I'm Almost 37 Weeks...

...and my friend from childhood, Karen, is only about 3 weeks behind me. Here we are a few days ago. I have so many friends who are pregnant, or just recently delivered, that I feel like I'm part of another baby-boom!

This past week I finally quit procrastinating and got some paper work done for my maternity leave from school and pre-admission for the hospital. I had to go to the hospital to drop off a form and had a cute moment with Eliana: She knew where we were as soon as I drove up and started talking about how she was born at the hospital and the baby will be born here too, etc, when she suddenly stopped mid-sentence, got a very thoughtful and concerned look on her face, and said, "Wait a minute...is it February?" I had to laugh. In that moment she thought we were at the hospital to have the baby. It was very cute.

I keep getting the baby-name-question, though we're still no closer to actually deciding. From the beginning it's been between Jude and Luke, and we've more recently added Eli or Elijah to the list, but all through the pregnancy Eliana has been seriously adamant that the baby be named Luke. I've kept thinking she'll get over it as we keep trying to convince her that it's probably not going to be Luke, but she's insistent. Naming the baby boy that came with her doll house 'Luke' didn't help, because in her opinion, there can be two Lukes. More recently she's turned more manipulative about it, and it might be working. Instead of just insisting on Luke with a bit of an attitude, she's turned to more sadly begging, "But Mommy, I just really want to name my baby Luke". Eliana just might end up being the one to name the baby...