Worse than Christmas?!

I thought Gavi was going to make his appearance on Sunday. Honest to goodness, if that had been my first pregnancy ~ or if I hadn’t had contractions for the last two months ~ I would have been at the hospital. My back hurt like it never had before, I was cramping like crazy, and my contractions were far more intense than they have been. However, they just weren’t stable enough to worry about, so I just took it easy.

Cut to Thursday, and I’m feeling strong enough to maintain this pregnancy for three more weeks.

It’s SO frustrating to have things be uncertain this way! It’s worse than Christmas! I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and get so stinking excited that I can’t fall back asleep! But unlike Christmas Eve, this has been going on for WEEKS! I’ve been trying to get everything planned in hopes that it will ease any stress I might be dealing with. We have a bag packed for our hospital stay, a bag packed for Caleb’s stay with Grandma and Grandpa for the duration, diapers are bought, bedclothes prepared, and ANYTHING ELSE YOU COULD THINK OF. But I’m still not sleeping as much as I need to. Ridiculous!

I saw the same doctor Monday that freaked me out about Caleb’s size during my first pregnancy. He’s SUCH a nice man, but he brought up again the fact that he thinks Gavi is going to be ginormous. But this time I’m not going to worry, since he said that I was giving birth to the son of Kong last time, and Caleb was perfectly average. (Of course, they induced two weeks before my due date, so he could have been a pound larger, but whatever.)

Caleb’s vocabulary is really starting to expand by the day. And his manners continue to get sweeter. We’re working on “excuse me” right now ~ for toots, burps, and getting in people’s way. We were in the bathroom at a grocery store last week when I sneezed. Caleb said, “Bless you!” in his sweet little way. Then I hear a voice from the stall next to us ~ “That is SO cute!”

I hate when people talk to me in the bathroom.

We’ve been getting together with some littles across the complex lately ~ a two and a half year old girl and an almost four year old boy. They’re both just nuts about him, and he returns the sentiment. It’s kind of funny, though ~ he does tell the little girl to go away a lot. I guess some things are innate…

Speaking of innate, at the top is a picture of Caleb throwing rocks in the river for the first time. He'd never seen anyone do it but it was his first inclination when he saw the river and the surrounding missiles. These are some pictures from our camping trip at the beginning of the month. I'm hoping Jonny will have a little time this long weekend to post more pictures. There are HUNDREDS of cute ones I'd like to get up before Gavi makes things tougher on Jonathan.