Wow, this is odd. It seems like only yesterday we were sat in the bathroom hugging each other after discovering that we were going to have a baby, and now the realization is setting in that we don't have long to go before our son is here.
My lady's bump is growing at an astonishing rate, and the little fellow is proving to be very active in there, responding to outside sounds, our voices and music with ripples of movement galore. Or, alternatively kicking my lady in the bladder, by her account.
What strikes me is just how long pregnancy seems before it happens. Once it's underway, it seems to go by in a flash. Well, it does for me as I'm not the one carrying another human around inside me. We have been keeping track of what baby is up to in there, how big he is, what he can do, and it is all speeding up and heading for a crescendo in a few months. Three and a half months or so, to be exact.
This is at once terrifying and thrilling, as there is so much to do before we're in that room, her screaming and swearing and me fiddling with a camera with one hand while having my other hand crushed by my girl. I asked the other night when would be a good time for us to start packing bags for the hospital, just in case. Now plans are being made, and a massive list of things to include in our emergency supplies is starting to make me wonder how I can find a TARDIS to fit it all into.
New Year's Day has come and gone, and it amazes me to think that this is the year it happens. This is the year I hold my son in my arms. This is the year my family begins. Here and now. Wow. What an amazing thought. This is it, he's coming soon. It seems like only yesterday we found out he was coming, but these last few months can't go fast enough for me.
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