I can feel it coming on already, and this baby is still in the oven.
I find myself focusing so much on Rylee not feeling “left out” that I’m almost kind of…meh…about this little girl I’m growing inside me. Don’t get me wrong, I am already so in love with this girl tap-dancing on my intestines and I’m excited to hold a fresh baked baby in my arms in just a few months but when it comes to things like…baby bedding…nursery decorating…and oh I don’t know…HER NAME, I find myself getting totally overwhelmed and resorting to that tried & true “ignore” tactic in order to cope. I mean, we’ve got 4 more months to figure this stuff out, right?
RIGHT!?
Maybe once Ry’s room is all set up and moved at the end of this month I can will start focusing on the nursery. But, then again, that’s what I said to myself about choosing a name once we knew if the baby was a boy or a girl and that’s clearly worked out so far…
Ha.
Hahahah.
{I may or may not have just wet my pants a little bit from laughing so hard.}
Seriously though…this little girl growing inside of me is very much her own person. She’s already proven this to me by the sheer difference in my 2 pregnancies. Sure there will be hand-me-downs and I’m more than stoked we aren’t going to have to buy all new clothes and car seats and jumperoos and such, but this girl is like no one else. She deserves her own stuff, a space of her own.
She’s not just going to be “Rylee’s little sister” she’s going to be…well, we’re still working on that but we have at least decided that her name won’t be Rylee, just spelled Riley.
So we’re at least making progress.
I'm telling you, do NOT sweat this.
Your brain will make a mad dash and catch up at the end, trust me. The "newness" of a pregnancy is gone, you've already done this. There is a new PERSON, but you're no longer a rookie here.
I think it's not so much "meh" as "oh yeah, that. I got this" and that's confidence in a nutshell.
I bought Annika new bedding & ended up hating it so I sent it back while she happily slept on Bella's old stuff. Meh;)
I just absolutely second all of this! You totally got this, mama.
Also, Katherine, I totally hear everything you're saying. The first words out of my mouth when Loretta was born were, "oh my god, you're real!" because up to that point i'd been so distracted she'd just seemed like a figment of our collective imagination. she's currently cuddled up in Ot's hand-me-down onesie and pants, looking like a boy save for some stupid monkey hat someone gave us that has a pink bow (haha) and none of it matters!
Well you should probably get on the name thing :) but only because i'm dying to know what name you choose!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
That's totally it….the "newness" is gone. You're right…I GOT THIS! :)
WOW, I wonder if that is going to be me…………..I can totally understand how that could happen. I bet things will change the second "Ella, Holly, Penelope, Lily, Payton, Autumn, or Paige" is born. Those are names that I think fit your family………did you like ANY of them or was I way off?)
Hahahaha…you crack me up! Peyton is one of my favorite names for a girl but Andy has had a student w/ that name so it's a no-go. :)
You're such a tease (with the name game)! Haha!
I know exactly what you mean, though – I've got a little over 10 weeks left and my to-do/buy list is HUGE. I guess I'm just being my true procrastinating self and relying on the old (tried and true) "it will be *fine*" and I know it will be, but I'm so where you are. Only with a little less time. Oops. ;)
Hahahah. ;) Seriously though, no teasing…that's about as far as we've got. And yes, it will be FINE…that's probably part of the deal. I know it'll be fine so I'm really not stressing about it now.
Hey Cuz-
I know I only have one baby right now but I procrastinated on completing the nursery. I am not sure if it was because Christopher was leaving for a deployment or I had no energy… LOL. Also, I had to be inspired in what I wanted.
I'm thinking the inspiration thing may be part of it for me too…nothing it's really "calling my name" yet. But for the record, I love what you HAVE done to Caleb's room. :)