+ Shower and decisions and stuff +
Baby O., I have no way of explaining to you how incredibly blessed you already are, to be born into such a loving circle of family and friends. Would you believe 50 people showed up to your shower on Saturday? You got so many absolutely wonderful gifts, I can't even summarize them. Here are pictures. Your daddy had such an awesome time, he was just glowing from ear to ear the whole day. He was a great sport, letting me put the bows all over him. Ha! But the most incredible thing was seeing our family and friends together, having fun and celebrating your impending arrival! I wish we could do this more often, but obviously logistics inhibit that.

So, now that the shower is history :-( it's time to start really getting ready. I sorted and organized most everything yesterday. A couple of toys go into storage because they're all for older than 12 mos., and we don't have that much room in your bedroom. We put the travel system together, so we are ready to go with that! You can officially arrive now. We have a car seat, diapers, and a few newborn clothes. Those are the immediate concerns. We have LOTS more, but I just mean what we have to have to bring you home. You have SO many clothes, I can't believe it. I'm going to wash and sort those while I'm on leave. It should take the better part of a day!

We also made a decision about diapers. This is probably the one thing we have been waffling on the most, and delaying decision-making. You see, with Daddy's undecided work future, it results in an undecided daycare future. I'm going to have to make decisions about this very soon, and that will be the last undecided thing. But for diapers... We are going to use both disposables and cloth. I just can't bring myself to use 100% disposables. I can't. Daddy understands that, bless his heart, but he's also worried about the cost, the convenience, etc. Plus, if we use daycare, we can't use cloth. So, we've decided that we are allowed to compromise. For daycare, and for outings, we use disposables. We were given some as gifts anyway (including 2 HUGE newborn packages, so we have to use those up), and we've got our warehouse club membership for future purchases. When we're at home, or at a receptive grandparent's house (i.e. Grandma Laurie), we'll use cloth. But we're not going to get a service. We're going to buy quality cloth diapers (Daddy wants to spend a little more to get good ones, which is okay by me), and liners to minimize the "poop factor" and we're going to wash our own. He's going to help in this, and I think we'll be really happy with our compromise. We have the Diaper Genie, and now we'll buy a good ol'fashioned diaper pail to go next to it. It was Daddy's idea to compromise this way, and I'm really really happy with the decision. I feel good that I can minimize the load on the environment even a little, and still be able to compromise for daycare, etc.

So, that's what's new. This afternoon we have an OB appointment, checking for Group B Strep. I do have some things to talk to him about that are worrying me (like you moving less), so we'll see how that goes. Also tonight, Daddy and I have a Baby Care Class. That should be fun. More tomorrow!