse, so I have to go to bed now.