Bummer.

I apologize now if this post gives a negative vibe, but, that's just how I'm feelin'. I went to the doctor today and there has been basically no change in dialation or effacement...I'M SO TIRED OF WAITING!!! Only God knows when this baby ought to get here, but I'm the mother. Shouldn't I have a say so? No? Well, I guess the bright side is that I can finish out my work week (yea.) and get some more areas of my house organized before this child 'o mine arrives. Caroline has been moving around in there like she's fixin' up the place. She'd better not get too comfortable, because I'm not, and she's not staying in there forever!

It won't be long!

I went to the doctor today and she feels pretty confident that I will deliver before Easter! Maybe I'll get to put Caroline in a cute little Easter dress (even if we don't get to take her anywhere)! For those of you who do not like biological discussion, STOP HERE. Dr. Sheppard said my cervix has thinned and I'm starting to dialate. What does that mean? Well, nothing. Except that I could have this baby in the next few hours or the next few weeks. (The warning was for those who feel that talking about cervixes and the like is a little too personal. It doesn't bother me!) Chris says I never update, so there it is.

And just for fun, here's Chris with Abby (my niece) when she was a couple months old a few years ago. She looks like she's imparting some wisdom! Chris thinks Caroline will look like Abby.

What's that, Sun?

You're planning on rising at 4:30am!?!

Saturday morning my husband and I are startled awake by a ROOSTER. I think, "what idiot neighbor of ours has a ROOSTER in a NEIGHBORHOOD!?" I may have said it out loud, I'm not sure, it was 30 MINUTES before my alarm was scheduled to go off. So Chris gets up to let Mally out and comes back to get me because there is something, he says, I shouldn't miss-and he's right... There is a dadgum ROOSTER on OUR fence. Mally and I go to investigate:

She chases the rooster around our yard until we make her come in and the noisy bird decides to take up residence in our neighbors yard. Sunday morning, same thing, except this time the rooster starts at 5am! Later that afternoon our neighbor tells us that the guy from the corner came to pick up his rooster, and we were thankful. But what guy? What corner? Turns out, that stinkin' rooster starts crowing at about 4:30 EVERY morning and we can STILL hear it! It's a little more muffled now and we've decided that our OTHER neighbor, who lives on the corner right next to us, has the "natural alarmclock" in his greenhouse. I guess it's better than what I thought he had in there. I was sure each night I saw that building glowing green or red that we had a meth addict beside us. Everyone else thinks he's growing marijuana, but I try to tell them meth is the new thing.

In other news, Caroline is estimated to weigh about 5lbs 1oz by ultrasound this past Tuesday. She insisted on having at least one fist in front of her face the whole time so we couldn't get a good pic, BUT we did see her little girl parts again, so it's true for the third time, Michelle, we're having a girl!

Also, we took Mally to Dennis' pond the other day and she had SO MUCH FUN! She ran around so fast, bounced all over us, ate treats ('cause she's such a good girl), and thoroughly enjoyed herself! We're going to have to do that more often.