Just a blog for the sake of blogging**

So there's really no new news... I'm just really bored and I like to type, so I thought I would write a blog to occupy my time. It's weird to think that there's a pretty good chance that we'll have a baby this weekend! I am 39 weeks and like 3 days pregnant today. At my last appointment I opted not to have an internal exam... because I just don't see the point until I'm at my due date. This Thursday I'm going to have the internal done so I can know whether or not I'm dilated or effaced, and she might even strip my membranes. For everyone who does not know stripping my membranes is essentially her separating the amniotic sac from my cervix, to try and put me into labor. If it works I will most likely go into labor Thursday night or sometime Friday. I'm hoping I won't go into labor until Friday, so that Michael won't have to leave work early, so that we can get the weekend without him needing to sign out quite yet, which would give us a few extra days of his leave, hehe...

I am so excited for her to get here!!! I've been super bored lately, with nothing to do and I'm actually excited to be busy! Right now I rarely sleep for more than 2 hours at a time anyway, so I don't think getting rest will really be a problem for me, I have no problem napping whenever I need to, lol. Hopefully she'll be a sleepy baby like I was, hehe... my mama says I slept a lot when I was little so I'm crossin' my fingers that little McKaleigh will be the same way:).

So we've been set on the name McKaleigh for awhile now... but I'm sort of scared that it won't "feel right" when we have her. What if I have her and she just doesn't feel/seem like a McKaleigh? Her name is embroidered on so many things, lol... Oh well, I'm sure it will seem right, I'm probably worrying about nothing. What freaks me out more than that... what if somehow it's a boy! Haha, that would be awful!!! I have so much little girl stuff, I don't what I would do, lol.

Another thing that's been on my mind... whether or not I want to do this all over again! I've seriously been thinking a lot about that lately. As long as I can remember, I've wanted two kids, a boy and a girl, in that order. Well things already are changed by having the girl first, lol. Then I was thinking what if we have another baby and we end up having two girls and I don't get to have a son. Then I started thinking... what if we just have one girl, and stop here. For the longest time I felt like I needed two kids, and for the first time I think I realized that I would be perfectly content if she were our only child. There are so many benefits to stopping with her. We'll be 38 and 40 when she graduates from high school! How awesome is that??? We'll only have to save up for one child to go to college... overall it's cheaper, hehe... Michael and I both have quite a few siblings, so she'll probably have plenty of cousins. It will be easier for me to move when Michael deploys again if I only have one little one as opposed to having a toddler and an infant, which is probably what would happen if we decided we want another. Well we're not making any decisions just yet, and we're definitely not have number two for more than another year, if we ever decide to have a number two.

I'm trying to think if there's anything else on my mind... La di da di da... I think I'll just finish this up, and probably go find a survey to do, hahaha...

~Tara~

So close!**

So I'm 38 weeks pregnant today, my due date is two weeks away! At this point the baby could be born and need zero medical interference. That's really exciting! I've been having a ton of false labor, which is really annoying. I get crampy pains every hour or so, but until they get more intense or more patterned I'm not paying much attention to them. I figure I'll probably go a week or two after my due date, so I'm not getting my hopes up to deliver any time soon.

The nursery is almost completely done, we need to hang a few things. Once I(and by I, I of course actually mean Michael) get everything hung up on the walls I'll take pictures and post them. The bedding set came today and I got that set up. It's adorable! I love love love it! If you want to see what it looks like now here is a link to the theme... it's Sugar Plum by Cocalo. I still want that lamp and mobile... but I have the 6 piece crib set and a few other things.

I've finally gotten all of the baby clothes through the wash, and most of them have been folded and put away. I do have a load that I just did today that needs to get folded and put away. It's weird folding clothes that tiny! I got all of the blankets put away too, and boy do we have a lot of blankets! I filled the whole bottom drawer with blankets, and the dresser is larger than average, in my opinion. It's your typical 4 drawers high, but they are much wider and deeper than most dressers of that design.

I can't believe how close we are to having a baby!!! It's weird to think that all the holidays coming up will be shared with our daughter. It's definitely still not sinking in. It probably won't sink in for awhile, I'm guessing. I'm sure that as soon as she's here though, I'll wonder what I ever did without her.

Not much else has really been going on. In every other department of our life it's the same ol' same ol'. Just sitting around waiting for the baby!

~Tara~

Crazy Dream... and other things**

So with being pregnant I've for some reason had really, really vivid dreams lately. I'll wake up and remember a majority of my dream on most nights. Last night I had a dream that we already had McKaleigh! It was so weird to be holding her and feeding her and just interacting with her! Haha... It was so real. This morning when I woke up and remembered that I was still pregnant, I was pretty disappointed, lol.

I can't believe I only have like a month and a half left!!! I feel like I've been pregnant forever, but at the same time, it seems like it's gone by really fast! Like seriously... 6 more weeks... that's it! Holy Crap!

I still have so much to do too! Eek... I have to go out and get all of the stuff I need for breastfeeding, diapering, and just a lot of basics. If anyone wants to send something and you're not quite sure what, send me a message and I'll be glad to let you know what we still need. Seriously though, it's probably best to just check out my Target registry and pick something off there, especially if it's something for the nursery. I really want the sugar plum lamp and mobile... just saying, lol...

Michael and I had our last childbirth class last night. He's going to be such a cute daddy, hehe. We even watched a "taking care of baby" dvd last night. I definitely felt like a lot of the stuff we've "been taught" has either been really common sense or was something I had already read about... but it's nice to be told again, lol. During this last class we got told that we are all pretty lucky because we'll most likely miss the upcoming baby boom.

Starting in January and going probably for the rest of the year they're supposed to be expecting a lot of babies... The 3ID got home from Iraq this spring, and January should be about nine months from that. Plus, they're starting renovations on that floor, so sometimes rooms will be closed to be redone and women might have to double up... so here's to hoping we'll get our own room!

We just got new (upstairs) neighbors, and wow do they make way more noise than our last neighbors. I can't believe we ever complained before! It seems like they're always running around or wrestling or something... ugh! I definitely think we'll be moving off post in the next year, neither of us can stand this apartment style housing, plus we'll probably save money and Michael has a crappier commute than most of the guys he knows who live off post!

Well I can't think of much else to write about. I'm just really bored and this helps to pass the time, hehe...

~Tara~