I less than 2 weeks Baby will be home.
It has gone by rather quickly and I am ready to see this little girl. She can barely move at this point, but whenever I talk to her or place my hand on her she starts to fidget. She has been getting the hiccups at night which amuses me, but not her mother.
My wife has been a trooper and aside from some leg swelling and low iron has been doing really well. Even though we have a c-section to look forward to, we are excited to bring her home.
This new one seems very calm and I imagine she will be like her big sister in that regard. Actually, both our kids are very calm and there are times when I come home at night end everyone is just sitting around reading. I can walk in the house and stand in the kitchen and hear nothing. I call out and voices emerge from the rooms, but you would never know any one was in them.
I can’t get used to that quite yet.
My house growing up was not exactly calm and you could pick a fight without much effort if the conversation lingered. I think we enjoyed the drama and chaos as we seemed to grow and tend to it and could sustain it for weeks. We were asked to go outside more times than I can remember to which the neighbors would ask us to go inside.
It was better for us inside, there was less property damage.
The most excitement we have around my house now is the cats and they live in the garage now. There is music being played or practiced all the time, but even that is soothing and non invasive, unless my son and I are trying to dial in tone on our guitars. I have noticed my wife leaving the room on those occasions, so some of the kid in me still reigns supreme.
I know our quiet house is going to change very soon with a newborn. They seem to have a way of getting your attention. I will probably come home down the road to the older kids sitting on the front porch reading.
2 weeks and everything changes.