I was so excited to post our baby news yesterday that I completely forgot to write about how the rest of yesterday evening went! I’m gonna play the “pregnancy brain” card again since I only have three months of that left. Less, Lord willing.
Brady and I met at UC-Baby yesterday, him from work and me from home, so we left separately as well. As I drove away, I had my little mommy moment, which really is just a sugar-coated way of saying I had my cry. My thrilled, over the moon cry about having a little girl growing inside of me. In between my tears, I glanced into the backseat at Dekker, as always, and he was watching me pretty closely. As soon as we made eye contact, he gave me a big, mischievous smile, and started growling like crazy! I could not be more thankful for my boy!
We spent the evening helping some friends clean their house and get another load of stuff packed up, ready to move. We all sat around first, for burgers and pop, and the cake that we had brought to share the gender with them! The cake was actually unceremoniously hacked into before we even got down to the meal, but I was happy they were all excited like I was! We all gorged ourselves on food (Dekker on his new love – ketchup chips) before we got to work. Dekker loved how emptied out the house was and did laps from room to room. He did take a little time to warm up, so I was pretty useless for the first half of the evening, but once we have walked hand in hand to every room and checked it all out, he seemed good as long as he could see me. The house heated up fast with all the working people inside, and soon Dekker was just running around in his shorts and shoes. Probably the cutest shirtless boy you’ve ever seen! And his glasses just make everything over the top!
We helped until about 9:00 before we left. They were still all going strong but Dekker has started to go to bed around 8pm and we still hadn’t dropped in on my parents and shared the good news with them. My mom has been gone for a few days so it was really nice to see her again too. She hadn’t yet witnessed Dekker’s glasses, or his newfound love for his toys that he can finally focus on, or his excitement about books! He has changed drastically in the past few days, and it was nice to get everyone together again.
I had originally planned to bring some cake back to my parents to eat and celebrate with, but we actually ended up leaving our friends before we had actually had dessert, so the cake stayed behind! However, I had stored both cakes at my parents and just grabbed the right one on the way. Therefore, there was a perfectly good blue cake covered in chocolate icing just sitting in their fridge! So we brought it up and explained that this was the opposite gender. We had a good laugh, and celebrated our baby girl with a radioactive-looking blue cake. Hopefully the pink one was yummy too!
We left around 10pm, and it takes about a half hour to get home from my parents. Poor Dekker was SUCH a great sport! He had been social, pretty meltdown-free, and didn’t complain even though he was sweaty and covered in mosquito bites. However, less than five minutes from home, I hear an “ummm…” from the backseat. I look back and he’s holding his glasses. I had to laugh. He hadn’t even tried to remove them all day, and of all the times he could pick, he picked right at the end of the day. I let him off the hook. Because simply, I had no other choice, being that I was driving and he was in the backseat, as well as the fact that it was over two hours past his bedtime and in a normal circumstance, they would have been off long ago. When I got him out of the car though, I stuck them back on him without any objections.
Being that yesterday was as exciting as it was, I woke up at 4:00 this morning and couldn’t come close to falling back to sleep. I’m waaay too excited about our daughter, and my crafting brain was going in all different directions, trying to decide what I could make, and what I actually would make, and what I would likely buy the stuff to make but never complete. Weighing my options, you know? I think as long as I get a few ruffle bum onesies and headbands, I’m good. Maybe a sweater dress and leggings. Oh and jeggings!!! And I’ll crochet some little moccasins. Sigh. I suppose “weighing my options” didn’t really work out. But I’m happy 😀
Looking forward to a family day tomorrow!