I'm expecting today to be a quiet day at work - we have fewer therapists working than all of the other days, and by the end of the day, it'll be just the front desk staff and one therapist, and the ever present hope that the last patient will cancel so that we can leave a few minutes early. The last couple of weeks have been nice as well, since we have a new employee at the desk who works my hours, I can do a bit of aide work between 5 and 6. What that really means is that I can move around a bit, clean the tables, take people off heat or ice or e-stim (electrical stimulation, if you've ever had physical therapy, you'll know what that is), and generally not be confined to a desk for a little while. It's just one of those little things I enjoy about Friday afternoons.
Another thing I'll be enjoying about this Friday is my next trip to the OB for a checkup! My appointment is at 9:30, and even though it's a typical checkup, I still get excited to hear the heartbeat on the doppler. It's just one of those moving, beautiful things I could listen to for hours on end. Most of the time, I feel the same way about feeling the baby's movements - I could just sit here for hours staring at my belly move. I say "most of the time" because when I was trying to fall asleep last night, she was kicking or punching (kind of felt like poking!) me in this one random spot, and it kind of tickled! It was cute, but I was tired.
It's a little stran
ge to think that after today's visit, I start getting checked out every two weeks, and then near the end of September, every week! When did this happen? February seems like years ago now, but at the same time it feels like just yesterday I was sitting on our bedroom floor, holding a pregnancy test in my hand, and staring in disbelief at the two lines before me. Fast forward to today, and there is a little baby girl who weighs roughly 3 t0 3.5 pounds holding residence inside me! Say WHAT?!
Funny story about the day after I had that positive test, too. I already had plans to have lunch at PF Changs with Michelle (who, at the time, was 9 or 10 weeks along). After we had lunch, we opened our fortune cookies, and mine was quite telling! Actually, I don't remember off the top of my head what the fortune said (it's in my wallet, but I'm being lazy), but my "word of the day" was, indeed, "mother." Really now? I loved that.
I've got to wonder: if time is going by so fast NOW, before our little girl is even born, how much faster is it going to fly by once she's here?! I need to slow down and make sure I savor every moment, I guess, because it's going to be quite the whirlwind experience.
There are my thoughts for today, I hope you had a good Friday! I'm looking forward to this evening - Adam's sister Kate is coming over for game night, and that's always fun! Thankfully she doesn't mind a messy apartment...'cause that's how ours is right now. Who cleans on Fridays, anyway? ;-)
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