How engaging... ;)

It's 4:30 in the morning and here I am, oye! I know this is my future but at least in a few weeks when I'm up at this hour I'll have my sweet baby girl in my arms! Right now I'm just awake and bored.

As I'm sitting here typing and staring at the clock I'm wondering how I'm not sleeping. Josh and I were up by 8:30, we had breakfast and then got right to work on cleaning the house before company was coming over by 4:00. We'd been slackers through the week so we really had a lot to do so we were going hard all day, then we started making dinner (for 14 people) and everyone started showing up right when the food was ready. We ate (everyone seemed to enjoy my baked spaghetti, thank goodness), we roasted marshmallows, they played poker & pounce, and then around 9:00 everyone started heading out. We went ahead and cleaned up any little left over messes and then we sat on the couch watching the rest of the Bears game. We had a full day! So why in the world could I not stop tossing and turning?! Oh man, all I can think about is how terrible I'm going to feel at work tomorrow.
Oh geez, I just head Josh's alarm clock go off....

Enough of the whining, how about some fun news?! When I woke up yesterday morning I told Josh I felt a little different... instead of feeling bigger, I actually felt like I was smaller than the day before. To me it seemed like the shape of my belly was a little different and finally I decided that maybe the baby has dropped. Later when Josh's family came over for his graduation/poker party she asked me "Has that baby dropped? It sure looks like it." I told her I was thinking so and she insisted that indeed that was the case. Throughout the day it seemed like my bladder capacity had gotten even smaller and then when we were settling down for bed I was feeling a lot of pelvic pressure, a more intense kind of pressure than I've felt before so with that I conclude officially... she's engaged! This is very exciting, just another step closer to Auria's arrival :) I must say though, as strong as this pelvic pressure has been, I don't know who decided to call this part of the process "lightening", lol.

Okay, I'm awake but I'm not sure how much sense any of this is making so I'll stop now just in case...