Engaged.

Okay, I think I'm done with my photo a day. Obviously, I lost steam toward the end. I always feel a bit of a failure when I come up with a little blog challenge/goal and then don't live up to whatever it was I said I was going to do. Part of this is living with Pat, who says he is going to do something on his blog and then sticks to it religiously. Last year he said he was going to write every other day and he did. On the other hand, he had a few lackluster entries because he was pushing himself to write when he didn't want to. And I'm not saying that critically, just that it's an illustration of his... erm, blog personality? And mine is not really like that. So maybe a solution is shorter challenges/goals (like a week or so) or just don't lay those obligations on myself. I don't know.

My main reason for wanting to post a picture a day was because I had been looking through some old photos and felt like I wasn't taking very many pictures lately and wanted to be taking more. And I did, so that's good.

Moving on, I wanted to write about baby question mark. Here is how I am marking time now. Today I am 34 weeks. Next Saturday I will be 35 weeks and the girls will be having a sleepover. The weekend after that is the family Valley of Fire Easter trip and Easter itself. I will be 36 weeks at that point. And one week after that I will be 37 weeks and even though I know better I will probably start thinking that the baby could come "any day now!!!!"

Lately I've been feeling the area above my pubic bone to see if there were any head-shaped masses there and there hadn't been. The baby was pretty much all over the place, totally impossible to interpret. Yesterday I took a shower, checked for a baby head, didn't find one and then went about my day. I took a little nap when Pat got home and when I got up from that I walked into the bathroom thinking to myself, wow I sure am feeling a lot of pressure in my pelvic area. So I checked that little area above my pubic bone again and lo, and behold! There is something there! A little melon in my pelvis. I've never felt it so distinctly. It was just kind of bizarre and awesome to feel such an obvious change in a matter of a few hours.

I asked the family if it looked like my belly was lower, but they couldn't really tell. I can't really tell. But that little head is still in position today. And it still feels odd and there's still a lot more pressure in my nether regions than there had been. This is the home stretch.