No sitting!

Over the past few weeks I've been starting to have some back pains. They occur only sometimes and are pretty painful. I've noticed they happen at odd times, so I've been trying to figure if when they occur has anything to do with why they occur. Today, I think I finally put the pieces together...they are caused by sitting...I'm serious. Laying down is okay, standing is okay, walking around is okay, but sitting is no good. It takes about 15 minutes of sitting for them to kick in. Here's my evidence:

1. They always kick in at 2:00 on work days. Why? I finish teaching at 1:45 and sit down at my desk.

2. I'm usually okay on the car ride to and from work. Why? My commute is 10 mintues (YES!!)

3. On Monday I had to drive to a different school for a meeting. The ride was 25 min. & I had to pull over and lay down for a few minutes both on the way over and back to get the pain to go away!

This may seem odd for a pregnant woman to say, but I'm glad that my job requires me to be on my feet for most of the day...we'll see how I feel about that at month 9 - yikes!

Okay, it's 2:00, time for a walk around the classroom...

This is true!

Okay, so maybe Matt & I imagined this, but we both believe that last week we "played" with the baby.  The baby was in a really active mood, giving me huge kicks and punches in all different places.  The baby seemed to punch (or kick) a few times right above my belly button so Matt pressed back in the same spot.  We both really thought the baby responded back and forth with Matt  few times & they both even pressed at the same time a few times.  So maybe it is our imagination, but in our minds we played with the baby.

 

Of course that night I had a dream that we took the baby out to play with it - anything can happen in a dream right?  Well, even in the dream we panicked about how to get the baby back in to keep growing....

 

 

Ultrasound from December

Here's an ultrasound from last month that we never posted:

Raccoon squirrels!

For all of those non-believers who refused to accept our tales of the famous North Carolina raccoon-squirrel, we got photographic evidence during our vacation:

The more common black variety

Rarer black-headed gray variety

Pregnant Golf...in January!

Our golf outing was excellent. The weather cooperated just enough so that many regulars at the club canceled, but people from Albany, NY thought the sun and temperature were just peachy for a round.

SJC had no trouble golfing with the baby in tow. In fact, she reports that it might have helped her game. Her swing speed was improved, and so was her hip turn, creating more powerful shots. She thinks that when you're playing golf in the off-season, wearing a coat, and being pregnant, perhaps your expectations go down and you relax and play better. Certainly our round justifies that theory.

Here are some pictures:

Baby Bump Photos #12, #13, and #14

My sister says this blog is "getting boring." Hope this helps:

January 19th:


January 13th:


January 9th:

Babymoon bet

SJC and I are in Southport, NC, on our last vacation before the baby arrives. This morning we went down to the beach and took a walk. It was pretty cold out, and we were the only people on the beach. As we were walking, I was wearing a fleece and jeans. SJC was wearing her winter parka, hat, and gloves. At one point, I teased her by asking if she wanted to get in the water. Later, she asked me to come up with the amount of money that someone would have to pay me to get in the water. She thought of her amount at the same time. Then we revealed them simultaneously and both started laughing at each other:

MEG: $100

SJC: $15,000

This afternoon we're going to play golf. We'll see how long Ms. Tropical Island 2008 lasts on the course.