Shop 'til you drop... literally

This week seems to have flown by! On Monday I had my blood drawn for the AFP screening which, while notorious for false positives, provides results as to whether or not our baby has a higher risk for certain birth defects. We should be finding out the results in about two weeks, so hopefully everything is ok. Other than that we have been busy doing our holiday shopping. It is amazing how exhausting it has been for me! Luckily we have been able to break it up over several days or I don't know if my legs would have held out on me. Every night that we have come home I have propped my feet up on some pillows cause they ache so much. It is so crazy to think that we are flying up to Seattle in less than two weeks! Other than that, last night I woke up at 3:30 am and could not get back to sleep. The last few nights I have been experiencing round ligament pains, which basically is just a fancy term for the fact that my muscles are stretching to make room for the growing baby. Rather than fight it, I just went out to the living room and watched QVC with Marlee for a few hours. For some reason I always like to watch QVC if I can't sleep since it is actually another live person who is up at the same time as me! Also, due to scheduling stuff, it turns out that we might still keep our appointment on 12/18 with the OB/GYN and then officially switch to the midwife in early January. I still have to call and figure out some stuff tomorrow, but I think that is the plan for now. If so, that means we WILL be having our big ultrasound that day and find out whether or not we are having a boy or girl... so exciting! Even if we find out that day, we think we might do the big reveal in person up in WA since we will be flying out that next evening.