Checklist

Washed and organized all the baby clothes: CHECK
Hit the 37 week mark, which is term: CHECK
Cooked and froze 15 meals: CHECK
Went on One Last Date with the Jim: CHECK (twice, in fact)
Have my hospital bag packed: CHECK
Had my baby shower: CHECK
Got my hair colored: CHECK

Ok, so whatcha waiting for, baby Clementine?

I do have to tell you about a couple of things. First of all, on Saturday Jim and I went on One Last Date, which was a ton of fun. We finally got around to eating at a local restaurant called The White House, which is Greek food and known for the insane amount of garlic they use. In fact, on the outside of the building is painted the message, "You love garlic and we love you." I'd heard from a bunch of people that it was a really good restaurant, but Jim had heard from a couple of coworkers that it was too garlicky. I was a little skeptical about the whole "too garlicky" claim (I have yet to taste food that is too garlicky) so I kept pushing for dinner at The White House. Well, we went there on Saturday and were not disappointed at all. The food was fantastic, and just as garlicky as we could have hoped. SO yummy! We got fried feta for an appetizer, then Jim got a Chilean Seabass Risotto, and I got Yesil Makarna which was delicious shrimp and mushroom linguine with a creamy pesto sauce. After that, we went to see The Woman In Black, in hopes that a scary movie would jump start my labor. It didn't work, but we had a nice time at the movies.

Secondly, my sweet friends, Katrina and Kara threw me a baby shower on Sunday! Obviously I don't need a bunch of baby clothes, so I asked for home made gifts and registered for a few odds and ends. The party was super fun! We played the game where you melt candy bars into diapers and then have to guess which candy bar is which. It was pretty funny watching everyone stick their noses in what appeared to be nasty dirty diapers. I also got some wonderful gifts! I got a few new cloth diapers (yay!), some busy bags for Lily and Grace to keep them occupied while I'm indisposed with Clementine, several swaddling blankets, and quite a few beautiful home made blankets and bibs and such. I don't know if you're allowed to choose favorite gifts (or maybe it's just not polite to admit to it) but I have to say that the beautiful heirloom afghan that Linda knit for me (the yarn color was called "Clementine"!) and the aprons (one my sized, and then three matching little girl sized aprons) that Marci made were pretty high up on my list. I can't wait for us all to don our little aprons and bake some cookies together!

So here I sit, still waiting. I know that technically I still have two and a half weeks until my due date, but have I mentioned I'm impatient? I think I have. I'm ready to hold my little bundle in my arms and see her little features and decide who she looks like and to cuddle her up and never ever ever let anybody else hold her because she's all mine.

Ok, maybe you can hold her... but you might have to bring me chocolate. :)