Rileyosaurus Rex

So I spent half the night last night on the coolest website ever. Cafepress.com. Who'da thought they would have T-shirts, sweatshirts, onesies, bibs, messenger bags etc. with the name Riley. They even have t-shirts that say: my cousin Riley loves me. Um, hello, Merry Christmas little nieces and nephews. Er, wait, maybe I shouldnt have given that away. Either way, totally cute. I feel bad cause I must have sent Nick at least 30 emails last night saying: OMG look at this one, OMG, no, look at this one. HAhaha.

On another note. It has been nice being at home. My back pain has decreased quite a bit and my brain has almost completely shut off. Niceeeeee! Just what I was looking for.

Like just the other day...I was with my friend Diane and we were headed to Costco so she could get gas. As she was driving I said something to the effect of: "O, I should get gas too." Um, duh, I would have to be driving MY car to do that. But whatever. My brain just thought: if she's gonna get cheap gas, I should too :)

Other than the constant brain farts, it has been nice to talk with friends and catch up with people I feel like I have been neglecting because of work and stress. I have also taken on the duty of taking pictures of everything the cats do, which Nick loves. NOT! The second he comes home from work I run after him with the camera and say...look at what Loki did today...it was so funny. Or, look, Puppy is sleeping. How cute! I must have taken over 300 pictures of these damn cats in the past week and a half.

This worries me. Greatly actually. Not because I am worried about space on our computer...moreso, what am I going to be like when Riley gets here? I am going to be taking pictures of EVERYTHING he does. I feel sorry for Nick. I can just see it now: Hey honey, look, here's a picture of Riley sleeping, here he is pooping, here is his first smile...blah, blah, blah. I am making myself sick just thinking about it.

Next... :)

Things around here have been pretty boring now that I am home a lot, but everything seems to be progressing well here. I am getting huge, Riley is moving a lot and we got some baby furniture from Nicks sister this weekend (THANKS CODY and JASON!!!). So the room is going to be put together soon and things will feel more real. Or just weird like everything else. My big chore for this week has been going through the clothes they gave us and putting them in the little dresser. Its hard to believe he is going to be THAT small to fit into some of the stuff. And even weirder to think that he is going to grow out of most of that within weeks.

Thank goodness for hand me downs!

One thing I have noticed lately is that people keep asking me: "So do you think you are ready?" I have actually been thinking about that a lot. And I think...Its hard to say. Part of me feels overwhelmed and another part feels like things are going to be hard, but fun. Part of me feels sad, like I have lost a part of my youth and another part of me thinks...wake up dumbass, you cant be a kid forever. Another part of me feels huge, like I want this baby out...so OF COURSE I am ready. And another part thinks...wait, the house isnt clean and the room isnt quite together and I need more sleep, so NO, I am not ready.

I guess we will just have to wait and see. By then, we will HAVE to be ready.