I can’t scarcely believe that I’m now 27 weeks pregnant, and have entered my third trimester. YAY!! So happy to be in the homestretch of my very last pregnancy…ever!
The next few months have a plethora of things going on to keep this mommy busy, so I’m not too concerned as yet about feeling “done”. I haven’t done much to get ready for baby girl, a bit of shopping, but being an experienced mom now I know that babies don’t need a whole lot from the get go. So I plan on getting things for her as I need them and not going totally product crazy ahead of time. At least that is my story this week. 
I’m not sleeping well these days, I wake up alot during the night and never feel like I’m getting the rest I need. I also have the joyful experience of waking up at 2am with excruciating leg cramps. I hate leg cramps, I had them with all of my pregnancies and them seem to get worse with every baby. Honestly though, I’ll take the leg cramps over the horrid afterpains anyday – I’m not looking forward to those again. Not at all.
I’m wishing that Nathan and I could agree on our daughters name now, I want to be able to refer to her as something other than baby. It would be lovely to talk about her as a person with a name, instead of a fetus without one. The odds are not good on this yet, we both have different ideas as to what she should be called so the days tick by and she remains a little generic child.
It’s exciting and scary to think about raising a girl after all of these boys! I wonder if it’s going to be anything like what I envision it to be. I’m sure that she’ll whip us all into shape pretty quickly. I know without a doubt that she’s going to be doted on by her big brothers, they are getting so excited to meet her. It still feels totally unreal to know that a girl is on the way, I find myself dreaming about tea parties, ballet classes, and even wedding planning and she’s not even here yet!
