Due date–come and gone

Well my due date has come and gone, and well, I am still huge! We didn’t actually expect our baby to arrive on time or on that day, but still it could have been nice.  So yeah, even though it could have been any day before, it is definitely true to say “any day now”!!!

Søren and I have really been enjoying ourselves though.  Since we didn’t know what could happen, he worked very hard and quite quickly on his last paper that has to be handed in on Monday.  That meant that he had a lot of time to be with me and we have had a blast hanging out the past few days.  We’ve played in church together, gone for walks, visited friends and today we took a drive to the ocean/fjord and walked by the water!

Thursday we went looking for cars, yes we wanted to be in the station wagon clan.  We had looked at many online and decided to see a few of them in person. We really liked the car at the first stop but decided to look at the others just in case.  In between car dealerships we stopped for lunch.  During lunch we began talking about how it kinda stunk that we wouldn’t get as much for our current car if we did a trade in, and well maybe we should just try to sell it ourselves or keep it.  We were thinking we would need to buy another car when I began working again in February anyway. So after a little bit of reflection we were quite sure that we were just going to keep our beloved Yaris until I started work again and then buy a cheaper station wagon at that time.  However, we did have one more car to look at so we decided just to check it out.  We really liked this car as well and just wanted to hear how much they would give us for our Yaris before we officially decided on keeping it. This is where the story gets funny! (Well to us at least) The other car dealership had offered us 65,000 kroner ($12,500). It was a reasonable trade in price but if we could do better here, then maybe we would buy a car now.  The man did some research on our car, and a little later he told us……”Yeah, we will give you 35.000kroner ($6,750).”  Søren and I looked at each other trying not to laugh, then Søren said, “And that is for a 2005 diesel Yaris?”….”Yes,” said the man.  And well needless to say we got out of there quite quickly after that.  We knew that if sold privately our car was worth at least 80.000 ($15,500)!!! The whole way home we made jokes back and forth about 35.000, and just laughed.  It was so ridiculous!!  So yes, the end of the story is that we are keeping our Yaris.  We tried out the baby carriage and car seat and it does fit.  We will be a little scrunched but we just want to prioritize other things, so we will just have to deal with it.  We are happy with our decision…so far!

Otherwise, we have just been hanging out enjoying our new home and time with each other and friends.  We had quite a few things planned up to my due date but then nothing after that, so we will have to be spontaneous this week if our little boy doesn’t arrive!

39 weeks

Here I am on my due date!
40 weeks