Longest Nine Months Ever

You'll never know what a waiting game pregnancy is until you've been there. I thought this past few months would all be just one big blur. Really, only the first few weeks were. Then we got a grip. We started to get a handle on just what we needed to do in order to be ready. Of course, it helps that Kelly's pregancy has been strictly by the book.

Kelly's due date has officially been changed, once again, to March 5th. That's tomorrow, by the way.

We're taking this date and running with it. Kelly and I are both agreed that we've waited long enough for this kid to get here. He hasn't been moving a lot lately and we're tired of worrying. Kelly is visiting her doctor in the morning and we plan to tell her that we want to induce.

The way I'm seeing it, I'm tired of needing some fancy doctor to tell me how my kid is doing. I want him out where I can see him. After two late night trips to the hospital, I'm starting to feel like hospitals and car salesmen have something in common: they want to get you for as many extras as possible.

And, of course, once the baby is out all of the pregnancy issues Kelly is having will go away rather quickly. The sooner we can get this part over with, the better, as far as we're both concerned.

My family was asking me if I'm ready. I've been ready since the day we found out. That isn't to say that I haven't had a lot to worry about, and lots of things to get done. I'm just not the type to agonize over things that are beyond my control. So, instead of focusing on the worrisome aspects of finding out that there's a baby coming, I immediately started thinking about all the fun stuff I'm going to do with my kid. I'm all set to drag him to Disney movies against his will, and to feed him all of my favorite foods until he pukes. I like a lot of foods, so I'm also expecting to be cleaning up a lot of puke.