4:40 a.m.

And I thought 5:30 in the morning was early!  Goodness, I need to write and report here more.  So much going on.  I'm now 36 weeks.  Never thought this day would come but I'm getting more and more excited.  Baby Lizzie is due March 23 and my last day at work before maternity leave will be March 18.  Just wanted to say I love my job!  Mark, my boss, has been so kind and incredibly flexible with me.  Love him.  I'm going to go back to work on May 9th part time.  About 10 hours from home and 10 hours at the office or so.

I see such a great future for me and dear Paco.  He's working so hard on his test.  He has another one coming up on Monday.  I'm saying a big prayer for him that it goes well.  Not sure if he'll pass or not but I know he's getting better.  Seems so these days.  He is such a great husband.  We were commenting yesterday on how we very rarely fight.  It's amazing and I know everyone says that that means one person is holding back but we are honestly not.  I mean we have little cranky outbursts here or there but that's all.  Makes me feel like we are solid and really prepared for our baby.  Baby Lizzie is not coming to "fix" us.  We are taking her in with open arms.

Paul's family threw me a baby shower last weekend.  So sweet huh?  I loved it.  All of Paul's husbands' wives came cause they are my friends now too and I really like them all.  We got so much great stuff including diapers.  I think we're really set.  I still need to get a few things here or there but really we are set.  If Baby Lizzie came today, we'd be ready.  Haha.  Well, ready in theory.  I hear you are never really ready for the changes baby brings into your lives.  I would still like a really fancy baby bjorn baby carrier.  I just have a feeling that'll come in pretty handy.  And I need a couple of bottles but that's it. 

I need to pop more pics in this blog.  Sometimes, I get overwhelmed with the idea of nursing the baby.  That's the only part that still stresses me out a tad.  Babywise is my new favorite book.  Paul says he's gonna read it too.  Well, there's just a certain excitement in the air for me right now.  Really happy.  And really grateful to Heavenly Father for the opportunity to still work a bit and take care of baby and to have a baby at all!