Our new strategy is to pretend our world doesn't revolve around waiting for baby. These are our distractions so far today:
We started the morning with a trip to the Farmers Market. Last weekend I weeded and tilled my vegetable plot and got it ready for planting and today we picked up lovely organic seedlings: several varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, and a tomatillo plant, in addition to lovely artisan bread, local meat, and organic produce. Our ritual is to eat way too well on Saturdays during market season, and today will be no exception.
Continuing with the food theme, we then walked down to the river to check out the legendary Memphis in May Barbecue Championship. With hundreds of barbecue teams from around the world smoking pigs for 2 days, literally all of downtown is perfumed with that unmistakable smoked meat aroma. Wow. Plan next year's visit now; this is when you want to be in town. Perhaps we'll wander down later and see what we can sample.
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Mom says I was 3 weeks late (due Aug 1) and that best advice is to do what you're doing today - keeping busy with other things. So grateful for the many updates - means I'm less likely to poke and worry about you! ;-) (though my shoulder is a constant reminder of you for some strange reason) BTW - love this part of the season, too!
OK, so at this point I started looking up Guinness Book of World Records for longest pregnancy ever. Turns out you'll (hopefully) fall well shy of that, since according to this article http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,797153,00.html
It was 375 days! But then again, the runner up was 317 days and by my calculations on Tuesday you'll be about 308 days...If Fausto waits until next Saturday, by the way, he'll share Leo's birthday!!!!
BTW...Adam's bet is what happens first--you giving birth or Hillary Clinton conceding. He thinks it's the former...
Hey, we went to the farmers market to buy organic vegetable seedlings today too! We planted tomatoes, summer and winter squash, beans, peppers, artichoke, and lots of herbs. So glad to kinda share the day with you!
Also, after Paul and I were talking with you about the Guinness world record thing, I started to wonder how normal a 44 week gestation may be. Since the vast majority of women are induced at week 42 (without checking the health of the placenta and so on), we may never know.
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