New attitude.

YAY! Kendall Grace arrived last night and I couldn't be happier for my friend, Momma Shelli! :) Miss Kendall is absolutely beautiful!

Our sweet baby girl is still holding out on us but instead of being bummed that she's not yet in my arms I'm looking at things with a different perspective. I've really enjoyed being pregnant for the past 39 weeks so why wouldn't I enjoy the last bit of it? I know she will come out sometime in the very near future, and when she does it will be the most amazing experience ever! In the mean time, I'm just going to cherish the final stages of this leg of our journey together - the super special Mommy & Auria only part. Wow, just typing that out really hits me and makes me a little teary. Soon I'm not going to be pregnant anymore and that's all I've known for the past 9 months... I'm not going to be the pregnant girl anymore, I'm going to be Mommy! It's such a wonderfully overwhelming thought!

One thing I'm not sure how I feel about is that soon I'm going to have to share my girl with other people. I'm used to having her with me 24/7 - I'm always the one holding her - and once she enters the world that's not going to be the case. I'm gonna have to let her daddy hold her, her grandparents, her aunts & uncles. I mean I'm so glad there are so many other people that are excited to meet her but I don't know that I'm ready to let everyone else cut into my time with my baby girl. I'm sure I'll learn to deal with it when I'm needing some sleep, haha.

Tonight (technically tomorrow morning, very early) is the night we've had our eye on for a long time now - the FULL MOON! Since we found out AB's E.D.D. and the date of the full moon were so close my mom has been predicting that I'll go into labor tonight and have Auria tomorrow. There have been a ton of people throughout my pregnancy that have insisted that the gravitational pull of the full moon truly does seem to be influential on expectant mothers. More recently I've been told the fact that I'm already about 4cm dilated & 90% effaced in combination with the full moon and recent drop in temperature should all work together in my favor to get active labor going.... we'll see! My mom and I have plans to do some walking tonight and I'll probably have a little raspberry leaf tea too ;)

Maybe tomorrow I'll be back to announce the birth of our precious little girl, or maybe I'll just have some stories about a day full of people acting extra strange (I really believe the full moon brings out the "weird" in people!), haha!

xoxo,
CB