The Next Nielsen

Our little girl is growing. According to the internet (which never lies) she’s about 4 lbs now. However mommy reports that she’s kicking harder than a 2 year old.

We got a great photo of Steph and Jill this weekend while on our last trip. From here out we can’t travel so it was nice to get down and get some salty air in our lungs.

We also got a chance to go to Babie-R-Us and get a few final things we needed before Linnea’s born. The things that remain on the registry are fair game for Christmas!

For Halloween Steph decided to be a green M&M and with a little help from our friends ‘paper’ and ’scissors’ (unfortunately ‘rock’ hd to sit this one out) we were able to get a nice little ‘m’ on her belly. The photo doesn’t do it justice, but it was cute.

Tuesday night we went to our next-to-last child birthing class and got to tour the labor and delivery unit as well as the maternity ward (which we had seen before). The good news is that the labor and delivery rooms are NICE so we’ll be very comfortable and surrounded with state-of-the-art equipment (sans internet access). The bad news (besides the lack of internet access) is that once we deliver, we have but a few scant hours in the ‘Hilton’ wing before we get wheeled down to the ‘Holiday Inn’ wing which, though it’s not the worst hospital room ever, is much more like a hospital room than the labor and delivery rooms. Did I mention there’s no internet? And I won’t have an iPhone yet? If only you all could see my tear-soaked keyboard right now.

Tonight we went to the “Meet the Doctors” dinner. It’s a nice idea because there’s a pretty decent chance that our doctor won’t be the one that winds up delivering Linnea. In reality though it was pretty useless (except for the free meatballs and the cheese platter). Thanks to the fact that we’ve been to the doctor 83 times, and have taken 2 of the 3 classes so far, and we watch ‘A Baby Story’ at least once a day, we didn’t really have any questions for anyone so it wound up being an exercise in small talk. It was nice to meet everyone, and reassuring that none of them are brain-eating zombies but rather are nice people, but I didn’t really have any doubts there.

So that’s about it on our end. We’ll keep everyone posted and for those of you that don’t have countdowns running on your computers (for shame), it’s 51 days, 4 hours, 2 minutes and 58, no 57, no 56…… 51 days, 4 hours and 2 minutes to go.