still pregnant but fully cooked

as of today, this baby is full term at 37 weeks. the pregnancy has flown by! honestly, i don't think it has hit us yet that any day now, we will have an addition to the family. we are still having much debate over the names we are trying to decide between. this past weekend, we pulled out the newborn clothing (it is so teeny tiny!) and i am in the process of washing everything. for now, dottie will be staying in her room in her crib and the baby will be sleeping in a bassinet in a part of our room that is in my walk in closet. when dottie makes the transition to her "big gril bed" (as she likes to call it---not a typo) in the next couple of months, we will be moving her upstairs to her new room and the baby will be moving into the crib in what is now dottie's room which is just off of our room. other than the clothes and a big box of newborn diapers that i just purchased, we need to dust off the baby carseat, i need to pack my bag for the hospital and we will hopefully be set to go! i am so interested in seeing just how big this baby is going to be. i was induced at 9 days past my due date with dottie and her size was a shocker at 9 lbs 1 oz. the doctors told us before she was born that they thought she would be a little under 8 pounds. how wrong they were! i unfortunately ended up with a c-section so we are really crossing our fingers that this birth will go a little more smoothly. we will see!

a reminder of what dottie looked like at 3 days old...