We had another fairly busy couple of days this past weekend as we had our prenatal class all day on Saturday and then a bunch of friends and the kids over on Sunday for a lunch BBQ.
The prenatal class went well and we both learned a few things, most of which don't make for good "story telling", so I'll leave it at that... But it really made us realize just how close we are to welcoming new life into ours. The instructor told us that we should already have a "birth plan" written down, our bag packed for the hospital, and practice on putting the car seat in, then leaving it there so that it's done when the time comes. That made us a little nervous because really, this baby could come any day now! Marn is 36 weeks this week which really does mean that the baby is pretty much done the major maturing and is now starting to get ready to come out. At 37 weeks it's considered full term.
We had another midwife appointment on Monday, they are every week now, and this time it was with our 3rd backup. She didn't think the baby was dropping a lot yet, which I translate to, we have a few weeks left yet (*breathe*), but I think, and a lot of my friends think she has started to drop in the last 2 weeks. She told us again that we needed to get our hospital bag together and should have a birth plan, if we wanted anything done specifically.
On Sunday we hosted a BBQ for my friends which worked out well since Bern and Don and their 2 kids were in town for Louise and Kevin's wedding. In all we had 11 adults (including us) and 6 kids and a huge, drooly dog, but could have been 14 adults and 9 kids, but some people couldn't make it. It was a busy afternoon, but really fun and it was great to have everyone over for a visit since we rarely get to do that anymore. We made chicken Souvlaki and Greek salad and potatoes again since we loved that when Candace and Dave were over the other day, and it's fairly easy to make. I think everyone loved it... at least those who did commented a lot on it.
We are going to try and host a nice BBQ lunch like that every summer. It's so fun to see everyone, especially all the kids and how they are growing since we typically only see them once or twice a year.
I'll try and get some pics soon as I've been bad at emptying the camera lately. I also want to get some more belly shots of Marn since she's much bigger that when we had the photo shoot!
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