Ready!

We are ready, ready, ready to meet our sweet girl!!! I can remember being this way with June Anne - anxious, excited, nervous about labor and delivery. When will I go into labor? Where will I be when my water breaks? (Will I be in our weekly office staff meeting?! Oh dear!) But, now, add to these thoughts - who will come to stay with our sweet girl if we go to the hospital at 3:00 am like we did with June Anne? (We have a ton of people who have offered, but what if they are sick? What if they are out if town?) What will June Anne think when someone else gets her out of her bed in the morning? Will she be confused, scared? Will she cry? The list goes on and on and on....needless to say, without grandparents in town, it's gets a little complicated! Right now I'm praying for peace and trusting that The Lord has it covered!!!

I'm exactly 2 weeks out from my due date. And, unlike June Anne, I feel like my due date this time is exactly right. I'm huge, I'm pretty uncomfortable (she's estimated a pound bigger than June Anne, which doesn't seem like much, but makes a difference when you start out at a pre-pregnancy weight of 110!), and, honestly, I'm ready to have somewhat of a normal life back. Not for selfish reasons - more because I'm ready to be able to get back to sharing the load with my husband and playing on the floor with my daughter. But, I know she will come when she is ready. We will see!!!! I can't wait to meet this sweet angel!!!

Pics

Just some cute pictures if my monkey from the last few weeks. I LOVE THIS CHILD! Obsessed is probably a more accurate description. She is funny, daring, sweet, generous, particular. She knows what she wants and she is very verbal until she gets it! (With lots of "peez"s, of course). She says so many words these days! It's hard for me to even keep track! The latest are "apple" and "amen". But, she says probably 30 or so more also from all the family's names ("mommy", "daddy", each grandparent, and she's even attempting "Madeline"!) "please" and "thank you" to "diaper" (really more like "biaper"). One of the newer additions to the vocabulary is "no". Yikes!!!! And she uses it in perfect content! We are trying to couple it with "thank you" and "ma'am". It is useful for her to be able to tell us if she we are totally off base when communicating with her. But, we'd like for her to be respectful in that communication. We are working on it!

The other latest is that she now tells us when she is about to go poop. (Yes, I realize this is not a glamorous topic!) So, I'm thinking potty training is in our near future, although I don't have the energy right now! Kinda like I don't have the energy to even consider a toddler bed for her yet! I'm learning to offer myself a little grace. My child is advanced, she always has been, but that doesn't mean I have to push everything the moment she displays a certain behavior. In time, in time!