Week 27: A little bit of this, and a little bit of that

26 weeks, 4 days.

Christian’s quarter has started a little early, and so he’s getting up at hours only slightly later than I’ve been going to bed this summer. Normally, I’d just sleep through his morning activities, but of course, yesterday’s incident meant that I too went to bed early last night, and got up today while it was still actually, really morning. As in early.

As in still nice and cool outside

And since it was cool and my back and belly are all sore, I thought I’d start back in with my prenatal yoga. I’d quit at about 15 weeks because it got so damned hot here in Denver, and the last thing I wanted to do was actually move inside the oven that is our house. What I did not anticipate this morning, however, was the change in my entire body in the intervening 11 weeks, and I only managed about 30 minutes of it before I decided I’d better quit. Still, it helped my back a lot – but I’m amazed at how much my belly gets in the way (no offense to you, Small Monster – get in the way all you want). I’m going to keep up with it, though, because there are all sorts of places I’d like to have be slightly more flexible before, you know, labor. It probably won’t help, but it won’t make it any worse…

Also, a bunch of baby stuff arrived today, including the cloth diaper sampler we ordered (some of them are really cute – I just kept looking at the tiny things and thinking that in not too many weeks, we’ll have a little one that small to put into them. And change out of them. I wonder how much of the latter I can foist off on Christian… *blink*) and the very very long Storchenwiege wrap to carry the baby around in. I tried practicing some of the carries with my trusty teddy bear, but in truth, he’s just too lightweight to practice with. And I’m uncoordinated. But we won’t go there.

In other news, the Small Monster seems to be trying to make up for yesterday, which is totally awesome and makes me feel so much better. Also, he seems to like me doing yoga, which I find funny – I rarely feel him moving while I’m moving, but he was having a grand old time.

Nothing much else to report – I’m going to try to get some housework done today for as long as I feel up to it, and I hear that if my husband isn’t too exhausted when he gets back from taking his students on their little field trip, I might even get to see a movie with him tonight