2 weeks and counting

I CAN NOT believe that in 2 weeks I'll be holding my baby......(hopefully not sooner!)
Here's the scoop. Last wed night I started having contractions at 7:30 in the evening....5 minutes apart....they were'nt really painful...just annoying....that continued on till 11 when I went to bed. I didn't get much sleep for the next few hours cause of just being so uncomfortable with these contractions coming every 5 minutes.....meanwhile Kenny's fast asleep in dreamland beside me ( I want him to experiance pregnancy just for 1 day...or shoudl I say 1 night!!! So he can feel what we go through, not sleeping through the night for months on end!!!!) Anyways...at about 3 am (thurs morning now) The contractions start really hurting....I can still breathe through them, and walk around, but the pain is radiating all over my lower back....so I dodn't know what to think, cause I've been having braxton hicks since like 15 weeks (and alot of them)...but they've never really hurt...and I never went into natural labour with Ruby, so I have no idea what in the world it's supossed to feel like!!! So at 3:30 I toss on a hoddie, tell kenny I'm going to the hospital, and head out they door. I didn't know what else to do! When I got there the nurses felt all bad that I had driven myself...they were really sweet. The maternity ward was hopping...there were NO open beds....they weren't even sure where to put me for observation. one of the mothers did end up moving out of the triage room, so they set me up on the monitors there. Sure enough I was having contractions alright. It was kinda bizarre though....I'd have a braxton hicks one (just a small little blip on the print out), then I'd have a bigger one (looked more like a hill!). So the nurse said to just be sure to go into my doctors office in the morning (which I had a appointment anyway), and get him to assess me. So I get home and it's 5 am....and I've probably only slept a total of 40 min all night....can you say brutal. Needless to say thursday was an aweful day....I couldn't keep my eyes open....and I ended up putting on video's for Ruby most of the day....yuck. So anyways...I go to my doctors in the morning, and he checks me out (gotta love a good 'ol internal exam) and he says that there's nothing going on internally.....*pwewf* (that was supossed to be a sigh or relief:P). My cervix is shut tight.....and nothing happening in that department.....yet. So he says that I very well could go into labour in the next 2 weeks....WHAT?!?!?!?! Or I could just have contractions for the next 2 weeks. I'll take option B please! I have gotten myself so psyched up for a c section, than now trying to wrap my brain arounf the fact that I could have a natural delivery just plain freaks me out!!! I know that sould wierd....rather having a c section...but for months now, that's what I've prepared myself for....and it's the only thing I know! I know what to expect, I know how the recovery is....The actual labour and delivery thing...I DON'T KNOW ANY OF IT!!!!!! So we'll see what ends up happening. I'm still having contractions....they haven't stoped yet....today was by far the lightest day of them though. Yesterday was brutal. I was getting them every 10 minutes.....we went down to the states to get all the last minute baby stuff, and I'm walking throughTarget, and babies R us, when I'd have to just get down on the ground and kneel till the contraction would pass! They were REALLY hurting....So i don't know what that was about....maybe it was just cause I was out and about all day....but today they're been alot less frequent.....I've probably only had about 10-15 all day....which is alot better than the last couple days. My next appointment is thursday morning....so I'll get the doc to check me out again....I want to make sure that there no dialation going on!!!! seriously...I can't believe that our new baby will be here so soon! I think Ruby's anticipatiing it too in her own little way. We've decided to call the baby Roxy (some of you may know that), so Ruby's been going around bringing me toys, or she'll find a pair of shoes that don't fit her anymore, and she'll give it to me and say "Rocky's" (thats how she says Roxy! SO CUTE!). It's hilarious! Or she found a pack of infact soothers, and she holds them up and says "Rocky's!" It's all day long she'll be pointing out things that are "Rocky's"....It's pricless....That reminds me I should get that on video! My pre baby pampering started last week as well....hallelujah! Got my hair done last friday....this friday I'm going in for a facial, and some waxing....then the week after a pedi. I love being able to justify all these treatments in the name of pregnancy! so fun!
Well, thats the latest.....gotta go to bed!