Nearly 35 weeks

Well I have officially past the time when my water broke with Josiah. Just in case anyone was wondering... :-)

It's funny, I made myself a goal to at least surpass that date with this pregnancy and now that I have I realized that I have no goals past that. Well, sure I have made goals as far as labor and birth and what comes after. As I was in the shower this morning I decided though that I will (try) to enjoy each day that I have this baby in my womb and be blessed for each new day that he has to incubate until his momentous arrival. As many of you know, I am not a patient person... so now I feel like it really could any minute and not knowing the exact arrival of our newborn is rather nervewracking, I am going to try to take each day for what it is. Just one more day the Lord has provided to develop my little's one body and mind. Each day he has either in or out is a blessing and I really want to see it as that. Besides, he is our second miracle and I am just truely thankful for his life.

My dr's appt went very well last week. My dr is quite pleased with the progress of this pregnancy and he even gave me a comment that I was more than happy to hear. That is... if I were to go into labor or my water broke again, he would not try to stop the labor at this point. That made me feel very good that my baby is considered at least mostly functional outside of the womb. The rest of the appt was filled with me asking questions about labor and delivery. Most of which I understood, I just wanted to know what his take was in the many aspects of how things can go. One thing that I am taking complete confidence in, is the choice of hospital we will be delivering at. It is one of the 3 top hospitals to deliver at in the Bay area! It has a level 3 NICU, which means that they can take care of ANY problem that can arise with baby except for certain brain and heart surgeries, in which they fly you to the dr for those issues. But otherwise, I know we are in the best hands that we can possibly be in. Awww.... no worries. What a comfort.

Update on my dear sweet Josiah is that he caught a cold last weekend. The poor thing probably caught it from that dr's office we were at last week. He was pretty miserable for a couple days and quite the grump but now he is getting a bit better. He has gotten to that age where he knows now there is something in his nose and he knows how to move it around. Yeah, you know where I am going with this huh... Yep, he has discovered how to blow his mucous in and out... and occasionally if it was just the right blow, make one of those awesome snot bubble's that kids think are so awesome. So he comes up to me this morning on the bed and does one of these numbers... now, right at this time I was still trying to rest becuase sleep is impossible when a 3 yr old is watching tv on your bed at 7am... anyway, he blows out and gets it all over my face. Inadvertantly of course, on his part, but nonetheless, it doesn't make it any less a disgusting way to wake up in the morning. :-) lol Other than working on clearing out his sinuses, he is doing well. He is making progress in his speech therapy and working on pronouns extensively right now. He still has yet to refer to himself as "me" when you ask him who is in a picture but we are working on that. He is also learning the back and forth flow of a conversation and what that sounds like. We we work with him on carrying a conversation with us about anything he chooses. Our goal is to work up to 5 back and forth full sentences. Well, as full of a sentence that he can understand. He and I can do about 3 right now, but most of his repsonses are still in phrases so we are working on that still. Regardless, I am very proud of the progress he is making. I am a little worried how he is going to re-act when he sees momma holding a tiny little baby in the hospital. I am hoping that I can have him up on my lap with the baby and him to know that there is always going to be room there for him too. We shall see... all too soon. :-)

Well, it is time for our morning snack becuase my tummy is telling me it's time to eat. So I shall sign off for now. I hope this finds you all in blessing filled days. Good day to you all!