It's Early and I'm Hungry

What does the Funnest Phelps Family do at 5:20 a.m. Sunday morning? The ideal answer would be sleep. What am I actually doing, eating. Wow, sounds like fun, who doesn’t like to eat? However, eating because the human being in your belly is hungry and needs to feed off of you isn’t my idea of a night out on the town. I’ve stashed some granola bars in my bedside table to help curb the urges to raid the kitchen. But today the urges won, and I lurched out of bed to conform. I say lurched because none of my motions are graceful anymore. Being 42 pounds heavier than normal has shifted my center of gravity to the point where I have to use momentum to do the simplest task. Shaving my legs has become a workout. So a granola bar and a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheat’s later, I am sitting here staring at my email wondering if anyone is out there sharing my plight. And to the youngest member of the Phelps family I ask, “Ok baby, if you are already controlling my sleeping habits, come out already and play with me!”

Our Baby Girl!

Well, here she is. Our baby girl is taking some time out from growing inside my uterus to suck her thumb. She has no idea how much joy that brings us to see. Right now we are experiencing the calm before the storm. The nursery is finished, the guest room is ready and we are two and a half weeks away from meeting our first child. Now, does that mean Ryan's list of things to do is complete. No, as a matter of fact, I believe he is standing on a ladder in our entryway trying not to electrocute himself while installing a hall light. Toby, our other "baby" (an 85 pound lab) is trying to sneak past me into the baby's room so he can capture and destroy yet another stuffed animal. We gave him a Barney doll to love and protect and he decapitated it within a few days. Now that we are so close to meeting our baby it disturbs me that we've taught Toby to go and fetch his baby doll on command. Maybe we need to come up with some other way of referring to the baby. My brother suggests calling her Thor.