bumpwatch terror alert: week 27 | if you don't have anything nice to ...

this photo is actually a week old.

i have been pretty much incommunicado for a week & a half because of houseguests, baby showers, & traveling. but i did manage to carve out five minutes to snap a belly photo last weekend & make it look all goofy in photobucket.

my friend amanda, from philadelphia, visited last weekend for our kansas baby shower. jared took a temporary time-out from his research to fly home for it as well. it was a nice visit in some ways, & kind of depressing in others. jared seemed to be fighting off the flu & was really out of it all weekend. he didn?t want to get up in the morning because he was up half the night coughing. i actually got up & got him a glass of water one night at like 3am, even though i am in the third trimester now & getting to my feet is no easy task. it made me think about how easy it is to take care of someone when you really love them, & that made me feel hopeful that i won?t find taking care of the baby too onerous (although it will be much more demanding than just a boyfriend who is feeling under the weather).

it was great to see amanda. we hadn?t seen each other in over two years, since i spent the summer living in her south philly row home while jared was in new york city doing a hydrology fellowship. she talked a lot about how windy it was in kansas, & how it was exactly what she expected. it was indeed uncommonly windy on the first day of her visit, but i have lived here for over three years & a) it?s seriously almost never that windy here, & b) i have never heard this idea that kansas is an especially windy place. she also spent a lot of time answering texts, taking photos & sending them to her boyfriend, trying to connect to the internet to look up various things she wanted to tell us about, etc. it didn?t bother me too much at first, but by the end of the visit, i wanted to run her phone over with my car. i didn?t even check my e-mail the entire time she was here, because i didn?t want to waste friend time doing some dumb bullshit i can do any time. maybe i am a complete dinosaur, but i?m so sick of people fiddling with their phones when they are hanging out with me. are facebook & foursquare really more important than whoever you?re spending time with?

jared & i flew to boston together on sunday for our babymoon. in case you don?t know, a babymoon is kind of a couple?s last hurrah vacation thing before they have a baby. it?s kind of new-ish, trendy concept, & it?s a little silly, but i knew we couldn?t go back to boston for christmas this year because it?s too close to my due date, & i didn?t want my next trip to boston to be post-baby. jared had to go to the east coast to do dissertation research anyway, so we carved out a few days, booked a stay in a bed & breakfast, & decided to have a real vacation.

in a lot of ways, it was awesome. i got to do almost everything i wanted to do, which is to say i got to eat almost everywhere i wanted to eat. (the only thing i missed was ethiopian food, but jared surprised me one night by suggesting we go to trattoria di monica, the delicious italian restaurant he took me to for my birthday last year, so i was more than happy.) jared had access to a car, so we were able to drive around boston & window shop at all kinds of cute, expensive baby boutiques, the likes of which don?t really exist in lawrence, kansas. i only bought one thing: a stuffed calico cat toy. i?d been looking for one for months with no luck, so i was pleased to walk into an independent toy store & find one no problem. it?s a classic calico, not a tabico (tabby/calico mix), which is more charlotte?s coloring, but close enough. the baby won?t really be old enough to appreciate it for kind of a while, but that?s okay. it?s very soft & a dog outside the toy store thought it was real & went absolutely insane trying to attack it.

we did a lot of socializing in boston. we visited with jared?s brother & his girlfriend because we wanted to ask them to be the baby?s guardians if anything happens to jared & me. they also hosted a baby shower for us, & the following night, jared?s parents had us out to newton for dinner & to load us up with baby heirlooms. we looked at photo albums of jared & his brother when they were babies. jared seriously was such a cute baby, & it was so cool to see baby jared making the same faces adult jared makes. his mom gave us two little outfits jared wore when he was a baby, plus a stuffed bear & a bunch of blankets, & the peter rabbit-themed quilt a friend of hers made for baby jared. it?s really beautiful & we decided we?re going to hang it on the wall over the baby?s crib & maybe someday we?ll be able to pass it down to our first grandchild. she is also giving us jared?s garndfather?s silver cup from his babyhood exactly 100 years ago. our baby has family heirlooms! it?s so cool.

i kind of had a meltdown that night though. our friend bart was in town & wanted to hang out before he caught his plane to chicago. but it was 11pm & everything was closed except for bars. if there?s one thing that just doesn?t sound fun to a pregnant lady in the third trimester, it?s sitting around a bar with her boyfriend & his best friend, unable to drink while her feet are swelling & she has just had to justify to her baby?s grandparents why she isn?t marrying their son anytime soon. the three of us went back to the bed & breakfast & hung out in the lobby, but i really wasn?t having fun. i was wishing that jared & i had taken our babymoon in some city where we don?t know anyone, where we could just be alone together, because alone together couple time is going to be in short supply in about three months. i told jared, ?i can?t wait until you come home again & everything goes back?? & then i burst into hysterical sobs because i was going to say, ?goes back to normal,? but i realized that we?re having a baby & there is no normal anymore. we are changing our lives & it?s exciting, sure, but let?s face it. it?s also completely terrifying. & the days where i can just fall asleep on jared?s lap or hide out in his arms & shut out the rest of the world are about to come to a screeching halt. sorry if that sounds weird, i know i don?t usually write so bluntly about the more romantic/personal side of jared?s & my relationship. but we are about to become jointly beholden to a brand new little life & yeah, sometimes i worry about how that will affect ?us?.

i must say, though, after my little crying jag, i slept the best sleep i have slept all pregnancy. i guess i just really needed to get that stuff out in the open.

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