Waiting For A Baby

This is what waiting for a baby looks like. Actually it looks a lot more antsy than this and the red boots, why they are certainly much more colorful than maternity leave is. Thank goodness for my friends and family who kept me busy and extroverted this weekend! My mom came over for breakfast and multiple pots of coffee on Saturday, which was followed by dinner at Budda Ruska (yum!) with a couple of friends (Thanks Nate!!! Sorry we wiped the floor with your face Trivial Pursuit style...:) and then to the Arboretum with Adam and my good friend Anna on Sunday. It was beautiful there and so much fun (thanks Anna!) Walking a few miles through the trees did me good and provided an excuse for ice cream later that evening. For some reason, I thought I would have Geronimo in my arms before I would be wearing scarves and sweaters this year, before autumn painted the Arboretum and before all the birds ate the last blackberries outside my window. Hundreds of little songbirds are descending upon them right now, tweeting about their lush bounty and still no baby. Sorry folks, I know you are almost as anxious as I am! We will get the word out as soon as labor starts (soon, soon, soon I hope!)

However, thankfully not having a baby yet means that I grew, my amnio fluid is normal and Geronimo and I have been left to Nature's timing for our meeting to come - everything is perfect! I'm glad that induction is no longer looming over my head, but at the same time the anticipation of meeting our baby is consuming me. I am too excited. I can't even sleep, even between rapid-fire bathroom trips... one after the other, after the other. Well, it's time to pass more time putting away dishes, cooking dinner, sewing, seeing friends, and watching lots of movies (thanks Josh and Sarah - we raided your collection last time we fed Buster and Lucile...your birds will be speaking French and sitting on shoulders by the time you get home:) I also bought some chunky yarn to make a sleep sack for our little baby with giant #19 needles. I've never knitted with these clunkers before and I can't wait to post pictures of how all my little projects turn out, including the best little project of all - our baby!