Eight More Weeks

Just fifty-six days left until my due date. I cannot wait to meet my baby boy!

This pregnancy has seemed to fly by. My days are so busy just taking care of Gracie and Drew and keeping up with daily household tasks. Now I have the added challenge of trying to figure out what (and how) to teach Gracie. I have a feeling that I am going to blink and all of a sudden the baby will be here.

I was reading a craft book to Gracie the other day and it suggested making a paper chain with one link for each day when you were counting down to a big event. I am so tempted to make one with 56 links -- not so much for Drew and Gracie as for myself! It would be a fun reminder that he will be here soon.

I haven't really started to think about getting ready for him. The crib is set up, but that is only because Drew was still sleeping in it when we found out we were expecting again -- we moved Drew into a toddler bed but never took the crib apart. We did buy a minivan. The new baby will use Drew's car seat; Drew will use Gracie's; and Gracie will move up to a belt-positioning booster seat. I borrowed a baby swing from a friend at church. I bought two sleepers and another outfit for the baby last weekend, so he will have a few clothes. We don't have much yet, but at least he will have something to wear home from the hospital! (We donated all of Drew's and Gracie's baby clothes to an orphanage in Zambia that our church works with before we found out that this baby was on the way.) And I think we have finally decided on a name. I guess things are coming together, after all.

I have a sonogram next week to check on my low-lying placenta. I can't wait to get another peek at our baby, and I hope to hear that he is growing well and that things look good for a natural delivery.