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Almost there

As you might already know, my wife is about to pop.
No, she's not mad at me, she's more than pregnant.
She's so pregnant the kid will come out an 18-month old, just kidding. But man, are we (mainly her) ready to get that baby out.
Living with a 9-month pregnant woman is tough, but I bet being a 9-month pregnant woman is even tougher.

Her feet, hands and almost every extremity are swollen from water retention.
She has passed the ankle part and moved straight to "cankles." Cankles are a blending of the calf and the ankle where no visible tapering is visible.
I haven't actually told her she has them, because I want to live to see my kid is born.
But the rest of the process, of the pregnancy, is exciting, stressful and just about everything else one can imagine. I guess I can just give thanks to my parents and beg for their forgiveness in the stubborn things I did.

We have the crib, a mountain of diapers, two car seats, blankets out the wazoo, more diapers, bottles, binkies and more.
We have a name, an insurance plan, a college selected and more. All the important things anyway.
Watching other people with their kids...sorry but a lot of people walk around town with small children. It's funny what you notice when you looking for something, or at things differently.
Watching other people with their kids has an effect on you.
You're afraid and anxious of what yours is going to be like. Is it going to be the well-behaved child of the stingy mother, or the hell raiser child of a hell raiser mother?
You never really know, and that's where the fun is, but that's what's killing me.

Posted by Clayton Hein at 3:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)