37 Weeks

Yesterday was eventful. Dustin and I started the day off with a visit to my doctor. I've gained 4 pounds since last month which certainly explains why my belly is sooo huge. The doctor's worried that Southern may be getting too big (she wants him to be under 9 pounds) so we have to go back in this Thursday for a sonogram to check his weight. Then I had a pelvic exam... fun, fun. I'm already a centimeter dilated and my cervix is 60% thinned. While we were there, we also got to listen to his heartbeat - they had me hooked up to a fetal heart monitor for about 15 minutes. It was so amazing... Dustin was sitting in the room with me reading our Dr Spock baby book like a good daddy. (I finished the book last week, and, quite handily, it now has a few important pages marked with post-its and has certain key points highlighted.) So I was laying out on a recliner, listening to our baby's heart beating with my husband at my side. What could get better?

Following our doctor's appointment, we ran a few errands. We mailed two packages at the post office, dropped a deposit off at the bank, and made an appointment with Southern's future pediatrician. We're going back there next Thursday for a prenatal meeting. Then we headed to San Marcos to get my car windows re-tinted at Mother's. We were there for hours since it took them so long to scrape off the old tint. It was turning purple and was so bubbly in spots that I couldn't see out of a couple of windows. So I'm excited to get that done. We also requested a new keyless entry system since mine stopped working a few years ago. I kept thinking about how exciting it would be to always manually open my car while juggling Southern, his diaper bag, my purse, etc. all the time. ;) They didn't have anyone else's car to work on that day so the owner said he'd go ahead and throw an alarm in with it since that would make more work for his guys than just a keyless entry. Yay!

The new tint looks good and the alarm doesn't have one of those annoying high-pitched beeps when you disarm it. We have to go back for the rear glass to get done though. They have to take it off and leave it out in the sun for hours so they can get the old tint off. They can't just scrape it off with a razor like the other windows because of the defrost strips running on the back window. Unfortunately, after they worked on my car, one of my backseat windows no longer rolls down and the light keeps coming on saying that my hatch is open when it's really not. So I'm hoping they'll fix that when we go back for the rear window. If not, we'll have to take it to the Honda place to get it fixed and somehow have Mother's billed for the repair since they're the ones that caused it. And hopefully we'll get all this taken care of before Southern's arrival!