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Week 37 is just about here

// November 9th, 2008 // family

Tuesday marks Week 37, meaning we’re technically only around three weeks away from the due date. But since my last post kind of pointed out the fact that Jina feels it’s coming much sooner, we’re expecting Lyla much sooner.

This weekend was an incredibly busy one for me as far as work goes. We have a big project that will have a big final test this coming week, so there was a ton of clean up stuff for me to do, which kept me busy.

But somehow we found time to watch 3+ hours of a video called Laughing and Learning about Childbirth, which ended up being very informative, if not a bit cheesy and weird. I found the host actually quite funny, but the discussion group angle was awkward.

Still, it kind of ruined things a bit for me, I must say. I think I was sort of blind to the whole process and thought it was just this magical thing that was going to happen. Now I know all the gruesome details and really just want to get it all over with.

We were both pretty excited that the baby would come sooner, but after Saturday night, it kind of feels like it will never happen.

Jina got a lot done the last few days, just preparing for the coming day when Lyla arrives. We also are just about done with the baby’s room, and I have some pictures below to show you.

The new stuff you haven’t seen are the shelves up on the walls, along with some art we’ve received from our friend Josie and Jina’s old co-worker, Kate. I also finally hid the cord from the light with some cool wall stripping.

It’s looking really good and I cannot wait to bring little Lyla home to see it soon.

Here you can see the cord hidden inside some white stripping…makes it look real neat.

Not sure if everyone got to see the fat pig chair was got from our friends Scott and Deb.

The shelves, along with the artwork in temporary places. Jina is still not sure how she’s going to place everything.

Josie did these awesome little blocks that spell out Lyla’s name. I love them!

You can’t see it too well in the photo above, but this is a little fabric tack board where we can hang little letters and other things outside her door. We want to do something that says “Lyla’s Room” or another idea like that.