Waiting...

We had a wonderful Christmas here at home and have enjoyed the down time. Sunday, we went to church and then went to lunch with one of Rayna's surrogate grandparents. They gave her a Christmas gift and it was a pink leotard like a ballerina. She immediately wanted to put it on when we got home and it had little ballerina shoes to go with it. When we went to go to the Christmas Eve service, Rayna was determined to wear the new ballerina outfit. We tried to find the compromise and decided she could wear it underneath her outfit, which was a black crushed velvet pants set. When she got to church, she kept pulling up her pant legs and tried desperately to get me to let her take her shirt off. She walked around with the pink skirt part of the leotard hanging out the top and the pants pulled all the way up. It was so funny...and of course, she had on the black ballerina shoes. Sometimes you just don't want to fight those battles...that's our philosophy. Plus..she looked so cute dancing around. For Christmas, she opened up all her gifts and ours too and was truly spoiled by both sides of grandparents and other ones here who love her too. Our basement is now a disaster filled with more toys that we're not sure where they'll go! Jon and I have a long weekend coming up this weekend, if the baby doesn't come, and we're determined to organize ourselves a little bit more before this little one comes. All day on Sunday and Christmas day, I was having regular painful contractions but there wasn't any consistent timing. Then, I went to bed last night after they had gone away a little bit and slept all night and woke up feeling great? Weird...I guess the baby isn't quite ready yet. That's okay by me, we've dealt with a 36 week baby before, and it is better if they're closer to full term. I'll update anything else happening and we'll be sure to put a picture up on the blog when the baby is actually born. We pray you all had a wonderful Christmas and hope to hear from and see you all soon.