38 Weeks and Counting!

My Dearest Evan,

While I realize you'll likely learn about this blog before I anticipate it (since Avery will get hers first), I still want to keep tabs on you somehow and this seems to be the best way to combine pictures and details of what's going on in your life.

You, my little man, are a miracle. After losing your brother, Alex, in birth and having two "chemical pregnancies", I wasn't sure Avery would ever grow to have another living sibling. But, here we are...I'm 38 weeks pregnant with you and bursting at the seams for you to arrive.....but you're taking your sweet time. I'm carrying you lower than the others, so I can't close my legs when I sit. You're not as big of a mover and shaker inside me as your brother was, but you definitely have a way of telling me what you don't like (like me resting hot tea on my belly).

We've been monitoring you very closely, for obvious reasons. I go to three doctor appointments a week to check up on you. Not just because of your brother, but also because of my thyroid condition and my "advanced maternal age"....I just turned 35 in July and you'd think that by just living another day I'm no longer eligible to carry a baby! Either way, that means I get to see more pictures of you on ultrasound.....you keep showing us you're still a boy :) and you have some hair on your head and back.....and you have rolls! You have baby rolls right now - it's adorable!

Your room in the new house has been set up for weeks now. You have a lot of the stuff Avery used to have, but I've also got some special items in there just for you. You have new blankets and sheets, new baby animal pictures on the walls, a new mobile, a new toy shelf, and a new footrest with googly eyes on it for fun! And Aunt Cara has made sure you have plenty of clothes to wear that aren't Avery's hand-me-downs so you can thank her for that ;)

You have no idea how I long for you...I want so badly to hold you in my arms and feel your little rolls and kiss your baby soft skin. I just can't wait to get to know you. Feel free to come any time now, bud. I know you're due on Christmas and your older siblings were both born on holidays, but that doesn't mean you have to be. Of course, if you decide to come on Christmas, it will trump all other Christmases by a landslide :)

All my love,
Mom