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November, the month of Lyla?

// November 2nd, 2008 // family

November arrived on Saturday and it could be the most life-changing month in our lives thus far. I firmly believe Lyla will be coming into this world sometime in November. Perhaps earlier than the 30th.

I obviously have nothing tangible to base it on, but my gut tells me she’ll be early.

And in preparation for that, you can see the lovely gifts I bought her last week to help get her ready for cheering the Phoenix Suns on during the season. The onesie may not be worn for too long, but the pacifier and bow could be used for awhile.

Don’t make fun of the bow…it’s pretty gigantic, but I like it

Here’s another onesie I was thinking of getting her, but I’ll probably hold off.

I have a feeling this little girl could have a lot of cute Suns stuff. There were some awesome overalls that she’ll definitely be getting around 6-12 months. Maybe 12 months, since that will be around the start of next season.

So the closer the day comes for Lyla to arrive (whenever that is), the more surreal it all starts to feel to me. I was writing an email to my fantasy football league the other day, showing them that onesie I linked to above, and I almost wrote something to the effect of “Once my daughter arrives, I was thinking of getting her this…”

The word daughter just stuck with me. All the new names for things coming up has me kind of out of sorts. Father…Dad…Daughter…Mom…Child. Just the idea of saying “my daughter” was so strange and foreign to me, I changed the sentence to read something else. I wasn’t ready to say it yet for some reason, but I think it’s just because I want to wait until I get to see her in a few weeks.

It’s like nothing can prepare you for the first time you get to say that. I’ve been alive 33 years, been married for 10, and yet there is something so awesome and new about to happen that words can’t describe it.

We have an ultrasound on Tuesday afternoon that will mostly confirm that she’s turned upside down and isn’t breach anymore. That was months ago that someone said she was breach, and we’re pretty sure she’s looking good right now. Not to mention still moving like a crazy person.

We’re close to finishing the baby’s room. I hung the shelves this weekend and that means we have just a few tiny things to do. The big thing right now is to get our little “hospital bags” ready for when labor begins. We need to be packed, and my big worry is making sure one of them has a fully charged camera. But I’m sure I’ll be able to charge them at the hospital.

The downside of the place we’re going to have the baby at is no wireless internet yet. I really want to have the first photo of the baby up real quick for people to see, but we wont be able to right away. Although…I may send it as a photo from my phone to your cell phone.

I also would do a mobile photo upload to Facebook, but sadly Alltel isn’t set up for that like Verizon was, so I’m sort of annoyed with all that.

We got the base for the carseat put in Jina’s car last weekend by the fire department, so we’re all ready there.

That’s all for right now…we’ll post some ultrasound photos on Tuesday night hopefully if we get some good oens.