38 Weeks and Riding a Bike

It's hard to believe that I'm almost at 39 weeks. Just a few weeks ago, I never thought I'd make it to the safety zone and felt on the verge of labor any second. These days, it seems like the Beast is happy to hunker down for the long haul. Despite the fact that I feel huge and am tired of people telling me that I look huge, I feel pretty good. Yesterday I had a particularly active day, and realized in the midst of it how impossible that would have been to imagine when I was 38 weeks with Sawyer.

In case you never saw or forgot the horror of my feet, click here for a reminder. For whatever reason, I had enormous and unusual amounts of swelling during my pregnancy with him. While this can be a bad indication, everything with me was normal, so it was just lots of yucky swelling that nothing seemed to calm down. This time I have swelling that comes and goes, and some that I'm convinced just stays around my ankles, but nothing like that.

I'm taking full advantage, and yesterday we went to the zoo for an hour and a half, which is about as much as I can take at this point chasing my little guy around. After Saw's nap, he really wanted to go for a ride on the adult bike that Rob attached a child seat to. I have never attempted to ride that with Sawyer, and it probably wasn't the best time to start, but I figured, what the heck. I barely got my leg over the bar of the bike, but once on, we had a pretty nice ride. Of course, I probably really amused people driving by, especially since I had to really ride with my knees poking out rather than straight up and down to avoid my belly. But I did not cause any accidents, and that's a plus! We later went to the gym, where I ran on the elliptical and rode a bike while reading. At the end of the day, I was tired, but thankful that I can still move around like a semi-normal human! I'm glad to still have feet.