Entering the Home Stretch!

WOW! Can you believe we are already entering the third (and final) trimester???
The time has flown by, and yet there are nights like last night, when Jonathan says, "I'm ready for this baby to get here!" The reality of that this precious bundle has to come out one way or another is starting to hit me and the anxiety and fear of labor is a pretty regular feeling for me these days. Mixed with those emotions is of course, a WHOLE LOT of excitement! We pray every night for guidance, grace and wisdom to become parents.

We have been attending a prepared parenthood/ child birth class for the past few weeks and on Monday we toured the hospital and got to see where all the action will take place. We will deliver at Methodist Hospital in the medical center. I didn't know you actually deliver in the room these days - I thought they still took you off into some special area with sterile stainless steel walls. It seems the only reason you get taken to a different area is if you have to have a C-section, which we pray will not be the case.

Well, with the excitement, anticipation and flurry of the third trimester, some tiredness has returned. I am enjoying water aerobics two days a week and trying to swim every day if possible since it is already so hot here! I still work out about 3 - 4 days a week with really light weights and the doctor says that will help post-partum.

As for now, we are officially ready for a little R&R. We will head to my parents' lake house this weekend for the holiday. We can't wait!