The Waiting Game...

So I finally got around to creating a Blog, as I really wanted us to have a good place to let everyone know once our little girl is born, to post endless pictures of her, talk about every single little adorable thing she does, etc...you know, standard new parent stuff. Hopefully I'm as good about maintaining this site as some of my other internet-savvy mommy friends are!

We are just in hurry up and wait mode now, as the big countdown to our daughter's birth continues...Only 3 more days from now! I will give birth via c-section on Monday, July 20, at noon, and I have to admit that I do really like the idea of having it all planned out like this...no wondering if I'm going into labor, trying to time the contractions, figuring out when to go to the hospital, etc. Now if only our little girl decides to comply with the plans and wait till Monday! (As far as our doctor can tell, she doesn't seem to be in any rush to leave Mommy's tummy, so that's good.) She did finally decide to flip into the head-down position instead of the breech position she's favored over the last few weeks, so she is showing some willingness to compromise!

Since I know no one will really be reading this Blog until after she's born and we send out the website info, I can go ahead and divulge the big secret we've been keeping, which is her name. We have decided to name our little girl Olivia Grace, a name we have liked since the very beginning and eventually decided just had to be our little girl's name. I came up with a list of girl names and boy names very early on in my pregnancy, and both Chad and I always liked this one, but we still took a little time to fully commit to it. I decided that I really wanted Chad to have the final word in choosing his little princess's name, and luckily he chose the same one I really wanted! ;-) I think I knew it was just about a done deal when he came home from a business trip in May with a sweet postcard he had written to Olivia--there was no longer any question about it, Daddy had made up his mind!

So now we continue to wait anxiously for Olivia's big debut on Monday afternoon, and we will obviously update the Blog as soon as possible after she's here so we can share our happy news with everyone. As for the 3 days until then, I don't know if they'll go quickly or drag out, but what I do know is that Chad and I will have pretty much one thing on our minds, and that we're going to go out to eat and take naps as much as possible until our little girl arrives and our world is rocked!