The Piglet Update

Piglet's arrival date is set! We have about eight weeks left until the date of ... *drum roll*... June 20th! So unless mother nature intervenes in some other way, the c-section is scheduled. We are still going strong on the whole "let's be surprised" gender thing. Erik had a vivid dream the other night that it was a girl. I had a random dream the same night that Peyton Manning was helping me take down ceiling fan blades, so who knows.

So the baby will be born on the first day of Summer. I considered a VBAC for a while, but (1) the closest hospital that takes VBACs is over an hour away and (2) if I'm being completely and utterly honest, I figure if I was able to keep my lady parts in tact with the first delivery, why potentially mess it up now. Am I looking forward to the recovery? Oh heeehhll no. Especially with Landon - I feel like my heart will break a thousand times when he wants to be picked "up! up! up!" but we will have family here to help. Blessings.

31 Weeks. Meep.

I'm starting to think more and more about "How am I going to do this?" as the date approaches. I know things will get easier as the years elapse and the kids will entertain themselves together, but no doubt there is some crazy sleep deprivation and tears ahead. But that also means there is some crazy love and laughter ahead. 

I saw a question posed on BabyCenter yesterday whether readers thought motherhood is harder than they imagined. My immediate internal response was "yes, a thousand times yes" but not in a negative or regretful way. You know it's going to be hard - you read the books, you see your friends, you see the movies and TV shows. You just don't know it until you live it, as with all of life's adventures. So I think it's going to go that way with having two young kids, also. It's going to be rough; no one tries to sugarcoat it. But until I live it, I won't know the actual feeling of the rollercoaster to come. I'm scared... but excited. The one thing I do know for sure? There will be diapers for a while. A lot of diapers.