Full-term!

The weekly pregnancy email I get started out like this today: "Your baby is now the size of a watermelon." Well isn't that the truth! People keep telling me I look great and some can't believe I'm due in just a few weeks...but I feel huge. So, watermelon? Yep, that sounds about right to me.

How far along?: 37 weeks, 0 days.
Total weight gain/loss: Creepin' up on the 30 lb mark. I seem to be putting on a couple pounds a week right now, which is exactly what happened last pregnancy.
Maternity clothes?: The husband keeps laughing at the belly sticking out of the bottom of my shirt. I bet I pull my shirt down 25 times a day to make sure this doesn't happen in public, but at home? Who cares!
Sleep: Not bad this week, yay! I woke up several mornings feeling very well-rested. I even went a solid 7 straight hours without getting up to pee once. Score! I am preparing myself for the killer end-of-pregnancy insomnia that kicked in those last few weeks last time, though.
Movement: Seems to have been an especially rowdy week this week. You can pretty much watch my entire stomach shift just about any time. And there have also been an incredible amount of little limbs poking out this week.
Labor Signs: Tons of Braxton Hicks contractions this week as well as some other signs that are making me naively hopeful that this kiddo might come out sooner than the last one (or at least faster!)
Food/Cravings: Golden Oreos, you were a wonderful rediscovery.
Gender: I still think there's a big, fat boy in there.
New w/pregnancy #2: So many BH contractions. I pretty much have them every night, off and on between 7 and whenever I finally get in bed. I really didn't have too many with Brooke, and they certainly never stopped me in my tracks like these do sometimes. (Do you see what I mean about all the [probably false] hope this kiddo is giving me?!)
What I miss: Right now? Snow.
What I am looking forward to: Looking into that sweet face and immediately forgetting all about the crap I've been through the previous 9 months. All the hard parts just melt away in an instant.
Best moment this week: I think the reality of this baby has finally sunk in this week (just in the nick of time, I know!) As we get closer and closer to the end of the month, I find myself constantly thinking about labor and delivery and holding my precious little one in my arms for the first time. I have a "To Do Before Baby" list now, full of things like "wash crib bedding & lift mattress" and "pack hospital bag & Brooke's bag", and I'm slowly checking things off of it (and by slowly I mean that I've checked off maybe 2. I better get my act together!) My excitement grows every single day.
Weekly Wisdom: Strangers in 2011 lack the same level of tact that strangers in 2009 did. Earlier in the week, a woman told her son to hold the door for me, but not before saying, "Make way, preggo coming through." Yesterday, a woman at the outlets said to me "Giiirrrl, you look like you need to go have that baby right now! I looked up and all I seen was belly." Sigh. Good to know society hasn't grown up in the last 2 years.
Milestones: Full-term! Full-term! Full-term! It's just a matter of time now :)