Bachelorette party #2!

I'm back from DC! It was a whirlwind trip (literally stayed at a different place each of the 4 nights) but lots of fun. And luckily my scaita held out (whoo hoo!) so maybe this means the baby is in a good spot and won't role back. I mean, I can still feel it when I move a certain way, but the shooting pain has definitely subsided and I am back to walking at normal speeds. I learned my lesson, no more lifting up heavy boxes! I got to hang out with 3 different friends who still live in DC, and did the shower/bachelorette festivities on Saturday. I only wish I had of gotten to spend more time with the bride...but she says she's coming to visit me for Halloween (yes I'm still having my party!). Speaking of....any cool suggestions for Halloween costume's? I need to incorporate the baby in some way but so far I haven't come up with any great ideas. Maybe I can dress up as one of the girls from Teen Mom.

I thought I would include some photo's to give you a flavor for the weekend. The fancy hat party for the shower was so much fun (any excuse to wear a fancy hat is awesome in my book!) but I probably won't be wearing that dress again. One of the girls told me I looked "so much better without clothes on" when she saw me back at the hotel later post pool. Ummm...compliment? I guess that stretch mark cream is paying off. The only downside was that my feet swelled up like a 400 pound man but they subsided by the time the bachelorette party came around (I don't know what is up with that...my feet randomly swell and then go down again). But it made me realize that I should probably get a second pair of green shoes for the wedding - just in case I don't want to be in my heels all night. And yes, I am going to the wedding! Of couse all of you know this, but that was the question du jour at the shower. By the time the bachelorette party came around I was so tired of people asking me that that when one of the girls asked, "so are you going to the wedding?" I was like "um ye-ah!" (in a snarky tone). I regretted that later, because I mean it wasn't her fault, but I really had no clue that people honestly thought I wouldn't be going. It gave me a better appreciation though for the fact that people must be bringing this up to the bride all the time. So aggrevating. I'm not really sure where it comes from either (do people think it causes labor? Or that it's bad for the baby?) because the only restriction comes from what the airline will allow. And all of the American ones allow you to travel up to between 36-38 weeks (and sometimes past that if you have a doctors note). Ironically (or maybe not so ironically) when I was debating going to the wedding in Seattle on Nov 6th, the girls on the Vegas trip (all moms themselves) seemed to think that I could go without problems if I wanted to (which seems crazier to me since it's only 3 weeks past my due date, which is not the actual birth date, and the doctor recommends waiting until they're 4 weeks old before taking them on airplanes). But I think when you have had children, or just go through being pregnant, you become more relaxed about these things. Anyway, I am leaving for the wedding in 5 weeks so it'll be a mute point by then!

In other pregnancy news everything seems to be going much better this week. The heartburn is not so bad either (but this could be because I didn't know if it was safe to take Tum's before and now that I have the go-ahead, it seems to work pretty well). I've started to forget though what it felt like to NOT be pregnant. Yesterday I bent down at work to get a fork on the bottom shelf and I was thinking, was there really a time when I could just do this and not feel it? It's not like it's painful or anything...you just feel like an overweight, out-of-shape, 400 pound man. Well, I mean, I'm guessing that's what it feels like :)