40 weeks & 4 days...

Well lets pick up at Tuesday morning (where i left off at the last post)... I had no contractions though the night but was still not able to sleep well, so i called dad(who had made it into town at 1am) at 6:30am and told him that he needed to take me to breakfast ;). Daddy took me to Mimis and i had a yummy muffin. After breakfast we came back to my house...i went the the potty...and realized that i had just lost my mucus plug(lovely, right?)!!!!!!!! Mom, me and dad went to northpark mall to walk and see if contractions would start. the 3 of us (jake went to work) walked for an hour...and not one contraction. We come back home and i took a nice long nap. THEN...we heard that my brother was heading here from Texas!! I was so excited that my whole family was going to be together (NEVER HAPPENS)...that i practically forgot the reason why we were all together....and at this point i didn't even care if baby was ready or not....i was having a blast with my family! We went to Jonnies for lunch and saw our friend Bill, who has been begging us to come swim in his pool, so we asked him if we could bring a crew over (my family and jakes family) that night to swim...He LOVED that idea! Mom and i ran a couple of errands, then we came home for another nap for this pregnant lady ;) When Jake got home from work at 5pm the 2 of us went to walk for another hour at the mall...still not one contraction. AT this point (5pm) it had been right at 24 hours after my membranes had been stripped. Which...if it works like its soposto, i should have at least started some regular contractions by now. So in the back of my head i knew it(labor) wasn't going to be happening, and was starting to feel the pressure with my whole family in town, basically twiddling their thumbs (although i never told them to come to town) just waiting for me to have this baby. Jake and I came home (matt was here from texas by now!) and made stir fry for everyone then we got on our swim suits and headed to Bill's house. We had a bit of an impromptu party...between jakes whole family and my whole family we had a blast swimming and chatting and just catching up with each other and day dreaming about this little one...plus the water felt AMAZING on these fat(swollen) piggies of mine ;) After swimming...of course you need ice cream...so we all loaded up and headed to Freddies Frozen Custard...we sat outside on a lovely summer night eating ice cream and chatting till close to 10pm...it was wonderful!! still no contractions...