Baby Update

Ok, so I know I haven't really been updating as much as I should, or rather, ever. But hey, now's as good a time as any to start right?

So, to bring us all up to date, we are pregnant with our 4th child, a girl, who is due September 3rd 2008. She has 3 older brothers waiting to meet her as well as the entire family! Since she's the only girl, she should a) be totally spoiled b) be tough considering she has 3 boys to deal with and c) quite possibly rule this house.

Recently at my prenatal check up the topic of my tubal ligation came up. Exciting right? Well, from my point of view, it is! I mean, I love my kids, and I love having a large family. I just felt that 4 were plenty for us and our family will be complete. So, anyway, I asked my Doctor if we could have it done before I left the hospital. She agreed to do it on the condition that we schedule an induction on a specific date. That way the surgery could be scheduled the next day. I was totally agreeable (and nervous) to this idea. So this means her actual birth date will be sooner than the 3rd of September, it will actually be August 27th. One week early. I am both excited and anxious! That's one less week I have to prepare! I know she could show up earlier on her own, though I hope not! So that's put some additional pressure on me to accomplish all the tasks I have planned before she arrives.

Since I have 3 boys you can imagine all the new items that were needed. I could dress her all in blue boy clothes, but I felt that was not a choice! I want all Pink! And Purple! And Frilly!! I mean, this is my only daughter!! I have 3 sons; I want to keep it that way! So I've been sorting out all the boy items that my youngest son no longer uses and have been trying to prepare it for being sold. There's more than I had realized and it's become quite a large and tiring task! I have most of the clothes sorted out, but that equals to about 10 diaper boxes stuffed full! And a few of my laundry baskets too!! I was totally shocked when I saw the amount of things to sort and clean. I had no idea we had so much baby boy stuff. But I have to clear it out, there's no longer a use for it all. I also need that space for all her new stuff.

Speaking of new stuff, we had our baby shower last weekend. It was a lot of fun! It's so nice to be surrounded by people that care so much about you that they want to celebrate the new addition of your family and give her presents that they took the time to carefully pick out. She has a lot of fantastic clothes to add to my already growing collection, blankets, and decorations and so on. So, ok, it's not like I didn't have anything before the shower. I'm a woman who likes to be prepared, and as soon as I found out we were expecting a little girl I went shopping! I hit the sale racks, the second hand children’s clothing store, eBay and craigslist. A good friend of mine donated a huge lot of her daughter’s clothes too. And of course the grandmother's have exercised their shopping skills too! It's been a fun and exciting journey that will be even more amazing once she arrives. I know how wonderful it was to bring my sons home from the hospital, and I know this will be just as great.

Ok, so now that I've composed a novel for my first post in a long time, I better sign off. That way I have more to add later!

Thanks for reading!