141 Hours

Give or take.

We will be finding out the sex of our summer arrival next Monday at 9am.  Or at least close to 9am.  This has been about the longest three weeks (since the last appointment) in the history of the world.  I tried to convince The Wife to call and say she was going to be out of town on business next week and that we needed to move the sonogram up to this week, but then we would run the risk of getting it pushed back another week.  And that would not be acceptable.

We have SO MANY baby clothes already and we spent the last few days going through everything to see what we want to keep and want we are going to sell/donate.  After Monday, we will be able to cut that amount in about half.  We originally thought we had more boy clothes, but after going through all of the things that we bought in preparation for fostering, we have pretty close to an even amount of boy and girl stuff.  If anyone reading is familiar with Ikea... we have about one and a half blue bags full of stuff that we rediscovered over the last few days.  And a good portion of a closet of things we have bought in anticipation of the baby.

Mostly, we'd like time to jump ahead about two months, so we can start the ordering of furniture and putting together of the nursery.  Right now, it's more of a holding pattern.  At least until next week.  We're withholding the information of boy vs girl from everyone for about three weeks, until we can have The Wife's family over and The Kid comes for the weekend.  Luckily, we don't talk to them on a daily basis, so hopefully we will be able to keep the secret and not let anything slip along the way.

In related news, I spent three or four days a couple of weeks ago making a paper chain... because who doesn't like paper chains?  When it started, it was about 180 links long and it is now down to 155.  It's draped along one wall in our room and hopefully I'll remember to put a picture up.  It's quite the kindergarten accomplishment.