(Week 35 – 35 days to go) – Let me outta here!

Now that we can count down in days, we know it’s really about to happen. I am fairly calm and very excited, and cannot wait to meet Little Lara. Lara is extremely nervous now, I think because she has got her driving test out of the way (Lara passed her driving test. While she was very pregnant. What a woman! Wahoo), she now has just the due date to aim for, and so all her thoughts and worries are about that.

We’ve started making the final purchases and plans ready for when Little Lara arrives, and I think, I hope, I pray, that we have everything we need and everything ready for her. I’m sure we’ll find out if we haven’t. Not only have we had to get all the things she will need ready, but we have had to start thinking about her Christmas presents, and Christmas outfits. At one stage she was set to have about 20 different outfits on Christmas day, but I think we’ve now got her down to a more sensible 3… for now.

We welcomed a beautiful little girl to our family this week, my cousin Stefan and his girlfriend Stef (yes, Stefan and Stef) finally got to meet their little girl, Isabella, after she was about 2 weeks over due. And talking to Stefan about how he’s feeling has just made me even more excited about meeting Little Lara. I struggle to concentrate sometime, just because I’m so excited.

Lara has said she is now ready to ‘get this thing out of her’ – she means that in the nicest possible way I’m sure. But she really is starting to get quite limited as to what she can do. Traveling, sleeping, sitting, standing, eating are all becoming pretty awkward, so I can see her point. Pretty sure Little Lara is ready to come out now too, she has been punching around in there, trying to force her way out so that she can properly hang out with everyone, instead of just being stuck inside Mommy’s tummy listening to everyone talking about her. How rude we are!

Lara had another Midwife appointment last week, and was told everything is still good, and going to plan – which is the exact news we wanted.