Fussy baby

Sweet Pea is becoming a fussy baby. Right around dinner time she begins to tune up and she screams most of the night. I suppose it is my just desserts, as I was a fussy baby for my mother. I expect these things are genetic or my mother cursed me to the same fate. Either or both of these theories could be true.

Cutest baby ever!

How about this for the cutest baby ever! She is 1 month old and we think she is pretty grand.

In a holding pattern

We are officially in a holding pattern. The doctor says that nothing is happening and the due date has come and gone...days ago! I am beginning to swell again. Which is so lovely, hands, feet, ankles, and toes are back to the size of puffy (is puffy really a size?) And I am itchy, itchy, itchy. I am not sure my skin will every forgive me for the torture I am putting it through.

Word on the street is this weekend is a new moon and that sometimes the phases of the moon can play voodoo with babies and labor. We are crossing our fingers. That combined with Friday the 13th--something exciting should happen, right?

And time drags on...

We are still waiting for baby to make it's appearance. Yesterday was a wonderful day off! Just sleeping in and puttering around was a welcome change from work, work, work. I cleaned up my piles of stuff that seems to find their home all over my house. I can thank my mother for that trait, she is a pile-er also. But we are blissfully pile free for the time being. Most of my strategy is to pile the stuff for so long that when I eventually get to sort it out--most of it just goes into the trash. That solves any decision making process. Which just goes to prove that anything kept long enough soon becomes trash.

I was hoping for a little firecracker baby, but the day has come and gone. Makes me wonder when this little person will decide to make a move. I worked some in the baby's room and I think it is ready. Got all the new stuff out of it wrapping and most of it washed. I have tons of great clothes from Little Miss, that I was able to concentrate my shopping on all the rest of the baby needs. I have enough different baby soaps, that I can test them all and pick out my favorite. It will be interesting once I start to wash the little person and see which one we both like the best. You know it will be the designer label soap, that can only be ordered online and cost more than a pair of shoes. But anything for baby...right?

We are still searching for the perfect name. Right now, we have a list and are going to see what it looks like. I expect that Honey Bun will make the final choice on names. I am having a hard time figuring out what I think is the best and he seems so sure of his choices. We will see when the decision making time comes...I am NOT calling this little person Evangeline and that is what he is campaigning for.
The poor child...can you imagine???

After the shower

We didn't even know we needed all this stuff! As we traveled home the car was packed to the top with gifts and goodies. I am not quite sure where all this stuff will go and I just started stacking it in the baby's room. I will have to make time this week to sort it all out! It was wonderful to see friends and family. And everyone says that a baby will use tons of stuff. And I hope we are prepared for that. Seems like we are, if the piles in the room are any indication...but guess we will figure it out as it happens.

Honey Bun is continuing to be glued to ESPN and will be glued until the WCWS is completed in OKC. It is great that they are broadcasting all the softball games on ESPN, but that also means that we have to watch all the softball games. Aren't we lucky!

Before the baby shower

Baby shower is T minus 15 hours and it is time to pack and go. I am really looking forward to seeing friends and family. I can't imagine how big Little Miss is getting. It should be a fun time. We have a jam packed weekend in the Air Capital with baby shower and then a wedding on Saturday night. More time to visit! We are starting a baby count-down and I think this time to visit friends will be precious when the new little person arrives and our time alone is infrequent. Ho hum.

Prettiest yard in the neighborhood

"We" have been working so hard on our yard, by we, I really mean Honey Bun. I think we might have the best looking grass in the whole neighborhood. Soon he will have it looking like the outfield, it will be so lush and green. I have a few flowers potted and sitting around, just enough to look like I made an effort, but the focus of our yard is mostly the grass.

I think the best part of the day happens in the evening, sitting in the lawnchair, smelling the BBQ grill and watching the cats run in the grass. What more could you want in life?