The "Oh my goodness, we're having another baby in 2 weeks!" Edition
I never in my wildest dreams would have guessed we'd have two babies 13 months apart. I feel so incredibly blessed. And it feels sort of like a dream. I'm hoping it will seem a lot more real once we meet the birthmom on Tuesday. And hopefully totally real in a few weeks when we're living life with two babies!
When our caseworker first called and said that the due date was April 6, my mind immediately thought, "sheesh, I have to wait a whole month?" That shows you how with it I've been the last few weeks. April 6 is only two weeks away. That means she's like 38 weeks pregnant and could have that baby any time now! Yikes!
I'm nervous about how Anna will react to the new baby. She is super jealous when I hold anyone else's kid, especially if it's a baby. I know kids adjust quickly, especially kids Anna's age, but I hate for her to feel like her territory's being encroached on! But I also know she will quickly love her baby brother and want to help.
I'm scared of another fallthrough. I'll just come right out and say it. We've been through it once and I don't want to go through it again. I thought (just for a tiny second) about keeping this quiet until the baby was here. I also thought about avoiding getting the house ready for another baby. And then I realized that I am TERRIBLE at keeping things quiet and even worse at being unprepared. I also firmly believe that support and prayers are what get us through rough times so why would I turn that down? How can I turn down prayers for this baby, even if it turns out he doesn't get to be MY baby?
All the things to do are kind of overwhelming. With Anna, we had our entire homestudy/licensing/approval/waiting process to get ready for a baby. With this one, we've just recently put all of the baby stuff away and toddlerized the house. We kind of assumed the wait would be long. I don't know why, I guess I just assumed the worst case. Well, lo and behold, the wait was way short and I find myself scrambling to finish it all tonight. Because that's how I am.
So I'm currently washing newborn diapers ready for a cute newborn bum. I washed all of our baby boy newborn clothes from our adoption fallthrough. And boy are they cute! I pulled out blue blankets and baby bottles. We're hoping to be able to use the name we had picked out, so I pulled out the letters that I'd already made and the bottle labels that I had printed (hopefully the birthmom likes it...the last birthmom did NOT). I got the carseat out of the crawlspace and have to figure out how to rearrange the carseats in the van. We had to talk about Godparents and Baptism dates. We had to talk about sleeping arrangements down the road and who gets what room and when (I know, good problem to have). I got out the swing and bouncy seat and set the infant sleep and play rocker in our room.
I kind of feel like my mind is spinning. Now I'm going to be bored tomorrow because I HAD to do it all tonight! That's the story of my life :-).
Sorry for the overload of all things new baby, but that's pretty much all that's on my mind at the moment... And I'm sure it will be for the next couple of weeks. And I'm so excited that I can't sleep and I hardly ate today! I don't want to wake up and have it all just be a dream!
And one more thing... How did this little teeny tiny peanut girl....
Turn into this big toddler?
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| She was very thirsty after helping her Aunt Sara and Uncle Kel move into their new house. A big cup for a big girl :-) |
I hope this next baby grows up a little slower!
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2 comments:
Things happened for us in such a similarly fast way. Isabella was already born when we found out about her (like Anna).
Isaiah was born exactly 14 days after we found out about him. I had all the baby stuff out and washed within 48 hours of being picked. It was all pink (because we didn't know he was a boy until after he was born) and we had all pink stuff from Bella.
I Love having the kids so close in age! Anna will do awesome!
You may have thought you'd wait awhile, but I was 99.9% positive you'd get the call while I was in Spain! There was no doubt in my mind you'd be chosen again as parents quickly!! So excited!!!
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