Happy Halloween & 38 weeks!

To start things out Chris was lucky enough to go to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.  Unfortunately, I could not go because my job gets in the way of my fun sometimes.  The worst part was I got floated to the Emergency Department to transport patients, but everyone took one look at me and tried to go easy on me in fear of sending me into labor.  I hardly did anything and there was only one whopping trauma case and it was not even cool.  Then I got to go home early, so basically I should have called out and gone to the Rally with Chris.  Anyway, he had fun :)  He left before 8AM so he would have a place to stand and packed some food and water in a backpack.  I will let him tell you the rest since he was actually cool enough to go.

[It was cool and there were lots of people.

 National Mall at about 8am.  I was about a half mile closer to the capitol and there were people completely filling the space between there and where this picture was taken.  

 I probably should have tried to get closer, since I was unencumbered and early, but this is as close as I got.  There were lots of big screens to the side that gave people a view since 99% of the people there had essentially no view of the stage.  

 The people go waaaaay back. 

Here you can barely see Stephen Colbert's hand and part of his head.  Wait, no, that's a giant paper mache Stephen.

On the video screen in the lower-right is Kareem Abdul Jabbar.  Also appearing: Yusuf Islam (Cat Stephens), Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Bennett, Kid Rock and more.]

Sunday we had fun.  We decided to make tacos like we did last year, and I also made some Cinnamon pumpkin spice cookies.  It just wasn't the same without all our visitors that we had last year, though.  We also carved our pumpkin.  I gutted it and Chris designed and carved.  I thought our pumpkin was awesome.  We did not have nearly the amount of trick or treaters as we did last year, which was a bummer, but we still had some cute ones.

Chris hard at work!

 Baby Boy Casson Pumpkin

All lit up!

Cookies

 Awesome spider candle holder I found at Safeway :)

 Our decorations!

On Monday I decided to finally wash the baby blanket I made.  I have been apprehensive about it in fear of ruining it. Well my fear came true :(  I ruined it, even on the delicate cycle.  It was just the one type of material which happened to be the thinnest of it all.  After it happened I didn't know if I wanted to bust out laughing or start bawling, so I did both.  I am over it though and I will try and repair it somehow.  On a good note, I received these awesome gifts from Shelby in the mail, which made losing my whale blanket much easier to deal with since I will still have plenty of whales around.  I instantly LOVED them!

Ruined blanket :( This is just one spot, there are about 3 where the red material is coming apart.

 Boppy cover front from Shelby

 Back of cover

Feeding cover!  Thanks Shelby!

Now then, this awesome lady had an awesome baby girl early, early this morning at 1:47am! Welcome Neely, she was 8lbs 15.8oz.  Congrats Jacobs family!! 

So it is official I am 38 weeks!  2 more to go, and I am ready!  I have decided that I am tired of getting up to use the restroom every 30 minutes, when I have to heave myself out of bed.  You don't realize how valuable abdominal muscles are until you can't use them.  Chris sleeps right through it [none of my business-wcc]!  Other than that everything is going very well and I really can't complain :)

 Don't mind the poofy hair, I am getting it cut tomorrow :)

Baby Boy Casson is about 6 1/2 lbs and 19-20 inches long