37 - 40 - 4

37 - 40 - 4 could either be my high school locker combination or some of the stats associated with this pregnancy. For all I remember it could be my locker combo, but really it is the later as today I am 37 weeks pregnant. Which, as all the moms out there know, means baby is fully baked and ready to come out of the oven. We had a checkup this afternoon and all signs point to no baby yet, but I'm kinda glad about that because I was planning on at least another week at work to get things done. Since my first 6 weeks out is covered by Short Term Disability insurance, it really means that I don't even need to email work in that time. If the insurance finds out you 'worked' any, then you aren't really disabled and cuts you off and we don't want that happening of course. So I really will 'go dark' when baby is born.

The 40 number is the poundage I've gained and, yup, that is pretty much what I gained last time. The only nice thing is I started out 6 or 7 pounds lower this time and haven't quite hit the same peak weight as with Zara, but there is still time (see last paragraph). At least this time the weight isn't quite as scary since I lost it once and at least *expect* to be able to do so again. Anyone have a good race they want to train for with me? Given the timing with summer approaching, I expect the first long race I train for will be the USA 10-miler in October.

And lastly, 4 as in the number our family will grow too very shortly. I can't believe it and its just kind of starting to dawn on me that I will actually have a newborn to take care of again very soon. I can take our schedule the household runs on right now and just shake it up like a snow globe because its back to square one.