The last month of pregnancy

Josh and I have recently discovered that our baby is going to be here in less than 4 weeks!!! For me, pregnancy has been really easy and I am going to miss being pregnant. It has also gone by very very fast! At first when we were waiting to find out if  our baby was a boy or a girl, that part went by SO SLOW! But now it's almost over, CRAZY! I sort of feel like a time bomb that could "go off" anytime now. We have been doing all sorts of things to "get ready," birthing classes, reading tons of books, watching parenting and youtube videos, spending time with my friends new born etc, BUT the hardest thing that we are doing, for me, is... I have been so hot my whole pregnancy, I'm always hot or comfortable, rarely cold and I never used to be like that before I was pregnant, so even as the summer has faded in Seattle, I want to kill anyone who turns the heat on. So that means that our house will stay about 65 during the day and sometimes when we wake it it's 60 and I still won't let Josh turn the heat on, I tell him to layer instead. Here's the BIG BUT, I have come to the realization that I can't keep the house this cold with a new born!!! So we have been keeping the house at 70 all the time and most of the time I'm okay, unless I'm cooking, cleaning or drying my hair, but please tell me the hot flashes go away instantly after no longer being pregnant.

We are really getting excited for him to come! This last week has been the hardest for me in my whole pregnancy because I'm really starting to feel huge and pregnant and restricted. It takes so much effort to do anything, get off any chairs, bend down to pick something up, roll over in bed, sleep in general and if I thought I when to the bathroom a lot before, I was wrong! Plus I didn't expect that my hips would be so sore, that's new and it keeps me up at night. I swear I'm not complaining even thought it sounds like it. I'm more so laughing at myself out loud. I do love being pregnant, just sharing the joys with everyone.  =)

Question for other parents, was it hard to find your child's name??? We are having the hardest time. Nothing sounds just right. We thought we knew what his name was, we always talked about Jacob or Luke, but now that we are having a baby, those names just don't sound right. Everyone is asking us what his name is, we just don't know. Did you just wake up one day and say "this will be my child's name?" or did some of you have to see your baby and then you knew?

Well, that's how we are doin. I love this little baby inside of me so much! I'm so excited to hold him. I have been reading out loud to him because I really want him to know my voice. =) I think he likes it cause he moves around a lot when I do it. Oh and the 2 people who really wanted to feel him move have finally been around at the right time to feel it (my mom and my best friend Rachel) so I'm ready now, he can come anytime hee hee =)