Dear Baby,

Your baby blanket is completed, your clothes and blankets washed and put away, the house is scrubbed clean, every cabinet and closet organized, the garden is planted, we are safely past our Aflac effective date, and we are ready for your arrival! The Doctor says mom's measurements show you're close and could come any time, but who really knows what will happen. We are ready and waiting anxiously for the time you finally make your debut into this world.

I thought that having already gone through the pregnancy and birth experience would make the second baby seem more realistic, but I was wrong. The thought of my body accommodating a small

child that will soon be joining our family is just as unfathomable as it was the first time around. I have had the typical worries most moms do when adding a second child, such as feeling guilty my attention will be taken away from the first and if I will love the second as much as the first. I've been told those worries will disappear as soon as the baby arrives and I believe it. It's just funny how my mind can't understand it yet. I have been craving anything fruity and cold, chewing ice, and the smell of windex. It must be the nesting instincts, but I can't get enough of the smell of my green windex as I make every glass surface in the house shine.

We took some pictures outside this last Sunday before church so I can also rid myself of some of the guilt of not taking belly shots this pregnancy. I have a five month shot and a nine month. I look at these and think, am I really carrying that around? How am I doing that?

Hopefully it won't be long before we post Emerson's little brother on here instead of my belly. I set up a trampoline in the backyard today and if he doesn't show up soon, I'm going to go jump on it!

Giving the baby a leaf

Picking mommy flowers. Oh, I'm going to miss these little hands!