I am still feeling really good which is awesome. Our baby is weighing in at two pounds now and over a foot long! So crazy. We feel him (or her) moving a LOT. Especially when I lie down and after I eat. This baby is bound to have some long limbs considering I'm about 5'6" and Lenny is 6'4". He or she is probably needs some room for those legs and arms!
We have had a busy couple of weeks. The biggest thing we did was tour a few daycares. They were all good and I found pro's and con's at each of them which I did expect. I didn't have that "THIS IS IT!" moment. This was really disappointing for me because I thought I would have that feeling by now. We are on a few waiting lists but are continuing to look around. I know that "no one is going to take care of your baby like you can", but I really want to feel comfortable. It's important to me. The places that we toured were all very capable and I think our baby would be fine at any one of them, I just didn't have a feeling about any one of them being "the one". I keep praying for clarity on the situation. Lenny tells me not to worry and that every thing will fall in to place as it is supposed to. He's so much more calm than I am. I trust that it will fall in to place, I just wish I had a hunch on just HOW and WHEN it will fall in to place :)
We had a great weekend together. Friday night we got to go out to dinner with some friends of ours, Lance and Danielle. We went to Harpers restaurant and I had a REALLY yummy veggie burger. Saturday morning we went to the annual "Wade Family Christmas Breakfast". I brought a dish that I found the recipe for on Pinterest and not a single drop was left of it. It was very yummy! Yesterday afternoon we pulled out all of our Christmas presents and wrapped them for the family. I didn't realize how exhausting that could be - We fell asleep on the couch together afterwards (Lenny told me I had a steady snore going on... but I don't believe him.) Last night we did an annual Christmas dinner with Brady and Niki, our really good friends who also happen to be our neighbors :) Instead of doing gifts for each other, we pick a night and go out to a nice restaurant and spend time together. We went to Barringtons (YUM!!) and it was so so so so good. We didn't get home till 11 o'clock last night which, for this girl, is late! It really was a great night.
Today Lenny and I got up and we went to 10:30 church. It was great being able to go since we have been traveling in and out of town so much recently. I did end up getting really hot though and had to step out for a little bit to get my water out of the car and cool off. We went out for Mexican for lunch and came back and got to work. I had purchased a new filing cabinet recently to "get organized" and we pulled out every bill and paper we had and organized all our files. It went MUCH more quickly than I had imagined and I feel so good now. Every thing is in its appropriate place and in alphabetical order. After that I had about 4 loads of laundry to do.
This week is going to be crazy. I have meetings scheduled at work every day and a doctors appointment Tuesday morning (where they test me for gestational diabetes). I am having dinner with my girlfriend Jill Tuesday night and then we leave Thursday for our trip to Memphis! It's going to be an amazing trip and I have been looking forward to it for weeks. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and post them.
With as much as I have been thinking about this daycare situation and as busy as things have been. I really have been trying to take a deep breath and enjoy this moment. We have 13 more weeks of this pregnancy and this is really the last time it will be just "us" for well... at least the next 18 years :)
I came home Tuesday night (the night after looking at daycares) and I had been at an event for ISES and when I got home, Lenny had made me some dinner to eat (he's amazing). I went upstairs to take a shower and get ready for bed and I noticed that our iPod dock was up at the top of the steps and the nursery door was closed. I opened up the door and all of the furniture was in the middle of the room. Lenny had painted the nursery without me knowing. I could have cried right then and there. I don't even know if he understands how much I appreciate him doing that. He knows how much I worry about stuff. I worry about the whole parenting thing and just how to do it. Are we going to be good parents like we hope? Are we going to do and stick to the things we say we are going to? How is this going to change our dynamic with each other? And then I have a moment like this where I walk in to the nursery, totally unexpectedly see that my husband has taken care of this task and I realize that we are going to be fine. We will be okay because we love each other and we take care of each other. We always have each others backs. This baby is going to be welcomed in to the world with an extraordinary amount of love. And that is comforting.
Until next time!
Xoxo,
Sara
