1 down...6570 to go

Well we made it through the first night dispite Emma's, the nursing staff's (who where just doing their jobs and where ridiculously nice), and my pulse rate's (which absolutely refused to get much above 40bpm resulting in an alarm going off every few minutes, unless I was drugged which then shot it up to 110 bpm along with a fever) best efforts. So here's the reward of our survival....lots of pictures!

WAITING FOR EMMA.....

EMMA MEETS THE WORLD...

EMMA MEETS MOM AND DAD...

EMMA MEETS BEN...

I clicked the shutter a half second too late. Ben's expression was actually directed towards Emma before he got distracted by all the cool machinery mom was hooked up to.

There will be more to come, including video; but they'll have to wait till we're discharged. I think I lost more sleep over trying to get these photos posted right using the hospital's lousy internet (the ONLY complaint there is about this great facility) then I did over Emma, the nurses, and the beeping machines combined!

Off to the hospital......

....freshly scrubbed, showered, and ready to go.....

....sort of....


...stay tuned...

Countdown....

How I'm feeling...

With less then a week to go everyone's curious how I'm feeling, sometimes that even includes me. However, I've narrowed my feelings down to a top ten....

10. Excited
9. Panicked
8. In Denial
7. Overwhelmed
6. Stressed
5. Sad
4. Nostalgic
3. Panicked
2. Scared
1. Panicked

How I'm looking...

With less than a week to go this is what I look like....

Yes, the picture is crooked and a little fuzzy. But hey I thought with a three year old photographer it's not too bad.

What I'm doing....

With less than a week to go this is what I've been doing....

I started this quilt over two years ago when I first heard a friend was expecting a little girl. After working on it night and day since then (i.e. whenever the feeling struck and I had a working machine) I'm finally done. It will arrive just a little early for her 2nd birthday!


I also "started" (a.k.a. bought the fabric) this project a long time ago.

No it's not a storage bag for Ben, although he would fit. It's actually the mother of all diaper bags. And no it wasn't supposed to be that big. Oops. I guess it'll hold the nursery and the baby.

Not exactly imperative projects at this point in time. I've been working on them whenever I've been in the denial mode. Obviously I've been in denial a lot.

Today.......

The weather today was this.....

So we sang...

Or maybe we made biscuits...



...Or maybe we got new skates ...



...and didn't take them off even to eat...



...Or really at all the next few days...




...Or maybe we visited Grandma and Grandpa...



...and showed our prowess at walking with skates on...

...Or maybe we learned about computers...

...Or maybe we fell asleep in the middle of playing...



...Or maybe we celebrated Easter...



...Or maybe we just looked cute...

...Or maybe these are all the things I've been meaning to post about and just haven't gotten around to it!


But it really did snow today.