Wednesday, June 19, 2013

High Alert







I remember the time immediately before Huelan was born as some of the most fun in our marriage.  Not only were we in a anticipatory, completely naive pre-glow, but it was around Christmas, and my family had just come to the Moss house for the holidays on a roll of the dice that Huelan would arrive early (the official due date was Dec 23).  Huelan wasn't in any hurry to join us, so our last few days as a kid-less couple stretched into about week.  A glorious week of restaurant dinners, quiet home meals, movies in the theater, vegging in front of the TV, and full nights of undisturbed sleep.  Huelan gave us a chance to take it easy and we took it.

This time, no such luck.  The boy's due July 2, and the OB says this one's in a hurry so we shouldn't expect to make it to the end of June.  Our timeline just got compressed and we have a ways to go before we really feel comfortable with our level of readiness.  A few things got checked off the list- room's painted, some furniture's arrived, and the closet's about halfway there.  Liz's hospital bag is about 80% ready, and mine is about 50% ready (I charged the cameras).  Smoked some ribs.  Seeing friends while we can.

Liz's first day off was Monday, and we're hoping for another week to get ourselves sorted out and do some relaxing before our world is rocked.  Really though, the weirdest thing is that these are the last few days of it being just the three of us.  Though there's probably a little less anxiety this time, less nervous anticipation, we're definitely aware that this chapter is ending and a new one is about to begin.  Our little family, the center of our world, is about to totally change.

So while we're incredibly excited to meet our son, if he wants to take an extra day or two, we're fine with that.  We've got the rest of our lives to be the four of us; the three of us have just a few days left.

Here are some pics from the first half of June.

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