Thankful Thursday!

This is one thing I have been wanting to post for Thankful Thursday for a while. A few weeks ago Andrew put up the baby crib in Corilynn's room. Just having it out after such a long time of not seeing a crib reminded me that I'm going to have something little to put in it there soon. I am so thankful that he put it up because it has caused such excitement and anticipation for me to see all the "little tiny" things waiting for their "little Tiny" to arrive. We also bought a new mobile (Lyman destroyed our old one and Corilynn went without).

See the tiny newborn diaper! Smaller than my hand and to think it will be HUGE on the new baby when he/she is born. Little bums are the cutest bums in the world.

We started a tradition with Lyman that we give each of our kids their own special soft toy in the form of some animal that originates from Africa. It started when Lyman's Aunt Cheryl got him a little stuffed Rhino when he was just a little baby. Since we then we bought a few cute little African animals we saw at the store 3-4 yrs back for the rest of our kids (not knowing how many we would have.) Corilynn got a stuffed Elephant because she was a whopping 9 lbs 1 oz. at birth and an avid eater from then on. This baby has been granted the monkey soft toy because he/she is a little trapeze artist inside me - bouncing around and moving all the time and I've felt the baby move 3 weeks earlier than with my other two. Notice the cute little belly button on the monkey- that is Corilynn's favorite feature of her Elephant.

Each of our kids also get to have their own brand new coming home from the hospital outfit. Since we don't know the gender of this one we went with a gender neutral yellow and green outfit. Its got duck feeties which are super cute and a fun little smock shirt with all kinds of animals on it. To show its size - I placed it next to monkey. Its hard to believe they come out so tiny. Even this outfit sized at "newborn" will be huge on the baby for probably 2 weeks.

And since the baby is going to be looking cute at the hospital I decided to make myself a little dress to wear during labor. Those hospital gowns are horrible and you have to wear two since they open in the back. I thought this little dress would work just fine for during labor and then Ill look and feel cuter than a heifer in a barn.
I am thankful for the little preparations I can justify in my mind to do now because the time is counting down. I have 8 weeks left and all my Drs appointments are scheduled, family members coming in to help during/after the birth have booked their flights, and both my plastic storage bins labeled "Girl 0-3 mo." and "Boy 0-3 mo." are out of storage and ready to be utilized depending on the gender. We also have finally picked the two names out! I am so excited about these names that I am afraid that if I have a boy then Ill be sad not to get to use the girl name and if I have a girl then Ill be sad not to get to use the boy name. And as much as I am DYING to announce our name choices -we have decided to wait until the birth to do that too. (I know we are such jerks aren't we!) This way the gender is announced by announcing the name. ie. "Welcome Janet Reno Mackrory!" :) JK