Whitney Tamez: unpredictably...average

Well, the countdown begins. Only 10 days left until my baby shower and it seems like there is so much to do. I do have all the prizes, the location set up, the games planned, the cake ordered and the invitations out. Whew! I still need to get decorations and arrange the food thing with the restaurant we are having it at. I chose a local Mexican restaurant for three reasons.

1. I don't have to clean up or do any dishes. THANK GOD!

2. The girls can drink if they want to. Who doesn't like a good margarita after all?

3. I get to have Shrimp of the Devil for dinner! YES!!! Even though I will probably melt like the wicked witch of the west from the heartburn it is totally worth it.

I also have to make these little diaper things that you pin on every ones shirt and then at the end of the night you open the little diapers and whoever has the DIRTY diaper wins a prize. How disgustingly funny! I can't wait. We are also going to play a game where you take five different types of baby food and take the labels off them. You pass them around and everyone has to taste them and guess at what they think they are. The person with the most right guesses wins a prize. We are playing two more games, the can't cross your legs game and a game where everyone cuts a length of yarn that they think will fit around my belly without going over. The closest guess wins. They were the funnest games I could find.

My sister, mother, grandmother, and friend Megan have been helping a bit so that is nice. I like being the one to plan things and make the decisions...

Ohh...Gunnar is kicking and my stomach is moving back and forth...how cute!

...I just wish I could pawn the work off. Who doesn't?

I also have my third birthing class tonight. I can't believe that it is already the third week of class...it has gone by so fast. Adam goes to every class with me and he is hilarious! He asks all the questions that no one ells wants to ask or is afraid to ask.

Last week we watched a video on the "Stages of Labor" that was actually very informational. At one point we're watching the video and it is showing a woman who is having a baby early so it is covered in the white cheese looking stuff so I look over at Adam to see how he is handling it and he is seriously about to hyperventilate! It was so funny. Also every woman in the video who is having a baby is completely naked and you can see everyone looking around whispering to their partner..."why are they all so naked...do you have to be naked like that?"

My nurse who is teaching the class Sue was also showing us the positions of the baby in the hips and so she was holding up this little baby doll and a model of the pelvis and immediately I look at her like...you have got to be kidding, that is never going to work! I know logically that it has to work and has worked for thousands of years but every time I imagine that baby and the pelvis it freaks me out a bit. I guess it is normal to get freaked out. Adam helps out a lot with the questions that he asks and the jokes that he makes. He is like the class clown and it really helps to keep me calm and tone down the seriousness of the class. I don't know if I will be able to do this without him. I am so glad he will be there.