39 weeks

What a very crazy time this is! We are only a week away from welcoming our baby girl into this world! I think we are pretty much as ready as we can be but I am sure we still have no idea what we will really need until she is here, I have gotten so much great advice from my friends and family, I am so thankful to have you all. I went to the doctor today, I am 1cm dilated, not that it really means much since some women spend weeks at 1 cm but it’s good to know that after weeks of contractions I have made it to 1 cm finally…..now only 9 more to go. My doctor scheduled my induction date for Friday Jan. 18^th, I will go in at 8pm and be induced early Saturday morning and hopefully have a baby by Saturday evening if all goes well unless of course she comes before then which would be great!  Josh will have a 4 day weekend that weekend so he will already be off work and then he is planning to take a couple of weeks off to stay home with me and the kiddos. I am so very thankful he had a job that allows him to be home for the birth, there are so many soldiers who have had to miss the birth of their children. We are very blessed that he is home.

Our plans have changed a lot in the past week.  Originally my mom and my sister were going to be able to come down for about a week a piece to help us out with the baby but my mom found out she had a blockage in her heart and needed to have a Cath and possibly a stent put in. When they went into do the cath they found that there were several blockages and weren’t able to do the stent. She is going to have to be sent to a different hospital to have open heart surgery; we should know more about that next week.  My sisters both live very close and will be able to help her with whatever she needs in the weeks to come which make me feel a lot better since I cannot travel right now or for a few weeks after Raegan is born. I know she is disappointed that she will not be able to visit but I am very glad that they found the blockages before there were any serious problems.  There will be plenty of time for visiting after she has recovered plus she will probably feel a lot better which will make her visit even more enjoyable. We are planning to go to KY in late Feb anyway so it won’t be long before everyone gets to meet our baby girl anyway.

I have had a lot of people here offer to help which makes me feel a lot better just knowing that if I am exhausted or feel like I am in over my head I will have someone to call. I know that it makes my mom feel better to knowing that even though she cannot be here there are people here willing to help me out. I am pretty confident that we will be fine and dandy but it’s always nice to know there is help out there if you need it….even though I am not very good at admitting that I need it sometimes.

Liam is starting Mother’s Day Out on Wednesday he was originally going to go on Monday’s but they are pretty full on Monday’s and asked if we cared to go Wed. instead which is no problem, it actually works better since I will have a break halfway through the week. I am so excited for him to start going, I think he will love getting to spend the time with kids his age and he will be learning and playing, he is so social already it will be good for him. Me on the other hand, I have not spent more than a few hours away from him in 3 months so I may just sit out in the parking lot and cry the whole time he is there hahaha it will be good though, especially with Raegan being here too. I have to brag a little on Liam, he is learning to speak English so quickly, this morning he sang all of head and shoulders, knees and toes J he also counts all the way to 2 J He has really been trying to put sentences together, so far he gets a few words like mommy’s shoes and daddy’s car but more than 2 words in a row and we are lost on what he is saying but he is really getting close. He knows what he is saying anyway. He is doing great about using the potty, loves to wash his hands and brush his teeth, he is learning to say please and thank you and excuse me,” bless you” He has down pat he fakes sneezing all the time just so he can say bless you, its cute. I am so proud, he is just so stinking smart. He got his first busted lip this week, I can’t believe it has taken his so long with all the falling he does but we had blood everywhere, he fell running through the kitchen and got his mouth good, but he only cried for about 3 minutes then he was more interested in trying to eat the rest of his cookie than the fact that mama was trying to stop the bleeding…..its healing nicely though it didn’t swell up huge or anything like I thought it would but it looks terrible. I still cannot believe he has only been with us a little over 3 months, it just seems like forever. Someone once told me I would never be able to love him like I would my “own” child well here is news for them. I cannot imagine being able to love anyone any more than we love Liam. I actually have no idea how a heart can love someone so much and I am about to find out what it’s like times 2 in a week.  We have been so blessed by having him as our child, a lot of people say its him that is lucky or blessed but I think the real blessing has been for us, he has brought us together as a family, he has brought so much happiness, he has really strengthened our relationship with each other and with God, it is amazing how much love he has brought into our lives. God chose him just for us without a doubt.