Mommy to be update

The baby wants KFC. There is no arguing, no stopping at GO, or trying to talk the baby out of it. The baby gets what the baby wants and who am I to disappoint. At the beginning of the pregnancy I decided to not give into my cravings and eat whatever the heck I wanted. Unfortunately, I have slipped a few times and had to change the rules just a bit…ok maybe more than just a bit. We decided that I could eat out at each fast food restaurant one time during the pregnancy which turned into just trying to make it without stopping at McDonald’s once a week (two cheeseburgers no onions or mustard please). The baby just won’t give up when he wants a cheeseburger!

Despite my not keeping with my goal of sticking to the healthy dietary plan, we have kept up with a lot of other goals and scheduling benchmarks. This week we painted the baby’s room. Big thanks to my mom and auntie Laura for all of their help. Poor Grandpa missed the painting party, but I am sure we will exploit his abilities sometime down the road for our advantage! We also put the crib together this week...which is really a crib/changing table/hamper storage/shelving unit (from Grandma and Grandpa Maurer). My thought that “we can whip this baby out no problem despite the bible sized manual” was quickly squashed. 2 ½ hours later we finished the bad boy and its baby holding-diaper organizing-clothes wrangling splendor! Two more big accomplishments on getting ready for our little guy to arrive! And believe it or not I have only had one or two freak out moments during all this “getting set up.” I’m pretty proud of that!

We start our baby classes this week. It is just one more thing that I am a bit behind the curve on. Oh well, we are getting all the little things on the baby checklist checked off one by one even if it is a bit behind most new parents schedule. It is a 5 week class so hopefully baby stays put until we are done. After that anytime the Griggster wants to come is alright by me! The BIG DADDY of classes is July 12^th…an all day class where you learn the all important tricks of diapering, bathing and who knows what else you are supposed to know before they allow you to be released into the wild (I know all you veteran professional mothers are giggling to yourselves…yet again). We will never fully be prepared to be parents until we have become parents - It’s a right of passage that many folks have the privilege of blindly going through and it’s our turn next.

One last little note…and this is going to two specific people, who I don’t even know if they read my ramblings or not…but you know who you are and what you did. All I can say is you made my heart so happy and we know that you didn’t do it for recognition, but we thank you from the bottom of our hearts and pray that someday God blesses you in even a small way, the way He did for us through you. (Baby does little flippy kicks in agreement!) Thank you!!