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Goodness gracious, baby boy. The time keeps on flying by. You may be my second child, but I can tell this is going to be a whole new experience… being the mother of two. Your sister keeps me so busy. Life is so busy. I feel like I’ve had a lot less time to sit back and reflect on the experience of being pregnant. It seems like only a couple of months ago we found out the good news of your impending arrival. And now? There are only 6 weeks left until we meet you (the photos in this post were taken at 30 weeks, but it’s taken me another 4 to sit down and write this.) It’s starting to really hit me. And there is still a lot of wonder in it, a lot of expectation, so much excitement, anticipation, joy at the thought of YOU, the thought of growing our family to 4, and especially at the thought that I now have – and am about to meet – my SON. A boy. I know very little about boys. You’re about to give me an education. 🙂 And that is so exciting!
I’m feeling really tired these days, but I don’t have too much time to dwell on it. You are positioned in me in a totally different way than Adela was. Somehow you feel longer, more stretched out. I usually can feel you pushing on two ends of my body, top and bottom or left and right. I remember Adela being more bunched up, more neat and tidy. You’re sprawled, hehe. You take no issue with getting yourself comfortable in there I guess. Our last doctor’s appointment, we found out you were head up, which explained the hard lump underneath my ribs and my difficulty getting a deep breath in. That was 3 weeks ago and I feel like you stayed in the same position for most of that time frame. But I’m wondering if you turned now. I was sure you had yesterday. Now, I’m unsure again. There is another hard lump under my ribs. I’m hoping it’s a bony little bottom. We’ll find out next week. I’m sure you won’t care to know the details about how you make your entrance into the world, but just FYI, all this is important because your entrance into the world needs to happen HEAD first. So we’re really hoping you turn on your own. Otherwise the doctor is going to have to try and do it for us. So turn, baby, turn!
Even though you’ll likely be sleeping in Daddy’s and my room for the first few months of your life, your room is ready for you. Your sister gave up her crib (which was also MY crib as a baby) and has moved into her big girl bed, so that you can use it. Two of the walls of this room didn’t exist a month ago. We had it built special just for you. I still have a baby name art project to finish and hang up (waiting on Daddy and I to agree definitively on your name, even though you’ve been named in my mind for the last 15 years.) Other than that, this “Sunshine and Rain” room is ready for you. The song “You are my Sunshine” has special significance to me because it was my parents’ song for me when I was a baby/child and, to this day, they both still call me “Sunshine.” Also, living in the desert has inspired me to appreciate weather and the glorious Northwest (the Seattle area where your Momma is from) all the more – hence the rain clouds, rain-inspired light fixture, and grassy green rug. Your closet is full of your stuff. Your drawers are full of your clean clothes, ready for you to wear them. All that’s missing is you.
SIX. MORE. WEEKS….
XOXO