At the Hospital

Here we are, at the hospital!  I'm in bed, waiting for my midwife to come and get things started.  We got here at 7:30 and it's now 9:00 and... nothing.  But, we're just trying to relax and enjoy the experience.  It's hard to do though... when you just want to have this baby and when I'm SUPER hungry.  Had to stop eating at midnight.

Monday and Tuesday went by pretty quickly, thankfully.  I had my last NST on Monday at 3.  I dropped Lila off at Alicia's while I went to that, which was nice.  My last little solo trip for a while.  Jake was helpful on Monday night.  We had a steak dinner at home.  Terie, Brody, and Toby stopped by with a present for Lila... a toy bowling set wrapped in Backyardigans Christmas paper.  Jake helped me finish some things on my to do list, like install the car seats and pick up and do laundry.  We were up late-ish again.  Jake's parents got to our house at 1:30 or so, but we were already in bed.

Yesterday went by pretty quickly.  It was nice having company for most of it.  Mom and Dad hung out with us before lunch and went to Sam's Club while Lila napped.  She took a really short nap (40 minutes) and woke up cranky, which I was bummed about.  I just sat around all day and waited for the evening when Jake would come home.  Kate stopped by with George to wish us luck.  Then my mom and Gina arrived at around 5, which was great!  I'm so glad my mom is here.  Then Mike came, and he and Dad eventually picked up Cassandra (who has lost a LOT of weight!).  We had Jet's pizza for dinner.  Lila pretty much loved having a lot of people there to pay attention to her.

The evening went well.  Jake, Mike, and Dad went to Menard's to buy stuff to finish installing the generator and took Lila with them.  So we had some girl time to chat and relax.  I was a little bummed out that Jake was gone and busy all evening (they didn't leave for Menard's till 9pm and before that he was busy doing other stuff), but it was okay.  We all played with Lila before she went to bed, and she didn't get into bed till after 11.  Oh well.  She was really sweet.  She gave me and Jake lots of big hugs.  Loved playing with com-pooh-ters.

I asked Jake to give her a blessing before she went to bed, and he gave me one too after she went to bed.  Just for comfort and peace.  I pray for Heavenly Father to protect us and help us be safe and healthy.