Update

•My trip to the doctor for my leg ended with her telling me it was infected.  Normally she would have lanced it, but she didn't think that was the best route since I'm a couple of weeks away from my due date and it's on my inner thigh.  She also figured that it would go away on its own, but, again, with the location, she knew I wanted it cleared up as soon as possible in case of an early delivery, so I'm on day 2 of 10 days worth of antibiotics.  Yes, they're pregnancy-safe.  And on a side-note, should you ever encounter a pregnant woman who is taking antibiotics for whatever reason (so long as they've been prescribed by her doctor of course) please don't immediately ask her if they're safe for pregnancy and whether or not that's the best route to go at this late in the game.  At some point we have to trust our doctors to know what's best for us and I really don't want to hear someone speculating that the fact that I'm taking antibiotics for an infection in my leg may not be safe for my unborn baby.  I'm doing my best to make the right decisions for both of us.  And it only irritates me beyond belief to have someone questioning those decisions.

•My baby shower luncheon on Sunday was lots of fun.  Keith and I have been members of the same Sunday school class since we first joined our church about 6 years ago.  For the past 2 years, I've been teaching Sunday school in our preteen department, but Keith has stayed in our class and I'll be rejoining him after Cooper's born.  The women in the class all went out to lunch on Sunday (On the Border!) and showered me with gifts and a fun, girls-only meal.  I got LOTS of diapers and cute outfits.  When I got home and showed Keith all the diapers we were given, he couldn't believe it.  

•Cooper's room is basically finished.  We still haven't painted the letters spelling his name and hung them on the wall, but that's all that's left.  I may go ahead and take pictures soon and get them posted before I'm too busy to do so.  Along with the room becoming a mess once he's here and actually living in there.  

•Monday is my next doctor's appointment and I'm excited to find out if I'm making any progress.  I've definitely been having contractions this week.  Yesterday I had 2 painful ones back to back.  Of course I was outside with Garrett, walking around the house, so I had to just stop and stand on the sidewalk until they went away.  We came inside pretty quickly after that.

•I got a letter in the mail this week saying that both my family doctor and Garrett's pediatrician are leaving their current practice.  To say I was upset was an understatement.  I've been seeing my family doctor for at least 5 years now and Garrett has seen the same pediatrician since he was born.  Of course I'm due in 2 weeks and will be needing a pediatrician soon after, so that letter sent me scrambling.  First thing I did was to post on Facebook, asking for pediatrician recommendations, which I got a couple, so that was nice.  Then I called our pediatrician's office to see if he was going to be staying in the area.  Of course the letter doesn't say where he's going, just that one of the other pedi's in the current practice would be happy to take care of us.  I don't want to see one of the other pedi's.  If we can't see our current one, then I'm going to switch to someone close by.  Anyway, it turns out that both my family doctor and the pediatrician are starting a pediatric clinic in a town not much further than where they're currently located.  The upside is that we won't have to switch pedi's.  The downside is that my family doctor is switching to pediatrics (I was specifically told her age limit was 25.  So basically "Buzz off old lady.") so I will have to find a new doctor for myself, but I would prefer that to a new pediatrician at the moment.  But I'm keeping the other ones that were recommended in the back of my mind in case this other office is further than I really want to drive.  Especially since you practically live in the pediatrician's office for the first year of baby's life.

•It's hard to believe that our days as a family of 3 are drawing to a close.  I'm excited about having the baby, but a little apprehensive about how it will change what we currently have going on.  I'm elated to be able to get up off the couch without a lot of grunting and straining however.