Over the past few weeks, I've come to realize the kind of hysteria that an upcoming baby brings out in people. I've received more calls, texts, emails and facebook posts from friends, family, and coworkers in just this past week than I think I've gotten in my entire life! It's a little overwhelming knowing that so many people are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Baby Ov and are looking for any clue that she's on her way. Rest assured, we can't wait to share the news once she's here!!
There are so many things I'm excited about with the upcoming arrival of our baby girl. I really can't wait to meet her. I want to see what she looks like - what color hair does she have? Does she even have hair (we saw some hair in one of her ultrasounds so I'm pretty sure she does)? Does she indeed have a long second toe just like Mike's? I'm so looking forward to learning her personality. I can't wait to see how Stella reacts to having a baby in the house and how the baby likes Stella!! One of the things I'm most looking forward to is seeing Mike as a dad. One of the conversations I have most frequently with this baby is how lucky she is to have Mike as her daddy. I know he's going to be an amazing father - he knows how to have fun and be a kid and I know he'll be this little girl's best buddy. At the same time, he knows when to be serious and I am confident that he will raise her to be a wonderful, respectful, confident, compassionate, caring, creative, responsible, amazing woman. I've got the things like diaper changing, swaddling, feeding and bathing down, but I'm sure I'll learn a lot from him when it comes to being a great parent.
As we wait for Baby Ov to arrive, we have been trying to relax and enjoy these last few days/weeks together before, as everyone tries to tell us, our life will change forever. One piece of advice we were given was to see a lot of movies because it will be a while before we have the time to see one. We're both movie fans so we've seen lots of them lately.
In addition to seeing a few movies this past weekend, Mike (happily?) complied with my wishes to clean the house again. Thankfully it didn't need the in-depth cleaning we did the weekend before, but I still felt the need to spruce the house up a bit. I also continued my streak of making food to freeze so that when we're so busy with this baby and tired and worn out, we at least have some food to eat. I figured it out last night and there are around 70+ servings of food in the freezer right now. I feel like I may have gone a little overboard, but I'm sure I'll be happy about my obsessive preparation a few weeks from now.
I'm feeling really good - so good that it's really hard to imagine that this baby is almost here. I expected to feel pretty uncomfortable at this point and even a little miserable but I honestly feel no different than I did a few months ago. When people learn that I'm due in less than a week now, they comment that I don't look 9 months pregnant. Mike and I agreed a few days ago that between those comments and how good I feel, we're almost starting to feel like my due date must be off by a month. I know that's not the case, but again, it certainly doesn't mentally prepare us for the very imminent arrival of Baby Ov.
We took a pic of the bump tonight. I tried accentuating it a bit so you get the full effect. This may (hopefully) be the last glimpse you get of it before it's replaced with a picture of me holding our baby girl!!
