I wish I had some exciting pictures to post, or some crazy story, but nothing comes to mind. This Young family has been playing a lot of the waiting game lately. Which, let's be honest, is hard for me because I am way too impatient. Crazily enough though, at least one aspect of the waiting game is soon to be over because we have a week until the due date. I still don't know if I believe it.Sometimes I find myself laying in bed, and in those moments of comfort before my hips start numbing up, I think to myself "No, it can't really be true. I'm not pregnant. I mean really. Parents? US???" That's usually when the sore back/hips kick in, or I get a nice kick in the ribs to bring me back to reality.
Then I start thinking about how even though it's going to be hard, it will be amazing. Just to hold a new little life. Our son. A new little body that has so recently been with our Heavenly Father! Then I think about the family names we are thinking about using, like James for his middle name, which would be after my great-great-great-grandfather, an amazing pioneer and member of the Mormon Battalion. Did he get to meet him? That would be pretty cool if he did.
Okay, not to change thoughts in the middle of this post, but we realized that we haven't shared about "Baby Chuck." A couple of months ago, my youngest brother decided he wanted to call this kid Chuck. And now he always says "How's Baby Chuck doin?" I guess word got out about it, because at our Tyler family Christmas party, with all the extended family, I got a surprise present from a mysterious Santa. I opened it up and inside was a bright pink shirt! Now it's not just Ted that thinks of him as Baby Chuck. Not the greatest picture but we decided we needed to get at least one picture in the shirt before it was too late! So at 39 weeks...
Here's a close up of what is on the belly of the shirt...
Thank you to this mysterious Santa (cough cough... Liz and Steve.... ) for the funny shirt!We're excited (and a little antsy) about all that could happen in the next week!
2 comments:
Leah! You are almost there! You are amazing, I can't wait for you to to hold your baby and just fall in love like you never have before! You will be a fabulous mom.
Fun shirt :) After you have the baby, you'll have to wait to give it to your boy when he's big enough to wear it!
I know you're not asking for advice, but I REALLY wish someone had told me this when I was in your position. So, here's what you do: Get all packed and ready for the hospital. Then pretend the due date is two weeks later than the real one, so you'll be "pleasantly surprised" when the baby comes (Abe was 8 days late). In the mean time, go on lots of dates, and sleep tons (especially right when you go into labor).
How exciting, though! Let me know as soon as you're well enough to have visitors :) We can't wait to meet him!
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