Here's a tip for new parents: order your baby furniture about 3 months before your due date. We waited to order ours because some books we read said you won't need it right away because the baby won't sleep in the crib and you'll do a lot of diaper changing on the sink or the bassinet changing table. However, that was a bad decision for 2 reasons: 1) Now I don't have any place to put away all the clothes, blankets, toys, changing pads, etc. so everything is sitting in my living room (and I'm afraid that when the baby is here in a week, I won't have time to set up the room); and 2) We didn't realize is that furniture is ALWAYS delivered late. We were told our furniture would be here in 4-6 weeks and we thought, even if it arrives in 6 weeks, it will still be here before the baby gets here. WRONG! It's now been 7 weeks since we ordered the furniture and it's not here yet. I've spent the morning making a lot of phone calls to find out the status. Moral of the story: don't wait to order the furniture. You may not use it right away, but chances are you'll have at least one baby shower and you'll get lots of stuff that you need to put away. Plus, you want to have time to set up the nursery so you're not scrambling to do it when the baby gets home.

I spent the day doing a lot of housework and organizing things. It was a sort of burst of energy which was nice because I don't have those too often. I also watched one of my new favorite shows, "Heroes." I keep thinking how in a week or less my life is going to be so different. I also want to the doctor to induce labor because my back pain is getting more and more annoying everyday! I do think I'm close to delivering because my contractions are getting stronger and are happening more frequently. I used to only get them at night for a couple of minutes, but now I get them during the day once or twice, they're just not regular. Come on baby, get here!