TGIF

Friday is the day. Sarah is going in to be induced on Friday, August 1. The process is to call the hospital at 7:00 am on Friday and if there is space available we go in. If they're busy we call back at 10:00 and so on. We have learned that this whole process is a waiting game so that is what we're prepared to do. They'll start the inducing process and then we wait some more. No one knows how long it will take. After nine months and the last 6 weeks on bed rest, we are excited to be going to the hospital for the birth of our baby and not just monitoring. This last week has been filled with final preparations in the nursery. Thanks for all your help Nancy and Barbara. We look forward to Lois coming in town on Thursday evening and being with us throughout this process and for Ron and Edyie to come back from Arizona just in time. We really wish everyone could be here. We're nervous and excited but most of all we can't wait to meet our son!

One Month To Go

July 16th means that the due date is exactly one month away. Heidi woke up saying that this is our last month ever without having a child. This month will go quickly and at the same time we're so ready and excited that it will go slowly. Sarah has been feeling well and is doing a pretty good job following her doctor's orders for bedrest. Her blood pressure has still been high but other than that she has felt great. Heidi has been doing a fanatastic job taking care of her and making sure she has enough of the food she craves, chicken and blueberries, to get her through the day. We appreciate all the phone calls and encouragement. We're still getting prepared for the baby's arrival. We purchased a nice camera so we can capture all the moments with the bambino. These pictures were taken with our new Canon Rebel camera. The nursery looks great. The pictures are hung, the clothes are put away and we even made the giant bear fit! We're as ready as we can hope to be.

ALL we need is the baby

Now that we have ALL of the baby stuff that one could imagine, we are putting it ALL together, trying it ALL out and finding places to keep it ALL. Thank you to ALL who gave to us so generously. On Sunday Nancy, Barbara and Gail came over to "help"...and we got carried away as you can see in the photos. We figured out the highchair and practiced using it with a watermelon! We decorated the fill-in baby with a baseball hat, a beer, a pinstripe bowtie and Frye cowboy boots.

In other news, Sarah received a good doctor's report last week...Yippee! Her blood pressure was lower than it's been and her bloodwork was all good. The doctors said she can work part-time and rest a lot. Only 5 weeks to go!!!!!