No, I didn't forget to call

So it is now May 28th. May 28th. My due date was May 24th. I am still sitting here, whale-sized, waiting for this kid to get out. I am not a patient person to begin with, and I think this is stretching it to the limit, by far. Even Al is getting edgy, and he's pretty mellow and patient, usually. I am now on bi-weekly doctor's appointments--I went yesterday, and I go again tomorrow. This is getting really, really old. And I am so terrified that I'm going to have this 10lb baby and wind up having to have a c-section or something, because she's been in there long enough now that she's going to be big no matter what. She was "average" at 36 weeks, which would have made her close to 7lbs then....gaining half a pound a week....so that puts her at close to 9 now, if she's been growing at the "average" rate. I want to cry. Even my pregnancy book stops at week 40. If I still haven't had her by Saturday I'll be 41.

I have given up waking up in the morning and thinking "maybe today!" and being all excited because I feel like that's never going to happen. Everyone keeps saying that no one has stayed pregnant forever, but it sure doesn't feel that way. I know I'm being melodramatic and whiney, but seriously! I have exhausted what little patience I had. Nevermind the constant, constant contractions since about Friday, but they're never consistant and they never get stronger, they just make me tired and uncomfortable, and it feels like I've been doing situps for days straight.

So, maybe today. Who knows. Apparently she's gotten pretty comfy in there. When she is actually born, don't worry, we'll call people. At this point I just glare at my phone when it rings, because I can't spend my day saying, "no, not yet...." over and over again. It just makes me cranky. It's nothing personal.

And since I don't have any baby pictures to put up yet, I'll show you one of the dogs--we took them for a walk yesterday and got them all tired, then came home. We have a pool of water for them in the backyard for when it gets hot that Al had filled up before we left, and this is what they did: