Due date week is here!

Well, I can't hardly believe it, but Friday is my actual due date! Will baby come before then? We shall see!! So a little update on what's been going on this last month....May 14th Ted left for a 6 week long field camp that started in Utah and moved to Canon City, CO. I kept really busy the first couple weeks he was gone, taking Brigs to play dates, library events, grandparents house, having people visit, etc. Ted's mom, Carolyn, came out the first week in June to stay for the rest of the time Ted would be gone. We're staying very busy with projects around the yard. The garden looks amazing as ever!
Last week I started having some contractions that were a little bit different and happening more frequently than I was used to. I was also having sharp pains that wouldn't go away. After making a call to Ted, he said he was going to come home, and he took the latest plane he could get on to that night. He showed up in the middle of the night. I was soooo relieved to have him back! It had been the longest we have gone without seeing each other since we met!
We thought, "Ok, labor is looking like it's going to start..." But at my doctor's appointment a day later I was only dilated to a 3, with 70% effacement. Measuring quite a bit lower (32? or 34? weeks as opposed to 38 like I should have been) so the doctor ordered an ultrasound to check baby's fluid and other measurements. Everything was fine, so it appears that the baby had just dropped since the previous week. Also, the sono-tech kind of scared me with the news that the baby is probably about 7.5-7.9 lbs already...quite a bit bigger than Brigs was! But, I guess if she's right this babe might not look like his limbs are sticks.
We got some sad news when Ted found out Saturday that he would have to return to field camp and finish the last project or he wouldn't pass the class. Which meant, he would have to do this all over again next summer...and his graduation would have to be pushed back until he completed this class....and that could mean possibly affecting when/if he gets into grad school. So major bummer. It was a very hard decision to make, but after thinking it over, trying to come up with other options, and praying about it, we decided that he should go back today and whatever happens this week, well...he'll be home by Friday at least. :( My mom came down tonight and said she would go to the hospital with me if I go into labor before Ted gets home. We sent a laptop with him and might have to Skype during delivery which will be quite a story to tell. But who knows what will happen. Baby might decide that he will wait until his daddy's back to get here.