... The Countdown Begins!

Well, it's almost that time ... baby time! We are getting really excited and are "patiently" waiting for our little bundle of joy to arrive! The nursery is all finished and our entire house looks like a Babies "R" Us store! I cannot even tell you how many products Erik has assembled :) We had a doctor's appointment today and the doctor said that everything looks good. I am 1 centimeter dilated, 80% effaced and his head is in the -1 station (which basically means that he is dropping). I am officially 36 weeks and 5 days ... so we have about 3 1/2 weeks until our due date. Our OB said that she would induce at 39 weeks if we choose to ... but we think that we are going to try to wait it out until our little guy is ready to make his big debut! Big sister Jenna is getting really excited too! She keeps telling me "I don't think that you will make it until your due date" and she is very concerned as to whether or not my feet are swelling (which they haven't yet :) We went on our maternity tour of the hospital last week and were very excited to hear that the hospital has lifted the rule that they had in place regarding children under 16 being allowed to visit (because of the H1N1 virus kids weren't allowed to visit anybody at the hospital ... and we were really stressing about that) ... but all is good with that now :)

Not only have we been super busy trying to prepare for the arrival of Baby Baratie, but we have also been busy with Jenna and gymnastics. We traveled to Cleveland 2 weeks ago and then last weekend we were in Wilmington. She is doing really well and we love watching her :) We will try to load some videos up as soon as we figure out how to with our new camcorder :) She has this weekend off and then is in Indianapolis next weekend for another competition. I don't think that I'll be making that trip ... Erik is still debating on whether or not he is going to go ... he really wants to make a day trip, but we are going to wait and see how our appointment goes next week at the OB before he makes any decisions.

We'll keep everybody updated ... it won't be too much longer now :)