Thanksgiving as rock stars

We were treated by a local radio station to a penthouse suite and thanksgiving dinner. It was wonderful, a great break from cooking for Brian and an evening of pampering for us both. It was on a date a week contest and Allie who has never called into a radio show before called and said she wanted the date b/c of her superstar husband who had been so great throughout our pregnancy deserved a night off. It was wonderful, esp since we had had an early family holiday a few weeks prior; as we knew Allie would likely be tired as this marked week 38.

Before dinner photo- that tummy is getting big

Pressing the "penthouse" key in the elevator, Brian loved doing that as well as calling for services and asking them to bring it up to the penthouse.

A lovely pre-dinner snack, courtesy of the hotel

Allie's pillow extravaganza, these pregnant ladies do seem to need their pillows

Pictures of the Nursery

All we need is someone to fill in the sleeper

the quote in Japanese along with

Allie's childhood dresser painted by her mom during Allie's pregnancy

Only a few weeks left- at 37 weeks

In the rear the quote in German

Every thing in it's place

Can you find the monkey?

Some of you (OK all of you) have been requesting some pictures of our little boy's nursery. We put the finishing touches on it about ten minutes ago. So here you go hot off the press. The writing on the walls all say "May this child be blessed with love and friendship"-unshown the quote in French and Celtic, if anyone wants to provide other language translations we would love to have them, we had hoped to get it in Hawaiian and Russian. Allie did an amazing job with the stenciling.

32 days and counting

So if all follows the plan we have 32 days left and for all of you with the "1st babies come late" comment, I don't want to hear it. Can you tell I am getting tired of this state of pregnancy.
Brian gave a big smile of relief when I assured him I was not turning into a woman who loved pregnancy and wanted 1/2 dozen kids. For those of you wondering, we are "flipping one pancake at a time" as Brian says (quote from some MT coyboy-cook) and just focusing on baby number one. A brother or sister possibly in the future but then we are done.
The baby remains healthy and happy, moving all over, has mastered the foot in my rib cage manuver, I have in turn learned the ice cold shower method of getting him to move it to another spot, none of the yoga moves were doing it.
Work is getting harder and harder to go to, I wish the US would catch up with Europe and allow women the last 6-12 weeks off and even better 12-18 months of paid maternity leave, but alas not likely in my life time. Crazy thing is I am still getting new clients, which seems rediculous to me.
So other than making it through 3 1/2 more weeks of work, the only plans are to move upstairs, for those of you who know the house, my studio is being converted into the nursery, we opted to move upstairs into the guest room, and guest will be downstairs and have our almost renovated downstairs bathroom- much to brians chagrin. I had thought no problem we will stay down stairs, but the thought of sleep deprivation and 3 AM feedings looked like a tumble down the stairs waiting to happen. And hey, I can't pick up the heavy furniture anyway, so no skin off my nose.
We will keep you posted on further updates, but didn't want anyone to think we had had little mister early and failed to post. I have just not been blog attentive. Take care All