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Dear Scarlett,

We finished four night shifts in a row this Monday morning, and it was a killer... I'm relieved we made it through, and I'm grateful we only have 17 shifts left until your due date! Daddy took us on a date on Tuesday (Interstellar in IMAX-- matinee tickets on Tuesday are only $5, with our mini popcorns and drink totaled the whole date to be $13!). It was so loud in the theater, and you let me know you didn't appreciate it by rolling and stretching around the entire time. On Wednesday, I made us all matching Christmas jammy bottoms (shorts for Daddy, per request). Don't worry, you'll have a pair waiting for you in case you come early. :) We also celebrated the young women in the ward for their personal progress and the excellence in their lives. I just kept thinking of you and Amelia in Young Women Program, and the great influence I hope it brings to your lives. I hope you feel the love from your leaders as much as I love my young women right now. It's such a fun, spiritual, uplifting place.

We're hoping to get together with the Hanks later this week, Amelia has her first dentist appointment, and we only work two shifts this weekend. It's going to fly by, and we have another appointment with Dr. Thackeray on Monday. 

I always like reading back to what it was like around this time with Amelia's pregnancy. It's crazy to think how stir-crazy and ready I was to have her by now. This time around, I want to cook you until the very last minute! It's a good thing I'm not feeling quite as enormous and claustrophobic this time around, which makes sense with the 21 pound weight gain thus far.

Looking back at the list I made 10 weeks ago:

sell desk & aquarium
paint nursery
order/assemble crib, mattress, & changing table/dresser
sort through baby clothes/ rewash and organize
make a mobile?
ready a diaper bag
clean the carrier carseat
big sister gift to Amelia from Scarlett
order solly baby wrap
newborn diapers
set up bassinet

We should probably add on:

treats for the hospital staff

Christmas gifts

What else am I forgetting?

Wow! We are procrastinators over here! Am I the least bit frantic? Nah... I'm still counting on you waiting until after Christmas to join us! No early business, keeeeeeeay?

Love ya,

Mom

her hands

I love lazy mornings in bed with my family.
amelia is in an incredibly curious phase of her development lately
and I adore watching her desire to touch and discover new things.
I love her perfect little hands
developing fine motor skills,
she feel the coarseness her dad's beard
and marvel in its difference from his clothes
or his skin.
or when she is staring down at the two of us,
one hand on dad's face and one hand in mom's mouth,
looking at both of us
and giggling tremendously.
it's the perfect time in the day for this kind of gentle adventure,
because she is still cuddly
and delights in giving slobbery kisses
or being attacked on both cheeks with dozens and dozens of kisses from the two people who love her most.

these moments pass by too fast.
it's a constant struggle to be excited for her growth and to be heartbroken about its speed.
four days past five months.
I'm holding my breath.

remember remember the (1)5th of november

it's the middle of November, and I haven't blogged in over a month.
but it's okay, because I've been stressed like crazy.
Also, I've caught something I think. I'm sick with a stuffy nose and I don't want to do anything too intense. lately getting out of bed is a stuggle for me.

and today, I have the day off.
perfect time to catch up/get ahead on all my huge assignments due and study for tests in the next couple of weeks.
naturally, I have efficiently used the last two and a half hours of my time on facebook, pinterest, blog, online shopping. I really did try to start my ebp assignment due thursday, but my laptop won't connect to the internet. Hence, forcing me to use Jeremy's laptop, and therefore I can't do anything educationally productive.

so here I am.
and I am going to share with you some wonderful quotes I found:

"There are some people so poor, that the only thing they have is money"

"You were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it."

"Can't sleep? Instead of counting sheep, try talking to the shephard"

"The Lord will fight for you, you need only be still."

"Don't ever worry about things that don't worry about you."

"You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be."

"It's never too late to be where you might have been."

"Happiness is a moment with you."

"I once read that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way to move against me while you sleep... and there are no words for that."

"The recession won't be over until we raise a generation that knows how to live with what they've got."

"There is no testimony without the test."

"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

"I love you to the moon in back."

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that, it lights up the whole sky."

"I love you so much, I'm willing to make funny faces in public just to see you smile."

we are so cool.

I'm in a sick lovey mood. don't judge me.
hopefully I find something great to blog about, before my rest day is over!
or before I realize I have more things to do than I have time for.