Due Date

Yesterday, Daddy and I went to the Birth center in Old Town, Alexandria where you will be delivered by their midwives. We tried to figure out a due date and I realize I have some angst about a "due date." I think my personality gets far to excited and then disappointed for one. I think it is best for me not to think of you arriving on a specific day, or even month, but rather a more vague generic season so I will just know your coming some time. I kind of wish in this sense that I was back in the wild old days without any doctors to prescribe due dates and penalties and inductions. You would just come when you came. Perfectly of course! :) But for now, we are here. So, your tentative perhaps changing a bit due date is scheduled as March 20th.

The most precious thing I had in my hand all day was a figurine of your little body at 10 weeks! Ahhhh! I got to hold your perfect tiny mini baby self in the palm of my hand (so did Daddy-but I awkwardly burst into tears!). It was completely magical. In only three weeks you will be the length of my finger and just like that adorable gummy figurine...but better because you will be YOU! I read a great saying, "In a world where you can be anything the best thing to be is yourself." It is true.

This is a beautiful love because it is love for Love's sake. I haven't met you, I don't know who you are, what you look like, what you will do, I don't know anything about you except that you are here and I love you completely! I love you because you are YOU. When I walk Hero, when I am moving about the house, I keep repeating this, "I love you baby. I love YOU." I can't help it-I just do so much it takes over my whole being! I love LOVE. How grandly supremely Godly and wonderful it is, love just is just as you are.