heard some fun news yesterday that another one of our friends is expecting their first baby! due just 9 or so weeks after us! even though time was marching on in my life w/o us having a baby, i really always saw myself having one, but figured when that time came i'd be raising a baby while many around me would be well past that stage... i guess i prepared myself for this time for us to feel a bit lonely... wow was i wrong!
i have a sister-in-law who just gave birth Aug. 8th to a little boy and two other sister-in-laws due with baby girls this December, sweet.ness... then I have a list of other friends, acquaintances, along with 3 favorite famous people i adore :) that are pregnant - 24 in all! and 5 of those have already had their babies! "God, bless the bellies, bless the babies." i can't believe how the list has grown since i started it in May and i'm sure that trend will continue! seeing it always makes me feel anything but alone in this journey...
as for our little one, we've not done any preparing... i've received a gift from a sweet friend who has prayed for this little one so sincerely for the last few years and then 2 cute little onesies from my momma... other than those additions, the baby room sits pretty much unchanged.
we have been preparing our other baby... Rowdy Boots... i've never thought of him as our baby but he is another member of the family who occasionally rules the roost no doubt... and i respect the heck out of him as i watch him be so stoic fighting bladder cancer... he's awesome (and doing pretty well fyi) - he'll jump up by me on the couch and I always point to my belly and ask him, "What's in there? Is there a baby in there?" he sniffs around thinking food's coming or something and then gets annoyed with the whole thing... b/c obviously there's no treat for him
if his spirit has anything to say about things, he'll be here for another good long while - he's just still so playful at times and mostly his normal self... but his bladder is not his friend and the blood continues to increase when he urinates despite increasing his meds - the only other symptom i've noticed is he's dropping weight - and if he does get to meet this little one, i'm afraid we'll have our work cut out for us getting him to welcome sharing the attention with someone else... love you no matter what Boots!
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