I'll take 'Anticipation' for $500 please Alex

Anticipate literally means to expect; look forward to; be sure of. All things our household is doing currently, obsessively, to no end.

We expect to be holding a newborn before the weekend comes to a close.

We look forward to naming her, holding her, introducing her to her brother and family and so much more.

We can be sure of the fact that she cannot stay in there forever and that no matter what we will soon be holding her.

To say this has been a long week is a total understatement.  It has gone by surprisingly fast and at the same time excrutiatingly slow. 

Every night I try to shut my mind off and just sleep but to my dismay cannot.  It's impossible.  I imagine our little girl and what she will look like.  I envision driving to the hospital and remind myself over and over again to soak up all the little details like the drive, the admitting process, getting hooked up to the monitors and so forth so that I never forget them.  I love the details, the mundane, the pre-cursors to baby having.  It's all those details that make for an incredible experience to look back upon and without them you cannot get from point A to point B. 
My legs are restless with anticipation as soon as I hit the sheets.  They are armed and ready to jump up and get dressed at a minute's notice.  Every little movement she makes causes me to question, contraction? adjustment needed? time to pee?  water breaking?  It's ridiculous.  I am being the worlds most impatient person right now. 

Unfortunately all we can do is wait.  So I will return home at the end of the day-my last day of work for the next 12 weeks-and wait.  I will wait and love on my son and husband, go through her drawers and stare at the cute clothes some more, rock in the comfy brown chair and read some more, fold the blankets in her crib once more (since Riley likes to snuggle in there after we put his pj's on), shave my legs once more, get one more pedicure and dream some more of how life will be once she is here.

Dreaming is fun but we are ready to touch her, hold her, kiss her, love her. 

Sweet girl don't make us wait in suspense much longer.

To waiting and wondering with every kick/movement she makes...