Babies, Babies, Everywhere!

About three years ago, I began to notice a baby infestation. Has anyone else ever all of a sudden been snapped into this realization of the world of babies? It must just be me, I suppose. It seemed that just about everyone I knew was either about to have a baby, trying to have a baby, or had a small baby (or two). I was consistently getting baby stories pushed at me in casual conversation left and right by my girlfriends!! (To be fair, circa 2004 was when I began to casually accumulate a few girlfriends here and there. Prior to that, I had maybe two and a half other than my sister)…

Anyhow, back to the story…at the time that all of these baby stories were happening around me, I began to ponder the pregnancy topic. After much thought, I determined this was something that had constantly been happening around me more than I realized. The only difference between then and now was that before I simply discarded any information regarding this topic from my memory bank. I had other things that were more important such as personal goals, responsibilities, etc.

Then came the day someone close to me began their pregnancy journey. Once a close friend was pregnant, all I could see was a sea of pregnant women everywhere I turned. It was quite entertaining and fascinating to me! I so much enjoyed seeing my friends delight in joys their children. It was also amazing to me to see how quickly someone could change and how much they could learn to love, more than they ever knew they could before.

Aside from the observation side of things, the kids were cute, cute, cute! I had a standard routine for dealing with these circumstances: kiss the little faces (only of the closest friends of course), hug and squeeze, oooh and aahh, hand the baby back, go home and not think twice about babies until the next time. I thought I pretty much had it down pat as to how things should be when dealing with other people’s babies…until this year.

Earlier this year, we learned that my own little sister was pregnant! Now that the year is almost over, J-Bug is really really pregnant. She is about 3-weeks away from having a little one to take care of and love. We are all expecting a little girl, Luciana Marie. At first, I pretty much kept myself at arms length. As time has gone on, I have grown more and more excited for her and her husband. It really hit home when she came to visit me the other day. She is so beautiful (and round, of course) and looks very happy. She had 3-d photos that clearly showed a healthy chunky cheeked little nugget. She has done all sorts of planning and preparation and is just a short time away from her whole world changing. I am fairly certain that my mom, other family, and I will have our whole world change as well.

Here is to the next few weeks of waiting!