Busy Exciting Day!

Today was a busy day! I tried to adjust my sleep last night so that I would be well rested going in to work at 3 am today. I think it worked for the most part. Although now that I'm home, I could really just pass out and be fine. I'm really tired. And Robert will probably get home around 7 pm, and I would rather be awake and hang out with him than be asleep and wake up in the wee hours of the morning. Such is life. Maybe I'll sleep sooner than later. I have a feeling I'll be dead tired all damn week anyway.

Exciting news for today...Today the Space Shuttle Discovery launched !!!! After two and half years of the shuttles being grounded, we are off in space again in a US vehicle! I am so excited. Launch happened around 9:39 am CST, and there I was in the MCC building, feeling very much a part of the action. I'll have to tell my little one that she was right there with me while history was being made. Everyone was really excited at work. It was pretty intense watching the shuttle take off and a little emotional too. I remember watching the launches all the time before the Columbia disaster (on TV -- never seen one live in person), and it was amazing to watch the whole thing happen again. All I can say is WOW and pray that we get those astronauts safely home again.

In other equally if not more exciting news (well, for me anyway) I had another doctor's appointment today and my ultrasound (so after work I booked it across town to the doctor's office where Robert met me). I am 35 weeks and my baby girl weighs approximately six pounds! I was so proud. She had a heart rate of 132 bpm and we could see her heart beating and also saw her sucking her little thumb. It was really cute. The tech said her head is in the down position already as we thought, which explains why all these kicks are on my upper right side. I felt a rib kick today that made me gasp! As we were looking at the baby on the screen I started to feel a little nauseous, I think it was from the probe pressing down on my belly and me feeling like I couldn't breathe right. Anyway, I was kind of mad that that happened because I really wanted to see more of the baby, but I sat up as soon as all the photos were taken because I felt nauseous and clammy. We got some good ones though.

Then we met with the doc. I have gained three pounds in the last two weeks. Not too bad, but I was hoping to have only gained half a pound or something. Not so, probably because of pizza and ice cream now being staples in my diet. I got out of bed last night just to eat some ice cream. What a pig. So a grand total of 33 pounds so far is what I've gained. I do NOT want to gain more than that or I fear I may never be able to lose it. They say breastfeeding will do wonders, so we'll just see about that. It's probably my only hope. I've given up on using the treadmill. Everytime I walked (which, of course, was only like once a week) my back would kill me at night. Maybe I'll start it up after the little one is born. The doc also did the group B strep test. I guess I'll get the results next week.

I watched Six Feet Under and Entourage on Sunday night. I have to say that Entourage is the best show ever!!! I loved this last episode with Vince all crazy over Mandy Moore. Hilarious!

Oh, we also bought a pretty cool video camera this past weekend that Robert has been playing and playing and playing with. We figured we should get one now that we're having a baby. That and we just wanted one. Anyway, time to read more Harry Potter. I find myself stopping my reading just to make sure I'll have more pages to read the next day. I don't want it to end! I love it.