Wow! I can't belive I am entering my 27th week of pregnancy, which also is the first week of the third trimester. I am on the down hill slope! If we do indeed induce on February 26th, we have approx. 12 weeks left until we meet our sweet daughter, Adalyn. This is such a busy time of year, and I am thankful for that because it makes the time go by faster. I am ready for her to be here! But we still have A LOT of preparations. I have been working on her hanging letters (that will spell her name). Instead of paying like $25 a letter I decided I would just buy plain wooden letters and paint them and tie hanging ribbon on them myself. I reeeaaalllly should have known better since I don't have a craft bone in my body. After my second attempt at painting them, three of the letters are bound for the trash. It has kind of been a disaster. The first time I painted them I did not weigh down the plastic that I put them on and it blew up on top of them and dried on to them. My brother was kind enough to sand them down for me so I could start over and I continued to make a disaster out of them the second time. I accidentally sprayed some sort of carborator spray on one of them and it ate through the paint and the leetter itself, and the other two just bubbled up where I had screwed them up originally and it looked like crap. So I guess I will be buying three more letters and trying again. Hopefully I can get these right and get to the ribbon part....I can ony imagine how that will go with my luck and lack of craftiness. Other than that. I am feeling pretty good. Some things are getting more difficult.... like bending over and getting up....oh and going up the stairs without feeling like I am going to pass out. But Addy kicks and moves all the time which is so amazing. I can even see it sometimes now. My book says she is just a little over two pounds. Who would have known that something that small could come with so much extra baggage...around my thighs and ass! I just keep thinking that it is all for her.....and pray that I will be able to get it all off after she is born. I have started having some weird baby dreams. I dreamed one night that I had her and that she was premature and very small...however seh was completely health and could talk in full complete sentences like an adult. Kinda creepy. Then just night before last I had another dream that I had her and that she was a giant baby...like the size of a 1 year old. And also that she had the longest most beautiful eyelashes. Don't know what that all means. I guess weird dreams are normal. At least I havent had any crazy labor dreams yet. I actually do not feel afraid when I think about labor and delivery. I know that at the end I will get to see her face, so it just seems like nothing compared to the reward. Everything that comes after....now that is a whole different story. I pray every night that I will be a good Mom and I will be able to raise her the way she deserves. I pray that we are both parents that will make her proud. That is a big responsibility. On a lighter note....Justin changed his first diaper this weekend. Julie let him change Lucy...it was a peepee diaper, but he did pretty good. He didn't know which way was the front and back, so we should see some interesting things when Addy does get here. I can't wait to see him handle his first poop! We have quite an adventure ahead of us!
