Or at least not yet…  because this baby has to be born at some point!  Emma was asking this morning if the baby would be here by Christmas and we reassured her that the baby would be here a lot sooner than that.  *grin*  Yesterday we ended up going out to the property not too long after my post as it seemed better than sitting around and wondering if something was going to happen or not.  Today seems like more of the same.  I’m tired and feeling more sensitive to noise and child chaos than usual, and more inwardly focused.  Matt asked me if he should stay home today rather than go work on the house, but I said that I would rather have him make more progress on the house than ride herd on the kids.  That’s one of the unfortunate aspects of where we are in life right now - pretty much any help he can give comes at the expense of either work (which is bad, since he’s hourly) or the house (which is also bad, since we’d like to move in someday…  sooner rather than later!).  The kids seem particularly rambunctious today, which does not bode particularly well.  If the rain holds off I think I’ll have to take them to the park or the property so they can run around for awhile.

Gregory is starting to realize that there is a baby coming.  He’s quite interested in the baby clothes (which I still haven’t found a place for other than the top of our small bookshelf in our room *sigh*) and if you ask him where the baby is he will pat my belly.  Whenever we talk about the baby Gregory tells me that he will bring toys for the baby.  It is pretty cute.  I think it helps that there are so many babies at church right now that I can point to and say “look, Gregory, soon we’ll have a little baby like that of our own in our family!”  Strangely enough, all the babies that have been born recently are all girls.  I wonder if we’ll have the first boy of the year, or if we’ll just add to the trend.

Emma has just informed me that Gregory needs a diaper change.  Perhaps I should go attend to that!  (And go investigate all the crashes I’m hearing coming from their room…)