42 More Days

I had no idea it had been 4 months since I last updated. It doesn't really matter, I doubt anyone reads this but me anyway, but it is nice for me to be able to come back and read what was on my mind over the past months. I always used to journal when I was in high school and through part of college, but then I felt too busy. Now whenever I try to use paper and a pen for anything Becca just comes over and steals my pen, so I don't bother very often. Maybe that should be my New Year's resolution...to try to journal once a week. Even if it's on here.

The new baby is coming in 42 days or less! This pregnancy just seemed to fly by. At least until we moved to Jacksonville; now it's seeming to drag. But that might just be because I'm finally in the home stretch and it drags by for everyone. I keep telling Josh how much I want the baby to be born and how I'm so sick of being pregnant (not that I had a difficult pregnancy, just not much of a break between Becca's and this one). I try to remind myself of 2 things. 1) The baby is easier to take care of inside than it is on the outside. 2) These are our last days as a family of 3, and I should be cherishing all of this alone time I'm getting with Becca that I'll never have again. I have a c-section scheduled on March 12 (exactly 6 months after Becca's birthday), so unless I go into labor before that will be our baby's birthday. I was so determined to try a VBAC, but in order to try one I'd have to go to Wilmington or Greenville...both too far away to make it worth it. But the doctor said if I do go into labor and the hospital has the available staff and is not too busy, they'll let me try to do a VBAC. So I'm hoping to go into labor on the 11th, so my mom will already be here to watch Becca. : )

Becca has been exhausting me lately. She is always on the move and I'm getting too big to chase her all the time! For awhile after she started crawling she would entertain herself for long periods of time. Now she's so close to walking that all she wants to do all day is walk back and forth across the apartment with her little stroller. Adorable, and great practice, but because it's an apartment she can't go very far before she has to turn around which she doesn't know how to do yet.

We're hoping our number will come up soon on the base housing waiting list. We've moved up 4 numbers in about a month, and right now we're number 9. So we're hoping by April or May. It would be nice to be all moved in before the weather gets too hot. It will be so nice for Becca (and the baby eventually) to have so much room to run around and play. And it will be wonderful for us to be able to unpack all of our stuff and not have to cram every closed space to the ceiling. Apartment living has it's drawbacks, but we're definately saving money by doing it until we get into a house on base.

Josh is still in his MOS school. It's so much better than TBS. I can see how my perspective has changed so much. The latest he's gotten home is at 5:30...I barely remember any days at TBS he was home that early...and now I find myself thinking at 5:00, "Where is he? Why isn't he home yet?" And once he is actually with his unit working it will probably be even more ideal hours. We're getting very spoiled here...but after TBS it's a nice change of pace.