Happy Easter!

One good thing to come of my family getting excited about baby's arrival and driving up to wait with me was that we got to spend Easter together for the first time in many years! Shell's mom had Kassidy over to help dye Easter eggs Saturday night and Shell surprised her with a bag of Easter goodies. On Sunday, Jim's parents hosted a fabulous Easter lunch.

The Waiting Game...

In anticipation of the arrival of a baby, my Mom, Dad, Sister and youngest niece drove up to Evans Wed. night. We had an encouraging visit with the Dr. on Tuesday and I had called to let everyone know to be on alert. My Dr. had said that after scraping the membranes, women typically go into labor within 1-2 days. I was also 3-4 centimeters dilated. Unfortunately, after 4 days of waiting (now 5,) there is still no baby. Now I'm not sure when or if my Dr. will decide to induce. I'm hoping that, as she mentioned at an appt. a few weeks back, she won't let me go more than a week over my due date. However, she seems to change her mind pretty frequently. We know that the baby is already over 8 lbs. I would prefer not to let him get much bigger!!

I've now been off work for 1 week, and am starting another. It's very frustrating being at home without a baby! Every day he doesn't come is another I don't get to spend with him when I have to go back to work. NOT a great thought to couple with pregnant emotions... I am not a fan of this waiting game.

Puzzle Mania

The idea for doing a puzzle and having it framed came from Jim's sister & brother-in-law who have a huge, beautiful, framed Thomas Kinkade puzzle in their bedroom. While at Border's on St. Patrick's Day, Jim got to looking at the puzzle section. We found one of a 4-part "Limited Edition" Disney collection and decided to get it for the nursery. It was a scene from Jungle Book. Then while at Babies R Us we found 2 more of the series; a scene from Peter Pan and one from Winnie the Pooh. After looking almost everywhere else we finally found the last in the series at Walmart. Mickey and Minnie in what looks to be somewhere in Italy finished our collection. We've spent the last few weeks putting those together, and also just finished a glow in the dark puzzle for somewhere else in the house. In all, we've done 5 1,000 piece puzzles in less than 3 weeks. It's been a fun activity to do together. Now I just need to have them all framed!!