I think the Unibomber has taken up residence within me

You know how busy Pat is, ALL THE TIME?! Well, I'm pretty much convinced Pat is the next Unibomber. I'm not trying to label my child or that whole self-prophecy nonsense, but I'm pretty sure this baby is up to no good in there. It is always wide awake at 11:00 pm, 4:00 am, and 7:00 am (because those are the times Pat wakes me up) and it's tinkering around so much that surely it's building a bomb or two. And when I say tinkering, I mean TINKERING! Aren't babies supposed to be running out of room at this point in the pregnancy and not moving much? Cause this one is just as busy as ever.  

Pat was lazy yesterday, so lazy in fact that I was concerned. It didn't wake me up at 7:00 as per usual and I couldn't get it to move at all throughout the morning. I tried drinking a glass of ice cold grapefruit juice and laying (or is it lying?) on my side. Nothing. Then I tried hot tea. Nothing. I even slapped my belly a couple of times (very gently of course). Around 10:30 I felt hiccups and knew we were going to be alright. Then I took Pat for an hour and a half walk, during which time Pat slept. Hardly any movements for most of the day but Pat was back to it's hijinks last night, all through the night, and this morning. So we're a-okay at Team Hancock. As I type this, I can feel Pat putting the finishing touches on the bomb.

Had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner at our friends Greg & Tara's. The food was so very good but I didn't have much room for anything. A real shame. But I did spend the day thinking of all the things I'm so very thankful for. I think that will have to be another post all together.

Yesterday I took advantage of my day off to get a lot of errands done. I'm trying to find a bookshelf and night stand for the nursery and spent a good portion of the day visiting furniture and antique stores. Found nothing. Then Christian mentioned last night that he could use supplies from work to build a bookshelf using wine racking and it would cost far less than anything we could find. So there's another project added to the list (I think I'll still keep my eyes open for something though). Today he is working on his new closet in the spare bedroom. Since we live in a 70+ year old home, the closets are tiny and all of my clothes are in our bedroom closet. Christian's have been in the office, which is now Pat's room, and Pat's going to need the closet for all it's Juicy Couture, Ed Hardy, and Dolce & Gabbana attire. I'm doing 5 loads of laundry, all for Pat. Does one really need over 20 receiving blankets? Because that's how many I have. And I haven't counted the wash cloths but there's at least 25 of them. It will feel so good once everything is washed and put away, but I have a feeling Pat's closet might not be ready for a couple of weeks. That just means I can't post any nursery photos until everything is done.

What else? Oh, we stayed at a Bed & Breakfast last night. A friend very kindly gave us a gift certificate and we were going to give it to my parents to use when they come down for Pat's arrival but only my Mom is coming now so we decided to use the gift certificate for ourselves. Had a lovely dinner at a little family-owned Italian restaurant downtown and then headed up to check-in. One final escape before all hell breaks loose and our lives are forever changed.

Shower pictures coming soon. In the meantime I need to get back to laundry and writing thank yous (I have given myself a deadline of tomorrow night to get all 40 done). 4.5 weeks and counting!