Waiting on baby

I started going to the chiro on Tuesday....who told me my hips were not quite aligned so she proceeded to align them....and as she did, she told me she was pretty sure baby dropped. The doctor confirmed that a little bit later when he said, "this baby is low!" and gave me stats of 2cm, 50% effaced and baby hanging out at -1. That's actually farther along than I was with Aiden at 40 weeks, which makes me think little one is coming in the next week. Some things you probably don't care to hear about started happening today that made me think baby may be coming in the next 48-ish hours...but watch me be sitting here typing out an update next week, baby still curled up in my belly. Any which way is good by me. I am ready to meet little one, but now that baby has dropped and chiro has aligned my hips, I'm a lot more comfortable. I am also getting over a bit of a cold that Aiden had last week and passed along to me so I wouldn't be upset to have the time to get better before baby gets here.

Last week both my work and Ryan's work were very sweet and did showers for us. Mine was completely unexpected - we had a group lunch at Chuy's and there were a few extra people waiting there that I did not expect. I love a good surprise, and I was SO surprised so that was really fun. They are the sweetest co-workers and friends and gave baby plenty of diapers and wipes, along with a changing pad, some books, blankets and other helpful items. One of the gals wrapped her gift in butcher paper and she'd written James 1:17 on it in chalk in beautiful handwriting. It was the perfect wrapping paper for our little one....I should have taken a picture of it all laid out before I trimmed it up to frame a few of the words...and it was very thoughtful of her to put so much time into it. I loved it enough I used some of the paper and one of the bows she made to make pics for baby's side of the room.

Ryan's work shower was supposed to be a surprise for him....but Ryan is a bummer at surprises and investigates until he figures things out so he knew what was up, but it was still very thoughtful of them and it was fun to meet lots of his co-workers. They gave us a very helpful gift card to Target, and also played a fun game of letting everyone guess baby's arrival date, time, length, weight and gender. The scales are tipped slightly toward a little lady. :)  Everyone's guess is good with me...at this point I feel pretty clueless. I was totally team girl in the beginning...but then I had a dream it was a little boy and looked him in the face and called him Jude. But my linea nigra hardly showed up this time and just barely on the bottom half of my belly....nothing like the dark, mismatched line I had for Aiden....which, according to old wives, means it's a gal. So, we will see...one of these days, very soon.