Hubby-poo are frantically trying to get ready for the arrival of Acorn. The house is almost in shape - just gotta get the guest bathroom loaded up with baby stuff now that the master is all but done. But it's ready enough to where we could handle having a baby here with no real problems.
We are so eager to meet our girl. If you asked me at any point before the last maybe 4 or so weeks, I would have told you that I want her to wait until her due date because I am enjoying pregnancy so much (despite the Boar's Head Ham feet). But now that she's enormous, and now that I'm all but ready, and now that my work to-do list is winding down (and I'm starting to drift into a 'who cares?' sort of place), I have had enough of pregnancy.
We decided we wanted her to come in June, but I think that ship has just about sailed. The thinking is that if she is born in early July, she will hear, 'oh, you were ALMOST born on the Fourth of July' for the rest of her life (unless, of course, she is actually born on the fourth). Born in June, no worries. Why do we think people would say that? And why do we think it would be annoying? Well, people say it with her due date as it is, and we both find it annoying. Of course, both Hubby-poo and I have a very low tolerance for annoying people (he is much better at hiding it than I am). Surely the Acorn won't fall too far from the tree.
But the point is that we are getting ready. I am pretty much packed (just a few small electronics / chargers / etc.). Today I stuck a bottle of bubbly in the fridge so it's chilled for our trip to the hospital, and we chose a celebratory bottle of wine (one from our baby-making trip to Fredericksburg). I still need to toss in the baby book pages, but I need to protect them somehow, since we don't have the cover yet (since it will be customized).
The other thing we did was make our call list. We also made a text and e-mail list. Sorry, but *most* of you are on the text list (or even the Facebook list). Even just considering family and the closest of friends, we have a crap ton of people to call. And if they answer, they will be long conversations. So we are leveraging technology. It's not because we don't love you. It's just that we'll be really tired and want to play with our baby :-).
But now we are about to take a walk to the grocery store. Yes, it's freakin' hot out (not as hot as it has been, but it's humid as a Jersey swamp!). But I'm making an effort to get my baby moving. Maybe if we walk long enough I will get my June baby after all!
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Ha - call lists schmall lists! That's what grandparents are for in our books. Jim and I always just called our parents and left it up to them to tell the siblings, aunts, uncles, etc. After that, it was a blanket email out to everyone else, and this time around we used Facebook too. Don't stress yourselves out contacting everyone... enjoy your first few minutes and hours with your daughter and not on the phone ;-)
Everyone said that about Davey's due date but nobody ever said it about his birthday after he was born. Once you have a baby people stop speculating.
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